Potentially drawing up our articles drying up articles of impeachment against donald trump. They invited three scholars to testify. A law school professor, a stanford loss will professor, professor, andol in North Carolina lost go professor. The republicans invited Jonathan George Washington Law School professor. The House Committee will come to order. We are reserving the right to object. The objection is noted. I amrsuant to clause 2j1, furnishing you with demand of a majority day of hearings on this subject. I withdraw my reservation. The quorum is present. We are the first hearing conducting pursuant down to resolution 660. The special Judiciary Committee procedures described in section 4a. Here is how the committee will proceed. I will make an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for an Opening Statement. Each witness will have 10 minutes to make their statements and then we will proceed to questions. I will now recognize myself. Mr. Chairman, parliamenta
Professor. Here is the hearing in its entirety. Order. House will come to object. E the right to i am furnishing you with the subject signed by all republicans. Pursuant to clause, i am furnishing you with a letter signed by all the members of the committee can i request that you set this date before the Committee Votes on any articles of impeachment. I withdraw my reservation. Later. Ill confer on this hearing wethe first to housecting pursuant resolution 660. Here is have the committee will proceed for this hearing will openingill make it an statement and then i will rubberneck just recognized a member for making an Opening Statement. I now recognize myself for no Opening Statement. For anve the time Opening Statement. The facts before us are undisputed. President trump called roses was zelensky andent asked him for a favor. That was a concerted effort to solicit an advantage in the next. Lection to obtain that private political advantage, President Trump elected from the newly presi
Two journalists who cover the court. And chief Justice John Roberts presides over the Senate Impeachment trial of donald trump. And were going to look ahead, probably ahead. And for National Public radio, you dont know who these people are in detail, look it up. We have 25 minutes and going to talk. You were the acting solicitor general but he acted for a long time, of the United States. And chief Legal Correspondent for cbs news. And paul clement who was solicitor general of the United States. And before that the deputy. Both of these guys are there often, they are both very good advocates. Im going to start by talking about news. There are two cases before the Supreme Court pending, waiting for the justices to say what, if anything they are going to do with them. One is on the dc circuit and the dc circuit ruled when Congress Asked for information from, in this case, Donald Trumps Accounting Firm related to whether they will pass ethics legislation that would require the disclosure o
Investors should prepare for this. What does this mean for the pound, which has been stuck in a range, and for u. K. Stoxx at large . As far as the pound is concerned, the rally you have had reflected a significant reduction in the risk of a no deal brexit, so for the time being that seems to be off the table. We are stuck a bit around 1. 30. We need to know where we are going, and until we get past the election and have a sense of what the majority is, it is impossible to have any assessment about the direction of the pound. We are neutral because we think there is far too much uncertainty and too many permutations to take a significant view. As far as u. K. Equities are concerned, it is an inverse relationship between u. K. Equities and sterling, so when sterling weekends, u. K. Equities outperform. From that point of view, if we get a path that moves us toward a softer brexit or no brexit, that should be good for the pound but worse for the u. K. Equities. Dan morris and Stephanie K
Called by the democrats and one by the republicans who have been questioned by the democrats right now they will be questioned by republicans later as speak to Melanie Sloan who is a former federal prosecutor she is live with us from washington d. C. Melanie thank you so much for your patience and for being with us what do you make of what weve heard so far in the past 2 hours. I think what weve heard norm aizen do is try and go through each and every element that the democrats want to use in the articles of impeachment and also have him go through all of the republican arguments for example weve heard repeatedly the republicans say because the ukraine is did not come out and make the announcement that. President that Vice President biden and his son were under investigation that it doesnt count and because the the money from ukraine was ultimately the money to ukraine was ultimately given it doesnt count and weve just heard all 3 law professors refute that and of course it makes sense