Its my pleasure now to introduce bob cusack, the editorinchief of the hill who will moderate a panel on how will candidates messages and platforms change with popular vote. Bob . Thanks, jim. I want to introduce our panel. Norm gordons teen of aei, michael steele, former chair of the rnc. Brown a common, evoked to latina, and jesse wagon, New York Times editorial board. I was looking back at the states that were visited most by donald trump in the last election. Not surprisingly it was ohio and north carolina, florida, pennsylvania, of course democrats wish that Hillary Clinton had visited wisconsin a bit more. The first question would be, if we did change the system, and norm, ill start with you, what would be the impact of campaigns and their strategy . So, as you mentioned, bob, they visited the large speed it dates and i was kind of amused when senator kramer of north dakota defending the Electoral College said this would make north dakota irrelevant. Well, guess what . When it com
Good morning, everyone. We are on cspan. We are also Live Streaming on the making every vote count facebook page. So i want you all to behave. The Electoral College is a disaster for democracy. Now, thats not me speaking. Thats donald trump. Where it was donald trump before he changed his mind a few times. He also said this. I would rather see it where you went with simple votes. You know, you get 100 million votes and somebody else gets 90 million and you win. Now i quoted not for irony but because, a, hes right, and, b, his affinity for the popular vote may reflect his instinct that a president who was elected without winning a majority is perhaps not so legitimate. Think of all the factors that have contributed to voters cynicism and alienation of all the measures that we could institute to help restore confidence and democracy. This is the one that can be easily and quickly remedied and have an enormous impact. Suddenly, everyones vote would count the same. Truly one person, one vo
Kildee discusses the latest on the impeachment inquiry, and at 8 30 a. M. , ann coulter discusses daca, impeachment, and camping 2020. Campaign 2020. Good morning. The impeachment inquiry public hearings continue with Marie Yovanovitch in the witness chair. The veteran diplomat will testify but for best before the 22 lawmakers about an alleged Smear Campaign against her in the president s decision to recall her from that post. Our coverage begins at 9 00 a. M. Eastern time on cspan2, on the website, cspan. Org, or you can download and listen with the free cspan radio app. We will begin this morning with your reaction to the latest on the impeachment inquiry. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. And text us with your city and state at 202 7488003. Begin with the front page of the New York Times, a story on many of the front pages this morning, about Speaker Pelosi yesterday during her Weekly News Conference using the word bribery. A suggests trump
So its my pleasure now to introduce bob cusack, the editor in chief of the hill the wmata rate a panel on how will candidates messages and platforms change with the popular vote. Bob. Thanks, jim. I want to introduce our panel. Norm ornstein of aei. Michael steele, former chair of the rnc. Brianna carmen, of vote latino, and jesse wegman of the New York Times editorial board. I was looking back at the states that were visited most by donald trump and Hillary Clinton in the last election. Not surprisingly it was ohio, north carolina, florida, pennsylvania. Democrats wish Hillary Clinton had visited wisconsin a bit more but the first question would be if we did change the system, norm, would be the impact of campaigns and their strategy . As you mentioned, bob, they visited the large states. And i was kind of in use when senator cramer of north dakota defending the Electoral College said this would make north dakota irrelevant. Well, guess what. When comes to president ial politics, nort
And the piece says Alexander Hamilton is who trump had in mind when he pushed for impeachment powers for congress. Guest i think that is a fair statement. Host why . Guest the most important is aion for impeachment check by legislature against aecutive overreach and concern by the framers that we would have a president who would authority andhis be so essentially inappropriate at the job that even the remedy of election would not be sufficient. We need to remove him sometime between the four years between elections. Host the debate in the 1860s with Andrew Johnson and 1974 with Richard Nixon and in the 1990s with bill clinton kids to conviction of treason, bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors. It is still vague today, isnt it . Guest i wouldnt call it vague. Treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors. Only crimethe defined in the constitution, essentially defined as giving aid and comfort to an enemy in the time of war. That is not what we are talking about. Is easily de