For the public. Sacrifice of our men and women in uniform to defend our democracy and that would help us and the aspirations of our shells and that they will hold for and democracy and that we have tried to do everything we can can make sure. That. Tribe called those impeachment proceedings an attempted coup he says its a desperate effort by the democrats to win the 2020 election trump is accused of withholding aid to ukraine to pressure it into investigating his political rival joe biden. You are the ones interfering in americas elections you are the one subverting americas democracy we did nothing wrong nothing whatsoever this is just an excuse. You are the ones that struck the just. You have the mind bringing the suffering to our republic for your own selfish personal political and partisan. Michigan is a battleground state in next years president ial election and as john hendren reports trump a spent most of his time leveraging the impeachment proceedings in his favor. The presiden
Were not entitled to witnesses were not entitled to anything in the house its a total sham and when you have a guy like shifty chef go out and make up a statement that i made sure he said this is what he said but i never said it he totally made it up one of the us president roh say a strongly worded letter is House Speaker nancy pelosi describing the process as an impeachment crusade which is an unprecedented an unconstitutional abuse of power roslyn jordan has more. Well the letter was 6 pages long and it basically recounted every objection which donald trump has raised to the impeachment inquiry and now what appears to be on the eve of the vote to formally impeach him on 2 charges the president essentially told congress that what it is about to do is patently illegal however the House Speaker nancy pelosi who herself was long resistant to even allowing an impeachment inquiry to take place until the information about the president s pressure on the ukrainian president of a lot of the
This process but it is trying to delay the inevitable because as you know democrats hold the majority on this House Judiciary Committee as they do the full house of representatives but we did see republicans try to introduce an amendment to kill the article altogether of abuse of power they were claiming that its the democrats who are abusing their power and who are guilty of corruption and trying to impeach the president for his phone call with ukraine that amendment was quickly rejected by the democratic majority now one says panel returns from a recess or perhaps are returning now as i speak they will continue to baiting another republican amendment which would be inserting the name of of joe bidens son hunter biden into these articles of impeachment the purpose of that well that gives republicans a platform at least for today to continue discussing these unfounded theories that trump himself had brought up with the president of ukraine that biden was somehow involved in corruption
Not to say were on fire ten times this morning, but i need new words for all of this, the dow is up 95 in the premarket. You had a historic day on wall street, all three major averages hit record highs last night. The nasdaq marked a milestone, closing above 9,000 for the First Time Ever on the nasdaq. Jack, your reaction to what youre seeing . If youre a Football Team youre playing good special teams, offense and defense right now. The market is really on fire. And its incredible to see. When i saw the numbers come out after the holidays, that was impressive. To see the consumer so strong, people are going to work, people are finding jobs. I got so many friends that have two jobs now. Folks that dont make a lot of money, their education levels arent that high but yet theyre able to provide for their family and i think thats what really matters is the middle class is getting a boost right now in this economy. Cheryl what youre saying is that people have jobs but theyre not their wages
With 364 of 650 seats in parliament that has been described as the u. K. s most important vote in a generation johnson says his government now has a clear mandate to get franks at darden roy chalons has more. Boris johnson returned to damning street triumphant the conservatives have read dream britains political map with their biggest majority since 1987 earlier he spoke to cuban supporters why thank you very evident i think very dates we date were told they are playing week weve pulled it off we break the deadlock we ended the gridlock we smashed the roadblock and with this mandate and this majority we will at last be able to do what. Was paying attention. Hes very aware that this victory wouldnt have happened without many labor voters popping sides your hand may have quivered over the ballot paper as before you put your cross in the conservative box and you may intend to return to labor next time around and if that is the case i am humbled that you have put your trust in me from the