Is next. Host this is the washington journal for december 13 and it is the House Judiciary Committee mary meeting at 10 00 to vote on articles of impeachment after a 14 hour debate yesterday of the articles themselves and proposed amendments by republicans, all of which were rejected. Our coverage will start at 9 30 this morning and up until then, we take your comments on this latest phase of the impeachment process. Here is how you can call us and let you know let us know your thoughts. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. And independents, 2027488002. Atyou want to text us, do so 2027488003. You can post on our fitter twitter feed at cspanwj. If you want to post on our facebook, you can do that at facebook. Com cspan. The website is available at cspan. Org if you want to watch the proceedings from yesterday, 14 hours in length. A vote was expected yesterday. However, it was at the end of the session this happened. [video clip] there has been a long two days of consid
Thank you for your friendship. A senator mr. Chairman. The presiding officer the senator from washington. Ms. Cantwell mr. Chairman mr. President , i rise to join my colleagues on the floor today to pay tribute to my colleague in georgia, senator isakson, and to congratulate him on his retirement after 20 years in congress, including the past 15 years in the United States senate. We worked together on key provisions of the secure act to improve Retirement Planning for millions of americans on behalf of the work hes done for veterans, the veterans v. A. Mission act, important to so many people who served our country, and specifically working together on the finance committee for the last six years on important issues like Affordable Housing. Theres been no better advocate for the Affordable Housing tax credit, hoping to secure billions of dollars in funding for Affordable Housing nationwide than senator isakson. Now, it is true that my colleague senator hatch and i had a bill to help in
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
Carefully the people testifying about ukraine their ukraine firster is they dont know much about the country that thats a double whammy for me not only is that useless what theyre saying is useless but the outcome of all of this i think is a much bigger more worrisome picture here as the last line in my introduction impeachment is becoming normalized if you look at the founders you look at the. The federalist papers this was supposed to be an extreme remedy it looks like thats a longer the case and i really fear for the republic if this is good the way its going to be done theres no crime this is an investigation in search of a crime crisper go ahead. Absolutely look look were causing weve costly her during the 3 years of the term presidency this isnt normal weve heard here this refrain over and over again from the Mainstream Media of and from the left and quite frankly thats what they should be saying right now this is not a normal impeachment is an extraordinary constitutional proces