That was sent to me. David congressman, i think flipflop is too weak a phrase to use for what joe biden did. This is a colossal flipflop. The on reason politicians would flipflop to the magnitude joe biden is in this case is he knows he screwed up. There are political repercussions for flipflopping in the nature that he has. Well see where this goes from here. But joe knows he need to come forward and testify if hes called to do so, otherwise hes one of the biggest hypocrites in american political history. David i think one of his biggest concerns about testifying is he will be asked about his sons deal with the ukrainian gas company. Adam schiff made a complete case for accusing joe biden of the same thing they are accusing President Trump of doing, the quid pro quo thing. There is no question there is corruption that occurred between the rip much Vice President joe biden and his son i hunter bind being on the board of a Ukraine Energy company and pocketing money because of his relati
Controlled by the Republican Party of donald trump and the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell has proposed some rules that would trigger a quick a trial lets look at what those are initially he gave them we were discussing this a moment ago he gave each side 24 hours which would be split over 2 days for their opening arguments thats now been pushed out to 3 days as i guess was saying presumably 8 hours a day witnesses cannot be called until the opening arguments and even then it will be left to a vote and whats important to remember there is that the republicans as we say are in control so they would have significant powers to block any witnesses called by the democrats this is what they wanted to do and another change to the initial rules Mitch Mcconnell will now allow transcripts from the house judiciary impeachment hearing the house hearing to be submitted mcconnell has promised that this will be a fair even handed process 1st. The senate will hear an opening presentation from t
Agreement with china into ending and 18 months long dispute but with major issues still unresolved whats next for the worlds 2 top economies. Also coming up russias government resigns the surprise move comes after president Vladimir Putin calls for reforms that could keep him in tal well beyond the end of his time he will get the details from moscow to see. Im told me a lot people thanks for joining the 3rd. The stage is now set for the impeachment trial of a u. S. President only the 3rd time in history the house of representatives voted to submit 2 articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the senate after House Speaker nancy pelosi signed the articles of impeachment it was carried symbolically from the house to the senate where the trial is expected to start next week trump is charged with abuse of office and obstruction of justice of congress its efforts to investigate that abuse is alleged to have pressured ukraine to investigate democratic rival joe biden. Im now j
The house judiciary had already undertaken that and had established that the inquiry could really run very widely. It was not going to be limited to just a certain number of witnesses or certain number of days, or even just to the Monica Lewinsky question. They gave themselves wide running room rate democrats try to keep that from happening. ,he rules were established and our memory is, partyline vote, the republicans were in control of the committee and moved pretty swiftly. The house floor was ready to take it up under the Republican Leadership of the house at the time. Those of us here remember so much drama. We went through three speakers within a couple of days, first with the resignation of speech or of speaker Newt Gingrich. Bob livingston became the next in line, then what happened . There was a scramble. Allies Bob Livingstons tried to talk him out of it. Had made the decision to resigned with some agony. Was aigned because there full on press in the democratic world. Larry fl
First, alexis explains how these articles moved from the House Judiciary Committee to the floor within the week. Alexis well, they passed out of the House Judiciary Committee. There was lots of discussion about what the rules would be. Obviously for this entire inquiry. The rules meeting, would the investigation be limited . And the house judiciary had already undertaken that and had established that the inquiry could really run very widely. It wasnt going to be limited to just a certain number of witnesses or a certain number of days or even just to the Monica Lewinsky question. So they gave themselves really wide running room. Democrats of course fought to keep that from happening. But the rules were established and the committee because our memory is 2116, partyline vote. The republicans were in control of the committee at they were the ones guiding it and moved pretty swiftly and the house floor was ready to take it up under the Republican Leadership of the house at the time. Steve