[background noises] the ways and Means Committee will now come to order. Good morning, today we will consider the historic u. S. Mca transforming agreement that creates a new High Water Mark u. S. Trade deals moving forward. The implementing bill before us is the result of many months of negotiations and indeed more than a year between House Democrats and the ambassador robert who worked with us honorably every time we met. And im very proud of the outcome of that we have reached. When we assume the majority this year, we were asked to consider a renegotiated nafta that had structural flaws in a number of areas including enforcements, labor rights, the environment, and access to medicines. Let me start with enforcement. Which was the crux of this agreement. As ive noted many times over the past year, i did not vote for the original nafta, the chief reason was a lack of enforceability. In the past 25 years, weve seen the shortcoming of the original agreements, much of which comes down t
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Test. The House Rules Committee taking a recess on the house floor. And while we wait for the members to return, we will show you Opening Statements from tom cole and the members of the Judiciary Committee doug collins and jamie raskin who is representing the judiciary democrats in Jerrold Nadlers absence for a family emergency. The rules committee will come to order. The rules committee will come to order. It is unfortunate that we have to be here today, but the actions of the president of the United States make this necessary. President trump withheld congressionally held approved aid to ukraine and under siege not to fight corruption, but to extract a personal political favor and President Trump refused to meet with the president of ukraine in the white house until he completed the scheme, and all of the while the leaders in russia who is holding a large part of ukraine hostage and the very nation who interfered with our elections in 2016 had yet another meeting in the Oval Office L
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Severe flooding in the italian tourist city. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington where President Trump has again denounced the impeachment inquiry into him as the first public hearings got under. It started with testimony from the acting Us Ambassador to ukraine. Bill taylor said it was clear to him the white house was making both military aid and a visit to washington by the ukrainian president conditional on ukraine launching an investigation into mr trumps democratic rival joe biden and his son. Our north america editor jon sopel has been watching. History in the house. This is like the super bowl for politics, the day the impeachment hearings go public. And coast to coast, all the Us Tv Networks are gearing up for the unfolding drama that could be the decisive moment of the trump presidency. And early this morning, in the white house residence, the light is o