Mr. Hoyer good morning. Thank you for being here, sunday evening i received a telephone call from mark meadows, chief of staff at the white house, who asked me to put together a group of eight to 10 members for the purposes of having a briefing in the scif at the white house. I indicated to him that i would consider that. I talked to the speaker about it and our view has been and always been if the white house asks you to come down for a meeting, a briefing, you respond to that request. At the same time, i told mr. Meadows yesterday and i repeated a couple of times today that this briefing was not, and i emphasize, was not a substitute for the speaker and minority leader of the senates request for a full briefing of our members. Any time when you have a threat to american personnel, whether they be military or civilian, it is a serious matter. And needs to be taken with the utmost importance. It is therefore very, very troubling when you have information that is given that indicates th
Thursday on how to formalize the ground rules for an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. It defined the procedures that lawmakers will follow as they transition from weeks of closed door interviews to potentially public hearings and a possible future vote on articles of impeachment. Lets bring in kims strassel, assistant editorial page editor, James Freeman and colum columni, bill mcgern. What did you make of the vote this week and did it advance the democratic cause for impeachment. Its hard to say if it advanced it this is the first time in modern american political history that youve had an entirely partisan vote to proceed with an impeachment inquiry. If anything, you had two democrats who crude over to the republican crossed over to the republican side to vote with them in opposition. Again, impeachment is a political process. And the goal here is to convince significant majorities of americans that you are proceeding fairly and that you have the goods and this is its not su
Ground rules for an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. It defined the procedures that lawmakers will follow as they transition from weeks of closed door interviews to potentially public hearings and a possible future vote on articles of impeachment. Lets bring in kims strassel, assistant editorial page editor, James Freeman and colum columni, bill mcgern. What did you make of the vote this week and did it advance the democratic cause for impeachment. Its hard to say if it advanced it this is the first time in modern american political history that youve had an entirely partisan vote to proceed with an impeachment inquiry. If anything, you had two democrats who crude over to the republican crossed over to the republican side to vote with them in opposition. Again, impeachment is a political process. And the goal here is to convince significant majorities of americans that you are proceeding fairly and that you have the goods and this is its not succeeding in that regard on the ba
Thursday on how to formalize the ground rules for an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. It defined the procedures that lawmakers will follow as they transition from weeks of closed door interviews to potentially public hearings and a possible future vote on articles of impeachment. Lets bring in kims strassel, assistant editorial page editor, James Freeman and colum columni, bill mcgern. What did you make of the vote this week and did it advance the democratic cause for impeachment. Its hard to say if it advanced it this is the first time in modern american political history that youve had an entirely partisan vote to proceed with an impeachment inquiry. If anything, you had two democrats who crude over to the republican crossed over to the republican side to vote with them in opposition. Again, impeachment is a political process. And the goal here is to convince significant majorities of americans that you are proceeding fairly and that you have the goods and this is its not su
Mr. Mccarthy good morning. What we witnessed today was a perfect example of the democrat majority and how reckless they have handled this significant responsibility. In fact, i want to use chairman schiffs words, a parody. If you watched chairman schiff this morning to use a fake dialogue between President Trump and the president of ukraine and shows how unfearless they are about getting the facts. For them, its not about the narrative, nor is it about the truth. But we already knows this. Speaker nancy pelosi holds the office of speaker, third in line to the presidency. And opened an impeachment in wirey and what world is that responsive . It may be one place that we expect a freshman member of congress to say we need an impeachment inquiry, this is the speaker of the house. Without one bit of evidence opening an impeachment inquiry. Her own members questioned did she move too soon. The democrats and many in the media twisted to what they wanted to believe to fold into their political