the philadelphia inquirier laboring it. with this interesting challenge saying basically, only the most cynical partisan could minimize the public evidence against trump. should americans care about these editorial judgments on impeachment eve? we turn to a journalist who knows his way around the debates. author thomas friedman making his debut on the beat. great to be here. i think it comes down to the fact that they re just two core simple issues. one is, if we let a president use congressionally appropriate defense funds from ukraine to intimidate the president of that country to take out his rival in the next election, we are saying it is okay for all future presidents to enlist foreign powers in tipping our election
litigation and prospect, there is just no reason to tolerate it. and that s why i think yanking that subpoena and saying it s going to be enough to see what judge jackson rules about the former white house counsel makes a lot of sense. i think the house of representatives is done allowing this president simply to stall and drag everything out. there is more than enough evidence now to conclude that this president has committed what the framers would have regarded as grave high crimes and misdemeanors, including one that is named in the constitution, namely, bribery. the president was soliciting a bribe from president zelensky when he said if you go on cnn with fareed zakaria and tell everybody you re investigating hunter biden, then i will regard it as appropriate for me to release these defense funds. i mean, that s a bribe. it s extortion. it s clearly an abuse of power.
everybody you re investigating hunter biden, then i will regard it as appropriate for me to release these defense funds. i mean, that s a bribe. it s extortion. it s clearly an abuse of power. it s a betrayal of trust. it s a high crime and misdemeanor, and it s about time that we brought this all to an end. just lastly, the president tweeted this morning, quote, it was just explained to me that for next week s fake hearing trial in the house as they interview never trumpers and others, i get no lawyer and no due process. obviously, the whole never trumper thing, that s just made up. there is no evidence of the political positions of the people who are testifying, and there is no indication as we know, the president believes never trumpers are he equates them with in his words human scum. i m wondering what your reaction is to that tweet. well, it s hard to know where to start. it s obvious that the president
a court rejected his appeal says the charges are politically motivated. russian authorities have dropped charges against 5 protesters who were arrested in connection with anti-government rallies in late july the men had been charged with rioting but they walked free from jail after investigators said they found no evidence of wrongdoing. the u.s. defense department says it s diverting $3600000000.00 for military construction projects to fund president donald trump s controversial border wall with mexico declared a national emergency in february to gain access to those defense funds after congress refused to grant him money for a wall. in south africa at least 5 people have been killed in riots that appear to target migrant workers and foreign owned businesses it s the latest outbreak of violence against african immigrants. and part of
attacks on the squad. it s helping to unify democrats and it goes against in some ways what the president had wanted to do in attracting african-americans to his coalition. he likes to talk about the fact that african-american unemployment is at a record low. this type of thing, as well as his comments about the minority congresswoman contradicts that c completely. let s talk about this immigration, the supreme court allowing defense funds to go toward the border wall at least for now and there s also the u.s. signing an asylum agreement with guatemala that could limit the ability of some central american migrants to claim asylum for the u.s. president trump doubled down on immigration and can he now say these are more promises kept? i think this is unquestionably for the short