Page 3 - Executive Accountable News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

85 days leading them to an impeachment vote on two articles of impeachment and then after that creates breaking news by saying i'm not answering the question about when and how we are sending these articles to the senate leaving open what is cleary some kind of an attempt of the speaker of the house to negotiate terms of a senate trial with the senate majority leader. >> and i think that's a very wise and prudent decision that nancy pelosi is contemplated based on what mitch mcconnell and lindsey graham and others have already said, that there would not be a fair trial in the senate. and i thi...

Graham and others have already said, that there would not be a fair trial in the senate. and i think what we're seeing in nancy pelosi is somebody who understands that today was -- reflected the strength of the republic, the greatness of the republic in some ways, that we have an independent legislative body that's able to hold the executive accountable, but also recognizing the weakness of the moment. that in many ways our national spirit is a little damaged and torn tonight. republicans don't trust the democrats. they think this is a witch hunt. they truly believe that. democrats don't under...

To make on jim's question. first of all, i think jim is exactly right. the process for congressional accountability, holding executive accountable is broken. and every single candidate for president right now ought to be asked the question, what are you going to do about accountability reform. if you were elected, where the executive can be held accountable through a subpoena with an expedited process of 30 or 45 days. your reporters should be asking every single presidential candidate, democrat and republican, where they stand on the accountability reform because that process is broken just b...

Of impeachment. one, that the president abused his power and, two, that the president obstructed congress. why is that so important, nicolle? because what the president has done is he has taken the office of the president, which is only given to him by the people, an office that he is supposed to represent for the nation, for the people, and he abused that office by asking a foreign ally to interfere in our elections and using congressionally appropriated very necessary aid for ukraine, military aid for ukraine in order to get ukraine to investigate his political rival. on top of that, he is t...

But from the votes of people. ours is a nation of imagination and faith, all of us engaged in this great experiment of democracy. we take our power and collectively through our elections we entrust it to a president who must always act in our interest, not in theirs. the framers believed in the promise of america, but they also knew the dangers of power unchecked and so they gifted us the constitution of the united states, the protective and connective tissue that functions as the highest law of this land and which entrusts this body, the people's house, the solemn responsibility to hold the e...