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When democrats in the house announce articles of impeachment. we are getting new detail on what exactly those articles, how they are spelled out in the text that will be presented in the house judiciary committee and of course, then, will be reported to the full house. lets get back over to manu raju. manu has the text of it, hes been going through it. manu, i just started going through it mooiyself. what are you seeing here? >> its a pretty brief document. nine pages detailing what theyre layin...

Used the powers of the presidency in a matter that compromised the national security of the united states and undermined the integrity of the united states democratic process. number ii said, quote, without prop lawful cause of excuse, president trump directed executive branch agencies, offices and officials not to comply with those subpoenas. president trump thus interposed the powers of the presidency against the lawful subpoenas of the house of representatives and assumed to himself functions...

Impeachment proceedings since we havent received evidence to review. the minority has yet to receive a response to these letters. right here today for all americans to truly understand the ongoing lack of transparency and openness with these proceedings. the witness list for this hearing was not released until late monday afternoon. opening statements from the witnesses today were not distributed until late last night. and the intelligence committee finalized report has yet to be presented to th...

There were five key meetings between president zelensky and senior officials in our government. five key meetings, at the call on july 25th. very next day. july 26th, ambassador volker, taylor and sondland met with president zelensky in kyiv. then ambassador bolton end of august meet with president zelensky and then the vice president met with president zelensky september 1 and two senators republican and more importantly democrat senator murphy with republican senator johnson meet with presiden...

Because they dont have the facts. an unfair process, most importantly. this is something else you said, mr. turley. this is scary. how mad the country -- that was so well said. this is scary. the democrats have never accepted the will of the american people. top mr. turleys point. 17 days ago, 17 days ago, the speaker of the united states house of representatives calmed the president of the united states an impostor. the guy 63 million american voted for, won a landslide electoral and called him...

Here in 2019 under this inquiry, facts witnesses have been called. fact witnesses that have been called were in front of the intelligence committee. we have been given no indication that this committee will conduct substantive hearings with fact witnesses. as a member serving on the judiciary committee i can say that the process in which we are participated is insufficient, unprecedented and grossly inadequate. sitting before us is a panel of witnesses containing four distinguished law professor...

Benefit or to corrupt the democratic process. >> did you write an article entitled it is hard to take impeachment seriously now. >> i did back in may -- >> i wrote that article. would you like me to answer the question. >> house democrats have made it clear that discussing impeachment is primarily or exclusively a tool to weaken president trumps chancing in 2020. >> i was an impeachment skeptic but changed my mind and for good reason. >> thank you. i appreciate your testimony. professor karlan y...

>> and john adams once wrote to thomas jefferson on december 6th, 1887 and stated you are apprehensive of foreign interference, intrigue, influence, so am i. but as often as elections happen, the danger of foreign influence reoccurs. professor karlan how important was the concept of the free and fair elections to the framers of the constitution. >> it was less important to them than it has become in our constitution since then. and one thing that turned me into a lawyer seeing barbara jordan, th...

Remedy of impeachment. he invited the russians longtime adversaries into the process. the last time around. because he has invited the ukrainians into the process and because he suggested he would like the chinese to come into the process as well. >> thank you very much. one of the framers of our constitution ed mcrandolph who at one time was mayor of williamsburg, virginia, warned us that "the executive will have great opportunities of abusing his power." professor feldman, people like mayor ...

Benefit or to corrupt the democratic process. ed >> yes, i did write that article >> did you -- hold on. did you write since 2018 mid-term election, house democrats have made it clear that discussing impeachment is primarily or even exclusively a tool to weaken president trumps chances in 2020? did you write those words? >> until this call in july 25th, i was an impeachment skeptic. >> i appreciate your testimony. professor karlan, you gave $1,000 to elizabeth warren. >> i believe so. >> you gav...