And i thought the threat to our nation was well articulated earlier today by Professor Feldman when you said, if we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office for personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy, we live in a monarchy or we live under a districtatorship. My view is if people cannot depend on the fairness of our elections, then what people are calling divisive today will be absolutely nothing compared to the shredding of our democracy. After the events of ukraine unfolded, the president claimed that the reason he requested an investigation into his political opponents and withheld desperately needed military aid for ukraine was supposedly because he was worried about corruption. However, contrary to president s statements, various witnesses, including Vice President pences special adviser jennifer williams, testified that the president s request was political. Take a listen. I found the july 25th phone call unusual because in contrast to other president ial ca
So the question is whether or not we are seeing some sort of change in russia s perspective. they have come under pressure from the united nations secretary-general who visited the kremlin to talk about this partially and there may be some pressure upon russian occupiers to deal with the number of civilians that they have in the mirds midst because of the growing issue of disease. and behind me there is an air raid siren. and this is a longer one that we re hearing tonight. yeah, very ominous. so there have been explosions in odesa. what have we learned about that? reporter: yeah, it appears according to officials there that the airports, the international airport on the outskirts of town, was indeed hit, perhaps its runway struck. a number of explosions reported around that city, a combat plane seen in the sky, that may be possibly related to the
Misdemeanor is the american people. alexander hamilton said clearly that the nature of a high crime and misdemeanor is they are related to injures to the society itself and we the american people are the victims of the high crime and mirds. and what is the appropriate remedy in such a circumstance. the framers created one remedy and that was impeachment. thank you. i ve spent over 30 years working to help clients and school children understand the importance of our constitutional system and the importance of the rule of law so the president s behavior is deeply, deeply troubling. the president welcomed and used election interference by russia publicly admitted he would do it again and did, in fact, do it again by soliciting election interference from ukraine and throughout the president has tried to cover up his misconduct. this isn t complicated. the founders were clear and we must be too, such behavior in a
Tho inqui no inquiry. we are in the mirds of an investigation. essentially the impeachment inquiry has already begun. we re simply putting in to effect certain procedures to make the investigation more effective. i know, pretty hard to tell from all of that. but the house judiciary committee has not actually officially launched an inquiry. but that is not stopping them from voting on the rules. they plan to do that on thursday. which begs the question, if there is no formal investigation, what exactly are you voting on? to quote politico, it is the first he was by lawmakers to acknowledge the committee s consideration of whether to recommend trump s impeachment. have you got that? so to recap, the house judiciary committee is launching an impeachment investigation for the purpose of investigating the possibility of opening an impeachment inquiry. and now they are taking a big step to formalize the rules of