pietschmann is really all about and short circuiting democracy because i think the 2 these are the 2 broadest concepts that are being in play right now and they're part of the same thread here because i'm a political animal i eat and live survive off of politics and i can't even get through these hearings because i don't know what they're talking about i don't think they know what they're talking about ok i mean i i i and i want to be respectful to wendy because when he's the odd person out here and she's going to have ample amount of time to defend her position you go ahead john well look the entire process is illegitimate they always say when a president impeached there's going to be an asterix in the history books next to their name and this case is going to be a gastric next to impeachment because it was an illegitimate process this is a coup in plain sight peter that's all this is 1st it was russia collusion they couldn't prove that it was a quid pro quo they couldn't prove that it was obstruction of justice they couldn't prove that that it was bribery they couldn't prove that t

president to face formal and pietschmann charges house speaker nancy pelosi says he abused his power by withholding military age or pressure ukraine into investigating democratic rival joe biden votes expected in the next couple of weeks setting up a fight in the senate on whether to remove trump from office. reports in washington d.c. . it's official sadly that with confidence and humility with allegiance to our founders and heart full of love for america today i am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. donald trump will become the 4th president in u.s. history to face formal impeachment charges that could remove him from office the facts are uncontested the president abused his power for his own personal political benefit at the expense of our national security by withholding military aid and crucial oval office meeting in exchange for an announcement of an investigation into his political rival the white house says democrats are abusing their power and lying to the american people are you referring to the right of a lesion fine on your legacy. reza hoax it's

hopes impeachment will backfire on his rivals there was nothing done wrong to use the power of them pietschmann on this non-church is an embarrassment to this country. whatever the outcome what is happening in washington right now reflects the hyper partisan divisions in american politics. a report from a date of news that chief washington correspondent alexandra fung nama who joins us now from capitol hill welcome alexandra to talk us through what's happening today. so i think it's very telling how the morning started in the chamber only minutes after the house convenes the republicans presented a motion to adjourn they knew that they are not going to be successful but they did it anyway it's part of their strategy of for a just to wring their protest against impeachment so that's what we are going to see today more disruptions. in the house of representatives and a number of very interesting question is if we are going to see a vote strictly on party lines so far only 2 democrats say they are going to vote against impeachment but maybe there will be more deflections so those are the things th

pietschmann illegitimate in an effort of democrats to undo the election of trump that put him into office saying that democrats have been trying to remove trump from office since the day that he took the oath of office and democrats countering that this is a solemn occasion that no member of congress wishes to undertake to impeach a sitting u.s. president but in the words of house speaker nancy pelosi that this is something congress has been forced to do by the president's misconduct in the white house she says that trump is an ongoing threat to national security republicans really have a little that they can do now to stop this vote from happening we saw earlier in the day some delay tactics parliamentary maneuvers that were quickly knocked down by the democratic majority and that's why within about an hour's time we expect these articles to be tackled abuse of power and obstruction of congress they will be voted upon one at a time and then that would formally impeach president trump which with then put his fate in the hands of the u.s. senate where as you know his own party is the major

however they haven't convinced a single republican yet trump's party stands by the president decrying pietschmann as a political witch hunt you can't make your case against the prison because nothing happened if the majority of lawmakers approved the articles of impeachment which seems likely it will trigger a senate trial to determine if the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors and should be removed from office. a trial president trump seems to be gearing up for he expects to be exonerated by the republican led senate and hopes impeachment will backfire on his rivals there was nothing done wrong to the power of the peach on this non-church is an embarrassment to this country. whatever the outcome what is happening in washington right now reflects the hyper partisan divisions in american politics. our d.c. bureau chief alexander for naaman found reports she now joins me live from capitol hill alexander this is shaping up to of course be a historic day as we heard how would we do we expect things to proceed today what should be watching out for. well i will be keeping my eyes open f

trump a threat to the united states vice president mike pence is defending his boss saying the of pietschmann vote is a disgrace to washington also coming up all still you it is roasting today its hottest day ever on record as the country battles a bushfire crisis and a severe drought but even then does not stop the prime minister from going on holiday and germany moves a step closer to banning so-called game conversion therapy we'll meet one man who even underwent an exorcism in an attempt to become straight but it did not stop his suicidal full. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us we begin with impeachment watch in the united states the u.s. house of representatives is debating at this hour whether to approve articles of impeachment against president will draw the speaker of the house nancy pelosi says that congress must defend democracy by a victim trump. from the white house from outside the u.s. house vice president my parents says that the vote that's going on today is a disgrace and it that it sets a dangerous precedent republicans attempted to hold today's session as soon as i

this is still a president that many believe could get reelected and also even if you look at in pietschmann if you look at some of those key states that could control or could. determine the the outcome of the a coming election in those states president donald trump is still polling very well and being very competitive with his closest competitor namely president i mean former vice president joe biden in terms of the american voters right now polls are nowhere as early very early stage in the on the field is kind of crowded in terms of candidates but right now polls still a generic democrat if i can put it like that could be trump but how much does kind of saleability matter thomas gifts i mean it seems like around the world right now we do have some very big figures in politics and i want to stars that kind of i don't want to use the phrase likability is not quite the right word but how much does that matter. well i think that democratic voters are certainly looking at the issue of electability because a real priority for them of course is to be donald trump going into 2020 and you talk ab

a wash 46 percent support impeach pietschmann the removal of the president 51 percent are against it those are not great numbers for the democrats you know one of the problems here i think is everybody makes sort of comparisons to previous impeachments clinton nixon. you know this is almost like watergate in reverse in the in the case of nixon who's the one president who was actually forced from office when he was on the verge of impeachment. you had a year and a half of investigations that led to the smoking gun tape that put matters over the edge and forced nixon to resign in this case the smoking gun it started with the smoking gun and that was the transcript of the call with zelinsky you know so the shock value seeing the president's own words making that request of zelinsky that's what triggered the process and that was arguably the strongest piece of evidence that began it's it was at the beginning of the process it didn't build to a smoking gun at the end of the process the way watergate did and i think in some senses that has hurt the democrats here you have the shock of that

chamber senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is determined to correct what he called a toxic pietschmann the opposition to impeachment was bipartisan only one part of one faction wanted this outcome the house's conduct risks deeply damaging the institutions of american government this particular house of representatives has learned its partisan rage at this particular president create a toxic new precedent that will echo well into the future. and the 6 democrats 8 presidential debates on the way and the signs these old 7 candidates trying to convince folks is that best suited to take on trump next year's election from brown's joins us now from outside the debate venue so how much of a cloud is the whole pietschmann process costing of the debates that. well it's certainly a big big issue and it was the 1st topic touched upon when the moderators opened the debate and asked all the candidates how they would deal with this issue you know if there's there's a conventional wisdom that says that the impeachment will be bad for democrats because when president trump is exonerated as you almost s

a standard that would not be endlessly fluid and flexible and if that standard has kept us from pietschmann to spite periods in which we have really despised each other and that i think is the most distressing thing for most of us today is there's so much more rage than reason you can't even talk about these issues without people saying you must be in favor of the ukrainians taking over the country or the russians moving into the white house at some point as a people we have to have a serious discussion about the grounds to remove a duly elected president. professor turley in your testimony you said that when it comes to impeachment we don't need happy ideological warriors we need circumspect legal analysis but let's take a quick look at the deeply partisan landscape on which this particularly partisan impeachment is being waged in the democratic leaders pushing trump's impeachment represent some of the most far left urban coastal areas of the country the bar graphs here show counties in the height of the bars indicate total votes cast in the color of the bars show the margin of victory for

i think that both parties whether it's donald trump using the pietschmann and that said to galvanize and raise money and he's gained so much money for his reelection campaign or whether it's the democrats who are also galvanized and saying you know this president is unfit to hold the highest office in our land we need to make sure we get him out both sides are using this impeachment process because it's an election year and that's something that we cannot deny so i would like to see who comes out on the winning end of this i think it's too early to call who is when they but we will find out the morning after election day who really use this impeachment process to galvanize their base and get out the vote and for people to you know vote what their mouth and you know come to the polls and so that's what we're going to see ok i think it's very interesting because there's really no polling evidence that the impeachment process is going to bring anyone to the ballot box ok there's no there's sure there will be by the time we get to the election but i don't see any evidence out there that

poll there was a shift in independence so we've now seen a new high and independents who favor pietschmann could that push the election one way or another independents would be up to the part of the election i mean it's a long way before the can right and there's a lot of advertising to be done and there's a lot of question about interference and there's a lot of question about who votes and whatever but at this point i think trump does not enter the election stronger than before the impeachment no let me ask you one more question about this advertising because i know that the the republicans have spent a huge amount of money on impeachment ads and attacking the democrats individual democrats in their different seats but the democrats are. largely stayed away from that what is their strategy here so in the 435 house seats but most of them are in contest there's about 70 or 80 that are up for grabs in any given election democrats won most of those in the last election right so the democrats are defending the purple districts there were a few republicans left to be targeted i think maybe 4 o

soley to the people's house when president trump defies our of subpoenas and obstructs our him pietschmann inquiry he seeks to place him self above the constitution and above the law. we cannot let that stand and if we do then that's the end of congress as a co-equal branch of government and we've allowed president trump to elevate himself above the law it is our solemn duty under the constitution to impeach president trump for his blatant abuse of power and his obstruction of congress i have back gentleman from new york yields gentleman from california reserves gentleman from georgia is recognizing a speaker you know one minute to the gentleman from arkansas almost all math coming from arkansas has recognized i think the gentleman for giving me this moment that him or mr speaker years from now history books will tell of this day it will tell of a purely partisan effort to remove the president of the united states an effort not built on a high crime or misdemeanor not on a process in keeping with a high american standard of due process and equal treatment this effort is rooted only in the

nervous and limits the potential for the stock market to rise further another factor is of course it pietschmann in washington against donald trump while it might not have a direct impact on investment decisions yet it sure is something that people on the market are talking about. in other news the swedish bright spot it's the oldest central bank in the world has increased interest rates today after 5 years of negative interest rates is there a message for the european central bank. of course this hours reactivated the discussion here about the monetary policy by the e.c.b. because there are lots of similarities between the european central bank and the reichsbahn but there are also a lot of differences both have this 2 percent price target this inflation target where price stability is defined but i'm like here in the euro zone in sweden this inflation target has been met for quite a while so there are good reasons for the swedes to raise their interest rates but there are good reasons for the european central bank to keep them where they are on our books and in frankfurt thank you. talked abou

donald trump say the white house will not participate in the house judiciary committee's public in pietschmann hearing on wednesday but they've not ruled out participation in future hearings it is facing allegations that he illegally used sought help from ukraine to obtain democratic challenger joe biden are. caught in a televised address multis prime minister joseph must god has announced that he'll resign in january once he's like the pot his charges and a new leader calls for him to step down of growing after a prominent businessman with alleged ties to government ministers was charged as an accomplice in the murder of journalist daphne. at least 24 people have been killed in northern tunisia after the boss they were traveling in plummeted off a cliff it's one of the country's worst road accidents it's understood the boss veered off a winding road when the driver failed to maneuver a shop. and capital santiago of people have clashed with police close to president sebastian pinera as residents demonstrators had turned out to call for his resignation police fired washing kind of at the crowds

trump a threat to the united states vice president mike pence is defending his boss saying the of pietschmann vote is a disgrace we'll go live to washington also coming up paul still yet is rose.

this is pietschmann has divided this nation without any concern for the repercussions moreover politicizing this process is discredit the united states house of representatives and could forever weaken the remedy of impeachment to again quote professor turley it is the democrats rushed to impeachment on these grounds with unfair procedures that is an abuse of power history will write that madam speaker as i said the beginning we face a choice do you trust the wisdom of the people or do you deny them a say in their government fortunately the people will have the opportunity to speak up and render their verdict in 11 months to my fellow americans to my fellow americans if you prove of the way of this house has conducted their business if you want to see your tax dollars go forward to enlist investigations support this impeach but if you want to restore a working congress like the previous congress that listen to you and work to bring the best economy in this country has ever seen really. the. and one that once again looked. hello again on elizabeth it is 8 pm in washington d.c. that's g.m.t.

political rivals or acetylene pietschmann charges against the u.s. president within weeks. the president has engaged in abuse of power undermining our national security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. i'll lifestyle the evidence against russian hackers accused of stealing around $100000000.00 from businesses around the world. as the whole focus is on a measles outbreak in samoa the world health organization warns the problem is far bigger than most people realize. and journalism.

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becoming popular no one is above the law and that includes the president of the united states in pietschmann is the way we establish that this man will not be permitted to break the law over and over without consequences if we don't reckon with president trump's persistent transgressions the very foundation. of this great republic is at risk i have been very reluctant to go down the path of impeachment but if the president is essentially trying to browbeat a foreign leader into doing something illicit then that may be the only remedy now polls show the us public would prefer congress actually address some of the problems facing the country not spend their time squabbling with the white house though to set times of democrats petty politics and basis we chant what i'm hearing out in the street with most people is they're kind of tired they're kind of worn out they're kind of bored your folks and they really want to move on unless there's something new and amazing we know the end game there how did you tune in to the last hearing of the impeachment extravaganza mainstream media seems to give th

also ahead on the program us democrats hung their trump and pietschmann hopes on a new house intelligence committee wants everyone believes it's content with many there's nothing new included anyway. a new investigation discovery popular free dating apps like tender and ok cupid don't screen whether or not their members are registered sex offenders.

was a question of how much the house had to do in terms of clinton pietschmann because we had this robust record created by the independent counsel and they had a lot of testimony videotapes etc so the house basically incorporated that and the assumption was that those witnesses would be called at the senate but there was a failure at the senate the rules that were it were applied in my view were not fair they restricted witnesses to only 3 and that's why i brought up the lewinsky matter about a year ago monica lewinsky revealed that she had been told that if she signed that affidavit that we now know is untrue they had this she would not be called as a witness if you had to actually called live witnesses that type of information would have been part of the record mr my yoga gentlemen you know this back i note this is the moment in which the white house would have had not be true to question the witnesses but they declined our invitation so we will now proceed. to questions under the 5 minute rule i yield myself 5 minutes for the purpose of questioning the witnesses. fesa feldman would yo

the united states in our history i think so how does this vote how does this there's more of an pietschmann what does that do to trump's presidency how will people per potentially view president trump now from this day forward the word impeachment is going to be associated with donald trump's presidency and that bothers him that he doesn't see it doesn't seem like the ball exactly by donald cares about how he's perceived in public he's he cares about how the public sees him and you can tell that the because of what he says over twitter from the letter he sent to nancy pelosi even what he was saying during the michigan rally that he held last night so this is something that is going to hang over his presidency and it's something that he's going to fight against people because it really does get to the heart of who gets. to speaking about the impeachment proceedings it's of course the law may. who do the actual vote and we saw that last night but public opinion does play a big role in terms of potentially pressuring lawmakers to vote one way or the other what's the public opinion right now on

no for trump to be impeached it's it's important to remind our viewers i know we've been talking pietschmann seems at nazia for a few months now but in fact trump is not formally impeached until that final house floor vote which will come before christmas time ok on have full hill thank you very much still waiting for everyone to return from the recess. in the main time maybe will actually go back over well it's been a good 2 hours or so and listen to some of what was said from the legal team 1st of all the lawyer representing the democrats mary. he was the 1st to speak and really did set the tone for the whole proceeding president trump did what a president of our nation is not allowed to do it is why last week the constitutional scholar professor michael gary hart said if what we're talking about is not impeachable then nothing is impeachable president trump's actions are impeachable offenses they threaten all the of law they threaten our institutions and as james madison warned us they threaten our republic and we also heard from the counsel for the democrats daniel goleman who calls trum

president will not participate in the latest pietschmann hearings calling them baseless and highly partisan. santamaria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera the search for a new leader in iraq has begun now prime minister abdullah has formally stepped down after just over a year in office also ebola workers caught up in the violence in democratic republic of congo forcing health officials to scale back their treatment operations .

pietschmann mania has dived. of the political divide the i.g. report clearly demonstrates the f.b.i. abused its powers when targeting. the judiciary committee is hell bent on impeachment articles ideological obsession name again. a powerful blast of gunfire reports about saddam major u.s. outpost in afghanistan the very same background. visit to less than a fortnight ago comes as a damning report released shedding light on out south american officials have been routinely distorting the facts and figures on the war in afghanistan and then attempt to convince the public war is winnable. the former f.b.i. chief sailed the horowitz report into trouble russia collusion as vindication inspector general himself. saying it's quite the opposite so many basic and fundamental errors were made by 3 separate him picked investigative teams.

party because what you have you have impeachment because they have one part of the party has been pietschmann because they have nothing else to talk about and then the insurgent part of the party the a.o. sees a squad the red guard as i call them they want to burn everything to the ground ok and the most the there to make to make sure that they don't have a reckoning they don't have a coming to jesus moment if i can say that they keep this impeachment going because it allows them to avoid to talk about the obvious that they are facing extinction as a party go ahead alex you know where c.n.n.'s ratings now peter think that a 3 year low. for radio is not doing well i heard that. too well it ought not. this is turning out like they want to turn out they know that at this trajectory trump is going to win with a landslide because they don't have a single candidate that can take on trump and biden we saw biden got completely triggered completely unhinged when someone in iowa asked him about hunter biden. it was very telling to see biden joe biden just go after this guy he called him that he challen

pietschmann and. right to the line you back off i mean there is a possibility that those articles of impeachment may never be delivered to the senate and on top of that nancy pelosi we're watching the process in congress after all she's the speaker with jerry nadler and adam schiff how they played. their own very biased game nancy pelosi now wants to control the game in the senate that is that is unheard of and of course the senate isn't going to react well i think they're drunk himself also made mistakes which made these pathetic situation possible you know i tend to agree with stephanie cohen steven cohen who basically said that when trump felt you know these rushing to you gave things directed against him strategy was to appease them he surrounded himself by russia forbes. sure you know vain hope that that will be there. when the democrats we know that there is a huge oh i do or we just standing behind it it's not just the us democrats it's by our today it's my being and it's a lot of republicans t

a vote on him pietschmann it is set to take place the house of representatives has drawn up the charges and democrats are calling for donald trump to be removed how democrats have focused on fighting for the people we must hold this president accounts abou the constitution a nation dependent democrats seem to launching these proceedings as a huge victory they say donald trump has betrayed the whole country but the whole country doesn't agree the country is split and americans don't seem to care for partisan squabbles and many have become more critical of the democrats in recent months even within the house of representatives 18 democrats are bucking the party line and say they will vote against him to ensure that they argue that months before the 2020 alexion this doesn't look good for the democrats but we are so close there are now like i work our you getting here knowing how. if i did and i don't either that or you're making. all these factors combined to make some democrats very nervous and donald trump seems to be emphasizing the fears on the other side of the aisle any democrat tha

they haven't convinced a single republican yet trump's party stance by the president to crying pietschmann as a political witch hunt you can't make your case against the president because nothing happened president trump's high crimes threaten our democracy it so they don't like that's what this is about like the president they don't like the present supporters they dislike it so much they're willing to weaponize the government the votes in the house will mark the climax of this summer moment in u.s. history if the majority of lawmakers approved the articles of impeachment which seems likely it will trigger a senate trial to determine if the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors and should be removed from office. at trial president trump seems to be gearing up for he expects to be exonerated by the republican led senate and hopes impeachment will backfire on his rivals. there was nothing done wrong to the power of that. one does not charge is an embarrassment to this country. the controversy has already fired up for. general public opinion it split over the matter whatever th

documents have not been released and that really you know that really speaks to this 2nd article of pietschmann which is obstruction of congress congress is not allowed to do its due diligence basically in oversight and i think people will stand up and take notice or they you know. or at least i hope so right when you say people will stand up and take notice which people are talking about because again you know the polls show is that we have this incredibly divided nation when it comes to impeachment where democrats support impeachment republicans don't support impeachment. well polls change as we know from the election in 2016 and it's very early at an election so when i say people take notice i think there's a long ways to go i mean it may be true that it may be a jiffy trial and maybe it may be a show trial in that sense but it's also true that whether it is or not there is an election coming up and there are quite a number of democratic candidates who are themselves going to be talking about this quite a bit and you can be sure that they're going to refer to not just the trial in the senate

pietschmann hearings against president donald trump next week in a letter to judiciary chairman jerry nadler the white house counsel called the democrats' impeachment inquiry completely baseless the democrats aiming for a house vote on impeachment before christmas. and in all the developments the democrat led house of representatives passed a resolution backing a 2 state solution to the conflict between israel and palestine the vote was mostly along party lines for a non-binding pact that ensures the survival of the israeli state and fulfills palestinian aspirations for their own state those are the headlines this hour that's it for myself and the team here in london counting the cost is the program coming up next the king how much is needed to save the planet from climate change as always our website as well as area dot com stay with us. hello i'm adrian finighan this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week as campaigners demand the world does more to tackle climate change we delve into the multibillion dollar carbon trading m

given pietschmann the constitution precisely to protect ourselves from a president becoming a tyrant in a desperate sadly the democrats impeachment inquiry has been flawed and partisan from day one it's clear that this president acted in a way that not only violates the public trust each up or dies to our national security clear and present danger right now in this room is the pattern of attack an abuse of rules and of an decisions to get at this president what is president trump afraid of the truth the facts the american people understand what's happening here is a hoax the whole impeachment thing is a hoax. the pressure is especially high on those representatives that come from pro trump states and can disappoint their own voters are to scale up and breaks down the impeachment case a vote on impeachment is set to take place the house of representatives has drawn up the charges and democrats are calling for donald trump to be removed how democrats are focused on fighting for the people we must hold this president accounts abou the constitution and nation dependent democrats see laun

impeachment presidential elections are only 10 months away so what are voters saying then about these in pietschmann hearings visited the town of blackstone in the u.s. state of virginia a state that president trump did not win in the 2016 election. blackstone is about a 3 hour drive south of washington and the impeachment hearings going on there the residents here are proud to say that part of the south. mac. i was born runs a wholesale beverage company in blackstone the trump supporter says he's doing its best to keep up to speed on what's happening in the capital and he's definitely not happy about the hearings. i don't think americans want this to go on for days and weeks and weeks and this witness and that witness and it is just seems this millions of dollars being wasted and we have so many issues national issues we need to solve as a country and this just of that's just the family business man doesn't believe president trump did anything wrong with regard to ukraine. i think a lot of this is just good politics and good business you want to know where your money should go and you want to make

of power and bribery is one of them obstruction of congress and obstruction of justice might be pietschmann to articles. we want to focus now on people working to make the world that we live in a better place the winners of this year's white livelihood awards have been announced as years on the merry go board goes to a pro democracy activists from western so hard so you're right there i mean not to have dark she spent 30 years campaigning for her homeland independence from morocco and she is often referred to as the gandhi of western so her the 2nd prize winner is. and may she is a chinese human rights activists who set up the country's 1st legal advocacy group for women the 3rd prize winner has become a familiar face some talking about. climate activists gratitude to bear the 16 year old has galvanized a protest movement calling on governments to do more to combat climate change and the final prize winner is an amazonian tribal shema davi cope with no campaigns to protect the amazon and his tribes way of life for a diverse picture just like the diverse picture of the world we live in and i