{"id":1353,"date":"2019-12-05T16:58:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T16:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2019-12-06T20:30:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T20:30:04","slug":"pelosi-directs-house-democrats-to-proceed-with-articles-of-impeachment-against-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=1353","title":{"rendered":"PELOSI DIRECTS HOUSE DEMOCRATS TO PROCEED WITH ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST TRUMP"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1353\" class=\"elementor elementor-1353\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5eb3a729 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5eb3a729\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7d2d6a6f\" data-id=\"7d2d6a6f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-62e31dc elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"62e31dc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div><strong>Distress of Nations<\/div>\n<div><blockquote> \"And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with \n\n<div class=\"tooltip\"href=\"#\"style=\"color:blue;\">  perplexity  <span class=\"tooltiptext\"<span style=\"text-decoration:\"><font color=\"#F1563A\"> Strongs 640: <\/font> aporia, ap-or-ee\u00b4-a; from the same as 639; a (state of) quandary: \u2014 perplexity.<\/span><\/div> ; the sea and the waves roaring;\" \n\n<span> \u2014 Luke 21:25<\/blockquote><\/strong><\/div>\n\n<div><strong>Divived Kingdom<\/div>\n<div><blockquote>\u201dBut he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every\n\n<div class=\"tooltip\"href=\"#\"style=\"color:blue;\">kingdom  <span class=\"tooltiptext\"<span style=\"text-decoration:\"><font color=\"#F1563A\"> Strongs 932: <\/font> basileia, bas-il-i\u00b4-ah; from 935; properly, royalty, i.e. (abstractly) rule, or (concretely) a realm (literally or figuratively): \u2014 kingdom, + reign.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tooltip\"href=\"#\"style=\"color:blue;\"> divided  <span class=\"tooltiptext\"<span style=\"text-decoration:\"><font color=\"#F1563A\"> Strongs 1266: <\/font> diamerizo, dee-am-er-id\u00b4-zo; from 1223 and 3307; to partition thoroughly (literally in distribution, figuratively in dissension): \u2014 cloven, divide, part.<\/span><\/div>: against itself is brought to   \n<div class=\"tooltip\"href=\"#\"style=\"color:blue;\"> desolation  <span class=\"tooltiptext\"<span style=\"text-decoration:\"><font color=\"#F1563A\"> 2049: <\/font>eremoo, er-ay-mo\u00b4-o; from 2048; to lay waste (literally or figuratively): \u2014 (bring to, make) desolate(-ion), come to nought.<\/span><\/div> and a house divided against a house falleth.\"\n\n<span> \u2014 Luke 11:17<\/blockquote><\/strong><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-267f8229 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"267f8229\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-418a9573\" data-id=\"418a9573\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-770bca35 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"770bca35\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><!-- wp:list --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list --><!-- wp:image --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Article Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/12\/05\/pelosi-asks-house-judiciary-committee-to-proceed-with-articles-of-impeachment-against-trump.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\">CNBC<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pelosi asks House Judiciary Committee to proceed with articles of impeachment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday asked the House committees investigating President Donald Trump to proceed with articles of impeachment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe president\u2019s actions have seriously violated the Constitution,\u201d Pelosi, D-Calif., said in a statement to reporters on Capitol Hill.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He \u201cleaves us no choice but to act,\u201d she said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pelosi spoke for about six minutes. She took no questions. WATCH NOWVIDEO05:37Watch Nancy Pelosi\u2019s full statement on Trump impeachment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>House Democrats are in the midst of an inquiry into whether Trump abused his power by withholding military aid to Ukraine in exchange for that country announcing investigations for his own political benefit and at the expense of U.S. interests.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pelosi\u2019s comments confirm what was widely expected: that the Democrat-controlled House will vote on whether to impeach the president.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSadly, but with confidence and humility, with allegiance to our founders, and our heart full of love for America, today I am asking our chairmen to proceed with the articles of impeachment,\u201d she said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Minutes after Pelosi concluded her remarks,\u00a0White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a tweet\u00a0that \u201cWe look forward to a fair trial in the Senate.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:image {\"linkDestination\":\"custom\"} --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:image --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:image --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:image --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>.@SpeakerPelosi &amp; the Democrats should be ashamed. @realDonaldTrump has done nothing but lead our country &#8211; resulting in a booming economy, more jobs &amp; a stronger military, to name just a few of his major accomplishments. We look forward to a fair trial in the Senate.13.2K7:13 AM &#8211; Dec 5, 2019Twitter Ads info and privacy7,410 people are talking about this<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., will be responsible for drafting specific articles of impeachment. On Wednesday, Nadler\u2019s committee held a public hearing with four legal scholars\u00a0who discussed whether Trump\u2019s efforts toward Ukraine met the constitutional bar for impeachment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump bashed that proceeding in a pair of tweets prior to Pelosi\u2019s remarks on Thursday morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Do-Nothing Democrats had a historically bad day yesterday in the House. They have no Impeachment case and are demeaning our Country. But nothing matters to them, they have gone crazy,\u201d he tweeted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump added the Republican-led Senate\u00a0will call Pelosi to testify, along with former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, whom Trump asked Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to \u201clook into\u201d in a July 25 phone call that helped spark the impeachment probe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:image --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:image --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks about the impeachment inquiry of US President Donald Trump at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on December 5, 2019. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The president also claimed that House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who led\u00a0weeks of private and public impeachment hearings with fact witnesses, will be called to appear in the Senate trial.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A 300-page report published Tuesday, which was compiled by Schiff and Democrats on the Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, and Oversight committees, synthesized the evidence gathered from those hearings.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It also contained documentary evidence, including phone records that\u00a0show the Intelligence panel\u2019s top-ranking Republican, Rep. Devin Nunes, calling key figures in the impeachment probe. Those figures include Trump\u2019s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who was deeply involved in the Ukraine efforts, as well as Giuliani associate Lev Parnas,\u00a0who was arrested in October\u00a0and\u00a0charged with conspiracy, lying to the Federal Election Commission and falsifying records.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe facts are uncontested,\u201d Pelosi said in her remarks. \u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday asked the House committees investigating President Donald Trump to proceed with articles of impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president\u2019s actions have seriously violated the Constitution,\u201d Pelosi said at a news conference on Capitol Hill. <\/p>\n<p>Pelosi\u2019s comments confirm what was widely expected: that the Democrat-controlled House will vote on whether to impeach the president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-distress-of-nations","category-divided-kingdom","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}