Welcome to hardtalk, im shaun ley. Donald trump calls the impeachment inquiry a witch hunt. In recent days, the us president has been accused of trying to intimidate a witness. Now a Us Ambassador central to the allegations, a trump supporter who donated 1 million for his inauguration, has told congress the president did make aid for the ukraine contingent on the ukrainians launching an enquiry into the son ofjoe biden. Mr biden could be trumps democrat challenger in next years president ial election. The media mogul Christopher Ruddy of newsmax has known donald trump well for the last 20 years. Hes accused democrats of playing politics with impeachment. After this week, how much trouble is donald trump actually in . Chris ruddy, welcome to hardtalk. You didnt want this impeachment inquiry, you said it was just political game playing by the democrats. As the enquiry has developed, do you now accept it is a necessary process for american politics to be going through . Well, i think we s
Now on bbc news, its hardtalk with shaun ley. Welcome to hardtalk i am shaun ley. Donald trump calls the impeachment enquiry a witch hunt. The us president has been accused of trying to intimidate a witness. And now a trump supporter who donated 1 million to his inauguration has told congress the president did make the continued contingent on to the ukrainians launching an enquiry into the son ofjoe biden was up mr biden could be Donald Trumps democrat challenger in next years election. Acro one of newsmax has known donald trump well the last 20 years christopher ruddy. He has been that mickey has accused democrat he has accused the democrats of playing politics. How much trouble is donald trump actually in . Christopher ruddy, welcome to hardtalk. You didnt want this impeachment enquiry, you said it was just political game playing by the democrats. As the enquiry has developed, do you now accept it is a necessary process for american politics to be going through . Well, i think we sho
Pro tempore on this day. Signed, paul d. Ryan, speaker of he house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Speaker. An interesting column in the morning post about the congressional response to the Opioid Crisis. Both the administration and congress have been good at hyping the crisis when it comes time to actually crisis. When it comes to actually taking action, nothing happens. This is appalling since most of the Opioid Crisis is the
It is another to have it to what they want or need sometimes you very legislation and that is part of the process. Export quickly makes economic sense. Congress has looked at it a little bit senator murkowski is in favor of it deny suspects the votes would be there in the house and senate so that is the biggest shock waves and it has more than most people can see they are permeating through the middle eastern countries. It is very significant but people need to realize that america to some extent because of the fracking revolution and Oil Production is on the verge for the First Time Since the early 70s. Many of you will remember the oil lines in 71 and 73 going from 8 at the 40 was enormous of negative repercussions on the u. S. Economy. Opec had us by the throat we ended up importing more now is less and less we will be totally independent of imports if you include canada and mexico so that is exciting with the leverage that opec had over us is disappearing and russias currency oppor
Potential voter. A columnist i usually only agree with about movies put it this way. Romney didnt say that the election had come out as it did because obamas team had outplayed and outfoxed his. He should have because thats the truth. Rather, he said that obama had won the second term essentially through bribery. Well, look, i have three rules for both parties as they converge now to do their squoobs. Respect the voter, respect each others offices, and search hard for common ground. Those are what we should be doing and that should be the way were guiding our countrys conversation today. Not trashing the people who voted against you. But respecting the fact that they did for your own good. David corn is Washington Bureau chief for mother jones and joy reid is managing editor of the grio. Both are msnbc political analysts. Lets take a look at some of the stuff from john mccain here. Its been four years since john mccain lost his president ial bid. Just ten days since mitt romney lost, b