Salutations will break out the champagne and warm up the order darmes heart watchers because on january 21st 2020 which is just a few short shopping days away we here in the United States of america get this celebrate the 10th anniversary. Drumroll not really anyway Citizens United yes the 10th anniversary is that this is united that Momentous Supreme Court decision that essentially decreed that corporations are people too and that the money they spend on influencing a politician or Political Party is the same as practicing the sacred right of free speech if thats turning 10 years old january 21st i know you had it marked on your calendar and just what great gifts of corporate bribery sorry sorry free speech in the form of digits and decimal points has the Citizens United decision brought to us all well according to a new study a new Study Released this week by the nonprofit Consumer Advocacy Organization Public Citizen over the past 10 years just 25. 00 ultra rich individuals have pou
Direction of bricks in the u. K. Votes in what Party Leaders are calling the most important election in a generation. Sport tiger woods captains the usa so they will start at the president s cup in. The u. S. House of representatives is moving closer to impeaching President Donald Trump as the House Judiciary Committee holds its final debate now House Democrats are leading efforts to formally charge the president of the beauties of power and obstruction of Congress Trumps accused of withholding aid to pressure you crave into investigating potential white house rival joe biden said right now the House Judiciary Committee is debating the precise language of the 2 charges against President Trump. 2 votes will be held one for each article they are expected to pass since democrats have a 1424. 00 rather to 17 majority in the committee then its up to the democrat controlled house of representatives to give its approval and a simple majority of 218 is needed for the articles to pass the house
Taking on the champions empty asia we live with all the latest coming up. A very warm welcome to the program we begin in sudan where the countrys former ruler Omar Al Bashir has been found guilty in a corruption trial the 75 year old has been sentenced to 2 years which he will spend in a reformed since or rather the jail because of his age now the case centered around suitcases found in his home filled with notes of different currencies worth more than 130000000. 00 the courtroom erupted in chaos as the verdict was read out this year supporters started chanting that the trial was political and were ordered to leave but despite that they continued their protest site bashir was overthrown in april after months of demonstrations its the 1st of several trials hell face for actions during his. 30 year. Well have a morgan is in sudans capital khartoum hi there head we saw those chaotic scenes in court and now hes going to spend these 2 years in a rehab center and talk us through what weve be
President in the senate trial . I cannot really comment onib any possible conversations ive had with the white house. Id am certainly strongly opposed impeaching the president on the two grounds judiciaryy the committee. Neither of them is found in the constitution. They are the kinds of broad general, vague openended criteria that can be weaponize against virtually any president when the opposing party has the majority in the house of representatives. Its hamiltons nightmare. Hamilton said that the one thing he feared most was that impeachment would turn on the number of votes each party had rather than on the guilt or innocence of the person being impeached. And madison worried about open ended criteria, making a president serve at the will of congress and turning us into the kind of parliamentary democracy that we fought against in the revolution. We did not want a parliamentary democracy in which a president can be thrown out of office for a vote of nonconfidence. So i am strongly
Discussed the house floor vote on articles of impeachment. And alan durso which on his opposition to the impeachment of President Trump. Host the house of representatives is slated to vote for two articles of impeachment for President Trump. The president will stand trial in the senate and the new year. We will begin with your thoughts. Should the president be impeached and removed from office . Democrats 202 7488000. You can go to social. You can join us on cspan or facebook. Com cspan and you can text us your city and state at 2027488003. We will begin with a new poll out by fox. Trumps approval picks up. Found. Look at what fox takeob Approval Rating that from october ticked up from october. His Approval Rating is at 43 . Take a look at the impeachment question. In late october, 40 9 favored impeachment and removal from office. 4 said impeached, but dont opposednd 41 altogether. Say impeach, but dont remove and 41 say do not impeach the president. That is our question for all of do