Thursday on how to formalize the ground rules for an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. It defined the procedures that lawmakers will follow as they transition from weeks of closed door interviews to potentially public hearings and a possible future vote on articles of impeachment. Lets bring in kims strassel, assistant editorial page editor, James Freeman and colum columni, bill mcgern. What did you make of the vote this week and did it advance the democratic cause for impeachment. Its hard to say if it advanced it this is the first time in modern american political history that youve had an entirely partisan vote to proceed with an impeachment inquiry. If anything, you had two democrats who crude over to the republican crossed over to the republican side to vote with them in opposition. Again, impeachment is a political process. And the goal here is to convince significant majorities of americans that you are proceeding fairly and that you have the goods and this is its not su
Rules dont the give us any fair play the most unfair situation people have seen. Lou President Trump informed radical demonstrates lead the inquiry effort denied him and House Republicans any representation, or due process in shameless baseless orchestrated plot to obstruct his Administration Agenda to subvert his presidency, and to eventually remove him from office. Even though there is no crime, no charge, and only now desperate usurpers running the assault on this president and against the American People, the nation itself. We take the all up tonight former acting attorney general Matt Whitaker joining us, turkish troops have begun into Northern Syria prepared to take ons focuses the kurds civilians killed in air strikes President Trump is watching the situation carefully calling turkey invasion a bad idea for more to chief white house xorgenuine reports. Turkey escalating attacks in northern sir kurds reportedly taking dicing President Trump warned turkish president erdogan not to
The Foreign Relations committee of the United States senate will come to order. The chair would note we have a full house today and an enthusiastic audience im sure. Wed ask you to be respectful. Remind everyone that holding up signs or making verbal outbursts during the proceedings is disruptive. And appropriate action will be taken. If needed well suspend briefly to restore order. This morning we have a hearing on a matter that is really of a pressing National Security importance. That is the relationship of the United States and for that matter the world with iran. This hearing is intended to do three things. Number one, we will consider the facts behind the maximum Pressure Campaign against iran. Well examine the elements of irans necessary behavioral changes. And thirdly, assess irans willingness to behave as a responsible member of the International Community. Irans pursuit of regional domination following the 1979 revolution transformed the fabric of the middle east. The Iranian
The president was elected because of his antiestablishment campaign. Well analyze some of those unnamed sources and contrast them with our unnamed sources. They are amom plus officials with our anonymous highly placed officials. Well report, you decide whose unnamed Anonymous Sources you choose to believe. They give pull user prizes they give Pulitzer Prizes to people who got it wrong. Lou well be talking tonight with general jack keane. Well be talking about whats required to make sense of americas role in the middle east. Well be talking with dr. Michael pillsbury on the china trade talks and what is needed to rational aize a trade talks. We begin with breaking news out of the middle east. The taliban to hold a new round of intraafghan peace talks for two days next week. Those talks will be held in china. The talks monday and tuesday will be the first meeting between the taliban and the afghans since an earlier round of peace talks in july. After those peace talks failed with the Uni
Rules dont the give us any fair play the most unfair situation people have seen. Lou President Trump informed radical demonstrates lead the inquiry effort denied him and House Republicans any representation, or due process in shameless baseless orchestrated plot to obstruct his Administration Agenda to subvert his presidency, and to eventually remove him from office. Even though there is no crime, no charge, and only now desperate usurpers running the assault on this president and against the American People, the nation itself. We take the all up tonight former acting attorney general Matt Whitaker joining us, turkish troops have begun into Northern Syria prepared to take ons focuses the kurds civilians killed in air strikes President Trump is watching the situation carefully calling turkey invasion a bad idea for more to chief white house xorgenuine reports. Turkey escalating attacks in northern sir kurds reportedly taking dicing President Trump warned turkish president erdogan not to