Ladies and gents, thank you very much for coming. First of all, we are into the season where the city tends to empty out and so we are all really delighted that you are empty out. Season where the city tends to here to discuss a problem that is arguably as important here in the United States as it is around the world where we will be free hope focusing on it. Let me introduce myself and we will be conversing with. Im sarah at the Carnegie Endowment for international peace, and the democracy and rule of law program, not the climate and energy program. Simon is going to kick us off, simon taylor, whose one of the founders of Global Witness, which is in my view one of the most innovative and effective organizations working in this space around the world and it interestingly combines advocacy with extremely rigorous investigations, and thats one of the things we will be talking about today, a recent report by Global Witness about shows activities in nigeria. He also helped galvanize a orga
Ladies and gents, thank you very much for coming. First of all, we are into the season where the city tends to empty out and so we are all really delighted that you are empty out. Season where the city tends to here to discuss a problem that is arguably as important here in the United States as it is around the world where we will be free hope focusing on it. Let me introduce myself and we will be conversing with. Im sarah at the Carnegie Endowment for international peace, and the democracy and rule of law program, not the climate and energy program. Simon is going to kick us off, simon taylor, whose one of the founders of Global Witness, which is in my view one of the most innovative and effective organizations working in this space around the world and it interestingly combines advocacy with extremely rigorous investigations, and thats one of the things we will be talking about today, a recent report by Global Witness about shows activities in nigeria. He also helped galvanize a orga
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Leading the proceedings, how judiciary chairman jerry nadler saying impeachment articles will presumably be introduced this week. Both parties making the sunday morning rounds. The process is ill legitimate. You dont want an anonymous person to be able to create pilot proceedings. We have a solid case. The democrats are looking for a partisan impeachment of the president of the United States. If presented to a jury is a guilty verdict in about three minutes flat. The evolving standard for impeachment. This is a classic example of an impeachable offense. The focus is on the president s misconduct. We have to move forward. Abuse of power, might be obstruction of congress. The president accused democrats of changing the impeachment guidelines less than 48 hours before the hearing. Hes referring to this. A 55 page document released yesterday afternoon. It lays out how impeachment will be defined in the hearings. It builds on the report that was originally written and in the nixon era last
back and not make a lot of rulings but just kind of defer to the agreement that the senate makes. but if as hillary suggested if you don t have an agreement between the majority and the minority then the first question becomes, does the chief justice want to play the role of like more of a judge, right? where people are making motions and he s ruling on them. or does he want to force the senate to make its own decisions? which case he can just refer stuff to them. second question, and this is the other one, is does mitch mcconnell have the votes to overrule him to the extent that rob rob roberts makes rulings that they don t like? i think those questions are very much up in the air and won t know what a senate trial looks like until we get a window into the answers to them. so then, hillary, if you are watching the trial, the two main