50 list. Our exclusive interview with founder ethann , brown. Jason first up, the top political story, impeachment. Carol congress will ring in the new year with partisanship and division. This time, in the form of the Senate Impeachment trial of President Trump. Lets get the reporter to reporter josh green with more on that. You have a fascinating story that talks about how, with everything going on in terms of impeachment this could benefit , joe biden. Josh it does. As we in the political world look ahead to january and the beginning of the 2020 election voting, one of the Big Questions everybody in washington has is what effect is impeachment going to have on the democratic field . I wrote a piece that takes a look at joe biden and his situation. One of the ironies of the impeachment trial is that it came about because President Trump thought that joe biden looked like he was going to be a serious rival and embarked on this dirt digging mission with ukraine to essentially try to tu
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, 2019 the United States ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was in kiev when she was called by a Senior State Department official and told to get on the next plane back to washington. Upon her return to d. C. She was informed by her superiors that although she had done nothing wrong, she could no longer serve as ambassador to ukraine because she did not ha
Intelligence committee continues another week of public hearings. Join the conversation by phone or send us a comment on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Is next. Host good morning. It is wednesday, november 20, 2019, day 4 of open impeachment increase hearings. More witnesses are set to. Estify we want to hear your reaction to yesterdays hearings and your expectation for today. 2027488000. You can send us a text. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. On social media on twitter it is . On face on twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. You can start calling now. Online today, you can pick your impeachment inquiry headline depending on your political persuasion. From the universe of conservative news sites, democrats try to alter their trump impeachment playbook and it is blowing up in their faces. Their testimonies were bad for adam schiff and from the left, this from vox. Tuesdays impeachment hearings republicans. Er for pur
A strategic bridge in baghdad. And now the rajapaksa wins francos president see this time its got to buy a defense minister who oversaw all the blue silk end of the countrys civil war. To serve in doha with all the very supporters dug strother marxist up and really since the victory of the brazilian grand prix better and much more major in the program. Welcome to the news hour police in hong kong have warned a live rounds of protesters dont stop using lethal weapons. In a standoff with demonstrators have barricaded themselves in a University Campus this off to another day of clashes in the city during which protesters hope petrol bombs at the police. Reports on the story now from hong kong. A long day of fighting at this College Campus has continued well into the night to most of the battling has been taking place at this junction behind me but in recent hours more police have been arriving and they have been confronting protesters that the number of different other entrances and to th
Last year saying its getting ready to return them on monday. Well we begin in hong kong continuing our coverage of whats happening there has been a new surge in violence as but hes attempted to clear at the end to the Polytechnic University campus which protesters had barricaded themselves into the demonstrators have set fire to the main entrance of the building in order to stop police from entering the have already been barricades erected to prevent. Hong kongs police had warned that they would fire live rounds of protest as it did not stop using lethal weapons against them. Joins us live now on the line from hong kong and of course that was the fear from this recent upsurge in violence that police had threatened to use live bullets against the demonstrators in response to the fire bombs in the bows and arrows that was being thrown their way what information are you getting about the situation at the campus now. Well apologies for that well try and get real mcbride reestablished he is