what does that mean? joining me now a house member, a member of the house judiciary committee which will be responsible for drafting and voting on articles of impeachment against the president, democratic congressman ted lieu of california. [ cheers and applause ] so my first question to you, congressman, is that. is persuasion on this question possible? and if so who are you as a member of this committee that s going to be drafting these articles, who are you trying to persuade? thank you, chris, for that question. let me reiterate again that impeachment is one of the gravest powers of congress, second only to our power to declare war, and must always be our last option reserved for those rare times when we can t wait for the next election. i think we may be at one of those rare times because the facts shows that donald trump repeatedly solicited foreign interference in our elections. that s a threat to the core of
emwre embraced impeachment and he told people he could view himself voting for three articles of impeachment. obstruction of congress, obstruction of justice, abuse of power. how much is amash s view significant and important to the way your caucus thinks about it that he s been kicked out of the party but he s not a democrat. he s someone of high integrity and also very conservative. he was a member of the tea party, and he looked at the facts and he made a determination based on his principles and applying law to facts and he concluldded this w impeachable conduct. and what we re going to try to do is present the facts in a sober deliberate matter using trump s own people to make the case against him. thank you so much for your time tonight, sir. thank you, chris. so if that s what looks like
a proceeding that will for most people they will say, okay, we ll get on with it and we ll take a vote. but the republicans could turn it into a circus because they re already trying to get all these other people, and you have giuliani still running around like he s a mad person. there was something else that happened in the house today i thought was pretty interesting and somewhat disturbing. the supreme court struck down a part of the voting rights act which laid out the formula for which states had to go when they re laying out changes. the supreme court said that was bad. congress came up with one and passed it today. every republican voted against that except for one. brian fitzpatrick of pennsylvania who i think is up for re-election.
. in october freshman democratic katie hill announced she was stepping down from congress after acknowledging a romantic relationship with a campaign staffer and being accused of an a relationship with a congressional staffer which she denied. but the real driver of her exit from congress so quickly were the images of revenge porn that was reportedly shopped around to various places before being published by several conservative media outlets clearly with the intent of shaming and bullying her out of congress. and katie hill expressed remorse and frustration and anger at what she called the double standard for how men and women in the public eye are treated. joining me now to talk about her experience in this political moment is katie hill. have a seat. i feel like i want to just start at a human level of how are you
for? if we can t provide a check and balance, what are we there for? and so i think you had a lot of people. we weren t politicians who went there to say i need to be in power, i need to become a member of congress. most of us weren t even considering running for office until after donald trump became elected. so the notion we have to do something just to stay in office is totally off base. so the decisions that are being made are like is this is this consistent with the oath of office that i took? is this consistent with my values, and is this consistent with what i think is right for our country and the precedent that is being set for generations to come? so i don t think for most people it is a hard decision at this point. i think it s what s harder is making sure the neighbarrative, false narrative republicans are trying to make and are very effectival at making doesn t overwhelm what we know are the