Investigation intopolitical val joe biden. And that he obstructed congre by defying numerous subpoenas for documents and testimony as part of their impeachment i probe. Unittheir opposition, rushing through the impeachment process and using it to rn overtu the results of the 2016 election. President trump has defended his dealings with ukraine and called the investigation a quote witchhunt. Here to discuss this our republican consultant and seniou contd to bulwark tim miller. He is with us. And also ron aldinger who joins us via skype fr washington. Thank you for being here with us. Why just two articles of impeachment for the democrats abuse of porur and obion of congress over President Trumps dealings with ukraine . Why not obstruction of justice in the Mueller Report, there were 10 instances listed. Or bribery that the democrats were exciting even before this began. The democrats made a choice. They couldve reached to n,the shotloaded it up and given the president both girls, as you
Sometimes when ive heard some bad news or bad things that had happened outside, ijust, here and do some mechanical things. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Glad you could join us. Its 7 00am in singapore, midnight in london, and 7 00pm in washington, where the white house has published a letter to senior democrats, confirming that it will not co operate with impeachment proceedings against donald trump. The letter calls the process constitutionally illegitimate and claims democrats are seeking to deprive the American People of their president. Earlier, the Trump Administration blocked a key figure from testifying at an impeachment hearing. Gordon sondland, the Us Ambassador to the eu, was going to be asked whether he urged ukraine to investigate the former Vice President joe biden and his son. He released a statement saying hed been directed to stay away. Laura trevelyan has more from washington. Hes the manor House Democrats wa nted he
Meet afghanistans robotic team winning prizes and acclaim across the world, against the odds. Sometimes when ive heard some bad news or bad things that had happened outside, ijust, here and do democrats response was swift. Some mechanical things. Live from our studios the failure to produce this witness, in singapore and london, 00 01 11,005 2147483051 37 20,217 this is bbc world news 2147483051 37 20,217 00 00 02,764 its newsday. The failure to produce these documents, um, we consider yet additional strong evidence of obstruction of the constitutional functions of congress a coequal branch of government. Democrats were keen to question Gordon Sondland because hed been dealing with ukraine in the run up to the phone call between President Trump and that countrys leader, in which mr trump asked Volodymyr Zelensky to do him a favour and investigate the bidens. Us military to ukraine had been suspended days before. In Text Messages given to congress, veteran us diplomat bill taylor wrote.
The first was to try to delay the idea of a no deal brexit in october. A group of members of parliament took control of the agenda and suspended the parliamentary role that the government can create and theyo greet passed legislation to do that through the lower house in a single day, the legislation is now going to the upper half and expected to pass later today or tomorrow. Secondly, the Prime Minister wants an early general election because the legislation, he thinks it is the only way to break the deadlock. Delays theof this october 31 deadline for brexit, does it . Guest absolutely not. Even if the members of parliament are successfully in getting their legislation through tomorrow to delay a no deal vote, that law would force Boris Johnson to ask them to delay brexit but gives no guarantee that brussels or the European Union leaders will do that and comes down to what date could they pick . The members of parliament have asked for january of 2020, but that would be in the hands o
Budget, um that we really should go ahead and have a community meeting. So this is a community meeting. We have our commissioners present. Um, one of our commissioners. Was unable to be here. Uh thats commissioner joaquin guerrero, whos out of the country, but we have five other commissioners here. We also have members of the public in the room and we have members of the public on line. And so were going to go ahead and go through our regular, um the items that we were planning to cover today, which is our directors report. We will have a report on the budget and then we will have, um , a presentation on the which is an overview of the homelessness response system just to set the framework for everyone. In the ensuing months, we will we have worked with the commission to set up some presentations for all of you and for the public so that you can start to understand the various interventions and various pieces of our homelessness response system in San Francisco and how they all fit tog