But democrats are now talking about delaying impeachment indefinitely. All of this exposing the weakness of the democrats impeachment push, as democrats now demand a say on the senate trial to fix what democrats failed to do in making their case, like calling witnesses. Republicans also now claim nancy pelosi is threatening to use her fundraising power against democrats if they go weak on impeachment. To the bull market charging into 2020 as 2020 democrats flood into iowa. Still no frontrunner there. That caucus a month away tonight, divided, angry, out of touch democrats are they setting themselves up to lose this fall . Major fight breaking out between Pete Buttigieg and joe biden over bidens ukraine dealings. A top 2020 democrat who bet the house on Government Health coverage but radio silent on that plan after a severe drop in the polls and in fundraising. Former fbi officials are trying to set the narrative in the media, trying to get ahead of john durhams criminal probe into the
Against President Trump. We will also hear from members of congress who serve on the House Judiciary Committee. Washington journal is next. Is next. Host for only the third time in our countrys history, the u. S. House of representatives is slated to vote on articles of impeachment. President trump faces abuse of congress. 216 housesi needs members to vote yes to then send the impeachment articles to the senate for a trial. Our coverage begins this morning with all of you letting lawmakers know how you think they should vote today and why and the house gavels in at 9 00 a. M. Eastern time. We will bring you gaveltogavel unfiltered and uninterrupted coverage of the house debate and vote. Cspan, onch here on our website, cspan. Org, or download the app. Republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. ,oin us on twitter at cspanwj facebook. Com cspan, or text us at 2027488003. We will get to your calls in a minute. More on the rules of the road today in the house
state senator roman guterres of the impact it could have on his state and country. and frank floozy on the far-right s rush to push violence incidents as a false flag. why it is so when dangerous and what else is going on. later, what we learned about the case manhattan d.a. plans to bring against the former president. this is american voices. we begin this hour in texas where the state house led by republicans voted to impeach republican attorney general ken paxton. that vote coming just over an hour ago. here is the moment when it happened. of all members voted. 121 knows, and the resolution is adopted. paxton has been defending himself, i guess you can call it that. listen to what one republican said on the floor during the hearing. i would like to point out that several members of this house, while on the floor of this house, doing the state business, received telephone calls from general paxton, personally threatening them with political consequences in their nex
closing in, the special counsel appears to be wrapping up his investigation into donald trump s handling of classified documents as new details emerge about what was going on at mar-a-lago, just before the feds swept in. melissa murray and barbara mcqueen will explain the significance. and, all hail the queen of rock and roll, danielle smith is here to celebrate the life and legacy of tina turner. i m jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. congress is on memorial day recess, but negotiation teams from the white house and house republicans are hard at work trying to seal an agreement to raise the debt ceiling. all signs show that they are inching closer to a deal that would raise the limit on federal borrowing and avert and unprecedented, catastrophic default. treasury secretary janet yellen added new urgency to the negotiations, over the last few months, she has warned congress that the debt limit could be reached in early june, and potentially as early as june 1st.
donnell, goo speaking of geori raised the debt ceiling once. actually twice, that is the george santos way of describing my involvement in raising the debt ceiling a couple of times when i was working in the senate. and the speaker of the house, i ll tell you when negotiations are ongoing. i m going to tell the story of me raising the debt ceiling all by myself, a little bit later in this hour. i will tone down the george santos exaggeration to try to get it somewhere closer to the strike zone of truth. it s always must see television, lawrence, have a great show. thank, you alex. we have breaking news at this hour from a lawsuit in florida, where the judge is now sanctioning donald trump and donald trump s lawyers to the tune of about 1 million dollars, $937,000. this is a lawsuit, the plaintive donald trump brought against hillary clinton in florida, and that suit was dismissed. the judge in the case, in assessing in effect fines to donald trump and his lawyer, say