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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
Announcer spending thiswill be hour talking about the impeachment process 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
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It under such conditions, well, then the same actions will unfold in other parts of the world, so i do not think that they want to fix the right of force in this way, well, i hope that they simply have a position of advantage for china now, they have with russia, they use russia as they want, and you know, this is an advantageous position, a weak russia, which is weakening, which is economically. Gives everything, gives passage to the arctic and everything that now he is giving china whatever he wants, as a vassal, as suggested, it is beneficial to them, so why, i think so, on their part, why are they in a hurry, let s wait a little longer, that is, we will also have economic results in our results, but eh, well, for the ukrainians this, for me, this is a rather cynical position, although i want to say that when something happened in other parts of the world. And we looked at it in such a way that it is far from us, and how it is in our interests, here we can admit that every country h