Definitely thank you so much. Gets news in a 247 with the r. T. App on your mopar your next update from us is say in just under half an hour were off to washington d. C. Next though for todays watching the hawks. Readings and salyut asian. Well our watchers its on us those are the immortal words tweeted out by a system editor of the New York Times news desk Katie Roberts when the news broke that the u. S. House of representatives welp initially begin drafting impeachment charges against United States President Donald Trump u. S. Speaker of the house nancy pelosi led the charge at a press Conference Thursday morning who comparing trump to a despotic tyrant and then laid out the president s supposed crimes against america the facts are uncontested the president abused his power for his own personal political benefit at the expense of our National Security by withholding military aid and crucial of the Office Meeting and exchange for an announcement of an investigation into his political
Outlined in my letter to leader mcconnell will ensure that all the relevant facts come out without dilatory action. Hi joe castro is in washington and says that democrats are seeking evidence from president trumps in a circle to strengthen the impeachment case what this argument that you just heard from Chuck Schumer down to is that in the last 2 months weve heard hearing after hearing of these impeachment witnesses in the Ongoing Investigation however during all this time those investigators and the American Public have not cracked through trumps innermost circle these are the individuals who in schumers words just now they have the most direct contacts with the facts and dispute what are those facts will democrats say that trump withheld the security aid to ukraine with the motive with a corrupt intent they say to get ukrainians to launch investigations into his political rivals trump and republican defenders has said that that was not the pres the president s motive at all that he w
About all right i want to start with everybodys thoughts on the drawing up of imprisonment charges by the house on president from jesse will start with you well the 1st thing i want to get to that strikes me is now trumps come forward saying hes gone 250 more 1000000 in defense spending for ukraine and yet at the same time theyre going to take 700000 people in our own country off of food stamps so its more important for us to send weapons around the world than to feed our very poorest people in america now i got that off my chest that now will go to impeachment and. That irks me but anyway i dont see theres a choice because you know like myself i took an oath to protect the constitution and the bill of rights now if the president has knowingly violated. The constitution you took an oath you have no choice you have to move forward with impeachment and allow the process to take place because if you dont its going to open the door up to where every politician can now seek whatever they wa
Booktv continues now on cspan2, television for serious readers. Good afternoon, everybody. Its a pleasure to be with you and this merges several of my interests. The constitution,conservative politics , books about those things, the Heritage Foundation and my friends jason and julie j fitz. I first came to know the name Jason Chaffetz when he became a placekicker at byu. This date holds records including the most successful points after touchdown scored in a single game and i think in a single season. And he was also famous for the fact immediately after he kicked a field goal for or pat, the helmet would come off and then he had this awesome slow jog to the sidelines and he became known as the chaffetz and it resulted in something called the chaffetz rule but i actually think it played a key role in his success as a statesman in the state of utah. People came to know him and they knew who he was. I remember many years later, long after he had played for byu and had a successful career
Attempt to extort a Foreign Government to interfere in u. S. Elections, particularly in opening an investigation on his political opponents. Terms of spending time on it, it is because it is rather straightforward. This is a complete violation of our constitutional obligations and an abuse of power and a betrayal of the country and it threatens the fabric of our National Security. I do not think we should be whether ite debating is legitimate. It is beyond legitimate. Every day goes without accountability is another day continues tority be imperiled and National Security of elections is threatened and we have to do something about it right now. Reporter what do you think impeachment means here . Impeachment means something to every Single Community in the united states. One from them day moment the muslim ban was announced and family separation happened, the moment that even the president was allowing diplomats and other government officials to use trump tower like a piggy bank, it has