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Power to determine its own rules. When president nixon during the time he was going to be impeached ruling how that proceeding would go forward. When the Clinton Impeachment was brought forward, there was a unanimous consent request to govern how we conducted ourselves and im not sure how likely it would be that we would get a unanimous consent request. Id like to ask unanimous consent without objection to enter into the record a letter that was sent to the chairman of the Judiciary Committee si...

Constitution gives the house the sole power of impeachment and the power to determine its own rules. When president nixon, during the time he was going to be impeached, the chairman of the rules committee, chairman mad n madden, actually spoke on the house floor and snouannounced t would be a rule on how that procedure would move forward. When clinton rules of impeachment were brought forward, there was unanimous request to kind of govern how we conducted ourselves. Im not sure how likely it wou...

Well, thats what it says. To faithfully execute the law. Is there anybody here i dont care what comes out of your mouth today is there anybody here who believes that this president has faithfully executed the law . And faithfully executed the duties, the sacred trust that has been put in his hands and on his shoulders. Hes supposed to faithfully execute the law, not ignore it. Not abuse it. And not forget it. President is supposed to be motivated by public interest. Public interest. The interest...

Ahead and have your vote because he wants to get back to the business of the American People. A lot of good Talking Points with the economy and stock market so i think hes going to say im the president and focused on the business at hand and focused on something he believes is unimportant in the end. The event that he is doing today is on School Choice and a big issue for the republican party, hes got some results there and we have the president now talking about the horowitz report, we have tha...

Burdens of protecting the country. >> yes, twe dont have a draft. theres a really important factor in this generation. every generation has had a backstop, a social backstop, where they have been called to serve. this generation is on patriotism. its less than one-half of 1% that serves in uniform. i think that video, thats what its all about. >> can we play it again? first of all, we have to find out what that veterans name is. but they get it. they both understand combat. thats the key. zelens...

Joining us now, one of the stars of that play. it is great to have you with us. >> thank you so much. >> we dont give away too much because it is such an experience. how do you describe display to people? >> the play uses immigration as a backstop of two siblings over their entire life and how their relationship to their parents and their immigration status is different. as an older sister born in a young nurse brother born here, how their relationship to their parents is different and how it af...

Banks are finally signing up for a U.S. Federal Reserve funding backstop that has been lying nearly dormant for more than two years, putting them in a stronger position to deal with any stress. The Standing Repo Facility allows banks to borrow emergency overnight cash from the Fed through a repurchase agreement, or repo, using Treasury and agency mortgage securities as collateral. Firms that act as the New York Fed's trading counterparties, called primary dealers, have access, but other b...

Said in court. >> there is a quote in the congressional record in which your counsel -- your client said through counsel no former office holder is immune from investigation and prosecution. >> investigation is no issue. that may be true of subordinate officers, but as to the president, he is immune unless he is impeached. >> he was president at the time, and his position was that no former office holder is immune. and, in fact, the argument was there is no need to vote for impeachment because w...

Thats been the line, you dont have to have impeachment. obviously the trump people argued that as well. we dont need to impeach him. there is a backstop here, the court system here. youre on the record, youre on the record. >> what are you hearing from trumps team? >> i dont think today went the way they expected it to go. they went into this thinking a lot of the arguments would be what trump is arguing, what they articulated in their written brief, which is the actions he took after the electi...

We were worried about. we need that kind of judgment, by congress as a whole to greenlight a very grave action, that is a criminal prosecuting a former high official. >> whats your response to that, of course we heard from senator mitch mcconnell as an example after the impeachment, the second impeachment that he was almost expecting there to be a criminal backstop here, trumps lawyer says indifferent what is your statement? >> your honor i happen to have my pocket right here with me, it doesnt ...