Afghanistan just start really consider Impeachable Offenses these days and what my friends those that say about us that would start watching the hawks. Would. Get the. Real they would. Like you but i got. This. Welcome on the watching i robot and then tabitha lawless joining us to discuss the impeachment inquiry and president as the president of the fellas safely evil for an education and Legal Defense fund and mark thanks for joining us great to be with you thank you got out all right so i got the allegations what troubling is ministration are being accused of it appears that. It appears that they literally did with ukraine what muller and company tried and failed to prove he did with russia and thats collude with a foreign power to damage a political opponent why did the trump of ministration essentially attempt to to do what they just got cleared of well look i think 1st of all i think that its been interesting to watch the democrats get ahead of the story and now today we have more
Youre the president member obama and his administration were the ones that listened at least to steal and when they said hey what is this do you have something on trump lets investigate now i think we all wonder about what the roots of that were but the president supposed to do that so you know i think its not impeachable as you point out theres other moments in the ministration where you could say hey thats a worst piece of conduct than this exchange its interesting it really was interesting let me ask you do you think. Then how do you think that we would see them see the democrats pushing for this impeachment if the candidate they were looking for information on was state health seek out very well no obviously told getting a bum deal as you see by the way i think was is she the leading democrat to say dont bother with impeachment ill just divide the country and it wont be worth the trouble no the answer is no somewhere Elizabeth Warren is looking at the camera watching us and saying
Resolution is considered as read and open for amendment at any point. I would begin by recognizing myself for an opening statement. The resolution before us represents the necessary next step in our investigation of corruption, obstruction, and abuse of power. This committee has already covered the central findings of the special counsels investigation. The president s 2016 Campaign Asks for and received the assistance of the russian government. Key figures from the campaign then lied to federal investigators about it. The special counsel found that at least ten times the president took steps to interfere with the investigation. In at least five of those incidents, the special counsel concluded that all of the elements necessary to charge obstruction of justice had been met. Our investigation is not only about obstruction. Our work must also extend beyond the four corners of the mueller report. We have a responsibility to consider allegations of federal election crimes, selfdealing, vi
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Good afternoon, everyone. First off, id like to thank the Clermont Institute for sponsoring this panel and for sponsoring all of its panels here at the american Political Science association, and thanks to all of you for coming to hear whether congress is still dysfunctional. I suspect you already know the answer to the question, but maybe well provide a fuller background and explanation about whats going on these days on capitol hill. Its no secret to political scientists that congress is a mess. Its no secret to the members of congress that congress is a mess. And nor is it a secret to the American People that congress is a mess. Routinely, congress polls very poorly when people are asked whether they approve of the job its doing, and this trend is bipartisan whether democrats or republicans control congress, most people assign it a failing grade. The trend is also long standing. Over the past Decade Congress has not once achieved an Approval Rating above 30 . It wasnt always this wa