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Presidential race. it wasnt appropriate to do that. but presidents do things that are inappropriate all the time. a violation of the constitution? a risk to our democracy that he did this? no. all this mystery about all these witnesses, we do have this transcript, you know? it is out there in public view. there just isnt much to go on. lets get through the process. lets have the public hearings and back to work. but the one great political advantage for the republicans here is if the democrats p...

Democratic president. todays resolution shows a democratic house failing to give these same protections to a republican president. madam speaker the unfairness is clear. this is not a fair process nor was it ever intended to be. it was pre-or daneed from the beginning. without due process and without a fair process that respects minority rights i dont believe the american people will regard this process as legitimate. >> bill: tom cole is making his case here. the way the democrats, a series of ...

Ranking member of the judiciary committee i have a question. weve been here 200 plus years as a committee and our committee has been neutered. our committee who handles impeachment. were the reason in that committee thats our jurisdiction. we have been completely sidelined. our chairman and others have been sidelined and i have been sidelined. it is so bad they had to have the rules committee write the presidential due process and give it to us. this is not right. i wish -- >> give the additiona...

Records. this is common sense. if youre doing something as serious as impeaching the president, then members should have the right to see what records the committee produced so that they will know what they are voting on. yet the majority rejected that. we offered an amendment that would require a chairman of the rules committee to promulgate procedures to allow for a participation of the president and his counsel in proceedings of the intelligence committee, the oversight committee, the foreign...

People who know that they are paying higher drug prices and they say there is legislation, bipartisan legislation to lower drug prices that wont come to this floor because of the infatuation with impeachment, we dont even have a bill to formally pay our troops and make sure they have the tools they need to defend this country because there is such an infatuation with impeachment. madam speaker when you look through this resolution and see how one-sided, how soviet style this is running, this is ...

Do right now. we will have horowitz, we will try to find out about 2016 here soon enough. im trying to stop a process in the house that will destroy the presidency over time if its allowed to continue. >> martha: can you do that? its really all in their court right now isnt it? >> well where it is a go? it goes to the senate. i have senators on record renouncing that the process in a house is wrong, its flawed, and its lacking in due process. all im asking is to give president trump the same rig...

Would be tearing this town apart. >> martha: heres one of your colleagues asking -- answering the question about what can be done on the senate side and putting some pressure on you without regard. heres this. >> he needs to go and exercise his power. he needs to use his crowd and the only way he can do it -- >> martha: what you say to that senator? >> number one, the whistle-blower complaint was sent to intel paired with all due respect, i think he should think this thing through. im not going ...

Intel committee, there injuring people behind closed doors, the president cant confront his end-users, this is a sham. every american should be bothered by what they are doing to president trump and my resolution today calls on the house to embrace the process that was given to president clinton. the ability to call witnesses on your behalf and to ask questions of your accusers and by the way, who is the whistle-blower and what is their bias? yeah, i was fired up because whether you like preside...

What happens now is you have this resolution, people are signing on to it, but what changes in the process? you had said not too long ago, lets get curveball karen in endless have him testify in public on the senate side. even rudy giuliani, you mentioned today, people dont understand his side of the story and hes getting piled on in these hearings as well. can you make that happen? >> heres the point. im trying to stop what i think it is a political hit job on president trump paired with a are ...

Hows the process different now? >> 1998, the house as a whole voted to open up an inquiry. we had 31 democrats on record authorizing the house to hold hearings. we did have depositions. the president clinton was included completely. the bottom line is, you can have depositions outside of public but the entire impeachment process was in public. you can start to spend five years investigating bill clint bill clinton. he testified before the senate judiciary committee before the whole country was a...