Elected, young president that we all were excited about, an anticorruption president. The president tried to coerce him into interfering in the 2020 elections. The things that i have heard today about the Vice President s child, the things ive heard about the Vice President s son when we have millions of people in this country who are suffering from addiction, i believe to protect the president at any cause is shameful. Article 2, in the nixon impeachment said this, the article principally addressed president nixons use of power including powers vested solely in the president to harm political opponents and gain improper personal political advantages. And explaining this article of impeachment the house judiciary then stated that president nixons conduct was undertaken for his personal political advantage and not in the furtherance of any Valid National policy objective. The president abused his power and to me and at least the members of this side of the deus that matters and with tha
House Majority Leader Kevin Mccarthy at his weekly News Conference. Sunday night on q a day and author on his book dignity, those living on the margins of society. I it was a sunday morning believe or saturday, it was empty because all the semis were gone. The intelligence just kind of came right through. We spoke for about half an hour or so. Life, which is almost like a cliche of everything wrong that could happen to somebody. Eventually i asked her what i how do you want me to describe you . Give me one sentence to describe you. It is what i am, a prostitute, a mother. Sunday night at eight eastern a. Spans q coming up shortly we will have your reaction to the house vote but first some of the floor speeches of the house debate. We will hear from doug collins, steve scalise, and House Intelligence Committee chair adam schiff. Mr. Collins madam speaker, a few weeks ago just off of this floor i said that dark cloud was deskending upon this body. Today because of the clock and the calen
N is recognized for one minute. Leages, this ar is a moment you will reard about in your history books. Today, i will vote to impeach the president of the United States, and i want you to know why. He broke our laws. He threatened our security. He abused the highest, most Sacred Office in our land. I want you to know that it does not feel good. I cant stop thinking about the cost to our country. Not just the impeachable offenses but the Collateral Damage of a president who uses power like a weapon against his own people. It erodes our decency, degrades our dignity. I dont yet know how they will tell the story of this era, but i want to tell you the story of this day. Let the record show that today justice won, that we did our job, that we kept our word, that we stood our sacred ground. Let the record show that we did not let you down. I love you. Listen to mom. Ill be home soon. The speaker pro tempore the day. My colleagues, this morning and every morning when we come together, member
With congressman Anthony Brown and kevin hurt. Join the discussion all morning long with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. Is next. Host good morning. It is thursday, december 5, 2019. This is washington journal. After the marathon house judiciary hearing on the basis for impeachment, timing because an issue. We should get clarity with Speaker Pelosi. There are many house members pushing for a vote before the house leaves for the holidays. We will talk to members and ask you should the Impeachment Vote happen before christmas. If you agree it should, 2027488000. No, that is 2027488001. Particularly if you have a legal or constitutional experience, your thoughts on the hearing. You can send us a text, 2027488003. Tell us where you are texting from and your name. On twitter, we are cspanwj. And on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. The long hearing yesterday, in total, 6 to 7 hours worth. Harvard, pamela karlan, michael gerhardt, and Jonathan Turley. The headlin
Former department of Homeland Security adviser for the obama administration. Ok, thank you. Thats exactly right. Now we have to recognize the Senior Member here. Well, it is a treat to welcome former colleagues, current colleagues. Ive worked with every member of this panel in some form or another, inside and outside of government. Its a treat to welcome everyone here on behalf of the center of law and security on the nyu school of law that i am privileged to serve as a distinguished senior fellow at. Welcome to this program and welcome to my colleagues. This is really a treat for me to be joined together with you once again to talk about a really important and timely subject, the issue of National Security and how the executive branch and the legislative branch address some of the most Critical Issues of our time, and i will do some very brief introductions in a minute, but you will understand the theme here is every single one of these distinguished Public Servants served in the exec