President in the senate trial . I cannot really comment onib any possible conversations ive had with the white house. Id am certainly strongly opposed impeaching the president on the two grounds judiciaryy the committee. Neither of them is found in the constitution. They are the kinds of broad general, vague openended criteria that can be weaponize against virtually any president when the opposing party has the 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 open ended criteria, making a president serve at the will of congress and turning us into the kind of parliamentary democracy that we fought against in the revolution. We did not want a parliamentary democracy in which a president can be thrown out of office for a vote of nonconfidence. So i am strongly
The chair of the House Intelligence Committee is a possibility thank you very much mike hanna in washington Claire Finkelstein is professor of law and flaws of the at the university of Pennsylvania Law School and joins says on skype from philadelphia great to have you on the program thank you very much now i want to ask just in the grand scheme of things how significant are these allegations and what kind of repercussions could we see from this or is it something thats likely to be swept under the rug as weve seen so many times at the at trumps white house. This is an enormous story possibly the biggest story of this presidency because 1st of all its arguably the 1st time that a whistle blower action has been filed against the president if indeed thats what this action is as we now are coming to understand. And there are extensive protections that are required by law for whistleblowers to enable them to bring Important Information of corruption to light so 2nd of all there would be as
Confirmed is the fact that as many as 18 children under the age of 2 infants and toddlers were separated from their parents for periods ranging from 20 days to 6 months the house efforts to investigate claims of abuse do not end here the Judiciary Committee this week approved a number of other subpoenas to be served on those dealing with migrants the intention to establish whether the implementation of the administrations 0 tolerance policy contravened federal law mike hanna aljazeera washington. The tunisian red crescent says the number of people who died in last weekends migrant ship disaster has risen to 80 only 3 of the 86 passengers on board are known to have survived after the boat capsized off the coast of tunisia they were taken to a Migrant Center in desires is for treatment the agency says the death toll could rise further making it one of the worst migrant boat disasters to date. But he sim barrys have removed hundreds of undocumented migrants protesting inside the citys pan
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