harris county before bypassing suppression bill that made it more difficult for minorities there to vote. now it seems they re flat out trying to rig the game. but harris county officials are fighting back, announcing a plan to sue the state over two republican bills that they say are politically motivated and unconstitutional. this comes as the states top law enforcement officer, who tried to overturn the 2020 election, could be impeached tomorrow. i don t know if you ve been following the story, but for nearly a decade republicans and stayed silent about the mounting legal scandals facing the attorney ken paxton. but now a texas house committee that has been investigating tom paxton voted unanimously to recommend impeaching paxton, advancing 20 articles of impeachment, quote, on accusations that include bribery, dereliction of duty, disregard of official duty, and obstruction of justice. the texas tribune reports. in one reelection in 2018 while under indictment on state securities f
this problem. treasury secretary janet yellen said today the protected debt ceiling deadline is now june 5th. in a letter to congressional leaders, secretary yellen wrote, during the week of june 5th, treasury is scheduled to make an estimated 92 billion dollars of payments and transference, including a regularly scheduled quarterly adjustment that would result in an investment in the social security and medicare trust funds of roughly 36 billion dollars. therefore our projected resources would be inadequate to satisfy all of these obligations, and quote. with the house of representatives adjourned for the memorial day recess, republican leadership announced they will provide 24 hours notice before scheduling voting days and addressing a potential default, so we know that we are at least that far away from the vote. but we are only ten days away from a potential default. we shouldn t be in this situation at all. congress actually has a constitutional duty here. they swore a north two d
lying to congress about a potential moscow real estate deal as well. now cohen knew about many of trump s secrets, and as he told the judge at his sentencing in 2018, he felt it was his duty to cover-up trump s quote, dirty deeds. but cohen has since emerged as trump s key antagonists, billing secrets, trading insults, and warning the american people about he believes his former boss is capable of. cohen has testified against trump at a congressional hearing, cooperating and robert mueller s inquiry into trump s ties to russia, and provided information of a new york attorney general letitia james, and manhattan district attorney alvin bragg in their separate investigations into donald trump. michael cohen s break from trump has been consequential, and cohen can point to the exact moment when he realized there followed had begun. it was the moment that i was watching donald on television,
2018, he felt it was his duty to cover-up trump s quote, dirty deeds. but cohen has since emerged as trump s key antagonists, billing secrets, trading insults, and warning the american people about he believes his former boss is capable of. cohen has testified against trump at a congressional hearing, cooperating and robert mueller s inquiry into trump s ties to russia, and provided information of a new york attorney general letitia james, and manhattan district attorney alvin bragg in their separate investigations into donald trump. michael cohen s break from trump has been consequential, and cohen can point to the exact moment when he realized there followed had begun. it was the moment that i was watching donald on television, he was sitting at the long table with a group of other individuals, arms crossed, looking very angry. and he made a statement on how gross it was that the fbi
time after he wears, quote, sued in 2020 by four of his former aides who allege he fired them for reporting him to local law enforcement for accepting bribes and using his office for a campaign contributors. so much for law or order. this is the states chief law enforcement officer. those silent republicans are gonna go on the record about ken paxton on whether on when they vote to impeach him. let s talk about what s going on in harris county. joining us now is the texas state representative jolanda jones, she represents parts of harris county. representative jones, good to see you. thank you for joining us. hey, ali. how you doing. thanks for having me. i m always confused. during covid where there were counties voting harris county that wanted to put some restrictions in place about keeping people safe, texas, the home of home role, the one place that doesn t want big government interfering with small government, this is people should make their own decisions, got involved and s