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Launched the largest disease-specific foreign aid effort in the history of the country and the world. in the years to come members of congress would call the presidents plan the most effective foreign aid since the marshall plan, the legendary woeft world war ii effort to rebuild europe. the program known as pepfar, the presidents emergency plan for aids relief, would meet the goals that bush set in the state of the union ahead of schedule and go on hitting them or surpassing them across three p...

Comes after her tweet which belies the explanation in a lot of ways. she grouply grouped them together in that tweet. what are your thoughts on this? >> thanks for having me, martha. let me be clear. each and every day, members of congresses, democrats or republican call our military leaders and leaders from the state department down to the capitol to ask them questions about military missions, ask about civilian casualties on military missions. in this particular hearing, they asked the secreta...

Better than this. when you start seeing this, we, everyone on my side of the aisle needs to hold people accountable. we need to watch what we say and we need to make sure that what we say is respectful. we can have disagreements, political disagreements, but at the end of the day we need to come together and talk to each other like fellow human beings because it is something -- we have to understand that this is bigger -- you know, this country is bigger than just one person, for every single of...

Republicans are handing out the pens, the pens of the signing ceremony. when we look back down the corridors of time, we see that for almost our first century as a constitutional republic, the sword of presidential impeachment remained sheathed. had there been controversial presidents? oh, yes, indeed. think of john adams and the alien sedition acts. think of andrew jackson and henry clay. were partisan passions occasionally inflamed during that first century? of course. unless there be any doub...

Heres the other interesting thing, the house can sit on these articles of impeachment indefinitely. a lot of issues die at the end of the congress, thats not going to happen until january 3rd 2021. remember, they move the articles of impeachment in 1998-1998 over between two congresses. she could conceivably sit on this ad nauseam men up theres never a senate trial, president trump never has the opportunity to say he was exonerated in the senate. >> thats the point. he has been impeached so then...

Be. >> biden doubling down with the fund-raising email after the presidents impeachment saying this "congresses job is to investigate the presidents misdeeds and proceed accordingly. my job is to make the case why he shouldnt be reelected for another term regardless of the outcome. " bringing back now katie pavlik. if you look at this, what do you make of this particular messaging from joe biden, that its his job to give the president from winning? but dont they all kind of have to work together...

This breathless rush to impeach, impeach, impeach. as the presidents letter rightly points out, constitutional scholar jonathan turley made one thing very clear during his testimony. if democrats impeach a sitting president of the united states for going to the courts to seek resolution when there is a conflict between the other branches, that would be an abuse of power. that would be congresses abuse of power. so the circus, the schiff show on capitol hill full of corrupt political stunt afte...

Not. let the third branch of government decide to come up they are the referees. the house has never, i repeat never, approved an abuse of power roi obstruction of congresses article of impeachment but that will change today. today house democrats are pursuing a wacky constitutional theory under which all four presidents could have been impeached. if all of this sounds absurd, madame speaker, its because it is absurd. the whole process is absurd and has been from the outset. heres whats not absu...

Should talk about for future congresses. >> i appreciate that and i appreciate the sentiment behind it because i know it is sincere. again, i can go on and on on this but we do believe there is a violation, we appreciate your letter which is very respectful, we tried when you made the request. and to us, the facts are clear. chairman nadler ignored the right of minority committee being ignored by the democratic majority now and by doing so, it fundamentally alters the tools available for the min...

Passes and if we want to make a change to that rule thats something we should talk about for future congresses. >> i appreciate that and the sentiment behind it. i know its sign. again, i can go on and on on this. but we do believe, mr. chairman, its a violation. we appreciate your letter very much, which is respectful and tried to make ours respectful when we made the request. >> it was. >> to us the facts are clear. chairman nadler ignored a right of the minority in committee, being ignored by...