end or else what just through to remind ourselves of this self declared last term of anger the american office has already seen more bumpy times than palm waters so does this mean what does what does this this step this is a mean that this governing coalition with angle of attack has conservatives. it means that this marriage contract of the coalition could be renegotiated the city use adamant that it won't reopen it it sounds a bit like the bricks that deal we expect some kind of compromise to be found at the social democrats here the particular new leadership so driven by the youth organization of the s.p.d. will have to have something to show so that ordinary delegates in the entire party will actually believe that they want true renewal of the social practices of credit s.p.d. that so suffered in the polls the self declared aim is to double. figures in the opinion polls well they're right about 15 right now. you know news chief political editor that. tennis star caroline that was an iraqi will retire from the game after next ponse australian open the former top ranked player in the women's

american division to the french? there was a political just affect -- juxtaposition and a social juxtaposition from a lot of white officers on the staff that were serving in his unit that did not want african american soldiers. rshingn you say john j. pe gave this division to the was in command. that is the way military officers are trained. he has the ultimate responsibility. gged froms being tu the top, side and bottom and the french were clamoring. it is not a clean answer on john assigning the 93rd division. we are very clear the way we choose our words in the gallery upstairs. in this gallery we say that john made the ultimate decision. but there is an entire book that talks about why he made that decision. to the back to john's question, ms scott kelly, there were a host of african-americans who wrote about their experience in world war i, but the books never got published. i have read most of those over the years being an african-american military historian. i began to combine those in 1996. that is where the information exists. libraries, in the library of in archives collecting dust because no one was reading it.

american history tv. >> john allen shares with young military academy students's lessons learned about the duties of being an officer. he's dressed as the importance of understanding military history, and respecting america's constitutional principles. this talk was part of the american veteran center annual conference in >> we are indeed and again fortunate to see stars today, lots of them, 4 across each shoulder. we are privileged to have general john allen, united states marine corps retired, four-star general, former commander of nato international security assistance force in afghanistan. it is my great pleasure to general john allen, united states marine corps. [applause] >> got an ambush and already this morning. [laughter] cadet kim was going to introduce me. i think we have got all the introduction we need out-of-the-way. it is an honor to be with you and incredibly humbling to come in behind a couple tuskegee airmen. be a bad asked. i am not sure how you do better than that. -- badass. i am not sure how you can do better than that. i would like to do some q&a. we will talk about major points. one. your oat

whatever path an american officer may walk, that officer enjoys prestige. the little is known that individuals intrinsic merit, receiving the respective fellow citizens, unless that individual proves to be utterly undeserving." americ there is a phrase in this that i think is important. this is why you have to read this book, from my perspective. americans accept the principle that some unusual advantage should accrue to individuals who demonstrate exceptional and i'm unremitting responsibility." this is what sets you apart. you uniquely in american society, will lead men and women, characteristic of your service, you will lead them in combat. you may have to make decisions, again, for those of you who have served in combat, you will know how awful and difficult those decisions are. to give the orders, which may send one of your troops to her or his death -- that is exceptional. exceptional, and the entire spectrum of our society. no one else has that responsibility. it is also unremitting. there is no let up. you're not just on duty for eight hours per day

the commander in chief's offenses, the clinton administration has prosecuted no fewer than 67 american officers and enlisted men and women. hundreds of americans who served their country in the army, navy, air force, and marine corps have lost their careers, even though they did not once lie under oath to a judge or a grand jury, or obstruct justice, or tamper with a single witness. they were dismissed because of a more simple reason, they failed in their duty. every single man and woman in operation desert fox is held to a higher standard than their commander-in-chief. let us raise the standard of our american leader to the level of his troops. let us once again respect the institution of the presidency. let us see to it, ineed, what the censure resolution says, no man is above the law. let us not fail in our duty. let us restore honor to our country. [applause] >> from michigan. >> i'm pleased to recognize a senior member of the judiciary committee departing this house, the gentleman from new york, mr. charles schumer, for one minute. [gavel] >> the gentleman will suspend for a minute. the ho

when the question came up about other japanese-americans running for office, he mentored so many japanese-americans running for office. he was meant toward by daniel -- mentored by daniel inouye. the community has influenced me so much. how they pulled together to get the civil liberties act. there were years of coming together and raising money for that. all the things that had to happen before there could be reparations, the only time it has happened in our nation's history. it's incredibly enriching and i feel very grateful that i'm the one who got to tell his story and write this book. [applause] norman: before we break, can i do something of a personal nature? i would like to have my wife stand up, because without her, i would never have been able to do this. [applause] she has controlled, kicked, and whatever it takes to influence me. she has been so helpful. she has been a great teammate for me to be able to do these things. thanks, honey. >> thank you. thank you both for being here. and thank you all for being wonderful listeners and asking thoughtful questions. [applause] >> that was amazi

. >> the death of an american officer which president bush condemned today as outrage. >> a navy officerife were detained. he beaten and threatened with death. she, threatened sexually. >> another servicemen, threatening that man's wife. strong support for a reprisal was all but guaranteed. >> four days later on december 20, u.s. troops invaded panama. the invasion was code-named operation just cause. shortly after midnight, u.s. troops simultaneously attacked 27 targets, many of which were in densely populated areas. one of the primary targets in panama city was the headquarters of the panamanian defense forces, located in the crowded neighborhood of el chorillo. u.s. troops shelled the area for four hours before moving in and calling for surrender. >> we ask you to surrender. if you do not, we are prepared to level each and every building. surrender now. >> 10 minutes after, we saw the helicopters. start to use things like that. we hit the ground. >> it soon became clear that the objectives were not limited only to military targets. according to witnesses, many of the surrounding resid

oh nine the chief reporter or a red cap from grand central terminal with the firstot african-american officer and remained there until his death in 1940 in his capacity to embody a unique juncture between black and white america the tenure makes that monumental station not only a gateway to the greatest city but just as much a gateway to the nation's greatest african-american neighborhood of harlem. for nearly half a centuryn those that were relegated to the lowest stratum of the force although always and trickle into the railroad system like the pullman porters were also to the station bound red caps were crucial to that decision of the terminal to woven into that experience of earliest 20th century railroad travel. to coincide with those key periods of the soul troll central cultural in the ever-changing metropolis of new yorkk city and post- civil war america and that optimism of the reconstruction era active if unassuming agents of that ideological cause of racial uplift with white prejudice through self-improvement civic interest in the arts in the 19 twenties of the harlem renaissance f

american diplomat grabbed. >> it was salvaged and the political officer who created it had no idea.is colleague, weeks after the evacuation, surprise to milwaukee to his office and handed this over, much to his surprise that it survived. >> i think it was a smart thing to do because there was -- such a fear of reprisals. >> we are happy to have this now. the crises continued in the 1970's. there is a lot going on in iran in the late 1970's, a lot of protests. >> in 1979, the islamic state was created after much political violence and unrest. it all came to a head when the shah of iran sought asylum in the united states of america to seek medical treatment. he was suffering from cancer. president carter permitted him to come to the united states which greatly angered the leaders of iran. >> that anger boiled over and ultimately, one day in november 1979, the u.s. embassy was overrun. the u.s. diplomats who happened to be there in the building at the time were taken hostage. they were held hostage for a total of 444 days. 52 american diplomats in total. we know some thing of their tre

people don't understand sometimes what the function of the state department and what do americans service officers do. they will learn all of the displays and objects. >> what is diplomacy, who does it, and why does it matter, is the key question to answer throughout every exhibition. why is this history relevant to everyday americans? what are they doing today and what have they done to promote security and our national interests abroad. >> this was the second of a two-part look at the u.s. diplomacy center museum collection. you can view part one and all other american history tc programs at c span.org/history. >> the house will be in order. >> for 40 years c-span has been provided america unfiltered coverage of congress, and rand the country so you can make up your own mind created by cable in 1979. c-span is brought to you by your local cable and satellite provider. c-span your unfiltered view of government.

so these officers were trained in a way to promote the american values, but also the values and benefit of having a democratic government as opposed to a communist government. >> and these officers were quite aware, by their own personal example. they were representing america as well. representing quite clearly -- not just behave yourself, but recognize that people are watching you because you are an american. the handbook does go into some detail on different programs they were supposed to implement as well as the more bureaucratic parts of their job. for example, in the table of contents, the handbook covers things like citizen participation in government. women in public affairs. religious affairs, community councils. in addition, education, refugees, finance programs. on the more bureaucratic side, officers were good bureaucrats, too. they had required reports that they were required to submit concerning transportation, classified material, and so forth. >> that is what interesting to me. when the united states is involved in a formal war or military conflict, when the military lea

his first and most notable african american officer. oh man and that he remained in that position until his death in 1948. in his capacity, he embodied in a unique juncture and white america. his influential 45 tenure made station, not only a gateway to america's greatest city, just much gateway to the nation news greatest african-american neighborhood on them. he supervised a staff of men who we're relegated by race to the lowest stratum of the stations workforce. the brawl was integral into the railroad system, like their railroad running ken, slipping borders, we're also american african-american. the station bound red caps we're crucial to the swift watch precision of the terminal and woven into the experience of early 20th century railroad travel. williams live, was cited with key periods the evolving social and cultural world of the african americans. and experiences out the window, on post- civil war america and the heavy optimism of the reconstruction era. we followed williams at the man, he was inactive if unassuming agent of t

embellished his own role considerably and left out the real hero of the action was a totally obscure american army officer named lieutenant colonel who was the one who rescued and saved the diplomats who survived. and it's such a disgraceful stealing the bravery of the kernel for himself but in the book i told the story twice, once in the sort of grandiose terms of holbrook and general wesley clark who was also there that day and the second time in great detail through the reporting i did and the account of the kernel and it just shows that usually history is written by great men. they write their autobiographies and often they are full of fabrications and embellishments and distortions that almost normal. it's something to be expected. and it takes an accident like this, me finding a letter from holbrooke in his papers to be able to correct the record. >> so, one final question. this is your first biography. what is the next one? [laughter] >> they are so hard and require a kind of submission of the writer's ego. that is maybe the hardest thing. march the having your ego to somebody else's story. my answ

the release of an american citizen as part of a prisoner swap with iran, and the deadly attack by a saudi military officergeting americans at t the u.s. naval base in florida. national security correspondent jennifer griffin joins us now with the latest on both, jennifer. thank you, chris. it u.s. officials not yet willing to call this terrorism. overnight the navy released the victims names, all american. joshua watson, mohamed hatem, and scott walters, a recent navy academy graduate reported to flight school two weeks ago. he saved many lives by telling first responders where the shooting took place after being shot several times. the shooter as saudi royal air force officer, 1 of 852 saturdays being trained in the u.s. right now. used a handgun with an extended magazine to target americans in the pensacola naval air station classroom. the fbi is aware of anti-american tweets posted on twitter under the shooter's name. at least six outings were detained near the attack site, one is said to have been videotaping. not all the news involving the middle east was bad this weekend. princeton grad student held

intople years ago, i ran an african-american general officer.mentionedi, who is going to be in the pipeline? i know they are not in the pipeline, because i was studying it. this is what we have to do as a community -- and this is a tough our -- we have got to let young brothers and sisters know that the military is a viable occupation. when i was at west point for three years, i recruited african-americans to come to west point to go to the military. it is a tough sell, but we have to let our young brothers and sisters know when you go in the military, you are not just going to fight for your country and be used and abused. the reason i have a masters and phd is because i was in the military. i was a young talent -- young lieutenant. i received a letter, because of your academic success, you are qualified to teach at the u.s. military academy. i was on a five-year program. for five years -- i was paid to be a student for two years and instructor for three years. i had a professor who told me about this thing called abd, all but dissertation. thr

latest installment of the star wars movie franchise brought in more than $175 million in north american box office opening weekend. but it is being called a disappointment. the rise of skywalker have been forecast to make $50 million more. it is still expected to be one of the top releases this year and sales could exceed $1 billion globally. that is your business flash update. shery: draft kings is going public as part of a three-way deal with gaming technology provider sb tech. the two agreed to be sold to diamond equal acquisitions. draft kings ceo jason robbins achieve their goal of going public, raising capital, and combining with sb tech. >> it allowed us to do all three in one transaction. a bit of a complicated transaction, but was also efficient in the sense that we could complete all three objectives per quickly, do so in a pretty short timeframe. us break the deal down, we are joined by chris palmeri. the ceoheard that thinks this really makes sense. what are investors thinking? does this deal work out for the three parties? >> so far what we have seen is the reaction from the holders o

last month the chinese, excuse me an american cia officer was sentenced to 19 years in prison for spying one of several sentenced for spying. we asked the pentagon for comment but have not heard back yet. ed: thank you, lucas for being all over the story. we have peter navarro, appreciate you coming in. >> good afternoon, ed. ed: i know the spy game is not your biz. ed: i have to ask you about it, because you're here in part to talk about the phase one of the china trade deal. how can u.s. say china is reliable partner in the trade talks, that we're going to crack down on them stealing intellectual property when they're driving on u.s. military paces trying to get your secrets. >> a little cognitive dissonance there, ed. it is my bag. i wrote a book in 2016 called, crouching tiger, which documented the breadth and length of chinese spying in this country. this kind of thing is just the tip of the iceberg. having diplomats do it is just bold. there is documented cases of spies at our universities. ed: yeah. >> at our think tanks. every day we've got spies in shanghai who are cyber spies g

auschwitz there head of the german chancellor's visit there thomas you told us earlier on american has been in office for 14 years why is she making a 1st trip to auschwitz only now. the government says that i'm going to mco has already visited other sites and that this is also a responsibility that goes beyond the german chancellor so job and president's job and foreign ministers have also been to auschwitz and the official reason why i'm going to call is here to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the foundation of the auschwitz foundation which is it which has the responsibility to also deal with the funds to repay and to maintain this site with the. all correspondence from a sparrow at the memorial site of auschwitz i'll thank you thomas. you're watching news up next documentary series dr phil looks at the selfie generation doesn't get you can get all the latest news out of the nation around the hall on our website just d.w. dot com i'm going to she will have an update for you in 45 minutes thanks for watching. welcome to the book is the game here. we have plenty to talk about in. this country. m

now, this film, is expected to gross about $200 million in the north american box office this weekendbiggest opening of the year and seventh biggest of all time. still behind the prior two "star wars" films. disney said it won't do another "star wars" theatrical release for another three years. the media giant has a lot riding on the "star wars" franchise disney spent over a million in land, the company admitting early attendance was lower than anticipated and "star wars" is a key piece of disney plus "star wars" spin off was a flag ship show at the launch of the streaming service. disney has several other live action and animated series in the works for disney plus. the question is whether having seven episodes of this available for streaming at home on disney plus for just 7 a month drives more interest in "star wars" or if it raises the bar for getting people off the couch and to buy tickets for the movie theater. another challenge for the rise of sky walker, the reviews have not been as positive as the prior to films just a 56% rating on hotten tomatoes >> thank you, julia. also,

why do you think democrats haven't convinced more americans that president trump should be removed from office? >> well, i think that's going to continue to happen as the evidence now in the senate trial continues to be examined and is there for americans of all different backgrounds to see with their own eyes and hear with their own ears. and so, i actually have confidence that... as this process continues to move along-- because we're onlylf y through it-- but as the process continues to move along and people see and hear the, evidenat there is going to this president froce.emoving the other thing we have to acknowledge, though, is, you politically polarime, and this president has tried to do evything that he can to fa the flames of that division. so, it's not surprising thatse you're going tnumbers like this. but as people see the evidence e and hear tdence, i believe that you'll see more folks support his removal. >> alcindor: mm-hmm. do you think there are too man millionaires in the race right now? >> what i believe is tmet too often money talks in politics, whether that's the money of s

indicted former fort worth police officer aaron dean for murdering atatiana jefferson in a case that sparked widespread outrage over police killings of african american women. officer dean, who o is white, ws responding to a non-emergency call by a neighbor for wellness check. the neighbors saw jefferson's front door was open on a warm night in october. the 28-year-old graduate student was in her bedroom, babysitting her eight-year-old nephew. soon after the officers arrived, dean shouted through jefferson's bedroom window to put her hands up and then n immediately opened fifire, killing her. he never identified himself as a police officer. on friday, atatiana's mother celebrated the murder indictment. atatiana's father died in november of f a heart attack at the age of 58, less than one month after his daughter's murder. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. nermeen: and i'm nermeen shaikh. welcome to all of our r listenes and viewers from around the country and around the world. why has there been so little progress in the were on cancer? according to the director o

american history. like, one time i was given a lecture at an office of homeland security.as their black history month program. after i gave a short speech on the black involvement in the civil war, one of the white men in the audience stood up and said, why are you here teaching us black history? i said sir, i'm not teaching you black history, i said, i am teaching you american history. it just happens to be about black people.. >> most people are probably familiar with the emmanuel leutze painting. what do you think of that? >> i think it is a lovely painting. he leutze was not trying to provide a snapshot of the actual historic effect. leutze was telling a story and in that painting you see the story of the american revolution, that he was trying to inspire people in germany at the time and their quest for revolution so, you see washington crossing, you see james monroe who ends up being a president. you see a flag, what we now call the betsy ross flag that is used in the painting. well, that flag was not being used in 1776, but leutze already knows how the story ends an

evidence shows that president trump faithfully executed the duties of his office by delivering on what he promised the american voters he would do. democrats may disagree with the president's policy decisions or the manner in which he governs, but those disagreements are not enoughnt to justify the irrevocable action of removing him from office. the democrats hyperbole are no good reason, 11 months out from an election, to prevent the american people from deciding on their own who is going to be their next president. this record also does not support a conclusion that president trump obstructed congress during the impeachment inquiry. for many of theenru procedural defects i touched on earlier. additionally as a factual matter, the only direct testimony theth investigation h obtained about the president's reaction tohe the inquiry, is fm ambassador sondland, who testified president trump told him to cooperate and tell the truth. president trump has also declassifiedso and released the summaries of his two phone calls with the president, president zelensky. president trump has said that he would like witnesses

despite these officers' ambivalence toward war time emancipation and african-american soldiers, the veteran officers who gathered in illinois' capital believed that they had cause to celebrate their contributions. and certainly they did. their western way of war had become the nation's. thanks so much. [applause] >> i am happy to take questions. i ran a little over. i'm sorry. i know i'm between you and the panel. so anything you don't think of now, i'll be there. >> -- how effective they were and how much they created new opposition? >> you're asking me how successful were hard war policies? [inaudible] >> i think the answer to that is both. on the one hand, hard policies as they are known, clearly brought more guerrillas out into the bush than perhaps previously had been. not certain exactly how many would never have come out, but for them, they decided to go into the brush specifically because local unionists militia decided to get information, hang their stepfather. or should i say hang him without killing him. that certainly drove them out. in other cases, some of these hard war polici

they refuse to allow the algerians to resolve the issue and to free the american hostages until l cater is out of office and rag b ben is sworn in so it's not until the inauguration of reagan, 444 days after the hostage taken, that finally those americans are let go and can come home. it's 1981 and reagan is the president of the united states. an interesting moment. you might think the reagan administration can look toward this new islam presence and growing presence in the region and say we've got a new threat, a new challenge. how are we going to revolve this issue? that's not where reagan's head is at. he's an old, cold war war r yor. he's focused on the soviet union. so islamist presence. the challenge it presents is basically put way deep in the background. we have a terrible relationship with iran. we don't resolve it during the reagan administration. we don't recognize their government. we keep as donald trump would tell us later, a huge hunk of their money hostage in their banks. we don't give it back to them and we just have a deteriorating back story relationship with iran. and of course the i

charges were filed, charges which accuse the president of abusing the power of his office to exert pressure on american war with russia, it sends a curious message that the white house puts out this particular picture of the president in the oval office with the russian foreign minister. you can take it as just diplomacy or a deliberate provocation or as a kind of indication in plain sight of where the president's loyalties lie. asa where the president's loyalties lie. as a republican strategist, it makes defence more difficult surely, doesn't it? one would think that. conventional wisdom would lead you to that. i regularly meet with the bush appointees, those who were for president george w bush, and the people are aghast at how the trump administration seems to always act recklessly without any regard, forget the rule of law, just what society would think, forget establishment vote on capitol hill, they almost don't care to conceal their intentions anyway. it is a 50-50 their intentions anyway. it is a 50—50 chance here. was it aikens —— my coincidence or was it orchestrated? it my coincidence or was

office. he is the first african-american great chicagoe field office. amazing example of where we need to be in the broader and higher level representation that is hard to achieve within the organization. to continue to combat the complex and evolving threats we face and fulfill our mission in the most effective a ways -- effective ways possible, we need to recruit from all walks of life, those who embody the four values of the fbi, which include fairness, integrity, accountability, leadership, and importantly -- diversity. we are aggressively and proactively recruiting african-american special agents as people of diverse that grounds, and our field offices continue to reach out to and across a wide range of groups, including historically black colleges and universities and community-based organizations. agencyan resources developed the program to continue to attract diverse candidates and we are also working hard to make sure every member of the fbi family feels welcome, included, valued for who they are and what they bring to the table. we need to str

it also had an important impact on the office of the american presidency. and the office of the american presidency was diminished in many ways by this affair, and i will argue at the end that two american presidents saw their legacies very badly damaged by the hostage crisis and the little hostage crisis that followed it for the next decade. malcolm was right to start with thinking about the revolution. it was, of course, the stage setter. it was completely unprecedented. there was nothing like it. analyzing it in the fall of 1978. things were happening that no one had predicted were going to happen. within the united states though i think there was more ambivalence about the revolution than we think in retrospect. the shah was not a particularly popular character in the united states. any of the americans who actually followed the 1973 oil embargo knew that it was the shah, not the saudis, who pushed for quadrupling oil prices. his image was very strong and positive among foreign policy elites, less so among others. but the number one american reaction i t

there is open-mindedness through empowering more women to get into elected office, most americans feelat way but that -- the way you empower more women is not by bashing demographics but by trying to do things that empower people. the 20 women can be better on their own, you don't have to bash men to do it. >> i agree. having a female president would be fabulous. we are the majority of this country, 51% more women. great representation of our demographics but what a hypocrite because he didn't step aside for hillary clinton and when it came time to choose a vp he did not choose hillary clinton, he chose an old white man. even mccain chose sarah palin. what a hypocrite. heather: thank you for joining us, appreciate your insight and we will be right back. when we were looking for a roommate, he wanted someone super quiet. yeah, and he wanted someone to help out with chores. so, we got jean-pierre. but one thing we could both agree on was getting geico to help with renters insurance. ♪ yeah, geico did make it easy to switch and save. ♪ oh no. there's a wall there now. that's too bad. visi

the release of an american citizen as part of a prisoner swap with iran. in the deadly attack by saudi military officerargeting americans at a u.s. naval base in florida. national security joins us now. jennifer. >> u.s. officials not yet wheeling to call this terrorism overnight the navy release the victims names all americans. joshua watson mohammed, and scott walters lost the recent naval academy graduate. he saved many lives by telling first responders join the shooting took place after being shot several times. the shooter saudi royal air force officer, one of 862 saudis maintained in the u.s. right now. he is the handgun with an extended magazine to target americans in the pensacola naval classroom. the fbi is aware of its eye american tweets posted i'm twitter on the shooter news name. six societies were detained near the attack by one have been videotaping. none of them is bad this weekend. held captive by iran for over three years. they are releasing prisoner, for an iranian scientist. >> i think it is great to show that we are doing something. a precursor is what's to come. >> he and his wife

it is said this saudi officer hated america and american people. how he got onto a secure military base as part of this training program is a big part of the investigation this weekend. cnn national correspond britain gingras is in pensacola. right now officials still won't say if this is terrorism. give us the latest. >> reporter: that's right, ana. you hit it right there. this is a global investigation with fbi attaches in saudi arabia, but also communication back and forth in washington. they won't label thatv investigation just yet. really it's going to come down to motive. that's still the major question that's not answered yes. fbi jacksonville is the lead investigative authority here. they are being pretty tight-lipped, but i want you to hear who secretary esper said today. >> i can't say it's terrorism. we need fbi to do the work and we'll get the facts and move from there. >> reporter: multiagencies really helping to uncover they answers. the joint terrorism task force is one of them. we know there's investigators on the ground inside the

or four-year long witch hunt to try to boot the president who was duly elected by the american people out of office>> i want to play for viewers your opening statement before the house judiciary committee in 1998 and here you are talking about president clinton. >> he has not owned up to the stonewall, the on instructioning and he's hair splitting to perpetuate the lies. the president lied and obstructed and abused power. i think a lot people will see that clip and think, you get offended when democrats abuse power but you don't get offended when republicans abuse power. >> kenneth star a special counsel who adam schiff was not did a lengthy investigation and sent us 36 boxes worth of evidence and said that clinton lies both in a civil deposition and in grand jury testimony under oath. that is the big difference. whatever trump did or didn't do on that phone call was not under oath. it was not in a judicial proceeding where the courts have to have the truth in order to administer justice. and that is why witnesses in any judicial proceeding are put under oath. big difference between the two. starr

trump, the 45th president of the united states, abused the power of his office-- the american presidency for his personal political benefit. >> woodruff: the evidence is presented. democrats in the u.s. house put forth their arguments for impeaching the president. and, the afghanistan papers. t a classifive of documents is published, revealing the lies and distortions at the heart of america's longest war. pl:

i was not elected to overturn the will of the american people. i ran for office to serve my con12ico constitue constituent, and that is why i am here. we should remember that. and i offer my colleagues what thomas paine said, to argue with the person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead. thank you and i yield back the balance of my time. >> the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from new york. >> i would say that the house has passed over 400 bills, and 275 bipartisan bills and driving down costs of health care and prescription drugs, and raising wages, and rebuilding infrastructure and dealing with corruption in washington. so 70% of the builts are languishing on senate leader mcconnell's desk. i yield to the gentle lady mada i want to place on the record that the members of congress swear to defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and today, we fulfill our oath by defending liberty, and the central figure testing america's resolve is not here in washington today. rather the closeted villain sits in mosc

>> well, the democratic party, the only chance for african-americans to take office, the republicansl never in our lifetime ever nominate a black. the key is here -- i want to be clear on that. >> that is so crazy. >> [overlapping talking]. >> i can continue? they will never nominate a black for president. >> laura: our party freed the slaves, okay. >> [overlapping talking]. >> she belongs to a party that will never nominate a person like herself. >> they will actually. >> [overlapping talking]. >> you would never be nominated as a republican president trump. >> you will never be successful because all you see is color. >> [overlapping talking]. >> those are talking points. >> that's a racist thing to say. you are looking at the color of my skin. >> laura: wait, wait, wait. >> [overlapping talking]. >> laura: leo, you just did what the democrats are doing on impeachment. you are asserting an opinion which you have every right to have -- actually a projection of an opinion as a fact. don't say it's a fact. you are a lawyer. it's not a fact. if i were the judge in a courtroom i would s

the evidence shows the president trump faithfully executed the duties of his office by delivering on what he promised the american voters he would do democrats may disagree with the president's policy decisions or their matter in which he governs but those disagreements are not enough to justify your revokable action of removing him from office democrats hyperbole and histrionics are no good reason 11 months out from an election to prevent the american people from decided on their own who is going to be the next president this record also does not support a conclusion the president trump obstructed congress during the impeachment inquiry for many of the procedural defects i touched on earlier additionally as a factual matter the only direct testimony investigation has obtained about the president's reaction to the inquiry is from embassadors onil and who testified president trump told him to cooperate and tell the truth president trump has also declassified and released the summaries of his 2 phone calls with the president president selenski president trump has said that he would like witnesses to testify but he'

crossed before. >> well, i find it -- i find it unprecedented that we would throw an american president out of office because we've never done it. >> but you tried to do it. republicans tried to do it with bill clinton for something that was -- >> no, i didn't try to do anything. i was in college when it happened. >> she means republicans. >> they stopped short. >> they stopped short because they didn't control the senate, so it was the shaame -- so it's not that they stopped it. they impeached him in the house. >> yeah, and a lot of democrats weren't happy with the president in that particular case either. but, look, my point is this. we've never thrown a president out of office, and i just -- i don't know very many republicans who think that this behavior warrants taking that step. >> but, scott, if republicans controlled the senate at that point, at that time, they would have thrown the president out of office. it's hypocrisy. that's her point. am i wrong, keirsten? well, it's hypocrisy, but it doesn't make sense. bill clinton, really if you're compare the two things, compare lying about an affair