You can see 87 points. Bernie sanders is the front runner for the dems, does that mean that chance of broken convention are going up, democratic insider robert wolf will be here to game it all out for us, the deadly coronavirus playing havoc as the consumer economy chugs right along, oh, yeah, less than an hour to closing bell, im Ashley Webster in for liz claman; lets start the claman countdown. Ashley well, lets get some breaking news right at the top here, u. S. Jury on friday has found Michael Avenatti guilty in criminal trial accusing the celebrity lawyer of trying to extort nike out of millions of dollars and to defraud a youth basketball coach that he represented. The lawyer was all but unknown until 2 years ago when he began representing the adult film actress Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against President Trump and making hundreds of television appearances. Lets get back to stock news, smile direct club by the way plunging after an nbc news story that ran that listed complaints
Impeachment against President Trump. Join the conversation all morning with your phone calls, emails, facebook comments, and tweets. Washington journal is next. Host this is the washington journal for december 12, the House Judiciary Committee meets at 9 00 to vote on the two articles of impeachment. If it passes the committee today, it will head to the full house for a vote next week. The house of representatives comes in at 9 00. If you want to see the hearing, these articles of impeachments, which starts at 9 00, you can go to our cspan 3 channel starting at 9 00 and that is where you will see shots of the room you are seeing now. If you want to follow along, you can do so at cspan. Org and listen on our radio app. You can comment on the latest phase by calling 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. Nd independents, 2027488002 you can also text us at 2027488003. If you want to post on twitter, you can do so cspanwj and you can post on our Facebook Page at facebook. Co
East as this map shows our military is entrenched there in 10 Different Countries to the tune of about 60000 troops. My friends under these war hawks are men and women in uniform arent leaving the middle east for a very very long time and that tragedy is why we are watching the hawks. Wonder what. The. Real thing is for. As they are to pull out of. What they like you know what i got. Was that we. Would. Be. The. World were going to watching the ox i am i robot. Tell. Shocked i know you know what i hate you know i hate more than war hawks i think war harks who dress themselves as peaceniks you know like donald trump is right like oh im bringing all the soldiers home i swear im bringing the soldiers home but not really. Really in the least does it bring soldiers oh yeah and i dont think we got the oil its not supposed to say that bardell out in the middle of one of those bones. So as you with a bow one of the things thats really an interesting and terrifying and unsettling defense secret
Mueller testified on capitol hill about the russia investigation. This house intelligence hearing was the second of the two hearings and focused on the findings related to russian interference in the 2016 president ial election. This meeting will come to on behalf of my colleagues i want to thank you special counsel mueller to a lifetime of service to the country. Your report for those who take the time to study it has been methodical and devastating. It tells us the story of a foreign never stare systematic intervention in a close u. S. Residential election. That should be enough to deserve the attention of every american as you well point out. Your report tells another story as well, the story of the 2016 election is also a story about disloyalty to country, read, and allies. Lies. Ed and your determination that the Trump Campaign manager donald trump himself knew that a foreign power was intervening in our election and welcomed it, built russian meddling into their strategy and used
We will come to order. At the outset and on behalf of my colleagues, i want to thank you, special counsel mueller, for a lifetime of service to the country. The outset on behalf of my colleagues i want to thank special counsel mueller for a lifetime of service to your country. It tells the story of a foreign adversary sweeping and systemic intervention in a close u. S. Election. That should be enough to deserve the attention of every american as you well point out. But your report tells another story as well. The story of the 2016 election is also a story about disloyalty to country. About greed, and about lies. Your investigation determined the Trump Campaign including donald trump himself knew that a foreign power was intervening in our election and welcomed it, built russian meddling into their strategy and used it. Disloyalty to country. Those are strong words but how else are we to describe a president ial campaign which did not inform the authorities of a foreign offer of dirt on