Really then yours we meet with global news makers and the stories that matter just 0. Zeroing the clock for glad im here putin new legislation paves the way for him to be president for life putin argues staying in power after his term ends will be good for russia but how convinced are his critics this is inside story. Hello again im james pays hes russias longest serving leader since the soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and if youre a russian under the age of 20 youve never known another leader Vladimir Putins critics fear hes preparing to be president for life the 67 year old has backed a constitutional amendment to reset his president ial term count to 0 allowing him to run in another 2 elections the lower house of parliament passed the legislation on tuesday russians would you to have their say in a constitutional referendum next month the amendments are the latest in a choreographed process that began in january well come back to what putin said then now the kremlin leader hasnt ruled
Present the case against the president , kim strassel, and columnist and manhattan senior fellow jason riley, what do you expect to happen in this trial . Well, what we are going to have is the an Opening Statement where people put forth outlines for and against and questions about votes, youll also have the house impeachment managers going first and presenting evidence that they collected if the course of this investigation trying to convince senators that it is enough to go forward with conviction and in theory that would be by the president s defense. Paul is there a possibility that youll hear from impeachment managers and if the Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says you know what, i think we have enough votes to acquit here right now that they could hold a vote after that those original arguments . This is something more and more republicans are thinking about. You know there, had been a thought of having emotion to dismiss up front but it was clear that a lot of republicans werent
Present the case against the president , kim strassel, and columnist and manhattan senior fellow jason riley, what do you expect to happen in this trial . Well, what we are going to have is the an Opening Statement where people put forth outlines for and against and questions about votes, youll also have the house impeachment managers going first and presenting evidence that they collected if the course of this investigation trying to convince senators that it is enough to go forward with conviction and in theory that would be by the president s defense. Paul is there a possibility that youll hear from impeachment managers and if the Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says you know what, i think we have enough votes to acquit here right now that they could hold a vote after that those original arguments . This is something more and more republicans are thinking about. You know there, had been a thought of having emotion to dismiss up front but it was clear that a lot of republicans werent
Present the case against the president , kim strassel, and columnist and manhattan senior fellow jason riley, what do you expect to happen in this trial . Well, what we are going to have is the an Opening Statement where people put forth outlines for and against and questions about votes, youll also have the house impeachment managers going first and presenting evidence that they collected if the course of this investigation trying to convince senators that it is enough to go forward with conviction and in theory that would be by the president s defense. Paul is there a possibility that youll hear from impeachment managers and if the Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says you know what, i think we have enough votes to acquit here right now that they could hold a vote after that those original arguments . This is something more and more republicans are thinking about. You know there, had been a thought of having emotion to dismiss up front but it was clear that a lot of republicans werent
Impeachment, im beginning to think in retrospect that it was probably inevitable. We were going to get impeachment one way or another from the democrats who are really intent on it and even after the Mueller Report failed, they were going to look for something else. What do you think . Well, that was really the key. When the Mueller Report came over, i think some of us out there we waited more than two years and we thought okay, now we have an a answer, its time to put this behind us. But no, the minute it came out, they doubled down. They drilled in on the obstruction piece of his report even though the Justice Department said this was not something that could go forward. And it was pretty clear at that moment that this was going to happen one way or another and it was a question of their finding the right issue to hang it on. Paul anybody disagree with that, they were going to impeach him for jay walking if they had to. They were calling for impeachment barely after he was taking the