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Opinion: What impeachment article really accuses Trump of doing on Jan. 6 - and why Geoffrey Corn and Chris Jenks Jan. 21, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to his supporters at the Save America Rally on the Ellipse on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, near the White House in Washington, D.C. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS)Yuri Gripas, MBR / TNS The nation should understand that the upcoming Senate trial of former President Donald Trump on the House-adopted article of impeachme...

Commentary: Joe Guzzardi - Tight asylum rules protect the homeland Joe Guzzardi FacebookTwitterEmail As President Trump’s White House days dwindled, he took strong action to shore up measures that will make the asylum process more secure and less fraudulent. The Department of Homeland Security issued a new set of guidelines that went into effect nine days before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration and will ensure border crossers don’t bypass asylum in other safe countries specificall...

He says i can do whatever i want, im president. thats not right. when he said i need a favor though, he was talking about getting dirt on the bidens. he feared joe biden as his primary political rival. michael cohen told us, the president doesnt come out and say exactly what he wants. he speaks in code. thats the presidents code. michael cohen knows it and michael cohen is in prison now. individual one is not in prison because individual one could not be indicted because of the justice departmen...

President trump sought an announcement of these investigations in return for performing two official acts. first, he conditioned release of vital military assistance on president zelenskys investigations, and second, he conditioned a head of state meeting on these investigations. fourth, performance of an official act. the courts defined an official act as any decision, action, matter, cause, pursuit, proceeding or controversy that may be pending or brought before a public official. both the mil...

Sought an announcement of these investigations in return for performing two official acts. first he conditioned release of vital military assistance on president zelenskys investigations and second he conditioned a head of state meeting on these investigations. fourth, performance of an official act. the courts have defined an official act as any decision or action, matter, cause, suit, proceeding or controversy that may be pending or brought before a public official. both of the acts in questio...

Million hours of benghazi hearings and you cant get mick mulvaney to come in for one day. theyre aon fight for two audiences. >> excellent points all around. two fact checks back into the hearings, oneck the talk about fact witnesses as several experts mentioned the white house partially facing impeachment for holding the witnesses. if you keep track of history when controlledp by republican the same committee summoned 18 different witnesses for the clinton impeachment, none were facten witnesse...

Says i can do whatever i want, im erpresident. thats not right. when het. said, i need a favor, though, he was talking about getting dirt on the bidens. he feared joe biden as his primary political rival. michaelpo cohen told us the president doesnt come out and say exactly what he wants. he speaks in code. thats the presidents code. michaelnt cohen knows it and michael cohen is in prison now. individual one is not in prison because individual one could not be indicted because of the justice dep...

Two separate parallel tracks with the finance committee in the senate and with the ways and means committee in the house. but we just got a super troubling follow-up from cnn as weve been trying to follow this story wondering when were all going to learn what this is and whats going to become of this whistleblowers claims. cnn reported a few days ago after the whistleblower spoke, the whistleblower is declining to appear for a transcript review with the senate committee. why is that? the whistle...

>> yes, and the evidence collected so far. have the democrats proven their case? >> the framers cared so much about foreign influence in our elections that they put into the constitution a blatant example of national origin discrimination. its amazing when you think about it. its the kind of thing that would be unacceptable at any job today, but to be the president you cannot be born in a foreign country. thats how seriously they took foreign interference in u.s. elections and u.s. politics. and...

>> do president trumps demands on ukraine also establish the high crime of bribery? >> yes, they do. >>. >> can you explain why, please? >> sure. so, the high crime or misdemeanor bribery i think its important to distinguish that from whatever the u.s. code calls bribery today. and the reason for this, in part, is because -- >> thank you. >> -- in fine 89 when the framers were writing the constitution, there was no federal criminal code. the first bribery statutes that the united states congress...