Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said it's time to move on from impeachment. His comments came during a news conference after the Senate voted to acquit President Trump on both articles of impeachment. He also said he believed the impeachment fight was a 2020 Democratic election strategy to take back the Senate. The Kentucky senator added that he believed impeachment was a political mistake for Democrats.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) held a news conference following the Senate acquittal of President Trump on two articles of impeachment. The Democratic leader told reporters he was proud of his members, but criticized his Republican colleagues and the impeachment trial process. "Now that our Republican colleagues have rejected a fair trial-truth-there's a giant asterisk next to the president's acquittal. The asterisk says he was acquitted without facts, he was acquitted without a fair trial. And it means that his acquittal is virtually valueless," he said. Sen. Schumer praised Republican Sen. Mitt Romney (UT) and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (WV) for voting to convict the president. "It created a bipartisan impeachment that can never be erased from history."
Jay Sekulow, President Trump's personal attorney, spoke to reporters at the Capitol following the Senate acquittal of the president on two articles of impeachment.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) talks to reporters about ripping up the State of the Union address, the end of the impeachment trial and the legislative agenda.
One day after the Senate voted to acquit President Trump on two articles of impeachment, the president held a "celebration" at the White House. He acknowledged and praised numerous House and Senate Republicans in attendance who were his most ardent defenders during the impeachment process. He also apologized to the state of Utah for Sen. Mitt Romney, who was the only Republican to join Democrats in voting to convict the president on the first article of impeachment: abuse of power. The vote was 52 to 48. On the second article of impeachment, obstruction of Congress, the vote was 53 to 47.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told reporters that she did the "courteous thing" by ripping up President Trump's state of the union address, arguing that it was necessary to call attention to lies in the speech. In response to a reporter's question about whether her actions undermined her constant message to rank-and-file Democrats to behave in a dignified way, she responded: "I don't need any lessons from anybody, especially the president of the United States, on dignity." The speaker also addressed the president's remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast earlier in the day and the Senate votes to acquit the president on two articles of impeachment.
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke to reporters in Manchester, New Hampshire to update them on his campaign and in particular, the ongoing counts from Iowa's 2020 first-in-the-nation caucuses. He said it was likely he and fellow candidate Pete Buttigieg would likely end up with the same number of national delegates from Iowa coming out of that state's first-in-the-nation caucuses.
One day after the Senate voted to acquit President Trump on two articles of impeachment, the president held a "celebration" at the White House. He acknowledged and praised numerous House and Senate Republicans in attendance who were his most ardent defenders during the impeachment process. He also apologized to the state of Utah for Sen. Mitt Romney, who was the only Republican to join Democrats in voting to convict the president on the first article of impeachment: abuse of power. The vote was 52 to 48. On the second article of impeachment, obstruction of Congress, the vote was 53 to 47.
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) holds a 'Get-Out-The-Vote' event in Derry, New Hampshire featuring actress Ashley Judd.
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke to reporters in Manchester, New Hampshire to update them on his campaign and in particular, the ongoing counts from Iowa's 2020 first-in-the-nation caucuses. He said it was likely he and fellow candidate Pete Buttigieg would likely end up with the same number of national delegates from Iowa coming out of that state's first-in-the-nation caucuses.
The executives of several e-cigarette manufacturing companies including the CEO of Juul testified on the Hill about how their companies are addressing the youth vaping epidemic. For more than two hours, lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations asked questions ranging from marketing strategies to how to curb youth usage of these products. The hearing comes as the federal government bans sales of certain e-cigarette vape pods including fruit, dessert and mint flavored.
John Wagner, the Customs & Border Protection's (CBP) deputy executive assistant commissioner of field operations, testified on how the agency uses facial recognition and biometrics technologies to identify people coming into the U.S. This was the House Homeland Security's second hearing focusing on federal government use of these technologies and the potential privacy and discrimination concerns that could arise. The hearing came after a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) study and report that found racial bias with facial recognition technology.
Lesser-known Democratic candidates on the New Hampshire presidential primary ballot spoke at the Lesser-Known Candidates Forum on January 28. The event was hosted by the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College in Manchester, NH. Panelists included Holly Ramer of The Associated Press, John DiStaso of WMUR, and Josh McElveen of McElveen Strategies. Seven of the lesser-known Democratic candidates took questions of various topics from the panelists, including healthcare, opioids, and impeachment. The Lesser-Known Candidates Forum was first held in 1972.
The executives of several e-cigarette manufacturing companies including the CEO of Juul testified on the Hill about how their companies are addressing the youth vaping epidemic. For more than two hours, lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations asked questions ranging from marketing strategies to how to curb youth usage of these products. The hearing comes as the federal government bans sales of certain e-cigarette vape pods including fruit, dessert and mint flavored.
John Wagner, the Customs & Border Protection's (CBP) deputy executive assistant commissioner of field operations, testified on how the agency uses facial recognition and biometrics technologies to identify people coming into the U.S. This was the House Homeland Security's second hearing focusing on federal government use of these technologies and the potential privacy and discrimination concerns that could arise. The hearing came after a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) study and report that found racial bias with facial recognition technology.
Lesser-known Democratic candidates on the New Hampshire presidential primary ballot spoke at the Lesser-Known Candidates Forum on January 28. The event was hosted by the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College in Manchester, NH. Panelists included Holly Ramer of The Associated Press, John DiStaso of WMUR, and Josh McElveen of McElveen Strategies. Seven of the lesser-known Democratic candidates took questions of various topics from the panelists, including healthcare, opioids, and impeachment. The Lesser-Known Candidates Forum was first held in 1972.