Power of the office to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring and injuring the national interest. Or acts in ways that are grossly inconsistent with and undermine the separation of powers that is the foundation of our democratic system. Now, these this question of whether president engaged in abuse of power came up before when this congress considered the impeachment of president nixon. And after action was taken, president nixon famously said if the president does it, it is not illegal. And this body rejected that because thats not so. That goes directly contrary to what the founders said. But President Trump has said the same thing in responding to the prior investigation by Department Of Justice and defending his conduct. Here is what he said then i have an article, too, where i have to write to do whatever i want as president. That he has the right to do
whatever he wants as president. That is as wrong as when president nixon said a similar thing. That is not what the c
an uptick this week in coronavirus cases nationwide, the concerning trend now evident in all 50 states. fueled by the spread of the delta variant, dr. france he is collinss the director of the national institute of health says we are losing time in the battle to stop the spread by getting folks vaccinated. the head of the cdc issuing this wang on friday. this is becoming a pandemic
mr. armstrong. no. mr. armstrong votes no. mr. stuby votes no. how am i recorded? mr. bigs you are not recorded. i said no. mr. bigs votes no. every member vote who had wishes to vote? the clerk will report. mr. chairman, 24 aye and 15 no. parliamentary inquiry? mr. caster is recognized. i will not recognize parliamentary inquiry at this time. good morning, chairman nadler, ranking member collinss and members of the staff. my name is steve caster. i m a congressional staff member. i served with the oversight committee on the republican staff with mr. jordan. i m also for purposes of this investigation i m a shared staffer with judiciary committee and mr. collins and the house permanent select committee on intelligence and mr. nunes.
they re calling two senators that he likes. he s been golfing with rand paul. isn t it amazing to say he likes ted cruz? i find it so surprising after everything that happened last year. well, ted cruz who is running for re-election next year by the way is working hard to get this done and get other conservatives on board. what you don t see is the president making any kind of outreach to those moderate senators, the portmans, the murkowskis and the collinss and they have to get them back on board here. whether that s strategy to leave to mitch mcconnell or not a strategy he wants to have, we ll live it to somebody. why is the president not calling murkowski, collins, the ones who make it more moderate? because they would say, listen, we have to do more. and we should make this a bipartisan effort. and donald trump does not want to make this a bipartisan effort. why does donald trump not want to work with the other side here? i think he s dug himself in and just like so man
he comes out saying this is going to pass the kimmel test when 76% of children are covered by some some of medicaid, whether it s the c.h.i.p. expansion or traditional medica medicaid. lots of children are not going to get care for a congenital heart disease or anything else. jennifer, you referred to walk the plank. you ve got the folks, collinss, fur c murkowski alaska has high health care costs and the question of whether the subsidies are enough when they re properly indexed there matters a lot. joan is right that rand paul could take one of those two slots and you can also see collins taking one. and to me the big question is heller. heller is the only senator who represents a state that hillary won who is a republican who is up in 2018. he s also has medicaid expansion.