Keep the United States out of endless wars in the middle east. The president s actions, however, hadr, seemingly incread the risk that we could be dragged into exactly such a war. Its indicative of President Trumps Foreign Policy record, which is riddled by chaotic, uninformed, erratic, and impulsive decisionmaking without adequate consideration for the consequences in just about every Foreign Policy area President Trump touches, we are worse off than we were before he started with it. With china, north korea, syria, russia. The president has careened from one impulsive action to the next with no coherent strategy. North korea today, despite what President Trump said, we dont have to worry about then, is a greater Nuclear Threat than theyve ever been. Trumps actions have been disastrous. North korea has more nuclear weapons, and by all reports has even developed or is i very cloe to developing an icbm that can hit the United States mainland. And that is the result of president s trumps
Every good and perfect gift. You shower us with your mercies. Each day we are further aware of our unworthiness because of your goodness. All we like sheep have gone astray. Lord, we are prone to wander, to leave you, the god we love. As our senators work today, make them extensions of your power in our world. Use them as your eyes, ears, hands, and feet to accomplish your purposes. Lord, make them your ambassadors. May they arrange their priorities according to your will and view their challenges from an ethical perspective, striving to seek your will in all they think, say, and do. May they find in challenging moments opportunities to renew their faith in you. We pray in your merciful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please help me with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley mr. President . The presiding of
Mr. President , the Senate Begins this new session of congress preparing to do something that has happened only twice before in american history. Serving as a court of impeachment in a trial of the president of the United States. President donald trump stands accused by the house of representatives of committing one of the offenses the founding camers most feared when it to the stability of the republic abusing the power of office for personal gain, soliciting the interference of a foreign power in our elections to benefit himself. The house is also charging the president with obstructing congress in the investigation into those matters. The consequence of an unprecedented blockade of relevant witnesses and documents. Flatly denying the legislative branches Constitutional Authority to provide oversight of the executive. As all eyes turned to the senate, the question before us is, will we fulfill our duty to conduct a fair impeachment trial of the president of the United States or will
Careerthe headlines is, diplomats building a narrative of ukraines Pressure Campaign by the president. What have you learned . We have even more career and in some cases, white house officials coming forward to the providingand saying, more confirmation of details about what was going on behind the scenes and also how they view the phone call with the ukraine president on july 25. Aid, jennifer williams, said trump appeared more focused on his political agenda rather than some Foreign Policy objective. That is not great for the president. A former senior director at the National Security council, did testify he did not hear anything illegal on the call, but he provided confirmation gordon sondland, the ambassador to the you, to the e. U. , was talking about a Pressure Campaign to get ukraines president to announce investigations. This comes after another of other diplomats have come forward to say that they also heard, either overheard conversations that happened friday night with davi
As always, well take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Good morning, its monday, october seventh, 2019. The house and senate are on recess but if peter and inquiry continues this week with hearings in the house intelligence and Foreign Affairs committee. President trump is set to hold to bring Major Campaign rallies this week in minnesota and louisiana. And this morning we will begin by asking for your thoughts about what it means for the country to go through the president ial impeachment. What lessons should be learned from the efforts to impeach residents in and clinton. Phone lines set up differently this morning. If you lived through the nixon impeachment, you can call in at 202 7488000. If you lived through the clinton impeachment, 202 7488001. All others can call in at 202 7488002. You can send us a text message this morning. If you do so, please include your name and where you are from. Thats 202 7488002 th