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The white house have been complaining a few weeks saying the process is unfair because they aren t able to have an attorney in the room. this letter and the new rules does allow them to have an attorney in the. radio, they can cross-examinaticross-examine, question witnesses. they would be able to push back on the obstruction allegations from the house intelligence committee they have been facing from blocking those officials. essentially their question is maybe we should wait, let it get through the judiciary committee let it be if the house votes to impeachment the president and bring it out as a defense when it is actually in the senate trial. regardless whether they send someone it is going to be a pivotal week and month for the president. we could see a vote soon. the white house, while they have been here, and the president in afghanistan they are pap mapping out what their defense is going look like the next several ....
first, he should. he should use the option of counsel, send somebody to at least question witnesses, or ask to call his own witnesses to bolster his case, to at least counter the democrats case against him. otherwise, it will be a completely one-sided show. on the other hand, the president may be thinking if i don t send anyone at all, this entire process will look even more one-sided, and unfair. what legal arguments do you expect to hear from republicans? republicans have narrowing options here but it is winnowing down to first that this investigation into corruption was perfectly valid. after all, they will say, hunter biden and burisma were topics of investigation arguably even during the obama administration. the other problem with that argument is that it just doesn t seem believable that of all of the corruption threats, and all of eastern europe, that burisma ....
Phil, the original deadline was this sunday. so what has changed? so believe it or not, the original deadlines holds but it was specifically tied to that wednesday hearing. the first hearing. when you look at this next phase it s important to note. the first hearing wednesday is largely a technical nuts and bolts hearing. constitutional experts coming in to testify on the panels talking about the history, precedent behind impeachment. the why it s utilized in the part and the shape of impeachment moving forward with the injury. this new letter is less about the first hearing and more about the impeachment inquiry on the whole, proceedenings going forward. specifically asking the white house not about wednesday s hearing, all-around. do you want to participate? if you participate, there are privileges the house rules laid out in late october would give the white house and the white house counsel, whoever the lawyer is they haven t named yet to actually participate. perhaps give a conc ....
From the president saying, this is ridiculous, this is a waste of time. i m up in new york dealing with nato and nato allies while you guys are in washington wasting american taxpayer money. be when i want to talk about the resolution. it states that, should the trump administration refused to cooperate in proceedings, like they have denied witnesses, which it has done, nadler can apparently deny specific requests by the president. or question witnesses. can democrats prove there are constitutional grounds for impeachment, with or without the president or his lawyer, present at these hearings? the problem with this argument and i understand it. i understand what they are saying. hey, you were given a chance to produce documents and witnesses and he didn t. but almost each and every time they have gone to court, they have asked for a court introductiointervention. from their standpoint, mcgahn, for example, shouldn t have to ....
Then the house judiciary committee will take over from there and have their first hearing wednesday. the one with constitutional experts. like lly there will be addition hearings an that. at that point expect articles of impeachment drafted by that committee that will detail high crimes and misdemeanors democrats will allege the president committed while in office. the judiciary committee votes on those article of the impeachment then going to the full house to be considered and likely that s going to happen before christmas, making trump almost certainly the third president in history who will be impeached. also in this hearing, the president and his staff and his counsel will have the opportunity to participate in the hearing. according to a letter of the chairman of judiciary committee just sent to president trump, he s inviting trump or his counsel to come participate in the hearing, question witnesses. democrats say part of an effort to show the president rights in questioning the ....