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Is also in crisis. for centuries the prevailing views that been that former officials are subject to impeachment. you just heard a full discussion of that. the house has repeatedly acknowledged that fact. vast majority of cases the house has the right to recognize an officials resignation or departure makes the impeachment unnecessary and maybe even unwise. as house manager rightly explains in the belknap case, there is no likelihood we should ever unlimber the ordinance to take aim at which all...

The president commits his offenses in his final weeks in office. in fact, thats precisely when we need them the most because thats when elections get attacked. everything that we know about the language of the constitution, the framers original understanding and intents, prior practice and commonsense confirms this rule. lets start with the text of the constitution. article 1, section 2 gives the house the sole power of impeachment when the president commits high crimes and misdemeanors. we exer...

Provision 1 of the article of the constitution. the constitution twice describes the accused in an impeachment trial. heres what i want you to focus on. the interesting thing, notice the words. it refers to a person and a party being impeached. now, again, we know the framers gave a lot of thought to the words they chose. they even had a style committee during the constitutional convention. they could have written civil officers here. they did that elsewhere in the constitution. that would have ...

Believe the constitution gives the senate the authority to try the president. >> the president lied to you. he lied about the election results for 60 days. >> reporter: but to convict trump, there needs to be 17 republicans, something incredibly unlikely. congresswoman liz cheney, one of 10 house republicans who voted to impeach trump, censured by the gop in wyoming. >> we have never seen that kind of assault by the president of the united states on another branch of government that. can never h...

And convinced reagan to take this change seriously. he began to open the doors intellectually to the possibility of a different kind of soviet union. the end of the soviet union finally. so he is a significant person in the story. he embody the tradition of public service that mikas dad embodied, that so many of the figures that you write about in your book about harry truman embodied that carried the nation forward through the cold war years. george shultz was part of the chain of public servic...

Others. another prominent conservative scholar known to many of you, again, personally, is former tenth circuit court of appeals judge, my circuit, judge michael mcconnell. he was nominated by president george w. bush. he was confirmed by this body unanimously. senator hatch, many of you served with, he had this to say about judge mcconnell. that hes an honest man, he calls it as he sees it, and hes beholden to no one and no group. well, what does judge mcconnell have to say about the question t...

Storm darcys strong easterly winds have brought freezing temperatures — and weather warnings have been issued for large parts of england, scotland and northern ireland. duncan kennedy reports from canterbury. kent has had some of the heaviest and widespread snow falls. the entire county was part of the covering that took in much of eastern england. it left some cars unable to cope with the conditions and police say they have been extremely busy. at chartham, these are not council employees, th...

Table. they must stop making uranium for nuclear weapons. sanctions were imposed in 2018 when former president trump pulled the u.s. out of the iran nuclear deal. california was forced to revise their guidelines after supreme court ruling that lifted a ban on indoor surfaces. governor gavin newsom says the restrictions have been in place to stop the spread of covid-19. the governor is allowed to limit capacity for indoor gatherings. now back to sunday night in america. for all your headlines log...

>> sandra: parents continue to express frustration over school re-openings or delays, republicans are stepping into help by introducing legislation, giving parents more options. joining us now, fox news contributor and leslie marshall. are you ready to go? i will go to you first on this, a "wall street journal" editorial board. moments in the state, the biden administration with opposing private schools, but the more important political action may be outside of washington has

Its the summer before the 1984 election. the reagans are on vacation at their ranch. a report he asks the president about a potential meeting with the soviets. >> doing everything we can. >> and it took some prompting from wife nancy for the president to acknowledge -- >> that was her being his protector. him stumbling for the right words. and taking a pause and her feeling that the pause was uncomfortable. >> with the election if full swing, the presidents age has become a major issue.