This week on q a, our guest is margaret macmillan, author of nixon and mao the week that chnaged the world. Cspan margaret macmillan, but if you think a book about nixon and mao would so . Guest my father was a good subject and i love the good storiestoriesof history and thou have two extraordinary personality is with great falls and talent and it was an interesting moment that ended the period but in the United States and china and started Something Else so my next book i wanted to do something manageable has a good story. Cspan did he rely on to tell you what that moment was like . Guest that the documents. Theres a record now of all the transcripts of the first memoirs. Bob haldeman did a diary that is helpful, Henry Kissinger wrote them and thereve been lots of interviews, so i gathered whatever i could from those that have been there. Cspan did you learn anything they dont already know . Guest i learned something i didnt know. I think i learned a great deal more about Richard Nixo
The case was about walter nixon. Three articles of impeachment where. Did. Were adopted. Drama focused on what happened in the senate. Impeachmentesented rule 11. Ofre was a Committee Senators appointed to receive testimony and that is what the committee did. And based on the committee report, the senate convicted judge nixon. He was removed from office. He sued and said senate rule 11 violates the constitutional grant of authority for the senate to try all impeachment does it prohibits the whole senate from participating. In the District Court and the court of appeals said the claim was nonjews nonjudicial ball. It involves a political question. Court agreed. Wasin a decision that unanimous although it has some important concurring opinions, the Supreme Court said it is indeed nonjudicial. And they had a bunch of Different Reasons for that conclusion. Host we talk about judicial due process. Is there such a thing when it comes to impeachment . The requirements of the constitution itse
Sondland, to to go to any of it . Washington journal continues. Host delicate Stacey Plaskett at our table this morning, we thank you for being here. On the your thoughts passing of congressman Elijah Cummings and what it was like to serve with him on the oversight committee. Thisr this guest would have been my third term with representative cummings on oversight and he really was a mentor to me in many ways. You have heard so many reflections from individuals in the past day and the thing that stands out so much about him is he was a man of god. People talk about the fact that both of his parents for sharecroppers and they came to baltimore, he was born and raised there, but what is more important to know about his parents as they were both preachers. He was raised in that and really demonstrated it. Many people talk about it but he walked about it. Across the aisle, everyone has to say Elijah Cummings was a fair person. Even if you did not agree with them, he always stood for what is
I was usually about five minutes late for our meetings at the residents in the afternoon so he normally expected me to be late. And i was five minutes early this one time in particular. I was walking up the stairs and i heard the Television Going and i her laughter coming from the television and realized he was watching something that went to amuse. He had his shoes off, and feet up on the ottoman and he had the Remote Control in his hand, laughing, and enjoying the show so much. I wanted him to have a few extra minutes where he didnt have to be on and the serious Richard Nixon he had to be most of the time. I cleared my voice, and cleared the top of the stairs and he looked horrified at watching television and he tried to shut it off with the remote crow and jam his feet into the his shoes and he dropped the Remote Control. He was red faced and said you caught me watching the tube. He said i dont do it often. But sometimes i like to see what is out there. Host when was the last time y
11 00 oclock, Lightning Strikes, thousands of them, light up the night sky throughout our area, as strong storms sweep through. One of those bolts is to blame for this. A fire that quickly burned a house at the ground in montgomery township. The sites and sounds tonight into broomall Delaware County ominous clouds and big booms of thunder. On top of all of that, breaking news. The search has just been suspended for a man who disappeared after a sailboat capsized on the Delaware River. Crews have been searching the water throughout the night. Well have a report from the scene in just a few moments but first, more on this Severe Weather. Jessica. Serious storms still making that are way through the area right now. Im here in the Weather Center with meteorologist kate bilo to take a look at those storms and what comes next. We had a lot of storms out there all evening and almost another round has developed. Take look at storm scan3. Atmosphere across our region very very unsettled very un