[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] we recessed about to hear from mr. Castor, you are recognized for 45 minutes. Good afternoon chairman and Ranking Member collins, members of the committee and the staff, thank you again for having meto back. And giving me the opportunity to testify about the evidence gathered during the impeachment inquiry. At the outset let me say the evidence does not support the allegations that my democrat colleagues have made. I dont believe the evidence leads to the inclusion they suggest. I am hopeful that some important perspective and context to the facts under discussion today. The chief obligation as a Democrat Impeachment inquiry is trying to assess over the last 76 days is this, whether President Trump abuse the power da his office through quid pro quo, bribery, extortion or whatever by withholding a meeting or Security Assistance as a way of pressuring president zelensky to pressure the
Drawing up articles of impeachment against President Trump. During this portion, law professor Pamela Carlin made comparisons between kings and President Trumps conduct. Recognize gentleman let me repeat. The committee will come to order. When we broke for recess, we were under the five minute rule and i recognize mr. Sensenbrenner for five minutes. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. Im a veteran of impeachments. I have been named by the house as an impeachment manager in four impeachments. Clinton and three judges. Thats more than anybody else in history. And one of the things in every impeachment whether its the ones that i was involved in or others that have come before the committee where i was not a manager is that the debate on what is a high crime and misdemeanor and how serious does that have to be in order it for it to rise to a level of an Impeachable Offense. 50 years ago then republican leader gerald ford made a comment that saying a high crime and misdemeanor is anything a
The committee will reconvene. When we recessed we were about to hear from mr. Castor. Mr. Castor, youre recognized for 45 minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you for having me back, giving me the opportunity to testify about the evidence gathered during our impeachment inquiry. At the outset let me say the evidence does not support the allegations that my democrat colleagues have made. And i dont believe the evidence leads to the conclusions they suggest. Im hopeful to add some important perspective and context to the facts under discussion today. The chief allegation that the impeachment inquiry has been trying to assess over the last 66 days is this whether President Trump abused the power of his office through quid pro quo, extortion or whatever, by withholding a meeting or Security Assistance as a way of pressuring ukrainian president zelensky to investigate the president s political rival, former vp biden, for the president s political benefit in the upcoming election. The sec
16minute drive there. The chp has updated our information, there is a twocar crash blocking the left lane at the toll plaza there. Injuries have been reported. Well continue to follow this for you. Thank you. All lanes are back open on highway 101 in monterey county. Heavy rainfall flooded the roads as you can see here. It made for a scary few hours. This is video of one driver getting pulled to safety. This was just one of a number of rescues. Now heres our special report. News special report. Now reporting, george stephanopoulos. Good morning. Were coming on the air right now with breaking news on impeachment. Thats the scene on capitol hill right now where House Speaker nancy pelosi expected to make a major announcement on the impeachment inquiry. Of course it comes in the wake of yesterdays hearing of the house judiciary. The first hearing alt the Judiciary Committee, where they heard from three constitutional scholars. Also republican witness Jonathan Turley from George Washington
The 1st the sinking of a boat carrying refugees and migrants off the coast of mauritania has killed at least 58 people its thought that there may have been 150 people on board most of them from gambia dozens were able to swim to shore survivors are being treated in the northern mauritania city of new people globally around 2 and a half 1000 migrants died at sea this year thats according to the International Organization for migration but that number as high as it is is much less than that of 2018 Mohammed Valdez our correspondent hes in no upshot mauritanias capital about 83 people managed to swim to the shore and there were found by the military Police Outside the Northern City of and what people would. That was the idea evening hours yesterday as those people gave more news about what happened that boat capsized off the shore. And thats after about 10 days being stranded there running out of fuel and so on so they gave more details and scores of people at least dozens of people are s