allegiance to the president. no, i don t think it s going to hurt. we only had two defections. when bill clinton was impeached, there were far more republicans who defected and i just think that the overwhelming caucus has voted to impeach and it s a credit to speaker pelosi that she had her caucus unified. i need to ask you about something else out today, too. this washington post report on former white house officials saying that they worry that russian president vladimir putin influenced the president s perspective on ukraine in 2016. he met with putin back in july of 2017. the line is putin told me is what one former official says that they heard the president say. do you think democrats will ever get answers to questions around this? are you concerned by that reporting and the way that the president has taken or has listened to vladimir putin? hallie, i m appalled. here is what is so shocking. russia is not even a top ten economy anymore.
now big insurance is lobbying congress. asking for restrictions on air medical services. eliminating patients access to life-saving care and destroying jobs all in exchange for bigger profits for insurance companies. tell congress, put patients first, not big insurance. note to brett kavanaugh for future reference. a trump-appointed judge ruled against donald trump in a hugely important case last week that is about nothing less than about what donald trump and vladimir putin talk about when donald trump thinks no one else is listening. after his first meeting with vladimir putin in july of 2017, donald trump seized the notes of his interpreter.
note to brett kavanaugh for future reference. a trump-appointed judge ruled against donald trump in a hugely important case last week that is about nothing less than about what donald trump and vladimir putin talk about when donald trump thinks no one else is listening. after his first meeting with vladimir putin in july of 2017, donald trump seized the notes of his trespasseinterpreter. those were the only record of the meeting which vladimir putin has. and the problem for president trump is his translator s notes don t belong to him and they don t belong to the translator. they belong to you, which is to say they belong to the american government under the federal records act which requires the translator s notes to be kept in the custody of the state department. our next guest filed a lawsuit against secretary of state mike pompeo who is supposed to be one of the legal custodians of those notes. that lawsuit seeks to produce those notes. a federal judge in washington,
made black voters 20% more likely to miss elections because of long distances. and it s estimated 54 to 85,000 were prevented from casting ballots on election day last year. how do you fix things in georgia to make it easier for people to exercise their fundamental, constitutional right to vote? we ve got to we ve got to address these strict voting laws. you know, the commission on civil rights did a study and they had five five tools in which they look how does it impact voter suppression or voter turnout? georgia was the only state out of 50 states that met all those requirements the requirements in terms of creating additional barriers for voter access. when we think about in 2017, july of 2017, 500,000 voters were purged from the rolls in one day in georgia. that s the largest disenfranchisement of voters in u.s. history. so clearly, georgia has a problem.
waters tweeted get ready for impeachment. march 21st, 2017. on may 16th, 2017, representatives from this committee began por a representative from the committee became the second member of the house to raise the topic of future impeachment proceedings. representative brad sherman and al green introduced the democrats aets first giannecchini presidents revolution for obstruction of justice and russian interference in july of 2017. representative cohen then the ranking member on the subcommittee on the constitution and civil justice introduced five articles of impeachment against president trump in november of 2017. representative talib said, we re going to impeach the blanc during aaround 3rd 2019 swearing in ceremony. what about may 6th 2019 when representative al green said i m concerned if we don t impeach the president, he will get