Trump thank you, thank you very much. Appreciate it. And thank you for being here. Let me provide a brief update on the china virus as well as. Nearly 85 ofry jurisdictions all across our country are reporting a very steep decline in cases despite the fact that we have the number one Testing Program anywhere in the world, up to almost 70 million tests. This week, cases nationwide have declined by 6 . The test Positivity Rate has fallen to just 6. 5 , a 71 reduction from april, that is a big reduction. The hospitalization rate for the virus has been reduced by half since april and i urge everyone to apply common sense litigation, we know that and we are all doing that and it want to thank the American People for really doing such a great job. The United States has now administered over 70 million tests, more than all of the European Union combined. When you combine all of europe, it is less than what we do. Millions of point of care tests are processed in less than 24 hours and many in
You have borrowed this phrase for your buck, why connect. Because its telling what people tend to forget about with witchhunts there are no real witches but this overwhelming irrational desire to believe that witches exist is what propels the witchhunt and that is what happened here in an astonishing array of theoretically smart people convince themselves and millions of others that the president had committed the most noxious crime there is in the criminal code treason. Treason is conspiracy with flat amir putin hatched in the bowels of the kremlin to steal the 2016 election and it was based on not a shred of credible evidence and the book explains how now we know through testimony of those involved they never had any possible evidence to launch the original fbi investigation in 2016 and nine months later when the special counsel was appointed they still had no evidence and implement itself violated the regulations authorizing the opponent and i explained how, in the book, one of the
All rise. The court of impeachment of the texas senate is now in session. The honorable Lieutenant Governor and president of the senate, dan patrick, now presiding. May be seated. I am going to take your suggestion into consideration on exhibits, if time is spent from your side. Thank you very much. At this time, Opening Statement by the managers. Mr. Presiding officer. One housekeeping matter before that. Yes . The attorney general seeks a ruling from this court that to the extent privileges, attorneyclient privilege, executive privilege, etc. , may apply, those are held by the attorney general. Now, were not asking the court it rule in any particular statement or any particular document as privilege at this time but for purposes of the managers Opening Statement, Going Forward in this case, we ask that this court rule that those privileges, which all attach during the time at which the attorney genoas the elected serving duly attorney general attached to him, conversations he had wit
We will return live to the impeachment trial of Texas Attorney general ken paxton aftemorning of pretrial motions and we expect Opening Statements to get underway this afternoon. Live coverage here on cspan. Again, waiting for openingstf texas senator ken paxton. The texas senate is considering 20 articles of impeachment against the attorney general, which include bribery, abuse of office, and obstruction of justice. The charges stem from allegations brought to light in late 2020 by general paxtons own senior staff. They say he did political favors for a federally indicted Real Estate Developer and Campaign Donor in exchange for a Kitchen Remodel and a job for a woman with whom paxton was having an alleged affair. No criminal penalties are associated with impeachment and attorney general paxton will not automatically lose his state pension if convicted. Hes currently suspended without pay pending the trials outcome. Attorney general paxton denies doing anything wrong. Again, opening ar
Have a good show. Thank you, nicole. Welcome, everyone, to a twohour edition of the beat tonight as we go through a big day in court. Im ari melber, we have our Special Coverage, and we begin right now with the prosecutors star witness taking the stand. You may have heard about it, you may have readied for it, we are now here. The former trump lawyer Michael Cohen testifying about the work he did for trump, saying under oath this was the dirty work of a, kwot, fixer. And recounting today and the jury hearing it from his mouth for the first time, the road to the payments at the center of this physicalny case against Defendant Trump. Big day in the criminal trial of former president donald trump. The star witness takes the stand against donald j. Trump. Form fixer Michael Cohen now the star witness in the new york versus trump trial. Cohen on the stand. An extraordinary showdown today in court. The man at the center of the Hush Money Payments Scandal is testifying. The expresident coming