In the trial because he was involved in some of the allegations President Trump is dealing with. We also have complaints from Chuck Schumer about the rules set out in macconnells resolution. We expect to see amendments from the senate trial today. David one of the issues is bipartisanship versus partisanship. Adam schiff had this to say without this is different from the clean impeachment. , senatee clinton trial leadership worked out a bipartisan proposal for how the t. R. Y. Would be conducted. That has not happened. How the trial would be conducted. That has not happened. Mitch mcconnell has not consulted with senator schumer at all. I expect senator schumer got to see it at the same time we did good david where there any efforts made together to try to all . Bipartisanship at anna no. We were looking for a meeting between schumer and mcconnell to try to reach an agreement on what the rules would look like as they did in the clinton case. They were both in the Capital Building at th
There is a Silver Lining for beijing in the sense it releases some of the pressure. Protesters do not have to go to the street, they can vote . Bill it does. Carrie lam has said she will work with those newly elected Council Members and listen to their points of view and take that into account when she is carrying out her policies. One of the easy steps to take at this point would be to go forward with independent inquiry into some of the police action. That is something even probeijing supporters in hong kong have started calling for. That will be one easy way to show she has heard this message that the election has delivered. Capitalou mentioned the of the United States response to hong kong. Legislation went through congress and President Trump was saying he might sign it and might not. Where is it, exactly . Bill the president has 10 days to decide whether he wants to sign it or veto it. 4,hink that expires december the middle of next week or so. If he does not sign it, it becomes
Steven mnuchin are getting on the phone today with the top chinese trade negotiator to try and iron out more things. We are in this messy and game. Endgame. Essy we have been here before. We were here in may. This may still unravel. David i heard we have not agreed to a deal on soybeans. You think if they were close to a deal they wouldve gotten that out of the way, at least. Shawn what we are seeing as they are talking about the difficult issues on the table. The fact those around the table now and are being wrestled with is usually a sign of the end game being afoot. On soybeans, it is not so much they are debating how much china is going to buy. It is debating the details of when china will buy and for how long. Those are the details you will be ironing out to the end. Spinning. H sides are are they spinning in the same direction . It seemed like beijing was spinning in one direction and washington was spinning in the other. Shawn this been we get from both sides is both sides do a
Now, before we start i want to thank a couple of folks and a couple of institutions. I want to thank the institute for technology, law and policy. The institute for public representation, which is also part of Georgetown Law Center, the betten foundation and no civil la foundation for sponsoring this event. I also want to thank senator richard blumenthal, and i want to thank jamie who is a Research Fellow at georgetown and kind of my personal law clerk and doing a fabulous job. And alexander givens whos the head of the institute who some of you may have heard broke her leg when she and her son or daughter were shopping at h m in friendship heights, a shoplifter knocked them over and down a flight of stairs. I was in that h m, like, the day before. If people could send well wishes to alex, shes done a fabulous job running the institute. I also want to thank the other georgetown students gathered by Andy Schwartzman, one of our panelists, who are going to be helping today with various an
Welcome to the center for American Progress, i am the executive Vice President of external affairs. Im so delighted that you could join us today. In our recent report reviving antitrust, it highlighted the idea that the economy has grown more consolidated with more power be good time concentrated in the largest firms in america. This is in no small part of the conservative assault on both government and the middle class. This assault has played out not just in the courts, but in antitrust enforcement practices of the department of justice, the federal trade commission, and at a wider range of federal regulators and in the halls of congress, where the view that big meant more efficient, has dominated for far too long. Since the early 1980s, conservative legal thinking embodied in robert bork and antonin scalia, has sought to dismantle the ability of government to protect consumers, workers, Small Businesses, the environment, people of color, basically all of us ordinary folks, from the