Wehle. She is a professor of law at the universe the baltimore. Thank you for your time. Guest thank you for having me. Host can we start with the president s claims about voter fraud . How would you analyze that . Guest voter fraud is a crime. It carries a fiveyear prison sentence under federal law, which is why it is really rare. I think there has been some confusion around voter fraud and just maladministration, mistakes that are made. There are hundreds if not thousands of people on the front lines of democracy, this week, making it work for the rest of us. They are regular people and they are not committing fraud. That does not mean that they dont have errors along the way. The president is wrong to complain claim fraud. There is no evidence of that. No evidence that would actually show some affect on the Election Results. That would require a conspiracy of lots of people committing fraud together. It does not happen. Host what is the threshold of proof that has to be presented .
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University of baltimore law professor discusses the articles of impeachment introduced by house democrats. Brooks i, congressman mo discusses impeachment and afghanistan. Host this is the washington journal for december 11, the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing with the Justice Departments Inspector General on the report released this week will start at 10 00. You can watch that on cspan 3. Also look at it at cspan. Org. If you want to download the radio app, follow along and listen to the hearing. The house Judiciary Committee which will mark up two articles of impeachment starts at 7 00 this evening. You can see that on cspan 2. You can watch at the. Org and listen on our radio app. We will take your calls on the two articles of impeachment laid against President Trump, one on abuse of power and the other on obstruction of justice. Here is how you can let us know what you think. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. And independents, 2027488002. If you want to text u
Democrats will have to enforce some of the rules they passed in their own legislation, but regardless of how you feel about this, this has been the most narrowly tailored and controlled thing by chairman schiff, both in the depositions which i was a part of and in the Intelligence Committee. But as it moves over to the judiciary committee, they will lose more and more of that control. Brennan meaning what . There are rules where the president gets to have his lawyer and those types of things. I get a little concerned because with all of those rules, the chairman has absolute veto power, but if they continue, eventually it will end up in the senate and theyre going to go there. I think its important, they were talking about the poll numbers this morning with emerson and theres a vanity fair article out that i think is most important, and this is 62 of independents think that impeachment is more important to politicians. 61 think its more important to the media. When you come from a stat