Reynolds, Brookings Institution government studies senior fellow, here to talk about impeachment from a Historical Perspective and give us an idea of what the process has looked like and what it could look like in the future. Obviously a lot of similarities and differences between now and, lets say, the most recent one, lets say, the most recent one, president clintons. In this stage of the process, how would you compare it to the clinton impeachment . Guest so i think the most important thing to remember in comparing where we are now to the clinton impeachment is that in the clinton impeachment case, this stage of the process, this gathering of evidence, was largely done actually not by congress. The factual material on which the impeachment inquiry was based largely arrived to the house of representatives in hundreds of boxes from ken star, his investigation at the independent counsel. And so Congress Needed to do much less of its own investigative work. So when we hear about deposit
Career official at the state department, so i am going to have to keep this brief. First of all, i want to thank ambassador hale for being here, for obeying the law, for following the lawful subpoena that we issued. We wish others would show the same courage and dedication to the law that Ambassador Haley is demonstrating here today. I want you to know as you know already that we will begin open hearings into the impeachment inquiry next week. We will begin with the testimony of ambassador taylor and ambassador kent on wednesday, and we will have ambassador yovanovich testified. These will be the first of the open hearings. I think you will see throughout the course of the testimony and many others the most aborted important facts are largely not contested. We have been gaining an increasing appreciation for the what took place during the course of the last year and the degree to which the president enlisted whole departments of government in the aim of trying to get ukraine to dig up
Impeachment inquiry and theres been testimony from a number of and ministries and officials and soon we will be moving to public hearings. At the same time as we head into the 2020 election there is concern about foreign interference in the security of our election infrastructure. There is a concern about hacking voter registers and databases, sowing societal discord and spreading disinformation. You should have copies of the constitution at each of your seats so if theres anything that comes up during the course of this conversation or you need to refer to that legal documents, feel free to do so. To help us think about these issues we have for distinguished experts. He writes a column for the wall street journal and is the author of type realism, a populace that to liberal democracy. Molly reynolds is a senior fellow and government studies in brookings and is the author of exceptions to the rule and the politics that filibuster limitations in the u. S. Senate. Elaine is a senior fell
Seneca discussion on threat to us political system talking about the impeachment inquiry and use of social media and the role of the courts. From the Brookings Institution this is 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon i would like to welcome you to foreign erinterference and election security. It has been several weeks since impeachment inquiry has been launched and soon we will be moving to public hearings. Heading into the 2020 election concerned about foreign interference with the infrastructure. With a societal discord and you should have copies of the constitution at each of your seats if anything comes up or you need to refer to that legal document feel free to do so. We have four distinguished experts your fellow government studies at brookings and the author of anti pluralism. Molly reynolds is a senior fellow at brookings and the author of exceptions to the i rule and then the senior fellow governor studies at the director for effective Public Management and the
Into the 2020 election, there is concern about foreign interference and the security of our election ever structure. There has been concerned about hacking Voter Registration databases and spreading disinformation. You should have copies of the constitution at each of your seats so if there is anything that comes up during the course of the conversation where you need to refer to that legal document, feel free to do so. [laughter] host to help us think about these issues we have for we have four distinguished experts. Bill galston is a senior fellow at brookings, writes a column for the wall street journal and is the author of antipluralism, the populist threat to liberal democracy. Molly reynolds is a senior fellow at brookings and is the author of exceptions to the rule the politics of filibuster , limitations in the u. S. Senate. Elaine kamarck is a senior fellow and author of a book about the nominating process in the United States. Benjamin wittes is a senior fellow at brookings a