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Government. And then simply says, but you can go to court because thats how things always work. Again, its just important to remember. The facts are clear. No president has ever, ever, ever obstructed congress in the manner that weve seen from President Trump. Will the gentleman yield . In a moment. And so as as we go forward, and i dont know how much longer well be here. Its always important to makel sure that the facts are clear. And that we dont muddy the waters by suggesting that something t...

Can topple them over. also, theres always been a concern over vehicles and whether or not someone would try to ram some kind of a vehicle into the capitol. thats the other reason why. this goes all the way around. so up to constitution. up constitution. all the way around independence. obviously the entire complex now closed. people can still go in, but i think by tonight or so, were going to see some measure of stepped up security. also i want to show you one other thing that we just learned. t...

Constitutional post-script to underscore the verye important point that mr. deutch is making here. the article one of the constitution gives the house of representatives the sole power of impeachment. it gives the senate the sole power of trial. and a supreme court decision callede united states versus nixon, the supreme court emphasized that the rules and the procedures developed, including the evidentiary rules, are completely within the power of the house and theit senate. andof cannot be sec...

Disputes. wait a minute. thats the answer. so if were going to cite supreme court cases, lets put it in the appropriate context. i yield. 20 seconds. >>el thank you. were citing different cases. im talking about the 1993 judge walter nixon case. >> as ill remind the gentlemen on both sides of this argument, its my time. not yall. >> im sorry. im sorry. yield back. >> fair enough. >> we had two different nixon cases. >> no, mr. raskin, were done with this. >> the gentleman yields back. for whatie...

Definitively destroys the insinuation the president chose to delay for malicious or corrupt purposes. the bottom line is the aid was lawfully delayed. and lawfully delivered. and that means that this entire process has been a sham. and with that, i am going to address a couple issues that i heard. i heard one of my colleagues on the other side say not too long ago that the president should come in and prove his own innocence. think about what that does. come in and prove your own innocence. firs...

Uses the word sole only twice. sole, not shared. not shared with the judiciary. not shared with the executive. this means that we have the -- the sole opportunity and obligation, frankly, to determine what evidence is necessary for impeachment. sole, not shared, with the executive. think back. judiciary chairman warned president nixon about his failure to comply with subpoenas issued in thewi watergate impeachment inquiry. under the constitution, it is not within the power of the president to co...

California. >> i enjoyed listening to you. youre absolutely correct in your reporting of what occurred during both the nixon and clintone impeachment. but i wanted to address the issue from a slightly different point of view. not only has president trump refused to provide information that he shouldveto provided. he didnt assert a privilege. he just said no. i actually have just re-read the letter from mr. cipollone, the presidents lawyer, dated october 8th, 2019. its page after page after page ...

First, to investigate, spy on a campaign or survey electronically surveil, as horowitz says. but this is uncharted territory. nobody wants to apologize on the other side. okay. i get that. might be politically embarrassing. but to say we dont need to go to court. i mean, the obama administration was just incredible at getting subpoenas. doing document dumps of stuff we really werent looking for, asking for,re especially from judiciary. but the other stuff that we demanded, we couldnt get it. and...

Its a civics lesson. dont let the other side, who have such talented constitutional attorneys over there, distract you. this is not an ordinary dispute, folks. this is a very rare, thankfully, very rare dispute. it is not an ordinary dispute where you go to the court. we dontth need permission to go -- to use our constitutional rules.- if president trump is allowed to refuse to comply with requests for information, it would gut theio house impeachment power. and undermine our bedrock principle o...

Disputes. but the s democrats arent willg to go to the courts. what -- what article two says is, were not willing to go to court. well take the law into our own hands. these are theow same people tel us that no one is above the law. of course, except for themselves. what theyre saying is congress alone will decide the limits of our own power. this is the essence of despotism. the reason why we separate powers of government is so that one branchse alone cannot unilaterally define its own power. a...