Heard from the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, who said President Trumps phone call at the heart of this investigation was attempted bribery. That is significant, those choice of words. Now this morning we are going to hear from Marie Yovanovitch. She was the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine from august 2016 until President Trump recalled her six months ago. Yovanovitch says she was removed because she stood in the way of getting ukraines government to investigate joibd and his son hunter and a Conspiracy Theory. Lets go back inside the hearing room as we watch some of the arrives there in what is expected to be a day of discovery by the house democrats. And we will see the republican strategy. We have got a team of correspondent entz covering this from capitol hill to the white house. Margaret brennan joins us here, our host of face the nation. I know you have been speaking with people close to the ambassador. What is she likely the say today . What are we likely to learn . It will be
Hill just a few minutes ago and she is the 3rd witness to speak publicly about the events surrounding trumps mouth famous phone call with the ukrainian leader in july hes accused of threatening to withhold when the tree aide on this ukraine investigated his political rival joe biden get out of it as a career diplomat and an Anti Corruption advocate last month she told the inquiry about efforts by trumps lawyer Rudy Giuliani to publicly discredit her she said a senior ukrainian official had warned her to watch her back now giuliani had accused her of undermining the president before trump dismissed her in may. In just a moment our White House Correspondent kimberly how could join us but 1st lets go to heidi show cost or shes outside the hearing room on capitol hill we have a pretty good idea heidi of what mr van of which will say so what kind of questions are we expecting from both the democrats and republicans. Sure wolf from democrats was a bit more expecting them to elicit from the r
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the meeting will come to order. Good morning, everyone. This is the second in a series of public hearings the committee will be holding as part of the houses impeachment inquiry, without objection the chairman reserves the right to call recess. make an Opening Statement and representative nunes will make an Opening Statement and well turn to the witness for Opening Statement and then to questions. For audience members we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. In turn, we ask for your respect as we proceed with todays hearing. It is the intention of the committee to proceed without disruptions. As chairman ill take all necessary and appropriate steps to maintain order to ensure that the committee is run in accordance with house rules and House Resolution 660. With that i now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement in the impeachment inquiry into donald j. Trump, the 45th president of the United States. In april, 201
Are joined by Bill Mccollum, former congressman from florida. Joining us this morning to talk about the impeachment effort in the house, and a former member who has an intimate knowledge of the clear whether the u. S. Supreme Court Whenever finder was due process required here what ever find there was due process, again, because the constitution gives us power, sending all of it to congress. ,n the other hand, it is silent and inherently in American History, due process has been accorded. I think that is what this process is right about right now. The president rightfully claiming that he is not being given the same kind of opportunities that were given to president clinton, or, in the rightsaying, this is not i wouldve had no opportunity to present and crossexamine. It is clear that there is discretion, and he might get it under the rule that was passed last week on the floor. It is not mandated or directed. Did president clinton testify . Caller there were people that of and he had a
Soderberg of the implications of the ukraine phone call. And at 9 00 a. M. , fix the Court Executive director gain roth discusses roth discusses Public Opinion of the u. S. Supreme court. Is tuesday, november 5, 2019, election day in five states and one year until the 2020 president ial election. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. We will spend the first hour talking about your candidate, the top issues, and the trends you are seeing. Here is how to be a part of it, if you are a8000 democrat. Republicans use 2027488001. For democrats for independents and others, 2027488002. You can send us a text. That number is 2027488003. Use your name or where you are texting from. At twitter cspanwj and feel free to post comments on facebook. Facebook. Com cspan. We will start off with usa today and their front page take on the election day today. Battlegrounds could help define 2020. Stake writingjor the off year elections are state and local affairs, but they will tell us something a