Down but to turn one of our top stories the impeachment investigation into u. S. President onil trump there have now been subpoenas issued lets go to our alan fisher is live in washington d. C. So allan President Trump is unary clear that theres at least net right now hes not going to cooperate so what are democrats doing about that. Of course donald trump has been famous throat to his administration for any time he gets requests for documents from the democrats who took over the house of representatives and therefore oversight responsibilities at the beginning of this year that he said no he has built that store and wall hes decided that hes not going to give them any information whatsoever now the democrats said they wanted details of the phone call with ukrainian president they wanted all the information surrounding that the white house is essentially seeing thats not going to happen and saw the subpoenas have been issued that means theyre legally obliged to do that now this is goin
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A very good idea lets do that so they have put forward their subpoena for documents from the Vice President and in that letter saying we want these documents theyve also said that failure to comply by october the 14th would be considered to be an obstruction of justice 3 very important whats important because that is whoa they managed to get Richard Nixon it wasnt the cover up well it was the cover up but it was blocking documents going to oversight congress so theyre saying to mike pence look you hand over these documents theres every chance that youre going to be charged with obstruction of justice which means impeachment for you as well so this hasnt been a good week for the white house friday hasnt been a good day for donald trump and mike pence and the reality is things are probably only going to get worse from this point all right alan fischer with the latest from washington allan thank you. When you were head of the news hour and clearing strength and numbers and syria had as ri
Trump in the 2020 u. S. President president ial election. Or Rail Services in hong kong have now been suspended operators say its due to malicious vandalism by protesters demonstrators have remained defiant against a new ban on sites mosques sheaffer executive carol lam and ben take colonial era law to enforce the ban and gain greater powers to clamp down on protests scott hi there reports now from hong kong. Face mass have become one of the main symbols of the protester movement here in hong kong theyre also a way to hide identities from surveillance camera now its illegal for protesters to cover their faces. Their protests have become increasingly violent and initial peaceful rallies the largest ever seen here calling for the withdrawal of a proposed extradition law had escalated into running battles in vandalism. Their demands became more of a broad push back against what protestors see as growing control from beijing chief executive kerry lamb has turned to a British Colonial era e
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