Congress member al green, the first to go to the floor and demand trumps impeachmement in 2017. Well also speak with Dahlia Lithwick, senior Legal Correspondent for slate, and mark green. His book with ralph nader is titled fake president decoding trumps gaslighting, corruption, and general b. S. Then two major victories for immigrant rights victories as new jersey lawmakers pass a bill to allow undocumented people to apply for drivers licenses. I want to tell you something. Immigrants, with papers or without, born here or not born here, we all deserve the same because we are human beings. We all have the same rights. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The house of representatives is slated to hold a historic vote today on two articles of impeachment against President Trump. The articles accuse President Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. They center on how President Trump withheld
Charges as a private Armed Security guards stand outside the synagogue tonight after the county called an extra help. The state police and detectives. They will be going to the different and a very, very menacing omnipresent truck. Jewish people in muncie new york field it is necessary after a rampage at a rabbis home on the summit that night of hanukkah. Police say 38yearold thomas burst it in with a machete and said no one is leaving. Including the rabbis on, five people come up before trying to get into the synagogue next door. If they chase the man out throwing tables and chairs and got his license plate. Investigators allegedly found disturbing evidence in this car and a journal with antisemitic statements and references to and adolf hitler. If they also say thomas researched other jewish temples online. Scores of papers which frankly show the wranglin rambla disturbed individual. He vowed to crack down on the alarming uptick in antisemitic attacks. Since december 23rd, there has
Return, we will take you back to the beginning of the meeting with Opening Statements. Back to the beginning of the committee with Opening Statements. 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 that the president theyve needed states have made that the excess erie. President trump withheld congressional approved a to the ukraine a, partner under siege, not to fight corruption, but to extract a personal political favor. President trump refused to meet with the cranes president in the white house until he completed this scheme. All the while, the road russia the very nation holding part of ukraine hostage, the very nation that interfered in our election in 2016, had another meeting in the Oval Office Just last week. These are not my opinions, these are uncontested facts. Weve listened to the hearings, weve read the transcripts. And its clear that this president acted in a way that not only
Conditionality. And the reason you know they lack that evidentiary basis is because they have to keep changing their language. When pollsters and pundits told them to call it bribery, that was the message of the week. Bribery was on every one of their lips. We asked the witnesses, did you see any bribery, were you part of any bribery . The answer was no, so they have to keep evolving the claims because there is no factual predica predicate. Also heard my colleague from new orleans say that this hearing would be informed by our understanding of regret, would be this deep sense of regret. My friend is from a deep blue district, so he probably wont be the one regretting it the most. The folks that will be regretting what theyre doing are the democrats in swing districts who probably arent coming back. I tell them for the upcoming year, rent, dont buy here in washington, d. C. And so today, the only question that we are left with when we conclude this hearing is whether or not as we move i
Elected, young president that we all were excited about, an anticorruption president. The president tried to coerce him into interfering in the 2020 elections. The things that i have heard today about the Vice President s child, the things ive heard about the Vice President s son when we have millions of people in this country who are suffering from addiction, i believe to protect the president at any cause is shameful. Article 2, in the nixon impeachment said this, the article principally addressed president nixons use of power including powers vested solely in the president to harm political opponents and gain improper personal political advantages. And explaining this article of impeachment the house judiciary then stated that president nixons conduct was undertaken for his personal political advantage and not in the furtherance of any Valid National policy objective. The president abused his power and to me and at least the members of this side of the deus that matters and with tha