the republicans say. she s the master of the house. he s is ruler of the senate. speaker of the house continues to hem and haw. together they are in the heavy weight political fight of their lives with donald trump s raging fate at stake. americans will show up by the tens of millions next year to vote pelosi out of office. reporter: pelosi has been whipping her democrats into shape for impeachment. at times urging caution, at times con frofronting trump her. all roads lead to putin. reporter: trump hit back fast. you know this statement is not true unless it s meant in a negative sense. the senate must put this right. reporter: mcconnell is the perfect counter puncher. a dauntless trump defender dismissing all evidence of wrong
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congressman mitchell, a sad and proud day for the baltimore community and our country that day. paying tribute to perrin was both an official and a personal honor. my del sandro family and the mitchell family had been friends for generations. now it is my great honor and personal sadness to join you at the new psalms baptist church, elijah s church, to celebrate elijah s life. as i said, yesterday members of congress said good-bye to elijah. maya give us the honor, again, of holding that official service in the statuary hall of the house. at that time, i said this was appropriate because elijah was master of the house. master of the house. and his chairmanship of the committee on oversight and reform, he lived up to his responsibilities to hold the
that room. it s a bipartisan gathering, as we saw yesterday with him lying in state there on the hill. but a beautiful, beautiful service here. and we ll, of course, hear later. president obama is there. president clinton is there as well, vice president joe biden and a man here they are referring to as the master of the house, somebody who cut such a large swath in the house there, somebody who had moral courage, a moral leader, grew up not rich, right, but came to grait heights and to serve great heights and to serve his constituents there in baltimore. and really, i think, approached public service as a servant, right? we often don t think about it that way. we cover these folks who work as lawmakers and leaders in the senate, in the house, but a humble man who really wanted to put a good works, working on behalf of people at the center of his life. absolutely. said so well, nia, and we will continue to follow the service, as you point out. a number of speakers still to
federal government accountable to the laws of the land. one word i would use to describe elijah over and over again is the word future. he was there to make the future for our children, whom he called, as has been said, our living messengers to a future we will never see. but he wanted for those children to have a future worthy of their aspirations, and he wanted them to have a future built on our values, continue to be built on our values. and as the master of the house, he was also the mentor of the house. is there somebody here who was mentored by elijah cummings? [ applause ] i think so. it was no surprise that when we had this election and we won the congress, that elijah said, send me as many freshmen as you can, because i want to help them be