I thought the threat to our nation was wellarticulated earlier today by Professor Feldman when you said, if we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office for personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy, we live in a monarchy or we live under a dictatorship. My view is that a people cannot depend on the fairness of will be absolutely nothing compared to the shredding of our democracy. After the events of ukraine unfolded, the president claimed the reason he requested an investigation into his political opponent and withheld desperately needed military aid for ukraine was supposedly because he was worried about corruption. However, contrary to the president s statements, various witnesses including Vice President pence special advisor Jennifer Williams testified that the president s request was political. Take a listen. Speak of the july 20 for phone call was unusual because in contrast to other presenter because ive observed, it involved discussions would appear to be had
i doll recognized mr. golding for the purposes of annulments request. i ask for you that this request for this article by digital hub. the article will be thank you, mr. chairman. starting off something that i don t normally do and i m going to quote speaker of the house nancy pelosi. the speaker told the washington post, i m going to quote this, impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, i don t think we should go down that path because it divides the country. in that, the speaker and i both agree. do you know who else agrees? the founding fathers. the founding fathers recognized that crimes worth impeachment must be so severe regardless political parties that there is