Plotting the philippines worst political mass murder. A weeklong emergencies to quit in australias biggest stages record heat bites the bush battles even hotter. The 45th president of the United States donald trump has been impeached members of the house voted mostly along partisan lines and formally charged him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress Trumps accused of withholding aid to ukraine to pressure it into investigating hes Democratic Political rival joe biden the case will now go to a Republican Controlled Senate for a trial next month. A great day to the constitution of the United States a sad one for america that the president s reckless activities the cessna tape of our having to introduce articles of impeachment. And so i do this this day this fall as something that we did to honor the vision of our founders to establish a republic the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform to defend our democracy and that republic and the aspirations of our children that they
And previous ep soats website our website, and click on the index tab at the 0 top of the page. [inaudible conversations] no one is here to talk to me or hear me. [laughter] thank you for coming out this evening to hear our favorite historian stephen ha hardy. And hes a longterm journalist and the history magazine. Hes a captivating speaker, at least i always feel that way after id heard him talk and he shares fascinating stories full of intrigue and courage that many of us have never heard about. Well hear about his new book, escape from paris, which is based on official american, german, french documents and as well as interviews. Its a story of droup aviators, taken to nazi occupied paris and please join me in welcoming him. No pressure there. I would like to personally thank you all for coming. I really appreciate it when people show up and i hope not to bore you. I want to give you a quick background on myself because people wonder how you wind up writing history. I was born in ca
A blank about ukraine someone agreed saying the president cared only about big stuff the diplomat noted that there was big stuff in ukraine like a war with russia and so on then replied that the president cared only about big stuff that benefits him personally like the biden investigation that mr giuliani was pushing in that short conversation we learned everything we need to know about the 45th president of the United States he doesnt care about ukraine or the impact on our National Security caused by withholding military aid to that country fighting for its democratic life. All that matters to this president is what affects him personally an investigation into his political rival and a chance to cheat in the next election as professor gephardt testified before the Judiciary Committee 2 weeks ago if what were talking about is not impeachable then nothing is impeachable even as this body uncovered the facts of this ukraine scheme even as we opened an impeachment inquiry even as we gath
Are donothing, they are declaring the deep hatred for the American Voter and this law is part of an impeachment and a political suicide march for the democrat party. Have you seen my polls in the last four weeks . [cheering] joining the panel wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor dan and columnist kim and bill. Dan, the largely along party lines nancy pelosi said impeachment to work has to be bipartisan. I guess she achieved that in a way and the only people that voted against one article and to voted against both and jesse andrew from new jersey is switching parties. Is that the outcome she expected . I think that is where she thought it was going but the party find surprising is the intensity of the democratic commitment to impeachment and they all drink the impeachment koolaid. Some of these democrats believe there is some constitutional crisis in making this great commitment to defending the constitution whereas the breakdown of the vote makes it clear it is broken down t
Johnson and then bill clinton and today it is the turn of donald trump. The house of representatives is expected to impeach the president later today. The third time in u. S. History it has exercised that power. The 435 members of the house of representatives will vote on the allegations that the president abused his power for personal gain and obstructed congress. Thevote looks set to pass democratcontrolled Congress Although trumps friend removal from office looks unlikely. He slammed the impeachment investigation once again as politically motivated and accused the democrats of quote, declaring war on american democracy. To talk a bit more about whahats exexpected today, i am joinedy our international commentator. Us a bitall, tell about what is going to happen today. We have the house of representatives voting on these two articles of impeachment. What do they say and why were they chose why were these chosen in particular . This is the big t thing. This is the full house. When you