Good morning, everybody. Its wednesday, of course. Your first week here. Is anybody tired yet . Little bit. Little bit tired, yeah. Me, too. And, of course, we come into this and, you know, if youve been following in the news obviously, the president of the United States may be speaking at any moment. I dont think hes spoken yet about some of the events last night by iran with regard to iraq and were going to sort of talk a little bit about some of the Foreign Policy implications with some of our speakers, probably not today but possibly today, and a little bit later in the week and also next week. So, you know, obviously, were paying attention to whats going on with regard to u. S. Involvement overseas, but also yesterday we had a lot of impeachment, right, and there were some interesting analyses in our discussion yesterday with regard to how Party Politics works in congress in general and also with regard to impeachment. The two speakers, again, were coming from different potentiall
Cspan. Org impeachment, and listen on the free cspan radio app. Guest if you does that he needs to follow the law which notify congress, tell them what youre doing, justify it. Whats the legal authorization . The constitutional authorization and whats next . Will they be there and so forth . Essentially what they say, i hereby notify you iran, which doesnt quite meet the qualifications and the requirements in the law. Democrats on capitol hill yesterday seeking to declassify that notification, make it public. What are the rules about what can be made public, what can be classified . That gets into a host of laws and categories and those who have restified information that of us dont. What i think was at issue there that he president was typically when president s either a war powers resolution or act as if theyre complying, usually the public they can be made available to justify to the public what has been happening to inform top leaders in congress. Host take us to the passage of the
[applause] ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming out on yet another rainy day in kentucky in 2019. Let me take a moment to ask you to take your time now to check your cell phones and make sure it is turned off. Thank you all for coming out today to another historic moment for the history of the Mcconnell Center here at the university of louisville. Ive decided to handle it this way. I will not call you out. Thank you for bringing her today out in the rain or dragging her through the rain here today. This is a historic moment for the center, one of many in our history. I was thinking about it this week the very roman statesman, one of those important and one of the most important statesmen of all time in his book on duties as it seems if we were going w to live in a free socie, we would have duties. One it seems to me is to remember, to learn from our past and pass on to the rising generation. The two authors today have done that with the buck that we launched to the world. We also
Of the house nancy pelosi opens that debate calling for both sides to put aside their part of the ship and to vote in the interest of the country it is tragic that the president s reckless actions make impeachment necessary he gave us no choice what we are discussing today is the established fact that the president violated the constitution is a matter of fact that the president is an ongoing threat to our National Security and the integrity of our elections the basis of our democracy hundreds of historians legal scholars and former prosecutors regardless of party had stated that the president committed impeachable offenses while trumps republican allies say the democrats have been trying to impeach the president since he was elected. We on the republican side have no problem taking our case to the majority and to the people of this country because they elected donald trump and it is a matter for the voters not this house not in this way not in the way this is being done it is trampled
Because they cant actually pin anything a factual basis on you know the president did nothing wrong while republicans continue to stand by their president who has dismissed the move as an attempted coup. I mean Taylor Nandan with the rest of the top stories including lebanons saad hariri says he will not seek to stay on as Prime Minister ahead of much to late talks to give the protest right country a new government. India Supreme Court postponed hearings against a new citizenship law to next month as anger against the legislation grows. Well in just the past hour the final debate has got underway over whether to impeach the president of the United States democrats and republicans in the house of representatives on making their case about whether donald trump violated the constitution hes accused. Of withholding aid to ukraine to pressurize into investigating his political rival the democrat controlled house is expected to make trump the 3rd president to be impeached in u. S. History on