government and was foremost to the founders minds. they placed congress first in article 1 of the constitution. president trump s obstruction of congress is an affront to peter rodino who chaired this committee in the summer of 74 when congress investigated nixon s betrayal of his oath of office and he s representative barbara jordan who as a member of this committee, would not be sub version to the constitution and it is an affront to the memory of congressman elijah cummings who knew we were better than this and it s an affront to the main patriots to the president s tyrannical attempt, ambassador yovanovitch, ambassador taylor, and doctor fiona hill and further, a principal republican of the judiciary committee in 1964. he did not support inpeachment
our country. i ve worked on presidential impeachments as part of this committee twice before, and a third time brings me no joy. members of the congress all take an oekt to uphold the constitution when a president violates a constitutional order we have an obligation to live up to our oath of office to deal with that. last week the committee got the president s actions undermine the integrity of the next election and is a violation of his oath. as a staff member to my predecessor congressman don edward, i watched his opening in the nixon impeachment and it rings true today. he said the value and beauty of our constitution and representative government, if it s going to work, requires that we all respect and obey the constitution. it s the compact we have with each other and put simply, no one is above the law and the president of the united states must follow the constitution. president trump has not only abused his power for the upcoming election, he used a foreign power to do it.
the towboat. a live picture of 395 traffic. last time we looked at this camera, a stalled car moved on to the shoulder. still there. blowback has arrived or down between duke street and seminary road. no delays. back to you. thank you. rollback . has rollback thank you. a man was walking dogs while holding a gun. an officer was called and ended up shooting a man. it happened in southeast. john gonzalez has more. this appears to be a violent exchange of gunfire between a d.c. police officer and this man who lived in the neighborhood and was walking his dog armed with a gun. d.c. police do their best two calm barking dogs inside a police cruiser minutes after owner was shot and killed during a police shootout that started around 10:30 last night. officers responded to the scene. confronted in vegetablthe individual. individual produced a weapon and fired at the officer. the officer returned fire striking individual multiple times. the responding officer is a 3 1/2
host: good morning from washington, d.c. president obama on the road to sell his health care plan. rising concerns exist from the american public. in the house and senate, some movement on health care legislation helping us put all the pieces together today is david lightman. i want to start with this headline from philadelphia inquirer. it looks like there is momentum for a vote. what is happening on the house side? guest: there is momentum toward a vote, but it is a small, but significant step. the four moderates agreed to certain things, including $100 billion in cuts from the original democratic plan, and to postpone any vote until september so they and the constituents could have time to look at the bill. the committee has 36 democrats. i believe it has 23 republicans. there are seven moderates. they needed the four moderates to get the bill out of the committee. host: the folks who compromise are part of the blue dog coalition in the energy and commerce committee. we