President and ceo of George Washingtons mount vernon, talks about how washington views the presidency and executive power. As always, you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Is next. Host good morning. 17th. Monday, february, we had to morning, mount vernon for a conversation about the first president and his impact on the office. We begin with a question about the qualities you want in the person who occupies the oval office. What do you look for in a president . In the eastern and central time zones, 2027488000. In the mountain or pacific time zones, 2027488001. You can send us a text this morning. Hat number, 2027488003 please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media. Start calling now on this president s day and as you are thinking about the qualities an want, we take you back to event last year, the release of president s. The [video clip] there was a preeminent little inist and and 1951 inhtin
I would be remiss if i did not recognize my great friend, colleague, the best president of the best World Affairs council in the United States. I know we have a lot of World Affairs Council Members here. Jim faulk, very grateful to jim for this help. We have players, including stephen hadley, who will be speaking tonight. A truly great Public Servant who was the director of the nsc under bush, and i say Public Servant in days when that meant something and it really mattered. And we respected people who hold these high positions. We look forward to hearing from him tonight. And i think now without even leaving the stage, i will get the first panel underway so that we can start this. As a college professor, i would say, get your notepads out. There will be questions, discussion. We are going to start with our first panel, and i want to invite the panelists to come up to the stage. Tim sale from the university of toronto, who was here as a postdoc, he is going to chair the panel and lead
Only a partial victory. And a state of emergency in New South Wales as australias bushfire crisis continues a record breaking heat wave and strong winds are fanning unprecedented fires authorities they are warning of the worsening conditions over the coming days. Im called aspen welcome to the Program Donald Trump is now just the 3rd u. S. President in history to be impeached the u. S. House of representatives has voted on 2 charges stemming from trumps alleged attempt to pressure ukraine into investigating his main political rival joe biden both votes fellow along party lines almost all democrats voted for the changes republicans voted unanimously against them this now paves the way for senate trial which will decide whether the president will be. From office. After hours of debating the 1st article of impeachment for abuse of power past the hives. On this vote the yeas are 230 the nasal 197 present is one article one is adopted im just minutes later the 2nd article for obstruction of
Students today. Amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. What a terrible loss and our heartfelt condolences to them. And if you are just waking up to us, lets get you a quick update on your weather and traffic. We start with mike. Lets talk more about that fog. And you can see it is really thick around petaluma and out toward discovery bay. So as we head down to places like san rafael, you will be just south of that fog. But it could roll your way. You can see as we go up 101, a lot of those areas dealing with fog this morning. Some of the major arteries there. And if you are coming in highway 4, you can see the thick fog from brentwood out to discovery bay. And this is what it looks from the exploratorium camera, you can see the fog trying to envelope San Francisco. And as we head deeper into the forecast, you can see that well have pretty dry conditions today after fog this morning, high clouds and sunshine. 57 to 61. So pretty mild this afternoon. How about that friday morning commute . And so t
Oversight subcommittee holds a hearing to look at the Economic Impact of climate change. Watch this live this afternoon at 3 00 p. M. Eastern here on cspan3 or listen live with the free cspan radio app. Lets show you the reaction President Trump had when he learned at last nights rally in battle creek, michigan, that the house had voted to impeach him. I think we have a vote coming in. So we got every single republican voted for us. Whoa. Whoa. So we had 198, 229. We didnt lose one republican vote. And three democrats voted for us. Wow. Thank you, hailey. Great job. Wow. The Republican Party has never been so affronted, but theyve never been so united as they are right now. Ever. Never. The Washington Post reports that there were 10,000 supporters at last nights rally. Heres the speaker of the house nancy pelosi after last nights votes. December 18th. A great day for the constitution of the United States. A sad one for america that the president s reckless activities necessitated us, o