DECENTLY EASY COMMUTE AS YOU HIT THE ROADS THIS MORNING AS YOU KEEP PEARSON TOYOTA TIME
SAVER TRAFFIC BRUCE JEN.
THANKS ALINA.
>> THE HOUSE VOTE TO IMPEACH
PRESIDENT TRUMP CREATED A
SERIES OF COMPLICATED QUESTIONS
FOR THE INCOMING SENATE FOR THE
UPCOMING SENATE TRIAL. NEARLY
ALL OF THE ANSWERS TO THOSE
QUESTIONS WILL
HAVE REPERCUSSIONS FOR INCOMING
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AS HE
BEGINS HIS TERM AND NAVIGATE
SOME VERY TREACHEROUS GROUND.
SOME MINE FIELDS LAID BY
OUTGOING PRESIDENT TRUMP OTHERS
BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE HISTORIC
SECOND IMPEACHMENT. POLITICAL
LEGAL EXPERT CHRIS HAND GOING
TO BE ON THE MORNING SHOW TO
TRY AND HELP SORT SOME OF THOSE
COULD
MORNING CHRIS. MORNING BURR’S
SO THE STAKES ARE ENORMOUS THE
ABILITY TO SOLIDIFY DOING 2
THINGS AT ONCE WAYS HEAVILY ON
WHAT
COMES NEXT. SHOULD NANCY PELOSI
AND THE IMPEACHMENT MANAGERS
CHOOSE TO SEND THE ARTICLES TO
THE SENATE.
BEFORE OR UP ON THE CHAMBER’S
RETURN TOMORROW. IT WOULD
IMMEDIATELY SET INTO MOTION A
SERIES OF EVENTS THAT COULD
LEAD TO A TRIAL THAT BEGINS ON
INAUGURATION DAY WEDNESDAY.
HOW WOULD THAT LIMIT BIDEN’S
CHANCE TO MOVE FORWARD ON HIS
CABINET NOMINEES AND HIS
AGENDA.
>> WILBER’S YOU’VE CORRECTLY
IDENTIFIED THE
TRIGGERING EVENT NOTHING
HAPPENS IN THE SENATE UNTIL
HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI HAS
ACTUALLY SUBMITTED THE ARTICLES
OF IMPEACHMENT IN THIS CASE.
THE ARTICLE OF IMPEACHMENT.
SINCE
THERE’S ONE TO THE SENATE UNDER
THE RULES THE SENATE’S REQUIRED
TO TAKE UP THE TRIAL.
BY 01:00PM THE NEXT DAY WHEN
THAT OCCURS. IT SEEMS
INCREASINGLY LIKELY THAT
SPEAKER PELOSI MIGHT ACTUALLY
DELAY THE TRANSMISSION OF THE
ARTICLE SO THAT THE SENATE CAN
DO A ACT TAKE SUCH ACTIONS
AS CONFIRM. PRESIDENT ELECT
BIDEN’S NATIONAL SECURITY
NOMINEES PERHAPS MAKE SOME
PROGRESS ON SOME OF HIS
GOVERNING AGENDA. SO THE KEY
ISSUE OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF
DAYS WILL BE WHEN DOES NANCY
PELOSI AND THE HOUSE
TRANSMIT THE ARTICLES OF
IMPEACHMENT IS THAT COULD HAVE
A HUGE IMPACT ON WHAT BUSINESS.
THE SENATE DOES TAKE UP AT THE
BEGINNING OF THE BY
THE ADMINISTRATION.
>>BRUCE HAMILTON: SO WHERE DOES
THAT CHUCK SCHUMER MITCH
MCCONNELL ARE TRYING TO WORK
OUT A PLAN TO DO BOTH AT THE
SAME TIME TRIAL IN THE MORNING
OTHER BUSINESS IN THE AFTERNOON
IS THAT PRACTICAL.
>> WE CAN CERTAINLY HAPPEN
UNDER THE RULES BRUCE, BUT AS
WE’VE
DISCUSSED BEFORE THE KEY TERM
WHEN IT COMES TO THE SENATE IS
UNANIMOUS CONSENT.
MANY OF THESE PROCEDURAL TYPE
ACTIONS REQUIRE THE APPROVAL OF
ALL
100 US SENATORS. NOW IT IS NOT
UNPRECEDENTED THIS MIGHT SEEM
UNUSUAL IN TODAY’S TIMES
BUT IT’S NOT UNPRECEDENTED FOR
THE SENATE TO REACH UNANIMOUS
CONSENT ON HOW TO CONDUCT AN
IMPEACHMENT TRIAL WHEN I WAS A
SENATE STAFFER
IN 1999 DURING THE IMPEACHMENT
OF BILL CLINTON. ALL 100
SENATORS ACTUALLY MET IN PERSON
I CAME UP WITH A PLAN AS TO HOW
THEY WERE GOING TO CONDUCT THE
IMPEACHMENT TRIAL. SO IT’S NOT
UNPRECEDENTED TO REACH
UNANIMITY ACROSS THE SENATE AS
TO HOW THAT’S GOING
TO WORK. IT’S CHALLENGING BUT
IT IS NOT AN PRESIDENT NOT
IMPOSSIBLE AND THE SENATE
CERTAINLY COULD BIFURCATED
TODAY BETWEEN
GOVERNING BUSINESS AND
IMPEACHMENT TRIAL BUSINESS IF
IT CHOSE TO DO THAT, BUT THEY
MET IN PERSON BACK THEN WE
DON’T KNOW IF THAT WILL BE
POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF THE
PANDEMIC BUT LET’S MOVE ON TO
THE NEXT THING HOW ABOUT THE
LEGAL QUESTION. CAN YOU PUT A
MAN WHO WILL THEN BE A FORMER
PRESIDENT ON TRIAL ON THOSE
IMPEACHMENT CHARGES. THAT’S
BEEN A POINT OF AND CONTENTION.
OVERS THERE HAS BEEN SOME DEBATE AMONG LEGAL SCHOLARS ON THAT POINT BUT THE MAJORITY
OPINION TENDS TO SUPPORT.
THE IDEA THAT A FORMER OFFICIAL
CAN BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE OR
CAN HAVE A IMPEACHMENT TRIAL
FOLLOWING THEIR DEPARTURE
FROM OFFICE. THERE IS SOME
PRESIDENT THE PERSON WHO SERVED
AS SECRETARY OF WAR
DURING PRESIDENT GRANTS
ADMINISTRATION IN THE 1870’S.
RESIGNED AFTER HE WAS
IMPEACHED, BUT THEY NONETHELESS
CONDUCTED A TRIAL
AND THAT’S HIM THAT’S RELEVANT
FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS.
ONE OF THE REASONS THAT
IMPEACHMENT TRIAL MIGHT GO
FORWARD IS THAT IS THE
TRIGGERING EVENT IF HE WERE
PRESIDENT TRUMP WERE TO BE
CONVICTED. THE SENATE COULD
THEN MOVE ON TO THE QUESTION OF
WHETHER OR NOT HE’S
DISQUALIFIED FROM HOLDING
OFFICE IN THE FUTURE SOMETHING
WOULD SIMPLY REQUIRE
A MAJORITY VOTE SO FROM THE
PERSPECTIVE OF THE HOUSE
MANAGERS, THERE’S A VARIETY OF
REASONS. TO MOVE FORWARD WITH
THIS TRIAL. THERE IS PRECEDENT
AND THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF
DISQUALIFICATION FROM HOLDING
FUTURE OFFICE I THINK IT’S ALSO
IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT THAT
ONCE DONALD TRUMP IS OUT OF
OFFICE. THE IMPEACHMENT TRIALS
ONLY THE BEGINNING OF HIS LEGAL
WOES. THE NEW YORK STATE
ATTORNEYS WAITING FOR HIM AND
THERE ARE A WHOLE LAUNDRY LIST
OF CHARGES EXPECTED.
WELL THAT’S CORRECT CRUZ AND
NOT JUST NEW ALSO THE STATE OF
GEORGIA WHERE THERE IS NOW
SPECULATION AS TO WHETHER THERE
MIGHT BE ISSUES INVOLVED WITH
SOME OF THAT FOR EXAMPLE, THE
CALL TO THE GEORGIA SECRETARY
OF STATE AND OF COURSE THOSE
ARE JUST CRIMINAL MATTERS.
YOU MENTION. THERE’S A WHOLE
HOST OF POSSIBILITIES FOR CIVIL
LAWSUITS. ONCE PRESIDENT TRUMP
LEAVES
JANUARY 20TH MIGHT MARK THE END
OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.
IT PROBABLY WILL NOT MARK THE
END OF THE PERIOD.
WE’RE HEARING ABOUT PRESIDENT