the ground and into the water, josh shapiro, the governor of pennsylvania, held a press conferences about it. shapiro announced that authorities had decided to set thoso announ e chemicals on fire. goo and that was a very good thing.e no one should be unduly alarmed . the burning ohemicaf theslse chemicals, shapiro said, had gone, quote,e, as planned. whil, officials on the scene, meanwhile, declared the burn dquote, perfect.ohio a gr mike dewine, the governor f ohio, agreed with all of this. the people in charge, the railroads, engineers and the state official engineesd overseeing them had everythinger under control. so two days later,tw evacuation orders for residents were officially lifted, both in east palestine over the border in pennsylvania. iorders were link subsequent days, a lot of people have wondered out loud, was it really a wisewondered den to light thousands of gallons of vinyl chloride on fire, releasing a world war one era bioweapon into the air over
Whatwe that means, its to use e power of the office to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring orfi injuring the national interest, or acts in ways that are grossly inconsistent with and undermine the separation of powers that is the foundation of our democratic system. Now, this question of whether the president engaged in abuse of power came up before when this congress considered the impeachment of president nixon. And president nixon famously said, if the president does it, it is notde illegal. And this body rejected that because thats not so. That goes directly contrary to what the founders said. But President Trump has said the same thing in responding to the prior investigation by the Department Of Justice and defending his conduct. Heres what he said. I have an article 2 where i have the right to do whatever i want as president. That he has the right to do whatever he wants as president. That is as wrong as when president nixon said a similar thing. That is not what
which seems redundant, of course, replacing hollywood actors with artificial elligenc replacingke vin diesel with vin diesel. but remember, they ve done it worse. they once replaced human humansl housewives. that didn t turn out well. so here s the union ell. here sg quote, without a transformative change, the acting professionats no longer be an option for future generations of performersmers , actors who willpurs need to pursue other careers iu order to survive. so we re going to lose futurere generation goingse futs of perf, which. i was really looking forward to insulting kyle mead s grandkids, but it s already. happening. ha i had pizza delivered to my office today and this was the driverppeninto my of. so thanks to computers, actings could return to what it was originally something anyone could do mething as a part time job, like being an uber driver or vice president.re not now, now, i sf you re not,
goin there s got to be some plang tl going forward inea this cleanup. and recovery to test. yeah,me i mean,an if you find asbestos in your building, you contain and remove it. you don t blow it intot blow the the county. it just seems self evidently insane. eems selso i appreciate your cog on site. that was really, reallyeresting. thanresting. and thank you. it s worth remembering that is one of his first maybe his p bidet act as president.re joe biden shut down an oil oil pipeline that we could use right about now on the groundsou it was too dangerouss to to movp something as toxic as oilel shi through a pipeline. youp it had to ship it by rat that s a lot safer. and then, of course,. ignored yo the rail lines. a and here we m are. so you think in a moment like this, comedians would be rejoicing? there is so much to mock, but they re not because they re toou afraid to make fun on fided the people who run the governmentmake. so we decided to make a documentary. and this is an
mr. goldman, you may began. mr. chairman, i have a point of order. the gentleman will state his point of order. my point of order is this, in the previous point of order issued by mr. johnston of louisiana, you ruled against his point of order because you said that mr. burke was a witness. you have just told us he was not a witness but he was a staffer. as such, a staffer must avoid impugning motivations. the gentleman will will youtl let him finish hi point of order? he made his point of order. mr. chairman, i haven t completed yet. the rule requires that members and staff not impugn the motivations of the president.re what you ruled was that he was a witness. you ve just told us he wasn t a witness. my point of w order is that you were out of orderor in your ruling. the point of order is not sustained. i ve already ruled on it. he was not a witness.