Watch the debate or the vote and tonight he arrived in battle creek, michigan for a rally. Bay area members of congress urged their fellow lawmakers to impeach President Trump. South bay democrat talks about the scandal that toppled president richard nixon. President nixon attempted to corrupt elections. His agents broke into the headquarters to get a leg up on the election and like President Trump, he tried to cover it up. Then he resigned. This is even worse. President trump not only abused his power to help his reelection, he used a Foreign Government to do it. North bay congressman Mike Thompson raised concerns about Foreign Governments in u. S. Elections. Every elected official must dedicate themselves to protecting our democracy. No one should invite a foreign country to interfere with our most sacred act of voting. Lawmakers on both sides cited the constitution and mentioned key figures in history during todays debate. The bay area republicans are taking a more skeptical look at
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Good morning. Im Christopher Prebble the Vice President for against and Foreign Policy studies at the cato institute. Thank you for being here and thanks to our outstanding conference staff who do a terrific job organizing our many events. Welcome to those of you watching on cspan and online at cato. Org. Following the september 11th terrorist attacks in october 2001 the United States initiated combat operations against al qaeda targets inside of afghanistan and against the taliban government that had harbored the terrorists there. In the ensuing 16 years u. S. Goals have changed marginally but they typically include defeating al qaeda and other terrorist groups with global reach, strengthening the Afghan Government and Security Forces to prevent the taliban from retaking political power and denying terrorists a safe haven. Assessments of our progress to date are mixed at best. In june secretary of Defense James Mattis stated, quote, we are not winning in afghanistan right now, unquote
Good morning. Im christopher prebrle, the Vice President for defense and Foreign Policy studies here at the cato institute. Thank you for being here today and thank you also to our outstanding conference staff here at cato who do such a terrific job organizing our many events. Welcome also to those of you watching on cspan and online at cato. Org. Following the september 11th terrorist attacks in october 2001 the United States initiated combat operations against al qaeda targets inside of afghanistan and against the taliban government that had harbored the terrorists there. In the ensuing 16 years u. S. Goals have changed marginally, but they typically include defeating al qaeda and other terrorist groups with global reach, strengthening the Afghan Government, and Security Forces to prevent the taliban from retaking political power and denying terrorists a safe haven. Assessments of our progress to date are mixed at best. In june secretary of Defense James Mattis stated, we are not win