treason or other high crimes and misdemeanors and at least at the moment i have not seen sufficient evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors to call for the impeachment of the president, who i voted against. i made the same case when bill clinton was impeached. i did not think they had sufficient constitutional basis for impeaching him. i m a neutral objective nonpartisan civil libertarian who analyzes constitutional and legal issues without regard to whether it helps or hurts republicans or democrats. that is what i will continue to do. dedication in your book. this book is respectfully dedicated to an endangered species you write, general genuine civil libertarians who pass the shoe on the other foot test. guest: simply a variation of the golden rule. what i ask of all my critics is would you be making these arguments if it were hillary clinton who were being impeached for the emails or benghazi or uranium? i know i would be making the same argument matter who the preside
0.mocrats, 202-748-8001 independents, 202-748-8002. you can also catch up with us on social media, on twitter and facebook. a very good wednesday morning to you. you can start calling in now as we take you to the front page of the business section of the new york times today. bracing for another day of bad news today. if stocks don t reverse the nearing losses of 20% from their peak, which would end a decade-long run of gains. that is being watched today on the stock market. if you prefer that sentiment in editorial cartoon form, this from the opinion pages of usa today. trying to keep 2019 from falling off the stock market cliff. theof this going on amidst government shutdown over funding for the border wall. president trump, no idea when the government will reopen. president trump talking to reporters yesterday morning from the white house about his demands during the shutdown. [video clip]er.com/cspanw many of those workers have communicated to me stay out until you
trump responds to the special counsel. it s a witch hunt that s been going on forever. as mueller s team prepares new plea deals and his final reports. is mueller s next move eminent? will trump s hand picked attorney general try and block him? what can democrats do to protect the special counsel? we ask democrat and dan abrams and allan dershowitz. plus, 2020 jockeying has already begun. we re talking to republican governor john kasich and democrat senator sherrod brown. we break down the politics, smoke out the spin. the facts that matter this week. announcer: from abc news it s this week. here now chief anchor george stephanopoulos. good morning. hope you re enjoying the thanksgiving weekend. for all of you who took a break from politics during the holiday welcome back to a fateful new chapter for the trump presidency. over month from now the president will face a democratic house for the first time. in just over a week he ll face a choice, shut down the gove
as well as a recruiter of minor issues. he is also known for the insanity that led him to abuse, adolescent boys and girls sick one alice on the ramp, yet he is in bogota with mo. this was the biggest drug trafficker in columbia. he has been so for the last 2 decades, really as you was leading major trafficking group and known as a coff cartel that operates in the north of the country, mostly close to the border with panama. that s the base of this organization that has, according to colombia and intelligence, some 1200 armed men. that s their base in the north of their country. but they operate in more than $300.00 municipalities across columbia. and they are considered to be responsible for the exports of the maturity of the cocaine that reaches the united states and europe from cologne. a group that has been expanding increasingly in the last years and that it has grown even more since the peace deal between the columbia government and the far rebels back in 2016 occupying
about to receive a booster shot when he fell ill. powell was 84 years old. before becoming the top diplomat under george w. bush, he was national security adviser to president reagan and chairman to h.w. bush and president clinton. today president george w. bush said he was such a favorite of presidents that he earned the presidential medal of freedom twice. in his entertstatement, preside biden called him a friend and talks about what the nation lost today. he would want to be remembered as someone who cared about america more than life itself. and god love him, we re going to miss him terribly, terribly. terribly. the nation s first black defense secretary lloyd austin also paid tribute today. the world lost one of the greatest leaders that we have ever witnessed. alma lost a husband and the family lost a tremendous father and i lost a tremendous personal friend and mentor. he s been my mentor for a number of years. he always made time for me and i could always go t