Gives the house the sole power of impeachment and the power to determine its own rules. When president nixon, during the time he was going to be impeached, the chairman of the Rules Committee, chairman madden, actually spoke on house floor and announced there would be a rule governing how that proceeding would move forward. When the clinton articles of impeachment were brought forward, there was a unanimous consent request to kind of govern how we conducted ourselves. And im not sure how likely it would be that we would get a unanimous consent request. I would like to ask unanimous consent without objection to enter into the record a letter sent to the chairman of the Judiciary Committee signed by 70 republican members including kevin mccarthy, the republican leader, and basically, and let me read the key lines here, we will avail ourselves of every parliamentary tool available to us on the committee and house floor, in other words to try to delay and make this process as
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fine. on december 2, 1991, the ukrainians had exactly such a referendum. they voted overwhelmingly to separate themselves from the soviet union, and that led 23 days later to the death of the soviet union and soviet communism. all right. michael beschloss and ian brzezinski, thank you both very much for getting up pretty early this morning. see you both again soon. coming up, as expected the fed is raising interest rates, the first of several months that could come this year. we will explain what that will mean for most americans next on morning joe. . also ahead, congress woman elissa slotkin, a former analyst for the cia, joins us. she has introduced two bills related to vladimir putin and the war in ukraine. our coverage continues in just a moment.
on the subject matter at issue during the december 4th hearing. on december 2 nd, he wrote chairman nadler asking for clarity on how he plans to conduct the impeachment inquiry referencing five previous letters he had sent to questions that were never and. on december 3rd he wrote chairman nadler reminding him of his recent letters requesting the judiciary committee provide the president due process with the intelligence committee and chairman schiff did not. it s my understanding chairman nadler never provided a response to any of these letters. to your knowledge does chairman nadler not respond to letters from ranking minority members is. no. i will concede that mr. collins, like the aforementioned john adams and thomas jefferson is a prolific letter writer. i don t know whether or not they engaged in conversation to follow up on any of those. we re all together on a daily
and should have done something about it a long time ago. by problem, he met raping women. on december 2, the first day of the trial, the judge barred their testimony. i submit to the court that these three prior acts are relevant to the issues of consent and to corroborate the victim s testimony in the supreme court florida and they have made it clear such evidence is admissible. the court denies the statements. the three women who previously accused smith of sexual assault will not allow to testify. it was a gamebreaker. that was powerful testimony. literature shows a rapist is a rapist. rape is not about sex and people who look like william smith, you and anybody else,