cal state, east bay communications professor nolan higdon. professor higdon, thanks for your time. >> thanks for having me. >> what does an impeachment inquiry mean? what's the process ? is as far as i understand, the process, the inquiry will make a determination of whether or not they recommend to move forward with the impeachment and if they indeed do, and decide to impeach the president, they would move over to the senate where they would wrestle with the question of whether or not to remove the sitting president from office. >> all right. which we saw with president trump and played out with former president clinton as well. >> i want to ask you, is there a threshold to be met, to open an inquiry or is that just at house speaker's discretion? >> it's ultimately at the speaker's discretion. the impeachment is a political process. it's not a legal or judicial process. so even getting impeached doesn't necessarily mean that you did something illegal. it means that the political powers that be of the day determine they didn't like whatever i

here's political sign cyst nolan higdon. >> the republican party and the country have changed greatly since the time of ronald reagan. and i would argue that the country has gone further and further to the right. there's a case to be made that ronald reagan would struggle in today's republican primary. let's not forge he gave a couple million migrants a pass to legal immigration, an anathema to the rem party now. he also had supported some abortion rights legislation at the state level. so there's a lot of things that changed in the party where reagan simply wouldn't fit in in today's republican party. >> video of the republicans' first debate last month, seven candidates who will debate this evening at the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley. former arkansas governor asa hutchinson did not make the cut for this evening's debate. donald trump has said all along he would not atemd. he will instead speak to striking auto workers in michigan. trump claims the push to electric cars means all cars will be built in china at the cost of american union jobs. now, the most popula

we spoke with nolan higdon a cal state east bay professor of history communication who says a trip to the bay area is critical for the biden campaign. you know, he's gotten some unfavorable from his perspective. he sees here to rub shoulders those were in get some friendly media in a friendly place revenue. >> for his campaign after his time in atherton, the president was scheduled to helicopter into crissy field in san francisco. exciting that it's kind of cool to see him. >> around against police have the area shutdown, securing it for his arrival. but his landing got cancels. we don't know why officially, but it's most likely because of the weather. the president was driven into the city. instead. this is video from the citizen app showing his motorcade. biden has another campaign event in san francisco wednesday. he's also meeting with his council of advisors on science and technology. >> and, you know, the president then heads to phoenix is going to honor the late senator john mccain. and then we will see you back here in san francisco until the the apec summit and mid-november.

we spoke with nolan higdon a cal state east bay professor of history communication who says a trip to the bay area is critical for the biden campaign. he desperately needs friendly media at this snow camp is trying to avoid polls. >> they're trying to avoid questions about hunter there's recently been then, you know, supporters of the u.s. support for ukraine up now started being critical in the washington post, new york times. and so i think there's a lot bearing down on the biden administration. and so he's looking some positive press and revenue to increase his camp. the president has another campaign event in san francisco wednesday. >> he is also meeting with his council of advisors on science and technology. then he has to phoenix where he will honor late senator john mccain. >> president biden is scheduled to return to san francisco in mid-november for the apec summit. so we will see him again. >> and then people are pretty excited to have him here. you know, people even though they got diverted few traffic they had the motorcade coming through the closure. so it was the plane

yeah, from cal state east bay where analysts nolan higdon joining us this morning. so much for sharing your time with us. on this day. we're all reflecting on the life and legacy of senator feinstein but also honor impact and >> you know what we can draw from what she did. good morning. good morning. thank you so much for having solutely. so can you talk about how she changed the game in politics for women? what she face, what she went through and >> how things are different because of her. >> you know, i i was reflecting a lot of morning on her time is the female mayor of san francisco and the way that she rose to that position and mysteries of often credit her credit her with, you know, stabilizing the city during that time. there are just been the murder of mice, kony and harvey milk the way she handled with so much death and great leadership really woodward define her, i think through the rest of careers. >> but she she worked on the issue of gun control. first, like you said, because because that violence spring boarded her to the national scene as well. and so

cal state east bay professor nolan higdon says the effort is unlikely to move the needle with the americanunless you have the evidence and the votes to convince the public that a president has done wrong and then remove the president. >> this is largely kind of a futile political exercise. it turns a lot of voters off because regardless of how they feel about a joe biden or donald trump, usually impeachment of the president is very low on people's priority list. >> the inquiry process is slated to get started right away, with republican committee chairman heading across the capitol tomorrow to brief the senate. >> google's antitrust trial got underway today in washington, dc . the mountain view tech giant is accused by the federal government of paying billions of dollars every year in order to maintain its foothold as the dominant search engine on smartphones. google says competition from microsoft and other companies helps maintain a balance. experts say the outcome of this case is going to have a huge impact on future technologies, primarily artificial intelligence. >> as google is accus