Ive been working with the program for two years, though this program has been around for 16 years now. Its an Amazing Program working with 200 interns at 60 organizations in new york and d. C. Were really excited to have a speaker with us today. Her name is lori wallach and she is the director of Public Citizens global trade watch. Public citizen was founded in 1971 and is a nonprofit research, lobbying and litigation organization based in washington, d. C. Global trade watch is the newest of Public Citizens five divisions. It was launched by mrs. Wallach in 1995 and global trade watch is the leader in the Global Citizen movement for fair trade and investment policy. Over the course of the past decade, wallach has helped create a new Public Awareness around globalization. The emerging issue of our time. Working closely with n. G. O. s, scholars and activists in developing countries and with u. S. Congressional environment, environmental, labor and other allies, wallach has played an Im
People are talking about because again you know the polls show is that we have this incredibly divided nation when it comes to impeachment where democrats support impeachment republicans dont support impeachment. Well polls change as we know from the election in 2016 and its very early at an election so when i say people take notice i think theres a long ways to go i mean it may be true that it may be a jiffy trial and maybe it may be a show trial in that sense but its also true that whether it is or not there is an election coming up and there are quite a number of Democratic Candidates who are themselves going to be talking about this quite a bit and you can be sure that theyre going to refer to not just the trial in the senate but the fact of impeachment because you cant get away from that in if the house as we expect it will votes to impeach donald trump donald trump is an impeached president whether he stays in office or not he is an impeach president and there have only been 3 br
Because they cant actually pin anything a factual basis on you know the president did nothing wrong while republicans continue to stand by their president who has dismissed the move as an attempted coup. I mean Taylor Nandan with the rest of the top stories including lebanons saad hariri says he will not seek to stay on as Prime Minister ahead of much to late talks to give the protest right country a new government. India Supreme Court postponed hearings against a new citizenship law to next month as anger against the legislation grows. Well in just the past hour the final debate has got underway over whether to impeach the president of the United States democrats and republicans in the house of representatives on making their case about whether donald trump violated the constitution hes accused. Of withholding aid to ukraine to pressurize into investigating his political rival the democrat controlled house is expected to make trump the 3rd president to be impeached in u. S. History on
Now, welcome to another week and senator mcconnell his legislative graveyard. Does anyone know how monday bills the senate is scheduled to vote on this big . Any guesses. While it is zero. Every day the leader mcconnell is that the republicans failed to allow us on bipartisan bills, there are hurting the working people in this country. There is no good reason why President Trump cant be working with democrats right now. On important bipartisan legislation. When it comes to mind is what happened this week, background checks. President trump, after el paso, were going to do something on background checks he said. We have to do it. Well, he just sent an abandoned those efforts. Not doing anything on gun violence. Instead having the department of justice continue to work on bipartisan gun proposals, gun safety proposals, President Trump since his attorney general globetrotting. Chasing conspiracy theories that undermine our intelligence agencies. Instead of working with congress on a plan
Brothers, the only way that arking people even have chance of achieving the changes and justice they need and deserve is by electing and new aesident, i democratic democratic president. Heart overflows today to see so many of you here today, politically engaged. Stay active. Work harder than you ever have before. And as democrats, as democrats, may we never lose our sense of e at injustice around us. Thank you all. Thank you. [cheering and applause] New Hampshire democrats, please welcome to the stage congressman tim ryan. Thank you. Thank you. My name is tim ryan. Im a congressman from ohio, where i work with my wife andrea , a First Grade School teacher and whoho is 16 and brady who is five. We had a traumatic event several weeks ago in dayton, ohio where an took the lives of ohio oans, where ohi 21, 22, 23yearold kids had to watch people literally bleed out on the street in dayton, ohio because someone had a weapon they should not have ad, with the capacity to kill many people and i