For the public. Sacrifice of our men and women in uniform to defend our democracy and that would help us and the aspirations of our shells and that they will hold for and democracy and that we have tried to do everything we can can make sure. That. Tribe called those impeachment proceedings an attempted coup he says its a desperate effort by the democrats to win the 2020 election trump is accused of withholding aid to ukraine to pressure it into investigating his political rival joe biden. You are the ones interfering in americas elections you are the one subverting americas democracy we did nothing wrong nothing whatsoever this is just an excuse. You are the ones that struck the just. You have the mind bringing the suffering to our republic for your own selfish personal political and partisan. Michigan is a battleground state in next years president ial election and as john hendren reports trump a spent most of his time leveraging the impeachment proceedings in his favor. The presiden
Were not entitled to witnesses were not entitled to anything in the house its a total sham and when you have a guy like shifty chef go out and make up a statement that i made sure he said this is what he said but i never said it he totally made it up one of the us president roh say a strongly worded letter is House Speaker nancy pelosi describing the process as an impeachment crusade which is an unprecedented an unconstitutional abuse of power roslyn jordan has more. Well the letter was 6 pages long and it basically recounted every objection which donald trump has raised to the impeachment inquiry and now what appears to be on the eve of the vote to formally impeach him on 2 charges the president essentially told congress that what it is about to do is patently illegal however the House Speaker nancy pelosi who herself was long resistant to even allowing an impeachment inquiry to take place until the information about the president s pressure on the ukrainian president of a lot of the
Hi im Steve Clemons and i have lots of questions today can the same technology that we happily bring into our homes and we keep in our pockets thats making life and connections and knowledge easier to access can this all be turned around and weaponized against us lets get to the bottom line. Usually when someone talks about killer tech people imagine giant killer robots vaporizing people in destroying cities with huge laser beams hollywood style but thats not what were talking about today today were keeping it real we all love to use facial recognition to open our phones but at the same time we know that facial recognition could be used by security agencies to pick us out of a crowd so what does the future hold for us as we freely give away our privacy in exchange for convenience fortunately we have 3 people in the room who have all the answers to these questions larry irving a lawyer by training who has spent his life working on the infrastructure of the internet in September Larry be
This process but it is trying to delay the inevitable because as you know democrats hold the majority on this House Judiciary Committee as they do the full house of representatives but we did see republicans try to introduce an amendment to kill the article altogether of abuse of power they were claiming that its the democrats who are abusing their power and who are guilty of corruption and trying to impeach the president for his phone call with ukraine that amendment was quickly rejected by the democratic majority now one says panel returns from a recess or perhaps are returning now as i speak they will continue to baiting another republican amendment which would be inserting the name of of joe bidens son hunter biden into these articles of impeachment the purpose of that well that gives republicans a platform at least for today to continue discussing these unfounded theories that trump himself had brought up with the president of ukraine that biden was somehow involved in corruption