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One minute. >> madam speaker, today history is being written. the facts are conclusive. the president attempted to use the power of the powerful office of president to force ukraine to influence our 2020 election. in the process, president trump jeopardized our national security. and withheld vital military assistance, intended to prevent further russian aggression to our region. however, as our committees, including government oversight, which i sit on and which im a member, sought to interview...

About this question. i would just direct you to article one, section two. the house of representatives is the sole power of impeachment and can design and structure impeachment. >> not outside of house rules, they cant. not without passing a resolution that goes outside house rules. they were going outside of house rules and again, they have not been here forever trying to make this happen, this is what happened, they went outside of house rules thats the problem i have with this and we can disc...

One and article two of the impeachment articles, do we want to send a president that they can become united states by inviting foreign powers to get involved in our election than one thing youre in if congress decides that their conduct is impeachable and involves high crimes and misdemeanors, they can pull the curtain down over the executive branch and not allow any investigation, not allow subpoenas to be honored in someone? that is a very dangerous prospect that would have terrified and shock...

Fraud or committed extortion, all things that he could be prosecuted for. later, we simply have to allege the course of constitutional criminal conduct he was engaged in. so we can set that one aside. a second thing that my friend said was that there were no fact witnesses, that this was based on the report that was delivered to us by the house committee and thats a play on words too. there were 17 fact witnesses who appeared before the house committee on intelligence, the house oversight commit...

And demand that witnesses appear, but he seems to be more open minded than perhaps some others. >> yeah. this is not even a close call on whether this is impeachable conduct. again ive read all the instances of impeachment and the two things the framers were most worried about were foreign interference in our affairs and a person corrupting his own office of president by seeking personal gain by use of his official powers. those are both there in spades in article one. and article two is unconte...

Article one, which were so fond of, then lets go to article one, section two, clause five. the house of representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers and shall have the sole power of impeachment. article i, section 2 deals with the house of representatives. article i, section 3 deals with the senate. the senate shall have the sole power to trial impeachments. article i, section 3, clause 6. judgment in case of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office and d...

Heard part of one half of a three-minute phone call, he had a 40 minute opening statement. sondland testified that biden was never linked in his mind until the transcript was released at the end of august. the democratic report does not -- not the republican report, the democratic report does not establish any linkage between the announcement or understanding of investigations for his personal and political benefit. the only testimony democrats rely on to prove that allegation is ambassador sond...

For high crimes and misdemeanors in the house of representatives december 10th, 2019. mr. nadler submitted the following resolution, referred to the committee on the judiciary. impeaching donald john trump, president of the united states for high crimes and misdemeanor resolve that donald trump is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and the articles of impeachment be exhibited to the united states state senate. of the united states of america and the name of itself and the people of the u...

Bribery. and the one after that is anything that would be in the same category, thats the meaning of the word "other." which could be obstruction of justice. you would have expected these articles of impeachment to allege, in article one, something like bribery, right? and in article two, something like obstruction of justice. neither one of those are there. where we are now, this will be the first impeachment of a president to ever proceed forward without an allegation of a crime committed. >> ...

And the second highest crime is bribery. and the one after that is anything that would be in the same category, thats the meaning of the word "other." which could be obstruction of justice. you wouldd have expected these articles of impeachment to allege, in article one, something like bribery, right? and in article two, something like obstruction of justice. neither one of those are there. where we are now, this will be the first impeachment of a president to ever proceed forward without an all...