President Donald Trump stands accused of abusing the power of his office for his actions related to Ukraine and the upcoming 2020 election as N.P.R. s miles parks reports Democrats say it is a matter of upholding the nation s bedrock constitutional principles in the face of overwhelming evidence Republicans say it s an unfounded and politicized rush to a pre-determined conclusion speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi opened the debate on the House floor by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and invoking the legacy of the founding fathers very sadly now our founders vision of a Republican is under threat from actions from the White House that is why today as speaker of the house I solemnly and sadly open the debate on the impeachment of the president of the United States Republican Doug Collins who calls the impeachment a sham process in essence an exercise in tyranny by the majority today is going to be a lot of things what it is not is fire what it is not is about the truth the house whic
Maine Senator Susan Collins says she won t be project prejudging the case I have not bait up my mind and I think of would be inappropriate for me to have made up my mind but for I hear the presentations from both sides Collins is a moderate Republican one of a closely watched few who have broken ranks on key votes in the past in a blistering letter to House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi today Trump condemned the impeachment process calling it a perversion of justice and abuse of power and part of a Democratic effort to remove him from office the House of Representatives has approved a 1.4 trillion dollar spending package to keep the government funded N.P.R. s Claudio go Salish reports the measures were approved along a bipartisan vote House lawmakers approved 2 massive spending bills to fund the government through September 2020 the government is operating off a temporary funding measure that runs out of money Friday night the Senate is now poised to vote on the measures later this wee
Meanwhile President Trump s approval rating is 42 percent pretty much exactly where it s been for the entirety of his presidency and 91 percent of Republicans approve of the job he s doing so the likelihood is this week the House led by Democrats will impeach the president and he will maintain if not solidify the support of his base to medical Monson are n.p.r. News Washington New Jersey Congressman Jeff and drew a freshman Democrat says he plans to vote against impeaching President Trump this week over the weekend Andrew announced he also plans to switch to the Republican Party yesterday 5 of his aides responded in a letter saying they plan to resign from Ben Drew staff snow and ice are causing problems across a wide swath of the us this morning N.P.R. s Dave missed it says the National Weather Service has posted winter weather advisories from the Midwest to New England an inch of snow is forecasted in some areas of the Ohio Valley and western Maryland elevations above 2000 feet coul
And didn t confirm their new addresses trial judge Paul Malloy found the Wisconsin Elections Commission violated state law he says the law gives potential movers only 30 days to confirm their addresses or be deactivated the conservative group the Wisconsin Institute for law and liberty or will file the lawsuit will attorney Rick Nelson Burke says even if people are kicked from the rolls Wisconsin same day registration means nobody will be denied the right to vote what this does is it makes our voter rolls as accurate as possible and I don t think everyone should support that others in the state including Democratic governor Tony Eve are say the move is an attempt to stifle the democratic process the decision is expected to be appealed for n.p.r. News I m my own silver in Milwaukee a low pressure system over the western u.s. Is expected to bring widespread wintry weather from the central plains into the northeast this weekend into Monday it s n.p.r. News. Pulitzer Prize winning histori
Most profound political crisis since the end of the 2nd World War the Islamic state group says it carried out Tuesday s attack on a military base in Asia which the government says left more than 70 soldiers dead and others missing the attack near the border with Mali was the deadliest in Asia since the Islamist militant violence began there in 2015. The New Zealand military have landed on White Island in a high risk operation to retrieve the bodies of 8 people killed by a volcanic eruption on Monday 6 of the bodies have been found our correspondent Shaima Holly Hill has flown near the island it still remains a very precarious operation if there is volcanic activity on the island we understand that there is a real risk of an eruption toxic gases ash all of these factors are still in place we know that the defense rescuers will be supported by people in helicopters at close of the island but also people on shore including scientists who are going to be looking at real time activity of t