Potentially drawing up articles of impeachment against the president. House democrats invited three positive note scholars to testify. A Harvard Law School professor, gerhardt,an, michael a professor at the university of North Carolina school of law, and stanford professor pamela karlan. Republicans invited jonathan tur ley, a professor of Public Interest law at George Washington university. The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. Mr. Chairman youre upsurping the right to object. Objection is noted. I receiver tzrbreserve the r object. Peropportunity to cause g, im furnishing you with a demand on minority hearings on this subject signed by all the republican the gentleman will suspend. Pursuant to cause 2 j 1 rule 11 im furnish you with a letter signed by all the republican members of the committee. I request you set this date before the Committee Votes on any articles of impeachment i withdraw my reservation. We will confer on this later. The quorum is present. This i
Potentially drawing up our articles drying up articles of impeachment against donald trump. They invited three scholars to testify. A law school professor, a stanford loss will professor, professor, andol in North Carolina lost go professor. The republicans invited Jonathan George Washington Law School professor. The House Committee will come to order. We are reserving the right to object. The objection is noted. I amrsuant to clause 2j1, furnishing you with demand of a majority day of hearings on this subject. I withdraw my reservation. The quorum is present. We are the first hearing conducting pursuant down to resolution 660. The special Judiciary Committee procedures described in section 4a. Here is how the committee will proceed. I will make an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for an Opening Statement. Each witness will have 10 minutes to make their statements and then we will proceed to questions. I will now recognize myself. Mr. Chairman, parliamenta
Professor. Here is the hearing in its entirety. Order. House will come to object. E the right to i am furnishing you with the subject signed by all republicans. Pursuant to clause, i am furnishing you with a letter signed by all the members of the committee can i request that you set this date before the Committee Votes on any articles of impeachment. I withdraw my reservation. Later. Ill confer on this hearing wethe first to housecting pursuant resolution 660. Here is have the committee will proceed for this hearing will openingill make it an statement and then i will rubberneck just recognized a member for making an Opening Statement. I now recognize myself for no Opening Statement. For anve the time Opening Statement. The facts before us are undisputed. President trump called roses was zelensky andent asked him for a favor. That was a concerted effort to solicit an advantage in the next. Lection to obtain that private political advantage, President Trump elected from the newly presi
With Prime Minister trudeau and others apparently having a joke maybe at mr trumps expense do you not take President Trump seriously thats thats thats complete nonsense and i dont know whether its comparable. So thats the only comment about what actually was going all in that vacuum how this video and that was from the News Conference the british Prime Minister did here a short time ago he was asked about it and said it was nonsense but clearly we have it on film and this isnt the 1st time that President Trump if this is the real reason would have left a an International Summit after a dispute with the canadian Prime Minister remember there was the g 8 summit last year that took place in canada President Trump seemed at that stage to leave early because he was unhappy with comments from the canadian side all right james so the u. S. President tweeting that he wont be doing a press conference at the close of nato because he says we did so so many over the past 2 days safe travels to all
London and she can walk us through what transpired here in the last several hours. Its just been a remarkable turn of event. As you say President Trump cancelling a planned press conference. Hes going to hold a few more meetings and then head home early. He wanted this nato trip to be a chance for him to show leadership on the world stage to try to turn the page at least temporarily from the impeachment hearings back at home and yet he has been beset by new controversies. Let me read you the tweet and then give you the broader context. The president tweeted when todays meetings are over, i will be heading back to washington. I wont be doing a press conference at the close of nato because we did so many over the past two days. Safe travels to all. Now this comes after a stunning piece of video emerged overnight showing some of the president s closest allies. The Prime Minister of canada, justin trudeax, the Prime Minister of the u. K. , Boris Johnson appearing to mock President Trump al