What weve been discussing w today, which involved in a regular channel, was a request that went against u. S. Policy that have have undermined the rule of law and our longstanding policy goals in ukraine, as in other countries in the postsoviet space. Those policies which were indeed championed by ambassador yovanovitch. You also testified on october 15th in the deposition about fundamental reforms necessary for ukraine to fight corruption and to transform the country. And you t cited the importance reforming certain institutions, notably was investigating President Trumps political opponents a part of those necessary reforms . Was it on that list of yours or indeed was it on any list . No, they werent. In fact, historically, is it not true that a major problem in the ukraine has been its misuse
of prosecutors, precisely to conduct investigation of political opponents. Thats a legacy i dare suggest from the soviet era when, as you stated in your testimony, prosecutors like the kgb were
Robbery thats burglary, ill get it right. And in this situation youve got somebody really caught in the middle of it, and that doesnt excuse the person from the consequences. Professors, weve talked about abuse of power and bribery. When we started we said we would also discuss obstruction of congress. So i would like to ask you some questions about obstruction of congress. Professor gerhardt, in your view, is there enough evidence here to charge President Trump with the high crime and misdemeanor of obstruction of congress . I think theres more than enough. As i mentioned in my statement, just to really underscore this, the third article of impeachment approved by the House Judiciary Committee against president nixon charged him with misconduct because he had failed to comply with four legislative subpoenas. Here it is far more than four
that this president has failed to comply with. And he has ordered the Executive Branch as well not to cooperate with congress. Those together with a
Up. Chris a win in iowa could show mayor pete has what it takes to go all the way. But questions we main about his elect built and support from key groups. The stakes are high. Can. [ ] chris good evening from the river center in downtown. Folks have a lot of the questions they want to ask. Mayor pete buttigieg. Chris mayor pete buttigieg. We have a lot of the questions. We have to sit down so we can ask them. First i want to ask you a question about the terrible news we heard about the tragic death of basketball great kobe bryant and his daughter web was take her to a basketball game. She crashed, a helicopter crashed. One of the things we ask our leaders to do is make sense out of the senseless events. Your thoughts about the death of kobe bryant . Its shocking and i think we are all in shock about what happened. I think its a reminder that our lives are often touched by people weve never even meet. There are millions of people in los angeles and around the world mourning because the
100 specific members of the u. S. Military in 11 states, including california, texas and florida. Today the pentagon asked local police to help protect these servicemen and women. We have more now from National Security correspondent david martin. Reporter most of the military personnel on the hit list are from the air force and navy. E the two services which have been conducting the air campaign against isis. Some of them served aboard aircraft carriers launching strikes over iraq. Others are based at Dyess Air Force base in texas, home of the b1 bomber which has been carrying out the most visible strikes of the war. E the ones around the syrian town of kobani. Isis has no way to defend against those strikes, which by last count have hit more than 5,300 targets and killed moreth than 8,500 fighters. Instead it fired off a salvo from what is proving to be its most potent weapon, social media. The eruption of grisly internet videos and twitter feeds that spew into cyberspace each day. T
Republicans eyeballtoeyeball who will blink first and our power player of the week, a brain surgeon touches a political nerve in washington. All, right now, on fox news sunday. Chris and hello, again, from fox news in washington. When all sides agreed to the sequester a yearandahalf ago those automatic acrosstheboard spending cuts were supposed to be so painful it would force the president and congress to make a deal. But, now, jwith just five days o go there is no deal and the deadline is here. Joining us, two Senate Leaders on budget issues, from Oklahoma Republican tom coburn and from missouri, democrat claire mccaskill. Senators, lets start with the big question, quick question, quick answer, will the sequester happen . Will those 85 billion in spending cuts kick in on friday . Senator coburn . Yes, it will and it is not 85 billion, because it is a pro rata portion of that, until the end of the year and it will not be a full 85 billion. Chris but it is going to kick in . It will ki