Im a first today putting pen to paper the house of representatives took a major step forward in the impeachment process. Good evening. Im ken wayne and im pam moore. Speaker nancy pelosi announcing her selections of the impeachment managers they will help guide the us senate through the trial of President Trump. What the senate trial will look like however is still up in the air we have con 14 coverage on this issue tonight. But what will be a part of the proceedings and we begin with grant lodes is here with the new developments grant still dont know whats going to happen. Pam and ken and this thing is about to start in less than a week or so says the. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell whos in charge. The final stage of the impeachment. Process against the president is here the 2 articles of impeachment moved to the senate today and you see some of the people who will be leading. The House Democrats effort, the house approved the 7 managers who will present the case in the senate
That House Democrats may be too afraid, too afraid to transmit their shoddy work product to the senate. Mr. President , looks like the prosecutors are getting cold feet. Neil whether it is cold feet or whatever, the fact of the matter, it is unusual, not unprecedented for the house after impeaching to say, wait a minute, well see exactly what the senate plans to do before we pass along the articles of impeachment to the senate. Wall street journal Global Economics editor jon hilsenrath, democratic strategist capri cafaro, exactly how long the markets will ignore this uncertainty. It is rather remarkable, if you think about it, jon, by and large, actually throughout this process the markets have focused on everything from trade, corporate earnings, the strength of the consumer, the market, housing, not a one, not a one on impeachment. What do you make of that . Well i mean i think the market sees an economy that is doing pretty well. Were going, were in our 11th year of economic expansi
Our decision italys draft budget may in violations to the fiscal rules ubs trades higher after a swiss lender turns a Third Quarter profit beat. Ceo tells cnbc Market Conditions are tough. It is quite clear that we are more into a permanent challenge for the industry, so we have to think about how to redeploy resources and refocus existing resources. Novartis raises its third year jump beating expectations a warm welcome to street signs. Lets get a check on european markets. A bit of red across the board. It has been a fairly choppy session. The dax is teeterring around the flat line. You can see the cac, the ftse and the mib are in red territory. We are seeing a little retreat after a solid day of gains yesterday. Today firmly in focus. We have brexit front and center. We heard them making the point that ball is firmly in the uks court at this stage. Well look at sterling but we have seen solid support for the uk currency. Looking at sectors. We have the u. S. china trade coming into
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Iam not i am not asking this court to say whether the Prime Ministers assessment is correct or incorrect. The relevance is that they are strong evidence to be added to the material referred to by the inner house as to the Prime Ministers motive in trying to close parliament for five weeks during this negotiating period. The other point i want to make on the facts is that it is, we say, a remarkable feature of these proceedings that the Prime Minister has not made a witness statement explaining why he decided to advise her majesty to Prorogue Parliament for a period as long as five weeks. And that is even though we made very clear in commencing these proceedings that an important pa rt of these proceedings that an important part of our case is that the Prime Ministers advice to her majesty was motivated, or at least strongly influenced, by the Prime Ministers desire to prevent the risk, as he saw it, of parliament damaging government policy. And we set that out in our statement of facts