Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) on Friday was not happy to be asked about President Donald Trump’s tweets attacking former American ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.
During a press conference that occurred after the day’s impeachment hearings, Stefanik tried to make the case that nothing in Yovanovitch’s testimony provided any reason to impeach the president.
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She was thrown off her game, however, when a reporter asked her whether the president’s tweet harmed her party’s ability to send a consistent message.
“We’re not here to talk about tweets but impeachable offenses!” she angrily replied. “Let me answer your question. These hearings are not about tweets. They are about impeachment of the president of United States. This is a constitutional matter.”
A reporter then asked her whether she agreed with the president’s attacks on the former ambassador, and she acknowledged that she disagreed with the “tone” of his tweets.
Then, however, she pivoted right back to insisting the tweets are not important.
“It’s a very serious matter when we’re talking about impeachment!” she said. “This is a constitutional matter this is not about tweets!”
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The US Supreme Court on Monday let stand a Kentucky law that requires doctors to make patients seeking an abortion look at fetal images taken by echocardiogram and to listen to their heartbeat.
Without explanation, as is customary, the top US court refused to hear a suit challenging the state law, which was passed in 2017.
The law requires doctors to show patients echocardiogram images of the fetus and describe to them its size and organs and have them listen to its heartbeat if it is detectable, even if the patient objects.
Kentucky's authorities justified the measure as needed to obtain the patient's "informed consent" before proceeding with an abortion.
Fox News host Chris Wallace argued that the deeds President Donald Trump is accused of are more serious to the country than President Bill Clinton's actions, who was impeached for lying about sex.
During a break in impeachment hearings on Monday, Wallace called out Ken Starr's "characterization of this process and what we heard today... he said that the presentation against the president is narrow, prosecutors look through the world through dirty windows, it's slanted."
"And you know, it just seems to me -- and Ken, I see you there on the screen so I'll be talking directly to you -- when you compare this to the Clinton impeachment, which was basically about whether the president had lied under oath about sex," Wallace continued. "I'm not talking about whether this story is true or not."