For whatever reason, our current president in this current presidency either dont know that nixonian history, or they dont mind it, or maybe they think it will turn out differently if they try nixons playbook a second time around. Its happening again. In the spring of 1970, so about halfway through nixons first term, when he was starting to worry in earnest about his reelection prospects, things were going pretty poorly for Richard Nixon on lots of fronts. On april 30th that year, 1970, nixon gave a somber and poorly received primetime address to the nation in which he asked for public support for him expanding the wildly unpopular vietnam war into a neighboring country. Now needless to say, the American People were not psyched about this, and they were not persuaded by his arguments in that speech. To protect our men who are in vietnam, and to guarantee the continued success of our withdrawal and vietnamization programs, i have concluded that the time has come for action. This is not
Key House Judiciary Committee meeting to consider articles of impeachment against President Trump over the ukraine situation. That upcoming Public Meeting where the committee will formally mark up the text of those two articles of impeachment. Just sort of like a bill, believe it or not. It gets marked up. It was described by one democratic source, though, as basically their last appeal to the nation before an impeachment vote. Today, one of the president s impeachment counternarratives took center stage in a dramatic hearing. Im talking of course about the president s attacks on the fbi and his efforts to discredit the russia investigation completely. Trying to paint it as a politicallymotivated coo attempt against him. Except the justice departments Inspector General michael horowitz, an independent watchdog, said he didnt find evidence that political bias influenced the fbis decision to launch the inquiry into the Trump Campaign. And they didnt find evidence of bias when the fbi ope
Sideline of yesterdays army navy game. Military officials investigating if a symbol in the crowd was raciallycharged or just an innocent game. And 50 days to the iowa caucuses. A look at how the race is shaping up in the state while senators on the campaign trail face questions over how they are going to juggle the race and impeachment trial in washington. By the end of this week, donald j. Trump is expected to become the third american president to be impeached in our countrys history. The full house of representatives is set to vote wednesday on two articles of impeachment. It will be a defining moment for trump and for the office of the presidency. But could also have a big effect on moderate House Democrats and their political careers. Nbc News National political reporter dart clark with more. There are 31 democrats in the house who represent districts that were carried by trump back in 2016. Do you think we will see any of these democrats voting no on impeachment . I think that th
More than most in Rhode Island, Hope & Main Founder and President, Lisa Raiola, has experienced first-hand the drastic increase in need for food assistance programming since the pandemic. Their Nourish Our Neighbors program has shown one inventive way to get food to people who need it.