He was serving as the d. O. D. , secretary norquist completed the first d. O. T. Audit ever, soon thereafter secretary norquist was audited and confirmed as secretary of defense with all of senate support, he has a wealth of knowledge on these issues and i thank him for being here today. To a lot of people aside from my good friend senator purdue who im hopeful will be here a little bit later, the d. O. T. Audit might not coming across as most interesting topic of the world however the Ranking Member cain and i take our oversight responsibilities seriously and are happy to have the support and timely hearing, another responsibility we take seriously is one of providing the funding needed to rebuild our military with the specific focus on restoring readiness. Conducting an audit of this magnitude is a massive undertaking, in fact until secretary norquist arrived it had never happened, the pentagon had never completed an audit, let me repeat it in its history the department of defense an
Discussed the house floor vote on articles of impeachment. And alan durso which on his opposition to the impeachment of President Trump. Host the house of representatives is slated to vote for two articles of impeachment for President Trump. The president will stand trial in the senate and the new year. We will begin with your thoughts. Should the president be impeached and removed from office . Democrats 202 7488000. You can go to social. You can join us on cspan or facebook. Com cspan and you can text us your city and state at 2027488003. We will begin with a new poll out by fox. Trumps approval picks up. Found. Look at what fox takeob Approval Rating that from october ticked up from october. His Approval Rating is at 43 . Take a look at the impeachment question. In late october, 40 9 favored impeachment and removal from office. 4 said impeached, but dont opposednd 41 altogether. Say impeach, but dont remove and 41 say do not impeach the president. That is our question for all of do
To impeaching the president on the grounds proposed by the Judiciary Committee, neither is found in the constitution. They are the kind of general, vague, openended criteria that is weaponized against any president when the opposing party has a majority in the house of representntatives. It is hamiltons nightmare. He said the one thing he feared most was impeachment would matter about the number of votes each party had rather than the guilt or innocence of the person being impeached. We did not want a parliamentary democracy in which a president can be thrown out of office by a vote of nonconfidence. I am strongly opposed to the two iiteria for impeachment but cannot comment on any possible conversations i have fat about playing a formal role in the senate trial. Host are you plinking in formal role in advising the president . Guest i dont advise him directly. 50ave written two books and articles, the president is free to read them. I speak on programs like this. You can say i have giv
Author of the case against impeaching trump, and professor at harvard law school. Mr. Dershowitz, heres a headline in the New York Times about this impeachment trial. Trumps Impeachment Team may add alan dershowitz. Will you be representing the president in the senate trial . I cant really comment on any possible conversations that ive had with the white house. I certainly am strongly opposed to impeaching the president on the two grounds proposed by the Judiciary Committee. Neither of them is found in the constitution. Theyre the kind of broad, general, vague, openended criteria that can be weaponized against virtually any president when the opposing party has a majority in the house of representatives. Its hamiltons nightmare. Hamilton said that the one thing he feared most was that impeachment would turn on the number of votes each party had rather than on the guilt or innocence of the person being impeached. And madison worried about openended criteria making a president serve at t
Reporters. Abigail, get us started, please. Abigail that divergence you were talking about, the major average slightly higher on the day, that stands out. We have a different situation with different indexes on the week. The s p 500 up for a third week in a row. The nasdaq outperforming this week, but one piece of underperformance is the faang complex. 0. 25 on index down the week. Down for the second week in a row. Index stuckhas this in its own way. Heres a longerterm weekly chart of the faang index. We see these beautiful gains until the end of 2018 when the volatility started. The 40 week moving average in yellow, that is the equivalent of the 200 day moving average. It is hard to see the markets overall climbing too much higher, though that has been happening. It will be interesting to watch how this plays out. Right now, the faang stuck in this range, taylor. Taylor you are stealing my faang, so im going to steal your sauce. This has been outperforming that s p 500 for most of th