The Judiciary Committee will please come to order. When the committee recessed yesterday it had completed Opening Statements on the resolution about to be considered. Putin to notice under House Resolution 660, i know call house mr. Chairman impeaching donald j. Trump president of the United States point of order. The gentleman will state his point of order. The chairman refused to schedule a day of hearings pursuant to clause 2 j. Well entertain that point of order once we completed calling up the resolution. I call up h rez 775 for purposes of markup and move that the Committee Report the resolution favorably to the house. The clerk will report the resolution. H rez 755, impeaching donald j. Trump, president of the United States for high crimes and misdemeanors december 10th, 2019. The following resolution was submitted, resolution, impeaching Donald John Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors, resolve that donald j. Trump president of the United States is impeached for high crimes a
President trump, abuse of power and obstruction of congress, the House Rules Committee will meet to determine the guidelines on how the debate will unfold in the house floor. Watch live coverage of house rules. Tuesday, at 11 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan3. Watch online at cspan. Org slash impeachment, or listen live with he free cspan radio app back with two reporters to take your questions about this week in washington. How will impeachment work as well as Congress Facing a deadline for government spent r spending. Deadline for government spending. Mike debonis is with the Washington Post. Brian bennett, senior White House Correspondent with time magazine, thank you both for being here. Lets begin with the white house. What are they saying about how they would like impeachment to look . Guest trump right now, President Trump believes that impeachment is breaking his way, that he really believes its given his supporters some momentum and enthusiasm, and he initially was of the mind that h
Which looks like it will happen and its inevitable he wanted the senate to take the time because he thought it would be politically advantageous but at this point it looks like hes been talked out of that. Mcconnell, the Senate Majority leader, felt like he wanted a quick trial and do not want to bringo in new witnesses and was able to prevail upon the white house if that was the best way toin go in those negotiations ae still ongoing and they are happening not only between the white house and the republicans n but also between the republics in the senate and democrats but at this time it looks like they are coming in on trying to have a relatively Speedy Senate trial that does not bring a lot of new witnesses but President Trump felt like maybe they could have brought in witnesses like hunter biden and others to expand the scope of it and try to push it for political advantage but at this point it looks like they will go in a different direction and also what is happening this alast w
Good morning and welcome to the Cato Institute. My name is julian sanchez, im a senior fellow here and im grateful to everyone has come out bright and early to the auditorium at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about both a fake election by former contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfan with most americans and as we kick off our 2019 conference, we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment proceeding kicked off in significant part by reports from the from the Intelligence Communitys Inspector General. We have forth coming next week a breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings aired, going to be from the house Intelligence Committee. So even intelligence overseers now are at
Was bipartisan. Only one part of one faction wanted this outcome. The houses conduct risks a deeply damaging the institutions of american government. This particular house of representatives has let its partisan rage at this particular president create a toxic new precedent that will echo well into the future. Thats what i want to discuss right now. The historic degree to which House Democrats have failed to do their duty and what it will mean for the senate to do ours. So lets start at the beginning. Lets start with the fact that washington democrats made up their minds to impeach President Trump since before he was even inaugurated. Heres a reporter in april of 2016, april of 2016. Donald trump isnt even the republican nominee yet but impeachment is already on the lips of pundits, newspaper editorials, constitutional scholars, and even a few members of congress. April 2016. On Inauguration Day 2017, the headline in the washington post, the campaign to impeach President Trump has begu