cindy sheehan i had a good relationship with john conyers when he was head of the judiciary committee in the house you'll recall that in zero six the democrats took back the house and so he waited to decent interval and then send a invited me along to talk to john conyers and i went in there and he says well how can i help you and on and we said will. we're hoping that you won't page bush and cheney now that you're that you you know what impeachment is i mean you were on the committee one when you impeached or voted the articles of impeachment for nixon so so let's go or i can't do that. why not or could get the votes i said come on are you get the vote and well actually nancy pelosi says it's off the table. so why would it be of well she says that if we appear divisive that fox news going to have a heyday and and we won't win is big in the next election. now you know i left that meeting and i think like that you know it's so crass so political here's a constitution you've got here and they you know these really foresighted founders included impeachment six times in this constitution

revealed that he used taxpayer money to pay for sexual harassment and the longer serving in the house john conyers he also used taxpayer money to pay for that, that has not changed. the house rules practice is going to be voted on and we assume adopted this afternoon on mostly partyline democratic party line vote would expand some of those roles further to protect staffers even more. it would actually explicitly dial down sexual relationships between embers of calm, congress and their staff, it would bar and expand the no taxpayer money can be spent that you can't use taxpayer money to pay any judgment for any kind of discrimination not just sexual but employment, racial, disability discrimination, any other kind of discrimination. if a house member is found to have discriminated, he will have to pay that money out of his and our, her own pocket. >>> what is a firewall ? >> the firewall is the newest media organization in town or we hope around the country as people start reading it. it's an enterprise that a colleague of mine and i are creating to cover nothing but the issues that people say are

scheduled a hearing on impeachment that was canceled because miss pelosi went to the chairman john conyers and said if you have a hearing yeah i'm going to fire you so she was very very cherry because her primary concern was capturing the white house in two thousand and eight and what she was successful barack obama did win the election and moreover in this this context however i think she has far less influence over the rank and file than she did in two thousand and six for the reasons you said you have a huge number of very young democrats they don't over there election the nancy pelosi despite her fundraising capabilities the rules were changed earlier in the week that decentralizes power out of the speaker to the various committees to have more autonomy and therefore it will be very difficult for her to control the youthful exuberance that they feel in pushing forward on impeachment whether she wants to go there or not one more question for you person this is about the government shutdown fifteen days now i believe you slosh work through two previous shutdowns. based on previous experi

i found h.r. 40 by congressman john conyers first introduced in 1989 in the title of that is the commission to study were perforation for african-american i'll just read the small paragraph to give anybody who's not sure. >> can you give us your question? i've got an answer for you, because the question. >> sorry, the large set up. i want to know what your thoughts on reparations are and how impactful do you think it would be if we pass the bill, which is just a study. >> thank you. two things. on transportation, anthony fox, at the end of the administration, he had done a study and he was trying to push forward to the next administration to take a look at the discriminatory practices and transportation. he explained that the interstate system in the beltway system was meant to keep one side and on the other side out. and it started from there. so one side is inside, one side is out. they should not meet. so that the kids the light rail, the bus system. my first book, i tackled the issue of reparations as a possible healing, asking people. donna will call you from the time i started at the