Martha mccallum is there with the story. She has coverage continuing of this Impeachment Process and her interview with the Attorney General. Martha in michigan. Martha tonight, you will see dueling screens in the Nations Capital and in a 2020 swing state as the nation watches the impeachment. Im martha mccallum, live in detroit this evening. And this extreme juxtaposition is the story tonight. On one side, you are looking live at the floor of the United States house of representatives. Representative cheney of wyoming at this moment as lawmakers are preparing to take historic vote on the impeachment of president donald j. Trump. Two charges against the president abuse of power and Obstruction Of Justice. At the same time the
campaign rolls along as you see on the righthand side of your screen. Not all that far away in battle creek, michigan, where President Trump is about to take the stage tonight and rally his supporters who have not been swayed by the democrats case in the house. To
but, george, it looks like we have a pretty good precedent against this for a presidential overreach in the years to come. you read kavanaugh s explanation of the opinion saying, hey, it doesn t matter whether donald trump is a current president or a former president, he didn t have claims of executive privilege anyway and any discussion by the lower courts about his status as a former president is just dicta. that actually makes this case even a bigger loss against donald trump. absolutely. i mean it was one of those things like when they told nixon how, you know, nixon against the united states came out in 1974, they told him, mr. president, there s no air in it, and there was no air in this for the former president because sometimes the courts will say, well, if you come back and you prove this, then it might be different. you know, it might. but this they basically, because they took out they ended the reliance that the court of appeals had on the fact that
almost no legal defense to stand on, and the charges against him will be much easier to prove and he ll be in a much weaker position in defending against them. can i just follow-up on that. i do think it s important. in other words, if the supreme court says there s no privilege around these documents from that day, it s myly unlikely they would think there is any privilege around conversations on that day, correct? that s absolutely right. . the courts have generally not identified any difference in the form given. it would be about what blinken might be telling president biden about the ukraine invasion. it doesn t matter whether he is saying that orally in the oval office or sending him a memorandum from his trip. the same would be true of mark meadows and any one of trump s employees. the form of the advice doesn t
somehow, through oil, and gas. it doesn t matter whether you don t deny, completely, oil from russia being sold somewhere. but, if you can curtail it, if you can find a way to ban it here, in the united states, as they have been doing, slowly, but surely, in europe, even not in a governmental way. we can talk about that. but, if you ban their ability to sell it on open free markets, they need to go to secondary markets, china, india, and then they have to sell at discounted prices, because they aren t on the mainstream of the economy anymore. then, you put sanctions on where the finances are hindered. so that the transfer of capital becomes more difficult. all of this, hitting home in a way that will, really, make a difference in applying sanctions to russia. remember, the tanks that rolled through ukraine streets right now, we re all bought with euros. 7 million barrels of oil, per
newborn baby symbol revel. it doesn t matter whether you see that it affects the hospital or first whole country. but, you get up and have a little bit of hope things will be different. the next finally we better the community was isabella and her children. it wasn t very easy to get to that. they live very high up on one of them not to tops. we had to do a track up to see her.