Across the country and around the world. Are you comfortable with the way the Trump Administration has handled this . Has the president done enough to stay ahead of the story . Let me just say this. As a member of congress, my focus is to make sure that we appropriate the necessary funds to provide the resources to our hospitals, to our local communities, to our states. I do not want to get into the politics of all this. I want to make sure we get this right. That is what i am focused on. Is the president getting it right . We need to make sure we get it right here. I have some concerns, but at this point we need to find common ground. We need to come together and provide the funds. That is what we do here in congress, and we can make judgments along the way. The Vice President is going to head up the effort to coordinate activities. We will all make our judgments as this unfolds. We had a briefing today in the house that was very, very informative. Again, i think what we need to be fo
Let me just say this. As a member of congress, my focus is to make sure that we appropriate the necessary funds to provide the resources to our hospitals, to our local communities, to our states. I do not want to get into the politics of all this. I want to make sure we get this right. That is what i am focused on. Is the president getting it right . We need to make sure we get it right here. I have some concerns, but at this point we need to find common ground. We need to come together and provide the funds. That is what we do here in congress, and we can make judgments along the way. The Vice President is going to head up the effort to coordinate activities. We will all make our judgments as this unfolds. We had a briefing today in the house that was very, very informative. Again, i think what we need to be focused on right now is making sure that we provide the necessary resources to our communities. From that briefing, congressman mcgovern, what is your main concern . Im concerned
Mcgovern, the ranking republican member of oklahoma. They are joining us from the House Rules Committee and we will be talking some hearing taking place on tuesday in here in studio billy hounds and deputy editor. Thank you for joining us stop joining us. [no audio] my focus is to make sure we provide the necessary funds, so i dont want to get into the policy on this. Is the president getting it right . I have some concerns, but at this particular point, we need to come together and provide the judgmentswe can make along the way. , we will allident today. R judgment surenk the focus is making we provide necessary resources for our communities. What is your number one concern . I am concerned we still dont know a lot about the virus. Our constituents are protected and want to make sure hospitals have what they need, want to make sure the information is out also requires we make a substantial investment that we will do in a bipartisan way. In terms of the administration responsible for .
The finish line in sight all the details coming up later. Though we begin in washington where the u. S. Senate has launched formal proceedings for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump House Democrats read the formal charges triggering the Legal Process in the last few hours the chief justice of the u. S. Supreme Court John Roberts was sworn in as the presiding judge along with 99. 00 senators they would act as jurors during the proceedings the trial which donald trump has denounced as a cone job by the democrats will start on tuesday President Trump is accused of freezing aid to pressure ukraine to investigate a political rival. Donald j. Trump has abused the powers of the presidency in that using the powers of his high office President Trump solicited the interference of a Foreign Government ukraine in the 2020 United States president ial election he did so through a scheme or course of conduct that included soliciting the government of ukraine to publicly announce investig
Mr. Cotton madam president. The presiding officer the senator from arkansas. Mr. Cotton in the next few days Senate Democrats will move to discharge a war powers resolution to tie the president s hands in defending this nation against iran and terrorist masterminds like Qasam Soleimani. Lets think about how we got here and the implications of this reckless action. Qasam soleimani has the blood of thousands of americans on his hands and hundreds of thousands of innocent souls across the middle east. For more than 20 years he was the Supreme Leaders most trusted lieutenant, irans terror mastermind, the man responsible for the deaths of hundreds of american soldiers in iraq and afghanistan by supplying the most deadly kind of roadside bombs soldiers ever faced. He and his proxies and iranian leaders like him are responsible for bombings of our embassies in places like lebanon and kuwait. Theyre in no small part responsible for the ongoing horror of the Syrian Civil War or the civil war in