Impeachment - The week ahead
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The House impeachment inquiry now enters a significant stretch that could lead to the impeachment of Trump by year's end.
Here's a look at the coming week:
Monday: The House Intelligence Committee is expected to allow its members to review the panel's impeachment report, which details the committee's findings from the impeachment inquiry into Trump and Ukraine, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Tuesday: The Intelligence Committee is expected to hold a business meeting to approve the report and transmit it to the House Judiciary Committee -- which is where the action will move next.
Wednesday: The Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the "constitutional grounds for Presidential impeachment," with a panel of expert witnesses testifying. Neither President Donald Trump nor his attorneys will participate in Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing, they said late Sunday.
White House counsel to the President Pat Cipollone said they would respond separately to the Friday deadline about their participation in future hearings.
Thursday: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will participate in a CNN town hall, where she will take questions directly from a cross-section of voters. CNN's Jake Tapper will moderate the event, which will air live at 9 p.m. ET from Washington.
Friday: The House Judiciary Committee deadline for Trump to decide whether his attorneys will participate in the committee's impeachment proceedings against him.
The latest
Ukraine conduct 'more serious' than Watergate? -- Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, the only lawmaker to have worked on three congressional impeachment probes, said Sunday that Trump's conduct involving Ukraine "is more serious" than former President Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal.
"President Nixon's misconduct related to trying to use the levers of government to hide the Watergate burglary ... his misconduct had to do with trying to throw the election but at least it didn't involve involving other foreign nations," Lofgren said.
Klobuchar: 'I don't see' voting to acquit Trump -- Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, a presidential candidate, said Sunday that she can't see herself voting in Trump's favor should the House impeachment inquiry move to a trial in the Senate. Asked by CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union" whether she would vote to acquit the President, Klobuchar said: "At this point, I don't see that."
"But I'm someone that wants to look at every single count," Klobuchar said. "I've made it clear I think this is impeachable conduct."
The House impeachment inquiry now enters a significant stretch that could lead to the impeachment of Trump by year's end.
Here's a look at the coming week:
Monday: The House Intelligence Committee is expected to allow its members to review the panel's impeachment report, which details the committee's findings from the impeachment inquiry into Trump and Ukraine, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Tuesday: The Intelligence Committee is expected to hold a business meeting to approve the report and transmit it to the House Judiciary Committee -- which is where the action will move next.
Wednesday: The Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the "constitutional grounds for Presidential impeachment," with a panel of expert witnesses testifying. Neither President Donald Trump nor his attorneys will participate in Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing, they said late Sunday.
White House counsel to the President Pat Cipollone said they would respond separately to the Friday deadline about their participation in future hearings.
Thursday: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will participate in a CNN town hall, where she will take questions directly from a cross-section of voters. CNN's Jake Tapper will moderate the event, which will air live at 9 p.m. ET from Washington.
Friday: The House Judiciary Committee deadline for Trump to decide whether his attorneys will participate in the committee's impeachment proceedings against him.
The latest
Ukraine conduct 'more serious' than Watergate? -- Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, the only lawmaker to have worked on three congressional impeachment probes, said Sunday that Trump's conduct involving Ukraine "is more serious" than former President Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal.
"President Nixon's misconduct related to trying to use the levers of government to hide the Watergate burglary ... his misconduct had to do with trying to throw the election but at least it didn't involve involving other foreign nations," Lofgren said.
Klobuchar: 'I don't see' voting to acquit Trump -- Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, a presidential candidate, said Sunday that she can't see herself voting in Trump's favor should the House impeachment inquiry move to a trial in the Senate. Asked by CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union" whether she would vote to acquit the President, Klobuchar said: "At this point, I don't see that."
"But I'm someone that wants to look at every single count," Klobuchar said. "I've made it clear I think this is impeachable conduct."
Despite Trump's whining about the House proceedings not allowing the president to attend nor have counsel attend, part of the those proceedings actually invited Trump to attend. Now the House Judiciary Committee meets this week and they invited both Trump and/or his counsel to be part of the proceedings and they still declined.
Either attend, or stop the ridiculous whining !
