arriving shortly. here as the president s defense team gets 24 hours over three days, we expect from what we heard yesterday from the majority leader today will be a fairly short day, perhaps 1:00 pm eastern. [inaudible conversations] .. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] if you are just tuning into the impeachment trial, as we seek more senators arrive, the video we get is from the u.s. senate, the video on audio. the table on the left is for the house managers. they ve finished presenting their case. the president s defense team is on the table on the right, the table is pretty full right now as we await the arrival of the chief justice to begin. why don t we take our seats. we will convene, the chapel will lead us in prayer. let us pray. eternal god, the way, the truth and the light. unite our senators in their striving to do your will. lord, you have been our help in ages past. you are our hope for the years to come. we trust the power of your pre
croft and state department official christopher andersen. each of these eight witnesses followed the law. they obeyed how subpoenas and they testified before the house. in all we know that by issuing a blanket order and later specific orders president trump prevented at least 12 former administration officials from testifying during a house impeachment inquiry. he specifically forced nine of those witnesses to defy duly authorized subpoenas. the facts are straightforward and they are not in dispute. first in the history of our public no president ever in dared to issue an order to prevent even a single government witness from testifying in an impeachment inquiry. second, president trump abuse the power of his office by using his official powers in an attempt to prevent every single person who works in the executive branch from testifying before the house. finally president trump s orders in fact prevented the house from obtaining key witness testimony from at least 12 current
In addition, career investigators at the department of justice also looked into these claims. They also found, and i quote again, no evidence that any official involved in the handling of the tax exempt applications or irs leadership attempted to obstruct justice, into quotation. Its no wonder then that we have read reports of speaker ryan doing his best to make certain this measure never reaches the floor of the house, as Speaker Boehner did before him. Its also not a surprise that many in the republican conference have been critical of the tactics that forced this hearing. Chairman boost the need for the subcommittee on tax policy has argued that this hearing is a waste of time and and potentially damaging to our priorities. He told reporters last week, if we do this is going to further delay the investigation. I think its time to move on, into quotation. Senator orrin hatch, the chairman of the Senate Finance committee, has said that there simply no interest in impeachment activity
expected and unexpected, so that our heroes have everything they need to win with. we will continue to equip our strategic forces with the latest types of weapons. i repeat all the plans outlined will certainly be fulfilled in light of russia s cruel and continued heavy bombardment of innocent civilians and civilian infrastructure. and ukraine will continue to have those discussions and look at capabilities that they ll need to defend their territory. any weapon system industry supplied to ukraine, including the patriots, along with a personnel servicing them, and will remain legitimate priority targets. also coming up a growing humanitarian crisis and the tax and board and tat border town of el paso, as the biden administration, struggles to find a way out of a trump era immigration policy. we don t ask, why did you come? we simply say, turn around and go back somewhere and we re certainly done. and so some of the more unstable and dangerous places in the world. welcome to t
this is from hakeem jeffries, the chair of the house democratic caucus who says we are committed to disarming condemning white supremacy, homophobia, anti-semitism and the rise of hate that has taken place in this country over the last two years since january 2017. what is your response to that? mister jeffries s what aboutism, it is not what it is about, they attacked trump for allegedly race baiting but when they haven t going on in their own house they do nothing. there is still a sitting governor of virginia caught wearing black face, the attorney general of virginia and a member of congress, the democratic party, who has repeatedly been anti-semitic and they do nothing. the hypocrisy here is stunning and disappointing. heather: what about that? the democratic party can t even come together to present this resolution rebuking