Foreign country to help him in his upcoming reelection effort and then refused to hand over relevant documents or testimony to cover that up. These are grave allegations. Every democrat in the United States senate takes them very seriously. Our founders insisted that no one, not even the president , is above the law. And this fundamental principle remains the linchpin of our system of government. To ensure that principle is upheld. To ensure that principle is upheld, the founders trusted congress with the sacred power of impeachment. The house is given the sole power of impeachment and the senate is given sole power to try all impeachments. Fulfilled its role, conducting an open, fair and openhanded inquiry that focused on misconduct by the president , abuse of power and obstruction of congress. Tois time for the senate fulfill its role to conduct a fair and thorough impeachment trial, to hold the president accountable. Right now, Senate Republicans dont seem willing to conduct a fair
Claims to be the Fastest Growing Youth Organization in the country. Rush limbaugh. [music] thank you all. Thank you all very much. At a great event to be this is incredible. And i have to tell you, i just that there arege an incredible number, like a thousand High School Students here . [cheering] oh, man ill tell you, i have been to High School Students about so much, whats been happening. You, climateo tell change is a hoax. It,se dont believe whatever you do i beg of you. Let me give you an example of how it is a hoax. Many of you werent alive in 1995 budget bill. During that time, the republicans were accused of starving children because of lunch cuts in the school program. There werent any cuts. There were reduction fls in the rate of growth. The democrats had a bunch of 12yearolds writing letters to republicans in congress, please, i cant learn when im starving. Learn when im hungry. And the media is covering this legitimate. Was it was as big a hoax as the whole Climate Change.
Begin our discussion of iran, a people in repression. Im david ignatius, a columnist for the washington post. Ive visited iran several times as a journalist and have a longstanding interest as a commentator and analysts in iran. Im delighted to be joined by two of the people i think understand iran the best in this country. Ill move from my left. Maziar bahari was my colleague as a newsweek reporter in iran. He worked for newsweek from 1998 until june 21, 2009, when he was arrested and imprisoned in tehran. Youll know if youve read his wonderful memoir, then they came for me, what that imprisonment was like, and if you havent read the book, you can go see the movie because it was made into a movie by jon stewart called rosewater, if memory serves, was the name and the unmistakable calling card of maziars interrogator. In 2014, he started something that im sure is familiar to many people in this audience, certainly as a mustread for anyone who wants to follow iran, and thats his website
Overdose in the United States. Increased opioid addiction and a production of deadly synthetic opioids have exasperated american staggering overdosed death rate. In 2017, more than 70000 people died from Drug Overdoses making it the leading cause of injury related death in the United States. Of those, 60 involve prescription opioids and illicit opioid such as fentanyl. Americans fared no better against Opioid Epidemic in 2018 when more than 10 Million People aged 12 or older of abused opioid in 2 Million People suffered from an opioid use disorder and on average 130 americans died each day from an opioid openers. We did not know that some cost and disrupted lives or untimely deaths from widespread misuse of prescription and nonprescription opioids but we know from our family, our neighbors and our friend who bear the enduring lost loved ones that the opio crisis is not over. We must continue contending with this crisis. That being said, we made Great Strides over the past three years t
Think it makes him weaker. If you are still not sure, 202 7488002. We will also read your Text Messages at 202 7488003. Tell us your first name and where you are texting from. We are on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Happy sunday, happy christmas week, a lot to talk about in the next three hours. I want to talk about some breaking news from north korea. Trump careening towards a christmas crisis with north korea. Here are some of the details. President trump is pulling out all the stops to convince north korea to return to nuclear talks, delaying married till your delaying military exercises and sending a top envoy to the region to reassure jittery allies. Democrats are calling on the president to stick to diplomacy and even strive for a limited interim agreement while lawmakers in both parties want the white house to be more transparent about what it knows about north Koreas Nuclear capabilities. Dictator, kim jongun, shows no sign of restarting the talks. His regime has promised th