Reynolds, Brookings Institution government studies senior fellow, here to talk about impeachment from a Historical Perspective and give us an idea of what the process has looked like and what it could look like in the future. Obviously a lot of similarities and differences between now and, lets say, the most recent one, lets say, the most recent one, president clintons. In this stage of the process, how would you compare it to the clinton impeachment . Guest so i think the most important thing to remember in comparing where we are now to the clinton impeachment is that in the clinton impeachment case, this stage of the process, this gathering of evidence, was largely done actually not by congress. The factual material on which the impeachment inquiry was based largely arrived to the house of representatives in hundreds of boxes from ken star, his investigation at the independent counsel. And so Congress Needed to do much less of its own investigative work. So when we hear about deposit
Impeachment process with Molly Reynolds. And a discussion on president it on the federal judiciary. Host as President Trump and many of his supporters call for the public naming of the whistleblower in the impeachment inquiry, there is bipartisan opposition on capitol hill and reluctance by News Organizations. Visit important to know the identity of the whistleblower . Democrats call 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. And for independents and others, 2027488003. 2. You can send us a text. That is 2027488003. We are on twitter at cspanwj. Facebook. Com cspan is where you post. We will take a look at some of the key races across the country. Starting with the whistleblower in a report out this morning out npr, can trump legally the whistleblower . Experts say it would not violate any laws and picture of the president and rand paul. President trump and his allies have amplified their calls for the whistleblower who spark to the impeachment inquiry to be weather it would whether it would
Increase sanctions on iran road map begins with watching the fed. Investors expect the second rate cut in a decade. Stocks mostly lower ahead of the open. Fedex is falling this morning. Shares down in the premarket over trade worries policy uncertainty, of course, as well continuing to weigh on the delivery giant and right idea, wrong approach, House Speaker nancy pelosi sitting down with jim youll hear what she had to say about the president s china trade strategy as we said, a few moments ago, the president tweets, ive just instructed the secretary of the treasury to substantially increase sanctions on the country of iran. So nice that our country is now Energy Independent the u. S. Is in better shape than ever before, Strongest Military by far, biggest economy, no longer even close, number one in energy, maga equals kag. The story is going to be about the attacks and what else the saudis can tell us about it as aramco had that statement out yesterday. Right i think we have to were f
Everyone. Im jason your may president of the Bipartisan Policy Center. Id like to give you a very warm welcome to todays event focus on the evolution of the american presidency over the last two decades. I emphasize the warm welcome because when Public Health realities forced us to make this a virtual event. I made the compelling argument that there were warm days in february and maybe we should just go for it and get a tent and a couple of heaters. And as usual the thoughtful staff at the bpc prevailed and so here we are virtual yet comfortable my pleasure to set the kind of contest for todays discussion. The Bipartisan Policy Center is really primed to focus on durable National Policy that we believe requires the engagement across a broad ideological spectrum and as a result, we normally focus most our attention on the congress. It has occurred to us and in recent months that the congress is a somewhat less dynamic vibrant deficient enterprise and at once was and in that vacuum the p
Everyone. Im jason your may president of the Bipartisan Policy Center. Id like to give you a very warm welcome to todays event focus on the evolution of the american presidency over the last two decades. I emphasize the warm welcome because when Public Health realities forced us to make this a virtual event. I made the compelling argument that there were warm days in february and maybe we should just go for it and get a tent and a couple of heaters. And as usual the thoughtful staff at the bpc prevailed and so here we are virtual yet comfortable my pleasure to set the kind of contest for todays discussion. The Bipartisan Policy Center is really primed to focus on durable National Policy that we believe requires the engagement across a broad ideological spectrum and as a result, we normally focus most our attention on the congress. It has occurred to us and in recent months that the congress is a somewhat less dynamic vibrant deficient enterprise and at once was and in that vacuum the p