The white house denny behind the president and also suggesting they have not lost any significant republican support. Some critics have report have emerged, including mitt romney, but largely democrats are hoping to have articles of impeachment by thanksgiving and have the vote in december or around that time frame, which means this could be settled by the end of the year. David there is also the question of subpoenas from capitol hill to the white house for various documents. I understand the white house is pushing back, saying you should have a formal inquiry of impeachment, you have to vote in the house first. Why is that important . Kevin they are continuing to say let the courts handle this. Democrats have issued subpoenas from the state department all the way to the Vice President with the various house committees there in investigating this. Is theond Point Administration feels confident this is being handled in the political realm. They do not view it as as he did get wrist out
Human rights brits have enjoyed since the days of winston churchill. And theyre prepared to jeopardize britains membership of the eu, and our prosperity with it, in order to appease their backbenchers. So much for a credible plan from the conservative party. And most astonishingly of all, they have chosen to single out the workingage poor to bear the brunt of the final years of deficit reduction, while refusing to ask the superrich to make a single additional contribution. Thats the people scraping by on the minimum wage. The jobseekers whove found themselves temporarily down on their luck. The men and women trying to earn their way out of poverty, often working more than one job. And given the conservatives are not planning a single tax increase, how will they pay for all their spending commitments . They will have no choice but to cut the services they have not protected like social care, policing, education, education right to the bone. No wonder theyve stopped claiming that were al
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Good afternoon. I would like to welcome you all to this very special conference in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the u. S. China diplomatic relationship. Director of the china center here at brookings. Im thrilled to see such a big crowd of people. I had no idea i was this popular. Just as we finally saw a thaw in the temperature in washington this week, after a very long in u. S. Chinaaw relations more than three decades ago was almost equally as long awaited. The thaw began with pingpong diplomacy during the presidency of richard nixon. The ice finally fully mended by andtime president carter the chinese leader agreed to the 1979 joint community on establishments of diplomatic relations. It seems quite fitting that we are holding this event during a week when we have seen pictures streaming back from china of First Lady Michelle Obama playing pingpong, learning tai chi. Quite impressive, if you saw the picture. And appearing at schools to speak to the future generations of c