Time Magazine's Brian Bennett and Washington Post's Mike DeBonis preview the week ahead in Washington, and attorney and law professor Alan Dershowitz discusses his opposition to efforts to impeach President Trump.
The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate in Boston hosted a discussion, part of a series with 2020 presidential candidates, with U.S. Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) on his vision for the country and the policy platform he was pitching to voters. Following his prepared remarks, Sen. Bennet took questions from the audience, most of whom were students from a nearby high school.
2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang participated in a student town hall focused on climate change hosted by Rob Hogg, a Democratic Iowa state senator. Students asked him questions on both climate change and foreign policy.
The House will consider several bills under Suspension of the Rules. This week, members are also expected to consider two articles of impeachment against President Trump.
Dr. Azra Raza, professor of medicine and director of the MDS Center at Columbia University, took a critical look at the way we have treated cancer in the United States since the early 1970s and discussed how patient care can be improved.
The top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee talks about the Space Force that is part of the policy-setting bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act. The $738B NDAA was passed by the House this past week and is due up in the Senate in the coming days. Rep. Mac Thornberry talked about the U.S. role in Afghanistan, including U.S. troops. He also talked about the U.S. policy in Syria, Iran, and other world hotspots.
Time Magazine's Brian Bennett and Washington Post's Mike DeBonis previewed this week's anticipated full House floor vote on impeachment and upcoming government funding deadline.
The House will consider several bills under Suspension of the Rules. This week, members are also expected to consider two articles of impeachment against President Trump.
The House will consider several bills under Suspension of the Rules. This week, members are also expected to consider two articles of impeachment against President Trump.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) held a news conference to discuss his proposal for how President Trump's impeachment trial in the new year should be conducted. One of his recommendations included live testimony from Mick Mulvaney, the president's acting chief of staff and John Bolton, the president's former national security adviser. They did not testify during the public House impeachment hearings.
President Trump hosted a roundtable with a number of state governors and local leaders to discuss efforts to cut regulations. The governors of Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Nebraska, and South Dakota as well as the governor-elect of Mississippi joined the president at the White House to talk about how deregulation at the federal level had helped their states' economic prospects and what additional measures they had taken at the state and local level in their respective states.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) held a news conference to discuss his proposal for how President Trump's impeachment trial in the new year should be conducted. One of his recommendations included live testimony from Mick Mulvaney, the president's acting chief of staff and John Bolton, the president's former national security adviser. They did not testify during the public House impeachment hearings.
Panelists at the Brookings Institution discussed the current political situation in Afghanistan and looked at the role of the Taliban and other power brokers, like the U.S., China, Russia and Pakistan, play in future peace arrangements.
Time Magazine's Brian Bennett and Washington Post's Mike DeBonis previewed this week's anticipated full House floor vote on impeachment and upcoming government funding deadline.
In the second of a three-part program, we looked back to the 1998-99 impeachment of President Bill Clinton with Alexis Simendinger. She covered the impeachment for National Journal, and is now national political correspondent for The Hill newspaper. We then showed a portion of the U.S. House floor debate from December 19 on four articles of impeachment. The House voted to approve two of those articles making Bill Clinton only the second president in U.S. history to be impeached since Andrew Johnson in 1868.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) held a news conference to discuss his proposal for how President Trump's impeachment trial in the new year should be conducted. One of his recommendations included live testimony from Mick Mulvaney, the president's acting chief of staff and John Bolton, the president's former national security adviser. They did not testify during the public House impeachment hearings.
Panelists at the Brookings Institution discussed the current political situation in Afghanistan and looked at the role of the Taliban and other power brokers, like the U.S., China, Russia and Pakistan, play in future peace arrangements.
Time Magazine's Brian Bennett and Washington Post's Mike DeBonis previewed this week's anticipated full House floor vote on impeachment and upcoming government funding deadline.
In the second of a three-part program, we looked back to the 1998-99 impeachment of President Bill Clinton with Alexis Simendinger. She covered the impeachment for National Journal, and is now national political correspondent for The Hill newspaper. We then showed a portion of the U.S. House floor debate from December 19 on four articles of impeachment. The House voted to approve two of those articles making Bill Clinton only the second president in U.S. history to be impeached since Andrew Johnson in 1868.
President Trump hosted a roundtable with a number of state governors and local leaders to discuss efforts to cut regulations. The governors of Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Nebraska, and South Dakota as well as the governor-elect of Mississippi joined the president at the White House to talk about how deregulation at the federal level had helped their states' economic prospects and what additional measures they had taken at the state and local level in their respective states.
