Its an effort to undermine our democracy, to diminish Donald Trumps own two impeachments, his first impeachment for trying to illegally bribe a Foreign Government to help him with his campaign, and the second for a deadly insurrection in the halls of this capitol after he asked his followers to tear through the halls of congress which they did with zip ties looking to execute the former Vice President. And we know donald trump has called for this Impeachment Inquiry, because we have the direct evidence from his own social. You can see it right here. He says impeach the bum. And we also know that hes been directly coordinating with members of this committee as reported by the New York Times right here, a member of this committee has been briefing donald trump on this inquiry. We also know that if donald trump doesnt get his way, he wants his loyalists to shut down the government. How do we know that . Because he posted it right here on his social media and his loyalists in this committe
An investigation on a political rival . Mr. Morrison . In that hypothetical, no, i dont think he should do that. Yeah. And ambassador volker, im sure you agree. Yes. And the same would be true if it were a governor withholding the budget requests of the state police unless the state police agreed to conduct an investigation on a political rival. You would agree . Correct. Yes, sir. In your view is it any different for a member of congress . Of course not, right . Would you agree that the president has the same obligation as the mayor, as the governor, as the member of congress to not withhold aid unless he gets an investigation into a political rival, mr. Morrison . Yes, sir, i would agree with that hypothetical. I would agree. And were having a debate here both sides as to how to
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Congresswoman porter, thank you very much for joining us tonight. we really appreciate it. absolutely. and i want to just begin with a note about your style, your question style as apoesds oppos content at the moment in hearings. because we ve now seen moral indignation and understandable anger and outrage voiced in impeachment inquiry hearings on both sides actually. and what i m struck by in your questioning style is that you are always flawlessly polite. you never try to use volume to create an emotional affect in your questions. how did you arrive at this style of questioning you use in the hearings? well, before i ran for congress i was a law professor, and so i had hours and hours of classroom experience asking students questions, trying to draw them into engaging the
Criticism and after taliban bomb killed a us servicemember. they are suing to have the names of 366 anonymous interviewees in the report unredacted. the post says it wants the publish story anyway setting the trump administration s renewed talks with the taliban and that began over the weekend. moderate democrats frustrated and angry about a tough impeachment vote next but the real news roundup, threat for goldendoodle. university law professor jonathan turley testified in the impeachment inquiry hearings last week saying sit he and his wife and even his dog of gotten threats. he was testifying everyone including linda seems to be bad these days. the organization to 9 chris credentials to media outlets forcing them to buy tickets if they want to go. those denied include the washington post and the press of atlantic city, longtime hometown