prosecutor in donald trump's first impeachment trial in the united states senate was to be the subject of a censure vote in the republican-controlled house of representatives today, after congressman shift questioned donald trump's special prosecutor, as you just saw him doing. a vote of censure by the house of representatives, especially this version of the house of representatives, has no meeting. it changes nothing and congressman schiff's life. and it is the kind of thing that house speaker kevin mccarthy has to do politically in order to hold on to his job, after being defeated by president biden in the debt ceiling negotiations. kevin mccarthy brought back nothing to the republican members of the house of representatives. joe biden won the debt ceiling negotiation, decisively, and kevin mccarthy knows that. and so, having just lost a major negotiation involving the actually government of the united states of america, kevin
house of representatives today, after congressman shift questioned donald trump's special prosecutor, as you just saw him doing. a vote of censure by the house of representatives, especially this version of the house of representatives, has no meeting. it changes nothing and congressman schiff's life. and it is the kind of thing that house speaker kevin mccarthy has to do politically in order to hold on to his job, after being defeated by president biden in the debt ceiling negotiations. kevin mccarthy brought back nothing to the republican members of the house of representatives. joe biden won the debt ceiling negotiation, decisively, and kevin mccarthy knows that. and so, having just lost a major negotiation involving the actually government of the united states of america, kevin mccarthy will now allow the most reckless and ignorant members of the house of representatives in history to have their way on the house
>> welcome to all of you, thank you for joining us. at the start this week, former president donald trump was found liable by a jury of his peers of sexually abusing and defaming e. jean carroll, which is another low for an ex president. you'd think he might be chased by that. the 48 hours later in a televised town hall, trump verbally attacked e. jean carroll again. he urged republicans to drive america to default. he downplayed the attack on the capitol and said he parted most of the convicted and packers, including the ones who were convicted of conspiring to, quote, overthrow, put down or destroyed by force, and quote, the government of the united states of america. seditious conspiracy. tonight, less than 48 hours after that, the reawakened america tour is underway at a trump resort in florida. now, this is how pbs described the reawakened america tour, which concept of the january 6th attack on the capitol. quote, the reawaken america tour is kurt's message of a country under siege to tens of thousands of people in 15 cities and towns.
america to default. he downplayed the attack on the capitol. he said he would pardon most of the convicted attackers including the ones who were convicted of conspiring to overthrow, put down, or destroy by force the government of the united states of america, seditious conspiracy. tonight, less than 48 hours after that, the reawakened america tour is underway at a trump resort in florida. this is how pdf described the reawaken america tour which launched after the attack on the capitol. quote, the reawaken america tour has carried a message of a country under siege to tens of thousands of people in 15 cities and towns. the tour serves as a traveling road show and recruiting tool for an ascended christian nationalist movement which has wrapped itself in god, of patriotism, and politics. it has grown in power and influence inside the republican party. in the version of america laid out at the reawakened or, christianity should be at the center of american life and
of one party rule in washington. >> congressional oversight of the president of the united states finally begins in earnest today. trump's former personal lawyer, michael cohen, will give public testimony before the house oversight committee and that will be televised live. >> in his opening statement, which we got last night, he said the president was a racist, a con man, and a cheat. and my reaction was, tell us something we don't know, you know? so, you know, i'm basically looking at him like renegade refugee from an organized crime family. and he's gonna tell us sort of the internal dynamics of the trump operation. >> the big story, in my mind, is that we have a president who has turned the government of the united states of america into a moneymaking operation for himself, for his family,
today, took to the rose garden to raise the white flag, agreeing to reopen the government without funding for the border wall. >> i'm very proud to announce today that we have reached a deal to end the shutdown, and reopen the federal government. >> i think he thought that he was going to practice extortion, political extortion, and that we would give in. and we stood strong. >> now, for the first time, donald trump will have an effective opposition that will be able to thwart his agenda. they have the power to investigate, they have the power to subpoena. and most importantly, the end
states. investigating committees inducted 100 hours of deposition testimony with 17 sworn witnesses. the judiciary committee is now in possession of overwhelming evidence that the president of the united states has committed high crimes and misdemeanors. impeachment is like an indictment. when the house votes to impeach, it's acting like a grand jury. it's essentially saying, we believe there been these crimes. president trump has abused the awesome powers of the presidency by using his office to corruptly demand that a foreign government interfere in our american presidential elections. in order to promote his own political campaign in 2020. this scheme subordinated the democratic sovereignty of the people, to the private political ambitions of one man, the president himself. the way i thought of it was, this would be an attempt to state the case against the president before the country. the tv cameras would be there. i was trying to bring it back to the question of elections.
>> i went with my oldest on with my new suit. >> i didn't get into politics to impeach donald trump. i didn't think donald trump was gonna be in the white house when i ran for office. i ran as a constitutional law professor. i know one thing really well, which is about the constitution and the rule of law and american democracy. and it became clear to me that trump was actually attacking the constitutional underpinnings of american government. >> what a pleasure! >> thank you, tava. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> for most of the history of humanity, of our species, people have lived under kings and queens, and dictators and bullies, and authoritarian
>> after 23 months of secrecy, this morning answers for the american public. when attorney general william barr releases a redacted version of the nearly 400-page mueller report. >> was there a conspiracy in the election between russians and americans trying to help donald trump? was there obstruction or other crimes arising out of that investigation? >> mueller never concluded either way whether the president obstructed justice. so william barr made a determination himself. >> there is an attempt i think here to preempt congress's role. we are the lawmaking branch of government. we are the primary and dominant branch of government. we are the ones who will decide whether there were high crimes and misdemeanors committed by this president. barr had done a masterful job of -- the public about it, basically pulling the wool over everybody's eyes about what was really in the report. he took a complicated set of facts which showed lots of