Spy for the first time during the race, but both agreed on many policy issues, including the withdrawal of u. S. Combat troops from the middle east. What we have to face as a nation is the true great Foreign Policy disasters of our lifetime were the war in vietnam and the war in iraq. Both of those wars were based on lies. And right now what i fear very much is we have a president who is lying again and couldld drags into a war that is eveven worse than the war in iraq. R of thewill ai debate and have a roundtable discussion. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The house of representatives is slated to vote today to send the articles of imimpeachment againt President Trump to the senate. Todays vote sets in motion only the third president ial impeachment trial and all of u. S. History. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is scheduled to name the impeachment managers in a News Conference today. Senate Majority Lead
Present the case against the president , kim strassel, and columnist and manhattan senior fellow jason riley, what do you expect to happen in this trial . Well, what we are going to have is the an Opening Statement where people put forth outlines for and against and questions about votes, youll also have the house impeachment managers going first and presenting evidence that they collected if the course of this investigation trying to convince senators that it is enough to go forward with conviction and in theory that would be by the president s defense. Paul is there a possibility that youll hear from impeachment managers and if the Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says you know what, i think we have enough votes to acquit here right now that they could hold a vote after that those original arguments . This is something more and more republicans are thinking about. You know there, had been a thought of having emotion to dismiss up front but it was clear that a lot of republicans werent
Service members were hurt in that attack in iraq last week, this after the pentagon said there were no casualties. But first, the senate trial for President Trumps impeachment now officially underway, and were now learning who the president has chosen for his Legal Defense team. White House Counsel pat cipollone, trumps personal lawyer jay sekulow expected to have the lead roles. However, sources tell cnn that mr. Trump also enlisted the help of these seasoned lawyers. Hey. Hey. Ken starr who led the investigation that led to bill clintons impeachment. Alan dershowitz, former attorney general and impeachment adviser, now you can take control of your home wifine. Pam bondi, jane raskin and and get a notification the instant someone new joins your network. Only with xfinity xfi. Download the xfi app today. Robert ray who helped in the impeachment trial. Kaitlan collins, what more can you tell us about the president s Impeachment Team . We heard he was thinking about adding additional att
Thank you so much. Thank you it is for that beautiful introduction and for your great leadership. Thank you. All right, thank you very very much. And then also i want to thank todd, beautiful job. Thank you for your work and all you do for working people. Thank you for that. Molly has been with me since the st. Patricks day parade. Where are you molly . There she is, very good and i also know rob is here. Thank you. Rob is way ahead of his time on Climate Change and you should all be really proud of the work that he has done and then also where are you . Right over here. Thank you. Its great to have her nationally. Janice winer where are you janice . A new member of the iowa city council. Thank you and janice supports me so much and i also want to mention our great organizers ray keira mohammad and claire thank you very much for all you are doing. [applause] all right, so we are in middle of what someone has called the surgeon we keep going up. A friend of mine sent a text and it had a
This is a very very steep very very bid park that a lot of people use. Lately it has been close because of all the damage the storm did. I must tell you that the mud flows, landslides and debris danger is very real, because the land is already getting very saturated. At windsors foothill regional park, crews are are already working to prevent massive erosion that was incinerated when the kincaid finer sweat through it. We have seen Minor Movement of soil. We have a contractor right now working at the front of the park on something, soils that we are moving. It has eroded in a small amount of debris getting into one of the ponds, visitors and hikers enjoy. That should all be mitigated when the park officially reopened next week. The stuff that burned away is called understory. The understory holds the soil, binds the soil, also slows rainfall. Water from impacting the soil, so heavily it slows water down as it is flowing into streams and the ponds. Reporter the reason the parts Park Dis