Leading politics about the races to watch in the 2020 elections. But first, what a long, strange trip 2019 has been. This summer the president spoke on the phone with the leader of ukraine and asked him for a small favor. And just under five months later, he became the third president in the history of this country to be impeached by the house of representatives. Believe it or not, this year we also saw the release of the mueller report, remember that . A document once seen as the greatest threat to the trump presidency. And while the president battled those investigations, both of which he dismissed as hoaxes and witch hunts, Democratic White House hopefuls battled it out on the campaign trail for the right to take him on this fall. Candidates came and candidates went as the mood of the electorate came into a clear view. What came of it all . A nation starkly divided, the most consequential in decades. Senior White House Reporter for nbc news digital, shannon pettypiece. For Hillary C
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Across talking impeachment im joined by my guest r. C. Maxwell in phoenix hes a republican strategist and the state director of the black conservative federation in washington we have Christopher Barron he is a conservative strategist as well as the president of right turn strategies and in st paul we cross to David Schultz he is the Hamelin University professor of Political Science all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means he can jump in and out in time any time you want right christiane let me go to you 1st in washington d. C. I watched some of the hearings theyre very boring frankly i dont really know what theyre talking about i dont see the purpose of it here but one thing that i find really disturbing during all of it is because i know a lot about ukraine i live in this part of the world i follow it very very carefully the people testifying about ukraine their ukraine firster is they dont know much about the country that make that thats a double whammy for me not on
Below and welcome to cross talk where all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle efforts to impeach and remove donald j. Trump from the presidency have clearly divided the country this should not surprise anyone trump is probably the most divisive public figure of our time however all this division over a Single Person is changing in even damaging institutions is impeachment being normalized. Across talking impeachment im joined by my guest r. C. Maxwell in phoenix hes a republican strategist and the state director of the black conservative better race. And in washington we have Christopher Barron he is a conservative strategist as well as the president of right turn strategies and in st paul we cross to David Schultz he is a Hamelin University professor of Political Science sorry gentlemen crosslike rules in effect that means he can jump in and out in time any time you want by christopher let me go to you 1st in washington d. C. I watched some of the hearings theyre very boring frankly i
Through changes at the International Court of justice to defend her countrys treatment of writing a muslim. Us democrats have officially revealed to articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump in their bid to remove him from office the articles outlined charges including abuse of power and obstruction of the congressional inquiry where trump and his White House Team accused of withholding aid to ukraine to pressure it and to investigating joe biden a potential democratic challenger in the 2020 president ial race in service to our duty to the constitution and to our country. The House Committee on the judiciary is introducing 2 articles of impeachment charging the president of the United States donald j. Trump with committing high crimes and misdemeanors the 1st article is for abuse of power it is an Impeachable Offense for the president to exercise the powers of his Public Office to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring or in injuring the National Interest this