Share. There is a lot more that we share then divide us and we will bob cusack, editorinchief of the hill, the impeachment inquiry ramped up with Trump Administration officials. Who is set to testify in the coming week . Bob we are going to have a number of people. Fiona hill is one. She used to be a diplomat for the Trump Administration. She is going to testify, she knows what is going on in europe. Marie yavinovich testified today, the state department tried to block her, she was a Career State Department employee, she was subpoenaed, the House Democrats said the subpoena forced her to testify, but she was clearly eager to testify. The testimony of hill and another person whos texts were released, he is a trump donor and the state department did block his testimony, but it looks like he will also testify next week. Host are we getting any timeline from Democratic Leaders on an Impeachment Vote . Is a greatat question and something our reporters are asking about. Certainly i think you
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] good morning, everyone. We are on cspan and also Live Streaming on the making every vote count facebook page. I want you all to behave. [laughter] the Electoral College is a disaster for democracy. Thats not me speaking. Thats donald trump. Or it was donald trump before he changed his mind a few times. He also said this i would rather see it where you went with simple votes. You know you get 100 million votes and someone else gets 90 million and you win. I quote him not for irony but because he is right and his affinity for the popular vote may reflect his instinct that a president who was elected without winning a majority is perhaps not so legitimate. Think of all the factors that have contributed to voter cynicism and alienation. Of all the measures that we could institute to help restore co
It is my pleasure to introduce the moderator. We will have a panel on how will candidates messages and platforms change with the popular vote . I want to introduce our panel. Michael steele, former chair of the rnc. I was looking back at the states that were visited most by donald trump and Hillary Clinton in the last election. Ohio, North Carolina, florida, pennsylvania democrats wish that she had visited wisconsin more. Visited wisconsin more. If we did change the system, what would be the impact of campaigns and their strategies . They visited the large states. Cramermused when senator of north dakota defended the Electoral College, saying, this would make North Carolina irrelevant north dakota irrelevant. President ial to politics, north dakota is irrelevant right now. Lets say we had a president ial election that was looking awfully close in terms of popular vote. Then every vote would count. And candidates would have an incentive to try to maximize the turnout in places like nort
]man ing macho while we wait for the president , a source familiar with Homeland Security secretary says the secretary is resigning his post. The acting secretary felt he had accomplished all he could given the political realities of today, specifically the unlikelihood of any legislative deal on immigration will happen in an election year. The number of undocumented immigrants apprehended or turned away from the border coming down for the fourth consecutive month. A 65 drop from may. The lack of crisis is this waiting members of congress to act. Daughterss two young and a wife with whom he wants to spend more time. The announcement has been planned for weeks, sources close to him say, and has nothing to do with the ukraine scandal in which trump and other cabinet officials are enmeshed. A source told cnn white house officials tried to talk him out of resigning. While for the president to arrive, he spoke to reporters before leaving for louisiana. Here are his comments. When yowill you
One of the cochairs of the internet caucus, along with her presented of doug collins. The internet caucus was created 20 years ago to inform this debate and discussion about key internet policy questions, and of course Net Neutrality is toward the top of that list. Even though all of us or our bosses may not agree on how to approach Net Neutrality, this is important for all of us. Net neutrality has been a top issue for my boss for many years. The lead plaintiff is headquartered in our district, which we are proud of. This year, we did a town hall with the commissioner of the fcc focused on Net Neutrality. Im looking forward to what you have to say. On behalf of the caucus, i want to ask thank the panelists for helping inform the debate. I want to thank tim for helping host and organize this. She is to be a follow at the academy and is now at brookings. Thanks for the introduction. Thank you for attending our panel today. Thank you for cohosting this pal. I am looking forward to discus