The clerk mr. Schiff, mr. Nadler, mrs. Love green, misdemmings and mr. Crow are appointed managers to conduct the impeachment manager against Donald John Trump a message be sent to the senate to inform the senate of these appointments and the managers may in connection with the preparation and the conduct of the trial exhibit the articles of impeachment to the senate and take all other actions necessary which may include the following, one, employing legal, clerical and other necessary assistance and incurring such other is expenses paid be necessary to be from amounts made available to the committee of judiciary under applicable expense resolutions or ap lick cabble accounts of the house of representatives. Two, sending for persons and papers and filing with the secretary of the senate on the part of the on the part of the house of representatives any pleadings in conjunction with or subsequent to the exhibition of the articles of impeachment ta the managers consider necessary. The sp
To register. As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Is next. On thisod morning monday, january 13, the beginning of the legislative week in washington. Senators are preparing for votes on curbing the president s use of force against iran and starting an impeachment trial. Iran. St, your thoughts on what steps do you want lawmakers to take to limit the military did lasts the house week or support the administrations strategy. . Democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. Active and retired military, we want to hear from you, 2027488003 is your number. You can text us on that line with your first, city, and state. We will get to your thoughts in a minute. Lets begin with the hill newspaper. Democrats scramble to reign in trumps iran war powers. Democrats are racing against the clock to shore up as the fight shifts to the senate. A lawmakers looking to limit trump possibility t
Troops to leave. And defying volcano evacuation orders in the philippines some return home despite warnings of an imminent explosive eruption. The names of those who lead the prosecution of u. S. President donald trump during his impeachment trial have been announced and in less than an hour the house will vote to send the articles to the u. S. Senate House Speaker nancy pelosi announced the Prosecution Team naming adam schiff the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee as leader trump is accused of threatening to withhold military aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigation into his political rivals joe biden the trial is expected to begin on thursday. The emphasis is making a strong with possible pace to protect and defend our constitution to seek the truth for the American People im very proud and honored that these 7 members distinguished members have accepted this serious responsibility again to protect and defend for that people defending our democracy well springs while
78 days from the time it was announced at a press conference to the time we finished the president was not permitted to participate in these meetings think about it 71 days out of 78 in which we actually did something on impeachment is not presented to the ability to crossexamine fact witnesses present counterarguments no due process at all in those 71 days when presented with the opportunity when it came to the Judiciary Committee instead of the Judiciary Committee stepping up and actually acting like the usually committee of the committee of impeachment we put we had a couple of some law professors who already had their you know basic talking points he could have been crossexamined that would have done a lot of good then we could have had quick staffers who testified again lot of good where were the fact witnesses instead of the rubber stamp that we were warned about 20 years ago by the current chairman we became the rubber stamp. Democrats repeatedly violated house rules and blatant
To come and we didnt make it come because we said were going to wait until after christmas to send this over they would like to have had assented over on Christmas Eve so they could dismiss that perhaps they dont realize the dismissal is cover up but that has been one of their trains of thought dismissal this cover up i was so disappointed the other week the other day last friday thursday when the leader of the United States Senate Rather than stressing the institution in which he serves and then they came subservient and said and signed on to a resolution that would dismiss charges dismissed dismissal is cover up and so in the course of the time since weve passed the resolution and not because of the time on december we passed it on december 18th on december 20th. New emails show that 91 minutes after trumps phone call with your current president a top of office of management budget aid as department of defense to hold off on sending military to you crane on december 29th revelations