Personal attorney Rudy Giuliani will report to the department of justice and to congress the results of mr giulianis efforts in ukraine last week to pursue these false allegations meant to tarnish Vice President biden President Trumps persistent and continuing effort to coerce a foreign country to help him cheat to win an election is a clear and present danger to our free and Fair Elections and to our National Security but the republicans say the democrats dont have enough evidence in their case to impeach president tom this case in many respects comes down to 8 lines in a culture in scripts let me say clearly and unequivocally that the answer to that question is no the record in the democrats impeachment inquiry does not show that president dr abuse the power of his office or obstructed congress. Impeach a president whose 63000000 people voted for over 8 lines in a car transcript is boni staying with us politics and the f. B. I. Has been cleared of political bias and an investigation
[applause] good morning everybody. I have to say that was one of the most surreal moments in my life to walk and no behind you is the Senate Majority leader and the secretary of the state. As a young people would say i can make it a name, couldnt i . Welcome. I am your president and i am so honored today to have the opportunity to introduce a man who truly needs no introduction anywhere in the world and certainly not here, his old Stomping Ground and that is of course, leader mitch mcconnell. I would like to say before i would like to say thank you. Would you mind giving him a round of applause. [applause] he does such an amazing job with our students and as soldiers and we are so grateful to have the opportunity to serve. Leader mcconnell is the longestserving Senate Majority president. U. S. Senator and he is only the second kentuckian to serve as majority leader in the u. S. Senate. He has so many roles as you know including a Senior Member of the appropriations agriculture and rule
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. My name is harold furchtgottroth, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and i will be your host today. Thank you so much for joining us. We are very pleased and honored to have witnessed the honorable makan delrahim, the assistant attorney general at the u. S. Department of justice. He needs to introduction, and he has been working around issues related to antitrust for a great deal of time. He has a very distinguished resume which you can find at the department of justice website. Before we get started i have two requests. One is if you take your cell phone and put it on silent mode so that we dont have unnecessary interruptions of that sort. The second is for the q a session we will have cards that you can write questions, and those cards are going to be passed around and you can write your questions. They will be collected and i will sort through those. We particularly would like to welcome our cspan guests and or other guests that are watch
Republicans are saying there is not sufficient evidence to accuse the president of these actions and this impeachment is a sham. It is not built on firsthand evidence and they have tried to dismiss the process as not worth pursuing. I was talking to sources over the weekend who are working on the committees with regards to impeachment, and theyre working on drafting articles of impeachment as we speak. When will that process conclude and the committee introduce articles of impeachment . We expect to see articles this week. They will probably be voted first in the Judiciary Committee as soon as wednesday and go to the house floor next week. They want to wrap this up before christmas and right now they are on that timeline. Vonnie what are we looking at in terms of articles of impeachment . At least twoa articles, the first will be abuse of power, that the president abused his power and trying to elicit help from a foreign power. The other will be obstruction of congress and pointing out
Preserve protect and defend the constitution of the United States now Indian Police shot dead 4 men suspected of raping and killing a woman and the case that reignited nationwide protests over attacks on women they were taken to the crime scene as part of the investigation but the police say they tried to escape and was shot the family of the victim welcomed the killings. Where id like to thank you congratulate the telling god our Government Police and all those who supported me my daughters so now his pelisse and i feel very happy for their family i mean i think this will be an example and nobody will even think of doing it. Well and silva is in new delhi she says this latest rape case to spark debate in india. The possibly is wide scale acceptance and support for such form of retribution of justice but then of course there are also many lawyers and human rights activists to raising questions or saying that in such a case there is no due process of law thats followed and were supposed