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Hours of debate stretching into a late night showdown, as the House Judiciary Committee argues over whether to approve two articles of impeachment. This is about facts and the constitution. Facts be damned, they dont care. Reporter it charges President Trump with abusing his power by pressuring ukraine to investigate his political rivals while withholding military aid and obstructing congress by defying subpoenas and blocking witnesses. None of your fact witnesses were able to establish any evidence of bribery, treason, high crimes. There are no crimes here . That is the defense my colleagues across the aisle are putting forward . How about the highest crime that one who holds Public Office can commit, a crime against our constitution. Reporter tonight, President Trump appearing at the holiday Congressional Ball after tweeting more than 100 times a daily record for him, calling it a phony hearing. Were having a very exciting month in washington. Reporter late tonight, republicans tryin
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Cspans campaign 2020. Your unfiltered view of politics. This comes from Purdue University with biographers looking at political history. This talk was part of a twoday conference called remaking political history. Its an hour and a half. Welcome and thank you for attending our session on this beautiful friday afternoon. I will have to compete with the outdoors and hopefully well convince you that youve made the right choice hanging out with us to talk about media and biography and political history. Randy robert has written so many. Youve written half of our total number, i think. So we have a lot of experience in this genre. Weve obviously been drawn to it and have an affinity for it in some way or another. So before we again, let me introduce the panelists. And as i introduce each of you, if you could just spend a minute or two telling the audience what was it that drew you to biography and what is it you love about the genre. First we have larry maslin in the graduate acting program