President and ceo of George Washingtons mount vernon, talks about how washington views the presidency and executive power. As always, you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Is next. Host good morning. 17th. Monday, february, we had to morning, mount vernon for a conversation about the first president and his impact on the office. We begin with a question about the qualities you want in the person who occupies the oval office. What do you look for in a president . In the eastern and central time zones, 2027488000. In the mountain or pacific time zones, 2027488001. You can send us a text this morning. Hat number, 2027488003 please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media. Start calling now on this president s day and as you are thinking about the qualities an want, we take you back to event last year, the release of president s. The [video clip] there was a preeminent little inist and and 1951 inhtin
And went through all this before and i remember how would one point this was something that no one talked about and then a few years later we are having a referendum and nearly passes. Countryn a very divided , in many ways it resembles the country a left and you begin to wonder whether or not we might just be better off with two separate countries. Its not what i want. I feel a little bill of the skunk of the garden party. All these people talking about great president s and here i am talking of a breakup. Ultimately im not arguing for secession. Im saying its a real threat and we should think about that. Maybe turn down the volume a bit. Host a passage from your book, we are less united today than we have been at any time since the civil war divided by politics, religion and culture and all the ways that matter say for the naked force a law. We are already divided into two nations just as much as 1861. Describe what those nations look like and where they are . Guest every morning the
Amy from new york, this is democracy now if the vote were today, i believe he would win the electoral states that he would need because living out there, i will tell you, his level of support has not gone down one inch. Than ever before because they are afraid he could lose because they watched his behavior. Amy last week on democracy now , acclaimed Filmmaker Michael Moore predicted donald trump would win reelection in his comments prompteted presidet 2020. Trump to tweet he made same prediction in 2016. Nobody ever said michael was stupid but Michael Moore also noted that many workingclass voters are women, people of color, and young adult the real working class who could help democrats w win in 2020. The whole prez got this wrong about the reason we lost these three states they gave Trump Victory was because we lost lunch bucket joe, the old angry white guy, workingclass. Thelie starts by calling working class. The majority of the working class in this country are women. The majorit
Coming up on washington journal your reactionimpeachme. [video clip] aren this vote, the yeas 230, the nays r 197. Resent is 1 article 1 is adopted. On this vote, the yeas are 229, the nays are 198. Present is 1. Article 2 is adopted. Thosewith that, with votes, President Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, was impeached in the house of represented ofs on his 062nd day. On his 1 publicans, 2027488001. Emocrats, 2027488000 and independents, 2027488002. Join us on twitter as well at cspanwj or facebook. Com cspan and you can text us at 2027488003. Name, city,r first and state. Lets show you the reaction President Trump had when he learned that last nights rally in battle creek, michigan, the house voted to impeach him. [video clip] vote cominge have a in, every single republican voted for us. Almost 200. We had 198. We did not lose one republican democrats voted for us. Hailey. Thank you, haley, great job. The Republican Party has never been has never been so affronted
They are afraid he could lose because they watched his behavior. Amy last week on democracy now , acclaimed Filmmaker Michael Moore predicted donald trump would win reelection in his comments prompteted presidet 2020. Trump to tweet he made same prediction in 2016. Nobody ever said michael was stupid but Michael Moore also noted that many workingclass voters are women, people of color, and young adult the real working class who could help democrats win in 2020. The whole prez got this wrong about the reason we lost these three states they gave Trump Victory was because we lost lunch bucket joe, the old angry white guy, workingclass. Thelie starts by calling working class. The majority of the working class in this country are women. The majority are of color. And they are young. 18 to 35 are paid the least amount of money of any age group. Women are e still paid much less than men. Amy today w we bring you part o of our interview with the acclaimed film or Michael Moore. All that and mo