Hawkings. We will take your call and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington host good morning. At the house is in recess and democrats continued expected to continue their closeddoor depositions. Four Current White House order to testify, but the four expected to be a noshow today. Later this month or early next month, we expect to begin the next phase of the process, open hearings. That is our starting point, do you think these public hearings will influence, sway, or any change your view on the impeachment of President Donald Trump . You can give us a call at 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. If you are an independent, 2027488002. You are also we are also taking your Text Messages, tell us your first name and where you are texting from. 2027488003 or send us a tweet cspanwj. We are also live at facebook. Com cspan. A lot to talk about over the next three hours with a heavy focus on the impeachment process and your calls and comments. Wan
Conclusions related to my investigation, and then i hope good morning, thank you for the introduction. Its a pleasure for me to be here today i think you have, over the last week, been bombarded with information about the killing of mr. Khashoggi and what have pursued and i think its important to highlight a few dimensions of it. The killing of mr. Khashoggi was an extraordinary event. Unfortunately, a fairly common event. Its common because many journalists and human rights defenders around the world are the object of targets of killings, intentional killings. Indeed theres enough evidence to highlight the fact that those killings are not decreasing, but are increasing, in spite of many efforts to stop them. There is also evidence that those killings are usually met with impunity. It is also an extraordinary killing because of the nature and circumstances of the execution of mr. Khashoggi. Its a brazen act and an active state. My investigation sought to determine whether or not ash to
I will start with a question that you posed with your title. Why is it important to read it, and how you read it for the average person . Its important to read it because we are seeing issues of massive and constitutional importance in the headline news. At that level of the presidency and in congress we have called for concern over the constitution. As an educator, i felt it was important to produce a book that is accessible by regular people so people can educate themselves on how the constitution functions as well as their constitutional rights, and get on that bike and ride it themselves. Make their own decisions about whats going on in the country. Many scholars, including myself, are worried about the state of our democracy, our republic, and well and whether it can sustain the body blows happening to the separation of powers. If people care about having their independent individual liberties going forward, educating themselves for the sake of their children and grandchildren abo
Identify what makes you a good person or what parts of yourself are you proud of. That is how you should live every day of your life, including when we come around these discussions around politics. Maybe then we can see through all the lies to some degree towards this common light that i think we all do have as americans and as people. It is something around kindness and truth. It does exist we will not get there by attacking each other. Host Kimberly Wehle is the university of baltimore law professor, legal contributor to abc news. A guest on this program on occasion. Your that his book is master, slave, has, wife. It tells the story of william and ellen craft. Quick second begin to say what does make it compelling to me. I think what originally drew me to it was the phenomenal adventure story data and the narrative of running 100 miles to freedom. It talks about this incredible escape they make. They are husband and wife, enslaved in macon, georgia. They decide theyre going to flee
Law professor. You have gone through this 45 page indictment now. What is your top line take away so far . Guest how much of it is very into with the january 6 committee careful work over many months. We saw the various Public Programs outlining the massive amount of evidence that the january 6 committee developed. Also, they had to report, of course. And we are seeing a Second Branch of government work in tandem with the United States congress to bring some accountability to the white house, frankly. I wrote a piece a while back in Politico Magazine shortly after january 6, in which i did a thought experiment with my students. We went through the various guardrails around the presidency, to make sure president s dont cross boundaries. Effectively, the only thing that was left was a criminal indictment. I see this as an important step in protecting how our democracy states accountable to the people. And too much power does not get out of hand in a way that could destroy the republic mo