Capitol with two men who know the subject very well. We will start with Daniel Freeman, first and could have them tell about themselves. Alan. Tell us little bit about yourself. What your background with impeachment. Guest my background with impeachment starts with the impeachment of chairman of the Judiciary Committee who hired me to do that. While i was doing that one another one came up of walter nixon. So i did those two and then there was a gap of quite a few years and then i did two more. Kent,porteous and judge there have been eight judges and in fact all the convictions of impeachments involve eight judges and have had the honor of handling three of the eight. Couldnt do the first one because i think it was in 1803. A little before my time. And ive been very interested in impeachment ever since then. And tell us about yourself whats your involvement with impeachment. Guest i worked a house Judiciary Committee for peter wrote dino after watergate. During watergate he created the
Calling the president the dword. Whether you think congress is beheading well or badly, whether its popular unpopular, if you want a dictator you subvert the ability of Congress Stalled executive in check. What is central here, is do we want to dictator . No matter how popular he may be, no matter how good or bad his policies may be, no president is supposed to be a dictator in the united states. Kennedy a dictator . I just met her. We expecting a different dword . You cant expect dictator without it. Ranking doug collins is said theyre acting like a bunch of dimwits. We dont have fairness in this committee, how can they stand up and say of the two weakest articles of impeachment in the history of this country. Honestly, with a straight face how can you look at the American People and say we did good. No, you didnt, you stained this body. Youve taken this committee and made it a rubberstamp. Kennedy rubberstamp in rubbers ticked chicken. Republican matt gates, they babbled out about ev
Word that the Trump Administration has completed a phase one drug deal with china. Thats calls for pushing back on tariffs on chinese goods. 50 billion in exports scheduled to kick in sunday. Well find out if that is the case. Michael pillsbury is here to join us on all of this. Wall streets vote is already in. The dow surging ahead 225 points, and the s p 500 up 26 points. The nasdaqs 117th close in the trump era. Two principle aspects to the trade agreement reached between china and the United States. Economically what benefits each country. What does each give up and what will rehave as a result in balanced reciprocal trade and politically what are the up reply cases for u. S. National security . With us tonight to take up all of that, dr. Michael pillsbury, hes director of the center for chinese strategy at the hudson institute. Good to have you with us. This is an extraordinary step forward. It is, however, still clearly unformed. What are your thoughts . I think its a tremendous
I see that as a feature, not a bug in our system of government. You help the president fight for his share of the turf based on article to authorities. Each branch takes care of what it has to do to defend its own boundaries. It makes it easier to just everyone will see everything through the lens of today, not 10 years ago or 10 years from now. I represented a lot of people in the u. S. Senate. They really love that they have a big say in picking who is on federal courts but in the constitution the president makes the nomination with advice and consent of the senate. The question when mike lee speaks, what about the stuff the senate has come up with over the years, Institutional Senate prerogatives where the constitution refers to the senate but is a subset of the senate. It is my job to say the senates view is i think we should take this seriously. The view is the president makes the choice and they will hate when i say this but i will get in trouble with somebody, and that is someth
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