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Constitution, was that he didnt want to see impeachment used for political purposes, yet thats what happened today. he predicted it, and it happened today. its a sham, it shouldnt have happened, its a tainted process that adam schiff is conducting, that jerry nadler may conduct. the people of this country deserve better. we should tackle real problems. we could have lower prescription prices today but nancy pelosi wont bring it to the floor because shes infatuated with impeachment. in fact, we c...

The camera, and then take it public. that would be a better process, would it not? >> but theyre going to argue that impeachment is fundamentally different because impeachment has the fundamental implication of affecting an election. we go to the polls, we elect people. the impeachment argument would be that has to happen in public because the voters, the people going to the polls, need to have confidence in the results and also the process. >> its a key point because the republicans are making ...

Office. yes, he was on a phone call, and this is what they argue, he was just trying to call about corruption, he was doing what upped him to do when you said donald trump would be a different kind of president. theyre trying to say rules and norms and protocols be damned. and whether or not that is going to play with the base, okay, maybe, but it still is the suburban vote that the republicans lost big time in 2018 that is going to decide likely what happens in the election. >> so as we enter t...

Democrats had resisted it, republicans demanded it on the floor of the house of representatives. it played out this way. >> todays resolution fails to give the minority the same rights as were present during the clinton impeachment and it fails to offer the same due process protections that were given to presidents nixon and clinton. >> i dont think there was any process that we could propose that republicans who prefer to circle the wagons around this president and prevent us from getting to th...

Maybe getting hit because of the process now during the depositions, it is behind closed doors, but just wait until we hear from some of these civil servants. not just political appointees, but civil servants who have unimpeachable experience talking back that way. >> the democrats have said behind closed doors they see a crystal clear abuse of power corruption case against the president of the united states. the republicans have complained mostly about the process. are they going to attack thes...

Pelosi said this about impeachment. impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there is something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, i dont think we should go down that path because it divides the country. today the country just witnessed the only bipartisan vote on that floor was against. the question to the speaker are the same questions i provided in the letter about the unfair process that we had. what has changed since march? in all the hearings, theres nothing compel...

During the depositions that we have conducted thus far, weve used a format that we believe very conducive to the fact-finding process. those procedures now will be incorporated into the open hearings in which staff counsel will be permitted for lengthy periods of time to do sustained questioning for up to 25 minutes per side followed by member questioning. weve used this, i think, to great success for both parties during the course of the depositions where, in the depositions we have alternated ...

Handle the articles of impeachment, if it gets there. its fascinating, were just an hour removed from the vote to make this a full inquiry with the blessing of the full house. you see the parties working the voters. the republicans continuing to complain about the process, the democrats trying to say we have pre-judged nothing. the republicans would dispute that and some say they wanted to impeach the president for a long time, but the democrats saying were going to bring to the public what weve...

Democrats cannot fix this process. theyve now created a record over the course of the last several weeks with witnesses they selected. we know there were circumstances where chairman schiff told witnesses not to answer questions that our members were asking. we know there have been circumstances where our members have attempted to go read transcripts and theyve been told by staff members that theyre not allowed to go read those transcripts. this is a process that has been fundamentally tainted. ...

Impeachment process and not the oversight objections that we have -- >> youre listening to the three top republicans. if you need a reminder of a political process, lets go to the room and listen to the democrats. >> it lays out the impeachment process. the founding fathers understood that a leader might take hold of the oval office who would sacrifice the national security, who would fail to defend the constitution, who would place his personal or political interests above the interests of the ...