Reports that the aid was being held, because ukraine was being coerced into doing an investigation. And congress had initiated congressional investigations into why the aid was being released. We you know, we can talk about alternative facts all day long, but the facts are really pretty clear. That the president abused his power. The precious power of his office, to coerce a country that was dependent on us. A country whose fight in russian aggression because when ukraine fights russian aggression theyre helping us fight russian aggression and he did it for personal gain and he should be held accountable. I yield back. Gentle lady yields back. Mr. Chairman i have u man news consent. Who . Arizona. Recognized. My first consent request is the record of the correspondence and subpoenas served on executive Branch Officials by chairman schiff. We have concerns because three of those served prior to the passage of the res. We will reserve the right. I have another one. Two letters sent by th
The Judiciary Committee will please come to order. When the committee recessed yesterday it had completed Opening Statements on the resolution about to be considered. Putin to notice under House Resolution 660, i know call house mr. Chairman impeaching donald j. Trump president of the United States point of order. The gentleman will state his point of order. The chairman refused to schedule a day of hearings pursuant to clause 2 j. Well entertain that point of order once we completed calling up the resolution. I call up h rez 775 for purposes of markup and move that the Committee Report the resolution favorably to the house. The clerk will report the resolution. H rez 755, impeaching donald j. Trump, president of the United States for high crimes and misdemeanors december 10th, 2019. The following resolution was submitted, resolution, impeaching Donald John Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors, resolve that donald j. Trump president of the United States is impeached for high crimes a
Sara, i heard you just received some sort of new information about the explosive. Reporter thats right. Nypd here are saying that preliminarily they believe this material may have been contained within a plastic bag. Theyre being very, very clear they are not calling this any kind of device. Theyre not saying that they are that they believe there is any necessarily any link to any intent to harm someone. They believe at this point that it may have been a homemade or experimental type of material put together to create an explosion or a loud noise given the Holiday Weekend. They say around this time of year, they often see members of the public doing something that they obviously dont advise, which is going on line, looking up chemistry and putting together devices or materials that they believe, you know, could be some sort of crude kind of firework. They are being very clear that they dont have evidence one way or the other. They actually opened up the press conference by saying they
merry christmas to you. i m richard lui in for robin meade. it will be a very good morning as you re getting ready to open those presents. here s the top story, though, as you re doing what you enjoy doing. the winter storm is turning out to be a real nightmare. roads are deadly, interstates are closing across the midwest. plus, watch as a woman slamz the pope to the ground during christmas eve mass. he is okay, but we ve learned about her. and people try to save a buck winning the deer that went wild in the aisles. cars smashing together in a christmas eve pile-up. the wreck stranded dozens of people on interstate 40 in oklahoma. right now interstates closed all across oklahoma. some areas got 14 inches. there were two other cars over here besides us. we were all stopped but they re just going way too favst. an ambulance carried away one woman with two broken legs. they are declared a state of emergency there. at least 18 people were killed on slippery roads. driving