Evidence. This will set a dangerous precedent where impeachment becomes the norm rather than the exception. Thats not what our Founding Fathers intended. They wanted impeachment to be rare. They set a high bar for impeachment, treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors. Alleged abuse of power. The first article is not a high crime and misdemeanor. In fact, its not even a crime. And since there is no concise Legal Definition of abuse of power, the Majority Party in the house can designate nearly any disagreement with the president from now on in impeachment offense. The second article alleged obstruction of congress would produce a similarly dangerous precedent. Asserting executive privilege a practice that began with George Washington is not obstruction of congress. Rather, its a function of the essential checks and balances contemplated under the constitution. Heres what nearly every Grade School Student in america knows, but apparently House Democrats
do not. If congress disagree
Moment. This is the story. We will see you tucker this is a fox news alert. Of course, you know exactly what it is about. We are monitoring the house imminent house Impeachment Vote on capitol hill tonight, as well as the president s rally in michigan. Both happening this hour. The Vice President is on stage to introduce the president and just said this whats happening in d. C. Tonight is a disgrace. Right now, meanwhile, on the hill, the final speaker is wrapping up. A lot to get to tonight. Hear from the president and get our analysis. First, back to capitol hill. In this time of great trial and tribulation, may god bless america. I yield back. [cheers and applause] speaker, i yield back. Gentleman from california is recognized. [applause] [gavel] house will be in order. Tucker good evening, welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight. You know whats happening. We are preparing for the final vote on impeachment. With us here on the set is bret baier of special report. Bret, you have been enga
Moment in battle creek, michigan, the president about to take the stage to rally voters in that battleground state and talk about christmas. Tucker carlson takes over from washington in just a moment. This is the story. We will see you tomorrow. Tucker this is a fox news alert. Of course you know exactly what it is about. We are monitoring the house Impeachment Vote on capitol hill tonight as well as the president s rally in michigan. Both happening this hour. The Vice President is on stage to introduce the president and just said this whats happening in d. C. Tonight is a disgrace. Right now meanwhile on the hill the final speaker is wrong up. A lot to get to tonight. Hear from the president and get our analysis. First, back to capitol hill. In this time of great trial and tribulation, may god bless america. I yield back. [cheers and applause] speaker, i yield back. Gentleman from california is recognized. [applause] [gavel] house will be in order. Tucker good evening, welcome to tuc
down, ones that have been disputed by top u.s. intelligence officials. i m not going to play his comments but you need to know that they re happening. jonathan carl laid out the highlights in a tweet a couple hours ago. he tweeted this. tucker carlson says the u.s., quote, helped encourage the russian invasion, says that they engineered a coup in ukraine in the name of democracy, confirmed russian claims about bioweapons are totally and completely true. who else says this b.s.? well, vladimir putin. joining our conversation, the aforementioned jonathan carl, abc news chief washington correspondent, author of the book betrayal. ambassador michael mcfaul and rick stengel are still here. i will cop to monitoring fox news last night because i m, as an ex-republican, i m still haven t given up my fever dream that something will break the fever, that there will be this moment when fox news will break up with putin, and i thought this might be it, so i have been monitoring it.
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