Grand tradition in america, speedy and fair trials, we want both. The leaders seems obsessed with speedy and wants to throw fair out the window. Maria joining the conversation from new york fox business Dagen Mcdowell this morning, the wall street journal Senior Writer Jon Hilsenrath here in dc and fox news con contributor byron y. The letter that the president sent to Speaker Pelosi says it all, ive got it in front of me and goes through both articles and pokes hoes. If you were looking for wrongdoing you would look at the top of the fbi in 2016. Dagen the New York Times with the media on the democrats trying to blow hot air in this impeachment balloon, headlines in New York Times, trump belittles impeachment as attempted coup on eve of vote, that was on the New York Times website this morning, but, again, its the president belittling an impeachment process where they think its legitimate, i will add this, 28 to 31 democrats are in favor of impeachment, ron in wisconsin is expected to
Failure as we outline in the report, not just by those who prepared the applications, but also by the managers and supervisors in the crossfire hurricane chain of command, including fbi senior officials, who were briefed as the investigation progressed. Paul michael mulkasi served at the 81 attorney general of the United States. You supervised the fbi as ag. Is this kind of behavior tolerable, if your view . No, it is not tolerable and should not have been tolerated. The number of misdeeds here is so enormous that its hard to know where to begin. It really flooded the zone. But whats clear is that they felt people the failures were on the senior level. Usually you rely on seniors to keep rogue agents in check. Here it was the seniors that went rogue and the evidence in the report and statements in this report that the most senior, jim comey, was aware certainly at the time that these wiretaps on page were renewed that there was information that undercut the accuracy of what was in the
First candidate was going to tell us why we should elect him. Former great senator from the state of delaware, former Vice President joe biden. [applause]. Mr. Biden ok. Welcome. Mr. Biden thank you. It is good to be home. Vice president biden, we are in a room full of teamsters and i want you to tell all of them here and all of them watching, why they should vote for you. But no malarkey. [laughter] first of all i should thank you. The only reason im sitting here is a 1972, i was losing in the polls the sunday before the election. The newspaper went on strike. Ct the printers, you guys put in a gigantic insert in the sunday paper to go out on the republican party. Wouldnt cross the picket line, and i won by 3100 votes. [cheers and applause] you guys dont like secondary picket, youre wrong. We, the reason is, look, i am as my grandfather say, labor from belt buckle the shoe soul. I understood very basic notion. Wall street didnt build the United States of america. The middle class buil
Potentially drawing up articles of impeachment against the president. House democrats invited three positive note scholars to testify. A Harvard Law School professor, gerhardt,an, michael a professor at the university of North Carolina school of law, and stanford professor pamela karlan. Republicans invited jonathan tur ley, a professor of Public Interest law at George Washington university. The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. Mr. Chairman youre upsurping the right to object. Objection is noted. I receiver tzrbreserve the r object. Peropportunity to cause g, im furnishing you with a demand on minority hearings on this subject signed by all the republican the gentleman will suspend. Pursuant to cause 2 j 1 rule 11 im furnish you with a letter signed by all the republican members of the committee. I request you set this date before the Committee Votes on any articles of impeachment i withdraw my reservation. We will confer on this later. The quorum is present. This i
Current government funding expires friday at midnight. Youre watching live coverage of the senate on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, help us to remember your mighty acts. You are kind and merciful, better to us than we deserve. You feed the sparrows and cause the sun to rise. You forgive our sins and provide us with strength for every challenge. Lord, use our lawmakers today for your glory. May they be courteous and kind as they seek to do what is best for this land we love. Remind them that they represent the hopes and dreams of many people. Thank you, lord, for the wonderful things that you continue to do for us all. We pray in your loving name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible