The White House announced last night that Trump would not send a lawyer to represent him at the House judiciary committee’s first impeachment hearing, which will take place Wednesday and focus on the constitutional standard for impeaching a president. “We cannot fairly be expected to participate in a hearing while the witnesses are yet to be named and while it remains unclear whether the Judiciary Committee will afford the President a fair process through additional hearings,” White House counsel Pat Cipollone said in a letter to committee chairman Jerry Nadler. Like the president, House speaker Nancy Pelosi is abroad this week, attending the UN climate change conference in Madrid as Trump participates in the Nato summit in London. Pelosi is leading a delegation of 14 other Democrats to the 2019 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. “It is a privilege to accompany a high-level Congressional delegation to Spain to combat the existential threat of our time: the climate crisis,” Pelosi said in a Saturday statement announcing the trip. Speaker Pelosi reiterates at press conference in Madrid on climate change that she doesn’t talk ill of the president when she’s abroad and therefore won’t entertain a question on impeachment - she’s focusing today on legislating Continue reading... |