Might remember that one of the impeachment hearings that the Judiciary Committee held was one where they heard from a panel of constitutional scholars about the legal threshold for impeachment, and how members of congress should understand the seriousness of the president s behavior, in light of what the founders meant and what they wrote when they wrote impeachment into our constitutional system of government. One of the scholars that Congress Heard from in those hearings is pam karlan, professor pam karlan whos sort of a legal superstar from Stanford Law School. Little to be known at the time that professor pam karlan from Stanford Law School is also a person who could see very clearly six months into the future, to predict for us, at that impeachment hearing, the news that would happen today in the middle of this epidemic. The list of Impeachable Offenses that the framers included in the constitution shows that the essence of an Impeachable Offense is a president s decision to sacri
Also congressman andy biggs on the fbi launching an internal investigation. Gordon chang is here on the u. S. Relationship with china as Vice President mike pence says the white house will hold the communist government accountable for concealing information about the coronavirus pandemic. All of that and more as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. Sandra sandra President Trump on friday announcing that churches and other houses of worship should no longer need to abide by the same restrictions that have forced businesses across the country to close during this pandemic. Some governors have deemed Liquor Stores and abortion clinics as essential. But have left out churches and other houses of worship. Its not right. So im correcting this injustice and calling houses of worship essential. I call upon governors to allow our churches and places of worship to open right now. Sandra the president adding that if governors of those states wont let churches open, he will override them. Thou
Host you can join the conversation on twitter, twitter. Com cspanwj. Or join the conversation on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. Lets look at some of the headlines. Usa today. The president and republicans jousted again yesterday. Host the headline on the story from the New York Times. republicans are calling the impact overstated and citing spending as a key issue. Here is what americans are saying. The wall street journal has a new poll. You can see the breakdown of numbers on the opinions of what each is opposing it to do. A 29 Approval Rating in terms of the sequester. 57 disagree with what the republicans are doing. 1 5 of respondents do think sequester cuts are a good idea. Austerity has killed off government jobs, says the New York Times. Host looking at some other stories. This from usa today. Host here is another headline about the misuse of power. We like to hear your thoughts this morning. Caller president obama will release over 10,000 dangers illegal aliens that are guilty
Pictures and vowed to respond but stopped short of saying what and when that would be, only that he would do it at a place and time of his manner. But his harshest marks were not about north korea. It was more about sony. Sony is an organization. Im sympathetic to the concerns they have faced. Having said all of that, yes, i think they made a mistake. We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States. Because if somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what they start doing when they see a documentary that they dont like. It is a fair point. And that is pretty blunt. The president of the United States coming out. If you are Sony Pictures, coming out and saying you made a mistake. That is not mincing words. Well ceo from sony Michael Lynton replied. I dont know exactly whether he understand the sequence of events to the movies not being shown in the Movie Theaters and therefore i woul
Amendments when we are done. I think really we are going to have something that is going to be much more understood and much more popular than people can even imagine. This will be a plan where you with choose your plan and you know what the plan is, this is the plan. And we are going to have a tremendous i think we are going to have a tremendous success. Its a implicated process, but actually its very simple. Its called good health care. All right. Who knew health care could be so hard . Eight years, right . Eight years. Yeah. Like, 54 votes to repeal it. And they sit there, the truck has come to a stop and their jaws are on it, and they have absolutely no idea how to drive the truck they have been chasing for eight years. They had one job. Really one job over eight years. You want to repeal it, what are you going to replace it when . And you have the president of the morning saying, no, our bill is great. By the afternoon when all of the conservatives abandoned the bill, suddenly he