The rules committee will come to order. The rules committee will come to order. Its unfortunate that we have to be here today. But the actions of the president of the United States make that necessary. President trump withheld congressionally approved aid to ukraine, a partner under siege. Not to fight corruption, but to extract a personal political favor. President trump refused to meet with ukraines president in the white house until he completed this scheme. All the while leaders in russia, the very nation holding a large part of ukraine hostage, the very nation that interfered with our elections in 2016 had yet another meeting in the Oval Office Just last week. These are not my opinions. These are uncontested facts. We listened to the hearings. We have read the transcripts. Its clear that this president acted in a bay that not only violates the public trust but jeopardized our National Security. He undermined our democracy. He acted in a way that rises to the level of impeachment.
Discussed the house floor vote on articles of impeachment. And alan durso which on his opposition to the impeachment of President Trump. Host the house of representatives is slated to vote for two articles of impeachment for President Trump. The president will stand trial in the senate and the new year. We will begin with your thoughts. Should the president be impeached and removed from office . Democrats 202 7488000. You can go to social. You can join us on cspan or facebook. Com cspan and you can text us your city and state at 2027488003. We will begin with a new poll out by fox. Trumps approval picks up. Found. Look at what fox takeob Approval Rating that from october ticked up from october. His Approval Rating is at 43 . Take a look at the impeachment question. In late october, 40 9 favored impeachment and removal from office. 4 said impeached, but dont opposednd 41 altogether. Say impeach, but dont remove and 41 say do not impeach the president. That is our question for all of do
Congressional subpoenas and cant be forced to testify before congress. Lets bring in attorney david rifkin, he served during the reagan and georg george h. W. Buh administrations. Welcome. Thank you for coming today. David, how strong is this president s case for saying that his aides dont have to testify because of this immunity . Very strong. It is a wellestablished immunity, paul, dates back to 1971, an opinion written by william republica renquist, been reaffirmed in nine administrations and both parties, fully case law. Ittheres a group of people tht see the president every day, he communicates with them, the 1971 opinion says the president is a coequal branch, he cannot command that members of congress appear before him. They cannot command he appears before them. I want to emphasize one more point. The reason the president has a strong position, theres another form of absolute immunity based upon 1989 opinion, he went on to be a chief judge in the fourth circuit. That stands for
Congressional subpoenas and cant be forced to testify before congress. Lets bring in attorney david rifkin, he served during the reagan and georg george h. W. Buh administrations. Welcome. Thank you for coming today. David, how strong is this president s case for saying that his aides dont have to testify because of this immunity . Very strong. It is a wellestablished immunity, paul, dates back to 1971, an opinion written by william republica renquist, been reaffirmed in nine administrations and both parties, fully case law. Ittheres a group of people tht see the president every day, he communicates with them, the 1971 opinion says the president is a coequal branch, he cannot command that members of congress appear before him. They cannot command he appears before them. I want to emphasize one more point. The reason the president has a strong position, theres another form of absolute immunity based upon 1989 opinion, he went on to be a chief judge in the fourth circuit. That stands for
Cant be forced to testify before congress. Lets bring in attorney david rifkin, he served during the reagan and georg george h. W. Buh administrations. Welcome. Thank you for coming today. David, how strong is this president s case for saying that his aides dont have to testify because of this immunity . Very strong. It is a wellestablished immunity, paul, dates back to 1971, an opinion written by william republica renquist, been reaffirmed in nine administrations and both parties, fully case law. Ittheres a group of people tht see the president every day, he communicates with them, the 1971 opinion says the president is a coequal branch, he cannot command that members of congress appear before him. They cannot command he appears before them. I want to emphasize one more point. The reason the president has a strong position, theres another form of absolute immunity based upon 1989 opinion, he went on to be a chief judge in the fourth circuit. That stands for the proposition that Nation