The donothing democrats and are donothing, they are declaring the deep hatred for the American Voter and this law is part of an impeachment and a political suicide march for the democrat party. Have you seen my polls in the last four weeks . [cheering] joining the panel wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor dan and columnist kim and bill. Dan, the largely along party lines nancy pelosi said impeachment to work has to be bipartisan. I guess she achieved that in a way and the only people that voted against one article and to voted against both and jesse andrew from new jersey is switching parties. Is that the outcome she expected . I think that is where she thought it was going but the party find surprising is the intensity of the democratic commitment to impeachment and they all drink the impeachment koolaid. Some of these democrats believe there is some constitutional crisis in making this great commitment to defending the constitution whereas the breakdown of the vote makes
We are going to start with Daniel Freeman and alan baron. First im going to have them tell a little bit about themselves. Us a little bit about yourself. What is your background with impeachment in the u. S. Congress . My background includes two and then a gap of a few years judgeat i did two more, a and another judge. ,here have been eight judges effective all the convictions of judges involved eight judges and ive had the honor of handling three of the eight eight i cannot do the first one because it was in 1803 before my time. And obviously ive been interested in impeachment ever since. Daniel i worked on the House Judiciary Committee after watergate. During watergate there was the position created to have a Committee Parliamentarian who knew the rules. I had that job under peter rodino and that he retired and his successor jack brooks kept me on. Landslide,re was a Seismic Shift in american political process. And the cans took over the house. The incoming chairman of the House Judi
The Judiciary Committee will please come to order. When the committee recessed yesterday it had completed Opening Statements on the resolution about to be considered. Putin to notice under House Resolution 660, i know call house mr. Chairman impeaching donald j. Trump president of the United States point of order. The gentleman will state his point of order. The chairman refused to schedule a day of hearings pursuant to clause 2 j. Well entertain that point of order once we completed calling up the resolution. I call up h rez 775 for purposes of markup and move that the Committee Report the resolution favorably to the house. The clerk will report the resolution. H rez 755, impeaching donald j. Trump, president of the United States for high crimes and misdemeanors december 10th, 2019. The following resolution was submitted, resolution, impeaching Donald John Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors, resolve that donald j. Trump president of the United States is impeached for high crimes a
Are donothing, they are declaring the deep hatred for the American Voter and this law is part of an impeachment and a political suicide march for the democrat party. Have you seen my polls in the last four weeks . [cheering] joining the panel wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor dan and columnist kim and bill. Dan, the largely along party lines nancy pelosi said impeachment to work has to be bipartisan. I guess she achieved that in a way and the only people that voted against one article and to voted against both and jesse andrew from new jersey is switching parties. Is that the outcome she expected . I think that is where she thought it was going but the party find surprising is the intensity of the democratic commitment to impeachment and they all drink the impeachment koolaid. Some of these democrats believe there is some constitutional crisis in making this great commitment to defending the constitution whereas the breakdown of the vote makes it clear it is broken down t
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