there was a possibility for perception of a conflict of interest. the not the policy arguments of the main arguments for impeachment which were already flimsy i think were shattered by those witnesses, if you really listen to what they said. i just want to make the point i made today in the hearing. out of the dozens of of corrupt nations there are in the world to come out of the hundreds of trump governmencorrupt governmes there are in the world, there s only one time that the president demanded the removal of a precipitouaspecific prosecutor t happened to be the individual that was responsible for investigating the company that was paying his son. and what is that? is that worth asking questions about? congressman meadows and stuart, we appreciate you being
about due process and the argument about policy that what s being pushed here is one vision of what ukraine policy ought to be but there may be an alternative vision. that s a tough row to who he. policy arguments are good on paper. once the game starts nobody wants to hear plane was late and lost your equipment. the game is on and it depends on the impression that you make in this proceeding right here and now. so, all those all the crying about, you know, we don t have confrontation, we don t have our own witnesses, we don t have subpoena power, i think that falls on deaf ears once the narrative starts. it s also going to be tough to make this alternative ukraine policy argument. martha: the other argument, andy, which you have made in a couple of your columns is does this rise to the level of impeachment? is this something that a president says on a phone call or puts forth with his,
they ll be like, oh, yeah, this is about some call against the president. they re going to be targeting the moderate democrats in those trump districts, saying, you know, instead of working on the issues that affect you, this person is focused on this. something we saw kevin mccarthy, the house minority leader, roll out today was nancy pelosi said it was going to be bipartisan, and look, it wasn t bipartisan, here you go. that was a strategy because they ve been using these policy arguments saying it s there, therefore, the whole thing shouldn t happen. michael, put this in context for us, especially since we saw impeachment proceedings against president clinton. how is this comparing? alexander hamilton gave us some insight on that. in the federalist papers he suggested that the initiation or the beginning of an impeachment inquiry was bound to be caught up in passions.
all right. bolo, be on the lookout. we have new details in the vaping health story. the cdc today reported two new deaths linked to e-cigarettes. that takes us to 19 in the states you see on your screen. we also learned today that the number of vaping-related injuries is now at over 1,000. the new jersey governor said today he s going to work to ban the sale of flavored vaping devices and products. ohio s governor also made that vow this week. that follows action in san francisco, massachusetts and michigan. in new york a vban on flavored vaping products is set to begin tomorrow, but that is on hold. a vaping industry group got a restraining order calling the ban an overreach. the same grun is suing in massachusetts as well. you have to be on the lookout for these legal battles. we ve been through this before. and by the way, they re interesting policy arguments on
and, by the way, they re interesting policy arguments on both sides. and more importantly, there has to be a race to figure out what is the danger in vaping specifically, why does this keep happening? thank you for watching tonight. cnn tonight with d-lemon starts right now. i don t know how to feel about the vaping thing because i know that it has helped a lot of people get off cigarettes, right, which we know are deadly. no question and cigarettes they haven t been around a long time. aren t banned. so why should vaping be banned? the other side of it is the idea of saying not you but the argument that it is safer than smoking, no. it is less bad perhaps but perhaps. because they haven t been around my thing is they haven t been around long enough. i don t know if some of these symptoms are from are residual effects from people who were actually smokers, right? or if it started before they were vaping. i don t know.