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Thats whats very different with what were confronting today and this is work that was not done by the apparatus of the state department, this was an effort led by the presidents personal attorney, rudolph giuliani. the scheme was led by this whole apparatus outside the state department. lets not confuse these two things. facts maerkts the truth matters. you cannot continue just to make assertions when the record is completely the opposite. id like to yield to the gentleman from california, mr. s...

Favor, but only three people listened in on the call. contrary to the assertions weve heard this morning, they didnt provide firsthand testimony of what happened on the call. all three of the testimonies continued indict contradicted each other. the evidence shows that president trump holds a deep-seated and reasonable skepticism have ukraine due to its history of corruption. the president sought that the newly elected president is a reformer. president trump wanted to ensure that the american t...

Different about what we are confronting today. this was work which was not done by the apparatus of the state department. this is an effort led by the presidents personal attorney, rudolph giuliani, the scheme was led by this whole apparatus outside the state department. lets not confuse these two things. facts matter and the truth matters. you cannot continue just to make assertions when the record is completely the opposite. >> i would like to >> i think the gentleman. president trump and my r...

Hoped he would be. he didnt push back on a lot of the assertions that democrats had made. so we saw lindsey graham really get in there and grill him. there were the words spying thrown around a lot. he did not play ball with that. but we did see in the tone, as expected, that they really wanted to say hey, there is something wrong here with the fbi, this investigation was not justified, but he didnt really do that for them. >> the inspector general basically said this report does not vindicate a...

Against the advice of all of his advisors. that is what is very different about what were confronting today. this is work not done by the apparatus of the state department, this was dont by rudy giuliani. lets not confuse these things. the facts matter, the truth matters, you cannot continue to make assertions when the record is the opposite, i would like to yield to mr. swalwell. >> if president trump and my republican colleagues were so interested in rooting out construction in ukraine there w...

The lawful subpoenas of the house of representatives, another way of saying obstruction of congress. tonight in a sharply partisan session, committee members challenged one another overtt t democrats charges against the president, and the assertions that our president has put our 2020 election and our nations security at risk. >> if the president can first abuse his power and then stonewall all congressional requests for information, congress cannot fulfill its duty to act as a check and balance...

Presidency, interposed the powers of presidency." and the assertions that our president has put our 2020 elections and our nations security at risk. >> if the president can first abuse his power and then stone wall congressional for information, congress cant fulfill its duty to act as a check and balance against the executive, the president becomes addict ta a dictator. >> it is so real and urgent and imminent. >> it is not just because they dont like the president, they dont like us. they dont...

Nbc news headquarters here in new york day 1,056 of the moments ago the house judiciary committee adjourned after working late tonight. notr quite the midnight oil bu close. a four-hour session that will now hold over and continue in the morning, debating the wording of the articles of impeachment as donald trump becomes the first american president to face impeachment in hise first term in office. house i democrats laid out the articles over nine pages, charging that trump, quote, abused the po...

Sadness frankly about all this. you know, because the attorney generals had a great reputation over the years of his career, and i think hes -- i just find it sad to see what hes doing now. mr. durham has had a great reputation in the department. i find that sad as well. im just -- im profoundly sad about everything thats happening here, and its just really unjustified. the facts do not support his assertions with respect to the investigation that we conducted. i was one of the people at the top...

Agent race reviews, known as the woods procedures, which are designed to assure fisa applications contain a full and accurate presentation of the facts. department lawyers and the court should have ben given complete and accurate information so they could have meaningfully evaluated probable cause before authorizing the surveillance of a u.s. person associated with a presidential campaign. >> that did not occur. and as a result, the surveillance of carter page continued even as the fbi gathered ...