it is a praise of john locke's second treatise of government. so all of the ideas contained in this one sentence sum up the core fundamental principles of locke's second treatise of government. all right. so let's now begin to unpack the meaning of this complex sentence. it begins, we hold these truths to be self-evident. now, in many ways, i think this is the most important clause of the most important sentence of the most important document in american history. but it's one that's often passed over. in part it's passed over, i think, because it's so simple and so elegant in its formulation that we just are kind of -- eye reads over it and we want to get to the truths themselves. but i think -- i think this first clause is critically important. we hold these truths to be self-evident. now, most scholars of the declaration of independence tend to focus on this notion of self-evident. we hold these truths to be self-evident. well, what could that possibly mean to say that the truths that are to follow are self-evident? well, this idea of self-evi

john locke said this -- wherever law ends, tyranny begins. this impeachment asks whether we are still a republic of laws as our founders intended or whether we will accept that one person can be above the law. in america as we have said over and over again, no one is above the law. but only as long as we hold every person accountable for breaking the law even a president, will that be true. if the house does not act, if we wait and delay, we run the risk of the president's misconduct. if we believe it to be so to be repeated at the expense of the integrity of our elections, our national security and our constitutional system of separation of powers. democrats did not choose this impeachment. we did not wish for it. we voted against it. we voted against it once. we voted against it twice. we voted against it three times as recently as july. we did not want this. however, president trump's misconduct has forced our constitutional republic to protect itself. these votes that we are about to take and the process that will follow in the senate are

john locke a millenia ago said this, wherever law ends, tyranny begins. this impeachment asks whether we are still a republic of laws as our founders intended or whether we will accept that one person can be above the law. in america, as we have said over and over again, no one is above the law, but only as long as we hold every person accountable for breaking the law, even a president, will that be true. if the house does not act, if we wait and delay we run the risk of allowing the president's misconduct. if we believe it to be so, to be repeated at the expense of the integ rutty of our elections and our national security and our constitutional system of separation of powers. democrats did not choose this impeachment. we did not wish for it. [ laughter ] >> we voted against it. we voted against it once. we voted against it twice, we voted against it three times as recently as july. we did not want this. however, president trump's misconduct has forced our constitutional republic to protect itself. [ applause ] these votes that we are about to take and t

john lock, mill len ya ago, said this -- whether law ends, tyranny begins. this impeachment asks whether we are still a republic of laws. as our founders intended or whether we will accept that one person can be above the law. in america, as we have said over and over again, no one is above the law. but only as long as we hold every person accountable for breaking the law the, even a president, will that be true. if the house does not act, if we wait and delay, we run the risk of allowing the president's misconduct, if we believe it to be so, to be repeated at the expense of the integrity of our elections, our national security and our constitutional system of separation of powers. the democrats did not choose this impeachment. we did not wish for it. we voted against it -- we voted against it once, we voted against it twice, we voted against it three times as recently as july. we did not want this. however, president trump's misconduct has forced our constitutional republic toll protect itself. these votes that we are about to take and the process that will

john lock a millennia ago said this: wherever law ends tier rei tyranny begins.impeachment asked whether we are still a republic of laws. as our founders intended or whether we will accept that one person can be above the law in america, as we have said over and over again, no one is above the law. but only as long as we hold every person accountable for breaking the law, even a president will that be true. if the house does not act, if we wait and delay, we run the risk of allowing the president's misconduct. if we believe it to be so, to be repeated at the expense of the integrity of our elections, our national security and our constitutional system of separation of powers. democrats did not choose this impeachment. we did not wish for it. [murmurs] >> we voted against it. we voted against it once. we voted against it twice. we voted against it three times as recently as july. we did not want this. however, president trump's misconduct has forced our constitutional republic to protect itself. [applause] these votes that we are about to take and the process that

john lock a millennia ago said is, wherever law ends, turny begins -- tierney begins. this impeachment asks whether we are still a republic of laws as our founders intended, or whether we will accept that one person can be above the law. in america, as we have said over nd over again, no one is above the law. but only as long as we hold every person accountable for breaking the law, even a president, will that be true. if the house does not act, if we wait and delay, we run the risk of allowing the president's misconduct. if we believe it to be so, to be repeated at the expense of integrity of our elections, our national security, and our constitutional system of separation of powers. democrats did not choose this impeachment. e did not wish for it. we voted against it. we voted against it once. we voted against it twice. we voted against it three times as recently as july. e did not want this. however president trump's misconduct has forced our constitutional republic to rotect itself. these votes that we are about to take and the process that will follow in the senat

about to take concerning the rule of law and our democracy itself let us not forget the words of john locke so influenced influential to the founders of our republic john lott millennia ago said this wherever law ends tyranny begins this impeachment asked whether we are still a republic of laws as our founders intended or whether we will accept that one person and be above the law in america as we have said over and over again no one is above the law but only as long as we hold every person accountable for breaking the law even a president will that be true if the house does not act if we wait and delay we won the risk of allowing the president's misconduct if we believe it to be so to be repeated at the expense of the integrity of our elections our national security and our constitutional sists system of separation of powers democrats did not choose this in pietschmann we did not wish for it. we voted against it we voted against it once we voted against it twice we voted against it 3 times as recently as july we did not want this however president trump's misconduct has forced our constitu

. >> in many ways, underlies the early philosophy of thinkers like john locke or jon stewart mill. this project of freeing people, in many ways has succeeded. icople are more free of each other and more free of the kinds of institutions in which human life once it was essential to a flourishing life. we think of this not only in terms of robert putnam writing about rolling alone, our liberation from associations, our religion from religion, whatever pretty inheritance we may have as a matter of tradition or custom. some family from marriage or each other and in many ways liberal democracy seems to be, it may be, and i think it has been the case, it requires those kinds of institutions that help us train informs us stability stability. forms of dialogue. how to disagree with one another in some ways it marks the success of liberalism. it also marks its failures. it's crisis. >> you write that part of liberal democracy's goal was to get rid of the old social order so we have built a new social order. >> in many ways, that social order is meant to replace a lot of those older institut

john locke, millennia ago, said this. wherever law ends, tyranny begins.ic of laws, as our founders intended, or whether we will accept that one person can be above the law. in america, as we have said over and overagain, america, as we have said over and over again, no—one is america, as we have said over and overagain, no—one is above america, as we have said over and over again, no—one is above the law. but only as long as we hold every person accountable for breaking the law, even the president, will that be true. if the house does not act, if we wait and delay, we run the risk of allowing the president's misconduct. if we believed to be so, to be repeated at the expense of integrity of our elections, our national security and our constitutional system of separation of powers. democrats did not choose this

in moscow for the actor to live in and to school the actor who was ronald reagan and adam smith, john locke with little essays added by henry. he gave little books just like the manhattan institute and hopedli they would be red. this actor reagan was not exactly popular across ge either. the younger executives did not like having a western propaganda and they complained about reagan but the few remaining years they could not stop him and his actor and he sent reagan all around to hundreds of ge plants to explain all about the tva and the future of industry in the industry might move west and so on and the actor in him wrote speeches about the dangers of socialism and socializing medicine was a bad idea, the tva was a bad idea and power could innovate faster when it was free to make its own decisions. maybe hydropower was not the only kind of power in the united states. soon enough reagan began to take his arguments seriously. he even bought his son ge stock. the year 1960 cast a dark cloud over ge. him and his propaganda mill. the investigation in 1961 the new attorney general whose name is

for the actor to live in and boulware pulled the actor who wasronald reagan and adam smith , john locke with little essays added by henry catholic. he gave schoolbooks just like the manhattan institute does out and hoped they would be read. this actor, reagan was wasn't exactly popular across ge either. the younger executives didn't like having some kind of western propagandist and complain about reagan but for the few remaining years boulware was there they couldn't stop boulware and his actor and boulware since reagan all around to ge plants to explain all about the tva and the future of industry and the industry might move west and so on. then actor, he wrote speeches about the dangers of socialism and thatsocializing medicine was a bad idea. the tva was a bad idea . our could innovate faster when it was free to make its own decisions. maybe i drove power wasn't the only kind of power in the future of the united states and soon reagan began to take boulware's arguments seriously. he even boughthis son some ge stock . the year 1960 cast a dark cloud over ge boulware and boulware's pro

john lock a millennia ago said is, wherever law ends, turny begins -- tierney begins. this impeachment asks whether we are still a republic of laws as our founders intended, or whether we will accept that one person can be above the law. in america, as we have said over nd over again, no one is above the law. but only as long as we hold every person accountable for breaking the law, even a president, will that be true. if the house does not act, if we wait and delay, we run the risk of allowing the president's misconduct. if we believe it to be so, to be repeated at the expense of integrity of our elections, our national security, and our constitutional system of separation of powers. democrats did not choose this impeachment. e did not wish for it. we voted against it. we voted against it once. we voted against it twice. we voted against it three times as recently as july. e did not want this. however president trump's misconduct has forced our constitutional republic to rotect itself. these votes that we are about to take and the process that will follow in the senat

. >> john locke millennia ago said this -- "wherever law ends, tyranny begins." >> no law was broken. no high crimes or misdemeanors. no impeachable offenses. >> i know the president said that he can get away with anything he wants to. i come today to tell you that no, he cannot. no one is above the law. and he shall be held accountable. >> for more on the legal questions we are left with after just hearing that assortment of opinions, barbara mcquade is back with us, the veteran federal prosecutor and former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. barbara, you just heard the man say no laws were broken, no high crimes and misdemeanors. who's right here? how serious are the charges in these two -- these two articles of impeachment? >> well, if you listen to the constitutional scholars who testified before congress a couple of weeks ago, they say it's very serious. if you look at the kinds of harms that the framers of the constitution were most concerned about, president trump hits all of them. they were concerned about foreign influence. they were concerned about subvertin

version of english protestantism to give you a version even about enlightenment before anybody read john lockethey said no we will govern ourselves. i cannot give you a date but somewhere between the early 17th century and 1776 you do have american interest that governs itself with its own morays and ways of thinking. and you don't get the revolution at that pace it was about vindicating the rights of that nation. >> whitey resist the notion america is an idea and a general sense defined by a way of thinking about itself not a political life more than it is to find by a place or language or ethnicity that hold some nations together? you describe people unified by certain ways of thinking. >> that's a good point and i want to say the ideals are not important but i make the case how you think is caught up in your culture seeded with ideas. what i say in the book if settled by russians and you give them all a copy of the second treaty and demand they read it every single night they still would not even have gotten close to the american founding. second, the ideals are dependent on the success of

." >> john lennon was locked up in rikers island on unrelated drug charges when he read an article inaily news. it mentioned on february 11th, 2002, a laundry bag with a body in it had washed ashore on plumb beach. you know, i'll never forget it, of course. and that's when, you know, it all hits you. it was like, "oh, [bleep]. now there's gonna be an investigation." >> what we learned through the investigation and throughout the trial process is he was a person who was willing to sbintimidate witnesses, charm witnesses, threaten people, and he was going to extract any means that he could to try and get away with being held responsible for this. >> when the trial started in new york, taisha lawson brought her newborn daughter and her mother to the brooklyn courtroom every day. >> the person that murdered my brother is sitting literally, like, inches away from me, and i'm looking at him, and he's looking at me. >> they showed alex's body to the jury, and the district attorney, they knew what they were doing. i remembered, like, hearing this wail in the audience, and it was his mother. a

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and john took it over to comey at the f.b.i. he locked it in his safe that night. and i can tell you, having looked at it, it was unnerving. here's what i would say -- if by then -- [cell phone ringing] [laughter] if by then, december 2017, you had numerous reports that steele was out to get trump, that things weren't on the up-and-up, that you used it without verifying it. i don't fault anyone for looking into allegations like this but i do fault them for lying and misrepresenting to the court. just put yourself in carter page's position. whatever you think about carter page, i don't think he's james bond. they put this guy through hell. there are other people that probably spent thousands of dollars on legal fees at a time when i think the investigation should have stopped. thank you, all very much. see you wednesday.

and john took it over to comey at the fbi. he locked it in the safe that nights, and i can tell you having looked at it, it was unnerving. here's what i would say. if by then is by december 2017 you had numerous reports that still were about getting trump. that things were not on the up and up. that you use it without verifying it, no i don't fault anyone for looking into allegations like this. i do fault them for lying and misrepresenting to the court. and just be yourself and carter pages position. whatever you think about carter page, i don't think he's james bond. they put the sky through hell. and there are other people that probably spent thousands of dollars on legal fees, i think at a time when the investigation should have stopped. thank you all very much see you wednesday. [silence] 2020 republican candidate joe washes a top host and former illinois congressman. he set down a c-span2 talk about wise challenging president trump's reelection campaign in his displeasure with fellow republicans. this is 30 minutes. joining us from

trump did all this stuff, but i know that you and i can't determine it, and john took it over to comey at the fbi. he locked it in his safe that night. and i can tell you having looked at it, it was unnerving. here's what i would say. if by then -- >> is -- >> no. if by then, december 2017, you had numerous reports that steele was out to get trump, that things weren't on the up and up, that you use it without verifying it, i don't fault anybody for looking into allegations like this. i do fault them for lying and misrepresenting to the court and just put yourself in carter page's position. whatever you think about carter page, i don't think he's james bond, you know, they put this guy through hell. and there are other people that probably spent thousands of dollars on legal fees i think at a time when the investigation should have stopped. thank you, all, very much. see you wednesday. >>> campaign 2020 coverage continues this evening with remarks from president trump at a campaign rally in hershey, pennsylvania. he'll speak to voters and supporters starting live at 7:00 eastern on c-span2. >>> as the impeac

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john sears. who kept it in his locked office until steve's arrest. that's when sears turned it over to law enforcement. >> reporter: so was the curious case of the migrating club sock an attempt to cover up a murder, or a bit of confusion. an investigative dead end? prosecutors weren't done, mind you. they next tried to tie steve to the crime scene. they didn't find any of steve's dna or fingerprints at carol's house, but they did see those tire tracks. a criminalist compared them with the tires on steve's bike. >> the tread on this tire is similar to the tread we observed of this tire track. >> and did you find any discernible differences between them? >> no i did not. >> reporter: and those shoe prints. they brought in an expert from the fbi. >> did you find any shoes that seemed to be comparable to the impressions that you observed in these photos from the crime scene? >> yes. i found one shoe that could have made those impressions. >> reporter: a la sportiva pike's peak. records showed that steve bought a pair of those shoes two years before the

two number one briefly and then i know i was locked up very quickly by elton john and prince. [laughter] i gotta see, if you going to be paid by somebody on the bestseller list. elton john and friends. okay. >>> will next week i hope you are back on number one. >> thank you. seriously, this is the great story. gotta see, it is difficult for your me to put the book down. once i picked it up. and you really, need a brilliant story. big her name. corporations, politicians, all of the sort of cost of characters. and i gotta see that i was really sort of laughing about it in the way that you made a rise in the pages of your book. you made them) that and more left back it is a page turner. i kept going back and say page to page a chapter to chapter because some sort of brilliant phrase you had a little bit of irony of the chapter titles themselves. especially the last one. containment. it could be integrated in several different ways. >> oh yeah, containment yet. >> i was worried about the chapter title but has the russians were averted. about putting going to the bathroom. nobody i

minorities since world war 2 more than a 1000000 ethnic week of muslims locked up in specially set up prisons in china's north west region of john john the chinese government has consistently claimed that the camps are voluntary reeducation censors to counter extremism but a slew of recently leaked documents known as the china cables tells a different story they say the camps are run like high security prisons and the prisoners are can be showed no mercy in recent years thousands of wiggers of fled into exile the double correspondent junia han met one woman who says she's has been she was trapped inside a detention center for more than a year. going for walk with her grandson just a year ago good bargello but wouldn't have dreamt it was possible. at the time she was in china in one of the internment camps for a week is for education centers as the leadership in beijing calls them. who won the. good this is from the day i was arrested it states my name but it's my birthday to them and that i am a terrorist it would be to the thought of them call that google has says the chinese authorities never explained why they thought she was

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john paul dillon was departure comes 12 days into a nationwide strike against his plans which aimed to plug a chronic deficit in the pension system is a blow to president emanuel mccrum whose government remains locked in a standoff with trade unions. now to a story of death squads in the former soviet republic of belarus with 3 opposition politicians disappeared without a trace 20 years ago there was speculation the killings were ordered by president alexander lukashenko who's kept an eye on grip on power for more than 2 decades in an exclusive interview d.w. has spoken with a man who says he was one of the killers during a good half skiis living in a central european country and is seeking asylum there. in a deitsch avella exclusive he tells us about his time in a regime death squad in belarus and reveals new details about a series of crimes. a number of opposition politicians in belarus disappeared 2 decades ago and it's still not known what happened to them on the evening of may the 7th 1909 your is a hot anchor parked his car here near the old fire house in minsk and was never seen again. at that time the former interior minister was a leading figure in the opposition. her ranko and his support

lock. there paying top level football in all facets right now. >>> one last time, john meets. they officially become a force for the las vegas readers. the team was it's game. the mr. this was again but the team is looking forward to a new home. >> excited. excited to have a city that. we can't wait to keep improving our team and we are very fired up. >> despite the team moving to las vegas next year, they still have some things scheduled for the bay area. david have off-season meeting coming alameda and the tilt dear annual training camp in napa before officially is a non- . >>> hang around for just a little while. >>> outside our doors this afternoon, a lot of sunshine and as a result, most areas were warmer this afternoon. give me a look there. across the bay and in the san francisco, a beautiful evening. although it's going to be a cool one, temperatures would be flitting back into the 30s and 40s. before we move forward, let's move back. take a look at some of the rainfall amounts of sunday stone. san francisco they can up a little bit more to happen is., half-inch. in th

because right now he believes he has senate republicans locked in, opposed to the conviction of the president. back to you. >> all right, joe johnsiate the reporting. if i don't see you first, have a great holiday. >> you, too. >>> meantime, the president is closing the gap on his 2020 democratic rivals in a new cnn poll of head-to-head matchups. it shows the president has cut the lead that joe biden and bernie sanders had on him and have back in october while overtaking mayor pete buttigieg altogether. these new numbers come on the heels of last night's democratic debate where buttigieg found himself to be a target. >> the mayor just recently had a fund-raiser that was held in a wine cave full of crystals and served $900 a bottle wine. >> i'm literally the only person on this stage who is not a millionaire or a billionaire. your net worth is 100 times mine. >> i do not sell access to my time. i don't do call time with millionaires and billionaires -- >> as of when? your presidential campaign right now, as we speak, is funded in part by money you transferred having raised it at those exact same big-ticket fund-raisers you now den

john dingell. though some did say the comment was other the line. on the issue of impeachment, the republicans were in lock step with the president sooed, even adding another voice to the chorus. >> thank you very much. a great honor. >> in the oval office today welcoming democratic congressman jeff van drew to the democratic party, president trump insisted the impact of last night's vote to impeach him is minimal. >> it doesn't feel like impeachment. it's a phony deal and they cheapen the word impeachment. it's ugly but they cheapened the word. >> article ii is adopted. >> the president also took aim at nancy pelosi for holding back on sending the articles of impeachment to the senate. >> they're playing games. they don't want to put in their articles, their ridiculous, phony, fraudulent articles. and i think they're not allowed to do that. >> congressman van drew was one of two democratic no votes on the first article of impeachment, one of three on the second article. his defection has drawn scorn from democrats and republicans alike who say it's a craven attempt at political survival. then drew invokin

winning grammys at 77 john wheeler illuminated our ideas of the universe at 70 and roger crouch was 56 when he first went into space your best is yet to come >>> is it a ufo, is the lockwondering what is behind you that is living in the sky. >> we can't tell darren. >>> you'll probably be able to figure out right away, we got a lot of cameras in high places but if you want to get above the clouds you've got to get to the top of sutro today. when you do that and you look towards salesforce tower, it looks like there is this glowing orb just floating near the tops of the clouds. it is a pretty cool shot from up here, but what i want to do is come down underneath the clouds next. we are going to leave the view from sutro looking towards salesforce and i'm going to bring them into san jose. because san jose had an interesting mark today. there is the view of downtown, you can see that same deck of cards we were looking at from above, but it is that number right there. 700 today. for the daytime high in san jose. we are not breaking records when we do that. but the average for today, in case you're wondering, 62. we've got a 700 day here in the middle of december, with thi

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john mccain, even in death. the white house was critical of democrats bringing up the name of barron trump during impeachment hearings. the president then locking euroar-old -- mocking 16 greta thunberg. mocking ahis week deceased, for possibly being in hell. guest: i am not going to defend the president. point,to speak to the barron trump is a child. he is the son of the president. greta thunberg, she put herself in the middle of a very hot debate about climate change in this country. she is 16, but she has become the face of a very hot political debate in this country. i think there is a large difference between barron trump being the son of the president and greta thunberg being a spokesperson for a political issue. host: you are right on that point, but melania trump in her be best campaign, one of the mantras is to make sure there is more civil discourse and social media, but you get that from her present. she is only 16 years old and she was mocked by the president because of what she believes in. sure, i think the 63 million people who voted for donald trump knew what they were getting. he was bombastic on twitter years before he was swo

locked in, that political risk could be diminished. >> let's talk about rudy giuliani. rudy giuliani is admitting in various interviews, john said, you know, sounded proudly or bragging, that he had to get -- he was working with these two disgraced, demonstrably corrupt former prosecutors in ukraine, shokin and lutsenko, and they needed marie yovanovitch out of the way because they wanted to do what they wanted to do, and they at no tididn't like that s investigating them. they planted the seed that maybe she should be investigating joe biden. rudy giuliani liked that i suppose, or liked that narrative, and he's saying, yes he had to get her out of the way. i mean, it couldn't be -- sometimes, jeffrey, you want to slap your head when something is just so out there and so obvious. >> you know, everyone should read my colleague adam entos's piece in the new yorker, which is where giuliani first made these statements. this is what i think democrats mean when they say the facts are undisputed in this case. giuliani is admitting that he got the american ambassador to ukraine fired. i mean, that's what he was bragging about, and

lock step on these questions. it's a real problem in our politics now. it's one of the reasons why people who were central like johnposed to what was going on will not come out and testify. i'm sure part of that reason is how he would will vilified if he would be seen as aiding the democrats. that's the political moment we're in and it's a dangerous one. >> and a sad one. thank you all very much. next, the justice department's inspector general destroys what trump and his allies have been claiming. >> they spied on my campaign. >> they were spying on the campaign. >> but there wasn't. why is president trump's instinct to defend the saudis again? i am all about living joyfully. ♪ hello. the united explorer card hooks me up. getting more for getting away. rewarded! going new places and tasting new flavors. rewarded! traveling lighter. rewarded. haha, boom! getting settled. rewarded. learn more at the explorer card dot com. and get... rewarded! a more secure diaper closure. there were babies involved... and they weren't saying much. that's what we do at 3m, we listen to people, even those who don't have a voice. we ar

he locked that in with an investment, with an enforcement mechanism to protect our investments in high technology. >> dr. michael pillsbury and phase one, the deal is done. investigative reporter johns d historian dog wead. follow me on twitter @loudobbs, like me on facebook, follow me on instagram @loudobbstonight. please join us tomorrow. we'll see you then. good night from new york. [♪] trish: racism? that's how lawmakers are justifying impeachment of the president of the united states. i'm trish regan. it's getting weird. i am not kidding. as the dems sharpen their pencils one thing is becoming clear. they have no idea what they are doing. and they are in so far over their heads that as a result they themselves are doing the very thing they are accusing president trump of doing. they are threatening the integrity of you are system and our constitution. the entire charade has cost them the trust of american voters. so they are desperately tryi

locked in a standoff. democrats insist any trial must include witnesses. specifically, the president's chief of staff mick mulvaney and former national security advisor, johnn, who the administration blocked from testifying in the house investigation. here now is democratic congressman jerry connolly of virginia. he serves on the oversight and foreign affairs committees. so when congress comes back this first full week of january, what are the next steps in this impeachment process? >> well, depending on what happens in the senate, the house will transmit articles of impeachment and name impeachment managers. >> that first week you think? >> well, if -- if certain conditions, i think, are met. i don't speak for the speaker. but i think one of the reasons for withholding the articles of impeachment is, a, to provide some space for schumer and mcconnell to work out rules similar to the rules that trent lott and dashel worked out in the previous impeachment. but secondly, to get some clarification on just how impartial the senate majority leader and republican colleagues in the senate are prepared to be. they take an oath. a separate oath for impeachment. pro

john adams arrested journalist. abraham lincoln suspended avery's corpus shutdown theater newspapers and civil war. arrested and joe are journalist. edgar wilson a ration racist he re- segregated the government. he locked up socialist opponents. and locked up critical journalist. the espionage act. fdr, japanese-americans upheld by the supreme court by the way. also use the irs contain a break in the inquiry with newspapers. kennedy and the irs. and not just democrats, lbj tapped the phones of his political opponent. tapped the phones as vice president. and we have republican examples too. is this a joke that the phone call by donald trump is the worst example that these professors and others could come up with? if that's not impeachable nothings impeachable. under that theory everyone of these men should have been impeached. >> they have created open ended criteria which does not go along with the constitution itself. and if president trump is impeached, it will set a terrible precedent which role weaponize impeachment and the next democrat gets elected will be impeached. because they will find it abuse of power. it's hard to find any president whether a modern president or an old president that can't

john adams arrested and jailed journalist. abraham lincoln, suspended habeas corpus, shut down treasonous newspapers in the civil war. arrested and jailed journalist. woodrow wilson a racist and segregationist, re- segregated the government, he lockedsocialist opponents and locked up critical journalists fdr,. [inaudible] upheld by the supreme court by the way. kennedy and the irs and his opponents are not just democrats, i'm giving examples, lbj irs, fbi, cia tapped the phones of his opponents. we have republican examples too. is this a joke that the phone call by donald trump is the worst example that these professors can come up with that that's not impeachable, nothings impeachable, under their theory every one of these men should have been impeached. >> they have created open-ended criteria which there is no relationship to the words of the constitution itself. if president trump is impeached it will set a terrible precedent that will weaponize impeachment and the next democrat who gets elected will be impeached because they will find an abuse of power. it's hard to find any modern president or old president that can't be accused of abuse of power. eleanor roosevelt instructs his attorney general when they arrest german sabote

john roberts will preside over the senate trial. and he will need to sign off on any subpoenas. in washington, ray bogan, ktvu fox2 news . >>> happening today, the status lock county of newman is remember remembering officer ronald singh. he was killed a year ago today after pulling over a drunk driver. it memorial ceremony will be in the newman downtown plaza starting at 6 pm tonight followed by a candlelight walk in his memory. singh is survived by his wife and son who is just 5 months old when his father died. >>> for christmas, the newman's police officer association prevented singh's 17-month-old son with a gift that would have delighted their coworker. they had told the baby boy he would teach him to grow up to be a police officer. the boy has his very own patrol car complete with a siren and a person who lives in the town of newman and wants to remain anonymous personalized the car by changing the stickers to make it look just like the car officer singh drove. >>> coming up in a minute, at the end for a san francisco family whose 12-year-old bulldog went missing just before christmas. >>> the new year is coming a new laws are coming. we will look at

locked inli place. that they are willing participants in a political fire wallpa despite the fact that f nochbt evidence is in dispute. no one has said fiona hill's account of john bolton sending his deputies up to the white house to report on conduct is not true. no one suggested there wasn't t concern of a drug deal going on inside the west wing. what do you do about that? >> we have to bring this to everyday americans. talking about the president'sab conduct but if yo worked atou a local restaurant a server and your boss came up to you and said you're due for a raise and promotion, but beforeb i give that to you i need to you go to the restaurant across the street and put cockroaches in their soup that would hurt their business. you know that's wrong.ss that's what the president is doing. he's asking his power to ask somebody else to do something that would benefit him. you'll seeth us continue to mak that case today. >> thank you for spending some time with us. heidi przybyla, let me come back to you. the democrats conundrum seems to be that they haven't had to articulate any anomalies in terms of the evidence or fact pattern. they are on the defense a littl