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These allegations sound terrible and scary and threatening of the constitution. emt you didnt prove them. in the end, the aid was released. the ukrainians have said over and over they felt no pressure. so republicans take all of those public utterances and fact patterns and say, "democrats you sre unfairly inferring the worst about this president," irich is what, republicans said, democrats always do. the democrats said wait a ,inute, wait a minute. this fact pattern is clear. youre ignoring a c...

Undermining zelensky and calling him a liar and making him look weak as that country is in the middle of a hot war with russia. you couldnt see these sides more further apart. >> in some ways it was so interesting to hear the kind of talking past each other on the facts of the matter. you had republicans repeating things that we know are not true. for example, that ukraine -- that the president was so concerned about corruption that he justifiably held up the money even though we know that his o...

That is the power of impeachment in article i. so we have charged him with the highest of constitutional crimes. we have laid out the crimes, they are clear. republicans are trying to distract americans from what is actually happening here and today we will vote to send those articles of impeachment to the full house floor for a vote. >> congresswoman, it was clear in watching yesterday that you had all agreed to use all of your time before the public, we were all watching every step of the way,...

Precedents, because there is a national security implication, because it involved the conditioning of defense assistance, because it involved pressuring a foreign leader to do something for personal, political benefit. the fact pattern is just different, and thats why the abuse of authority is the centr central issue in this case, and its not some discreet crime we can just point to. if they wanted to go on a discreet crime, like i said earlier, they could have pulled out a few of the obstructiv...

What were talking about here, impeaching the president of the united states. that youre not waiting for more fact witnesses to testify. what do you say to that? >> theyre the ones that made it take so long. look, theyre not cooperating, right? so their game is to not provide witnesses, not to provide eve justification for the presidents conduct, not to provide the documents that weve requested. so their game is to drag this out and not be responsive, so were not going to play that game, right? i...

Feasible. >> unless something changes in the senate trial which is possible. somehow they can compel john bolton to testify there. its a republican controlled body as opposed to the house. i wasnt at the house caucus meeting. i dont know exactly why adam schiff was applauded. there is support for him in the way he conducted the hearing. >> correct. >> not necessarily for impeaching the president. im not so sure thats the case. hair where youre coming from. everything is looked at through a parti...

But seriously, right, and think about how that was just four legal experts. how many they had during the clinton impeachment era. but you saw that the republican legal scholar was trying to make that case, too. he didnt vote for trump, but he thinks this doesnt meet the bar. this is the problem. youre not arguing about the facts here. youre not arguing about the people here. the characters are set. the fact pattern is set. youre arguing about the intent and the feelings. that comes back down to ...

To the house floor and there is a good chance that democrats will support them as well. the fact pattern laid out of what the surrogates did in ukraine, that is the investigation, but were getting to the closing chapter where all of the strings are tied up and that will happen in the next few days. >> so the house speaker set a tone this past week giving the green light for the house judiciary to draft articles of impeachment. she also set the tone, dont mess with me on mischaracterizations or m...

Retrospect, i think we kwould have just censured him. but this case hits the four corners of what our founders wrote about impeachment, what james madison wrote, the father of the constitution, what everybody wrote about impeachment, it could not be a tighter fit where a president is getting a foreign country to help him in a domestic campaign and using american military might to extort them. i mean, my god. its -- the fact pattern is, again, it just hits all four corners of what the founders sa...

Well do it again. and if you follow all the news events, even since the house intel committee has finished -- or seemed to have completed its first round of interviewing witnesses, the fact pattern only gets clearer and clearer of donald trump using rudy giuliani to extort a foreign government. >> i think that that is absolutely right and that is perhaps the most compelling argument that chairman schiff made in his report. he responds to the concerns that professor turley expressed today about t...