You want him to come if he s innocent here bring it to us we ll Scotch it we re going to we re going to blast it we re going to we re going to basically curve it and create the facts situation we want by Matt misinterpreting everything you do well here s a for instance they claim that the president publicly he wanted a public announcement of investigations but the only witness who said anything about that was a guy named Gordon Sunland and best record someone who admitted that no one on Earth told him that but he presumed he also said that the only direct conversation he had with the president about these things was that the president said he wanted nothing from Ukraine except that it clean up its corruption. The best evidence is the transcript between President still a ski President Trump It shows no conditionality no quid pro quo no this for that aide was never even mentioned on the call subsequently the president of the Ukraine and various Ukrainian government officials said if tho
Supported the position based on impeachment Professor Turley continues on this obstruction theory would itself be an abuse of power by Congress it would be extremely dangerous precedent to set for the future Presidents and congresses in making an appeal to the judicial branch into a high crime and misdemeanor unquote here s the deal impeachment was never intended to be a remedy for political disagreement it wasn t intended to be a remedy even further legal disagreement between the legislative branch and the executive branch that s why there s a 3rd branch of government that s why we have the judiciary this is a very dangerous road indeed as president ter Professor Turley noted and I hope and pray that future Congresses can and will exercise greater restraint than has what s what s been shown by Chairman shift and Speaker Pelosi and Chairman earlier in the rest of the stability of our probe Republic is going to depend on that in the future and I pray that we can put this genie back in
Assess and led to weeks of inquiry and the impeachment hearings for Miller Jaya Paul is a Democrat from Washington forget about President Trump is anyone of my colleagues willing to say that it is ever Ok. For a president of the United States of America to invite foreign interference in our elections not a single one of you has said that so far joining me here in the studio are n.p.r. Senior editor and correspondent Ron Elving Hi Ron a and b. Our reporter Tim back is also here Hi Tim Hey there and p.r. White House correspondent Franco or Donya as joins us as well hi Frank Oh hello Ok so let me start with you Ron as we reconvene as the members come back into the hearing room this afternoon what s left to be done there should not be a great deal of expectation of a great deal of new material which I mean I have to be I have to be frank with you about this we re going to hear as much Onsen of Louisiana I was just saying a few moments ago a good deal of repetition it s been said in the pa
It s an inflation this is not a bipartisan bill Republicans in Congress have said the measure is a nonstarter and President Trump has said he will veto it that s all the more reason that we should really be setting a little higher standards in this building that s Congressman Boyd Doggett a progressive Democrat from Texas he and others on the left side of the Democratic Party have been pushing for last minute changes ahead of the full vote Selena Simmons deafen n.p.r. News education secretary Betsy De Vos testifies on Capitol Hill today answering questions about how her department incorrectly collected federal student student loan repayments from borrowers who were defrauded by for profit colleges more than 200000 borrowers are in financial limbo waiting for the government to process their claims that their colleges lied to them about things like job prospects and transfer credits for financial markets Asian markets were higher by the close the Nikkei in Japan up 110th of a percent if
Hey there I m Joshua Johnson today on one a the future of sports journalism from Jackie Robinson breaking baseball s color barrier to the sexual assault scandal of gymnastics coach to Collin Kaplan it taking a police brutality to female athletes demanding equal pay the news of sports is getting harder to report the irreverent Web site Deadspin is just one outlet struggling to survive and report on the stories behind the game how it is I m doing and where does it go from here we d love to hear from you especially if you are a sports journalist comment on our Facebook page or tweet us. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m Janine Herbst the Justice Department s inspector general is testifying before Congress at this hour answering questions about his report the found the f.b.i. Did not act out of political bias when it opened an investigation into the $26000.00 Trump campaign Michael Horowitz says he was concerned that so many quote basic and fundamental errors were made by the f.b.i.