Page 173 - Civility News Today

Constituent, our countrymen and our creator. "the new york times" on october 18th summarized the question now posed to house and senate. republicans and democrats, compromise by compromise donald trump has hammered away at what republicans once saw as foundational virtues, decency, honesty, responsibility and yes, even civility. will they commit themselves and their party wholly to mr. trump embracing even his most anti-democratic actions or will they take the first step towards separating thems...

Constituents, our country men, and our creator. the "new york times" on october 18th summarized the question now posed to house and senate. republicans and democrats compromised by compromise donald trump has hammered away at what republicans once saw as foundational virtues. decency, honesty, responsibility, and, yes, even civility. go on to say will they commit themselves and their party holly t wholly to mr. trup embracing even his most anti-democratic actions or will they take the first step...

Today is another one with the usmca. >> neil: i know that he is doing all that stuff. economic success. no one can deny that. i guess, what im asking you, you are a decent person yourself. ive never heard you talk about that about anyone living or dead. i wonder how you personally reconcile it. >> can i just tell you this? over the last number of years, the thought of civility seems to have flown out the window for both parties. things that you hear said, the social media post, all of this, it i...

I come up for one dont ever want to hurt somebody. i can be angry, but i try to be careful about it. it doesnt mean that im perfect either. that is a large crowd. i think we need to put politics aside and try to take something from there. >> neil: we live in a very heated environment as you have mentioned in the past, going way beyond your husband. i am curious, though, about this notion of civility and where it is gone. republicans will come back. they look at what you had said it -- not you, c...

>> reporter: tracy downeys advanced placement u.s. history class is discussing president trumps impeachment. >> this affects the future. >> reporter: theyre students at ridge community high school outside orlando in a county the president won in 2016. >> i think this may be, like, a political hit to-- for impeachment, because hes not going to get removed. >> you could argue by us not going ahead with it just because we dont think it the passed in the senate, that if you have the support of the s...

Together face a test before our constituents, our countrymen and our creator. "the new york times" on october 18th summarized the question now posed to house and senate. republicans and democrats. compromise by compromise donald trump has hammered away at what republicans once saw as foundational virtues. d d decency, honesty, responsibility and, yes, even civility. they go onto say will they commit themselves and their party wholly to president trump, embracing even his post anti-democratic act...

I do know, having watched more of these clips than i wanted to, what he said last night, he got a very mixed reaction. and i just think people sometimes need to remember that were all human. i dont like the tone of the rhetoric in this country right now. ive said it many times, its been one of the things ive worked on for many years. social media, instead of being a tool that brought us together more, people think bullying and vitriolic comments and this whole tone of just divisiveness. i think ...

But when it is the man you love, it feel kicked in the stomach. but the biggest problem that we have, and we have a lot, but if you read the mueller report, it talks about how russia is trying to guide us. the tone of the rhetoric, the bully, insults, lack of civility, it is harming this country and the president is front and center. and he is leading that tone of rhetoric. and you know, as were going into the holiday season, i cant tell you how it disgusts me. we have to come together as americ...

>> what is your plan when you go back to your district, you already had a town hall where you talked about this, about communicating about this question and about what you think the president did wrong and what the future holds with your constituents. >> yeah, im somebody that believes the more discussion the more transparency, the more assessability the better. i think its the wrong decision for any elected official to try to run from these conversations, to hide from town halls. you know, the ...

The house rules committee spent the day debating the articles of impeachment passed by the house judiciary committee. it was the kind of house committee hearing we have not seen in what feels like a very long time. there was no yelling. there were no attacks on members of the committee by other members of the committee in the opposite party, and that is thanks entirely to the good old-fashioned fully respectful working relationship of chairman jim mcgovern of massachusetts and the ranking republ...