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Golf on their laptop during the proceedings. it has hardly been prayerful or even surprising for that matter. by the way, you asked what caused nancy pelosi to change her position? what caused her to change her position was her caucus was running away with -- on this crazy train and realized she would lose power within her caucus if she didnt jump in front of it and regain control. thats what happened. and its a sad way to pursue this sort of thing. the struggle for republicans. do you have a lo...

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,...

Passion. i understand that. thats what this committee is about. but can you tell me honestly from the majoritys perspective that weve almost spent less hours percentage-wise on impeachment of actually doing anything remotely related to a hearing as you did in the minority when you were arguing about the rules of the committee in the oversight? that should tell you a lot about what this is about. because were spending more time in the minority arguing about things that really in the end of the da...

For me to show them is that i hope that they trust that when i took that vote, i had everyones safety and future in mind. that i did it for our children so that we can actually protect our systems of government. to protect the way that the constitution was written to make sure that we had a strong democracy. that the crime that was committed by this president was the highest of crimes by inviting foreign interference into our elections. in my district, we have many people that have come from lat...

Oh, im sorry, for what purpose does mr. swalwell seek recognition? >> i yield to the chairman. >> thank you. impeachment was put into the constitution because the framers recognized that a president might arise who posed such a threat to the country, to our democratic system, to our free elections that we couldnt wait until the next election to cure it. thats why impeachment was put into the constitution. lets look at now weve heard a lot of very distracting facts about what hunter biden may or ...

Over recordings of his conversations in the oval office. later, president clinton handed over his dna. president trumps obstruction was, by contrast, absolute. those are the facts. theyre overwhelming. there is no denying them. having reviewed the evidence, we come to our second question, is the presidents proven conduct impeachable? the answer is simply, is simple, absolutely. under article 1 of the constitution, the president can be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. the highest of hi...

President trump took advantage of ukraines vulnerability and abused powers of his office to pressure ukraine to help his re-election campaign. this is the highest of high crimes, and president trump must be held accountable. you know, in addition to compromising ukraine, this compromised our standing in the world, because what does it say to our allies? what does it say to vulnerable new democracies when they need assistance of the united states, they better be prepared to help the presidents re...

Foreign interference before, he is doing it now and he will do it again. the smoking gun is already reloaded. and whether or not he gets fiitd is up to us. it the highest of constitutional crimes and gravest of betrayals. if we allow this president to put himself above the law, we allow all future presidents to be above the law. we submit then to the fact that we will no longer be a democracy, we will be a monarchy or a dictatorship. this moment is a test. it is a test of the vision of our frame...

Elections by dragging in foreign interference. its the highest of high crimes and misdemeanors. our framers spoke about this abuse of power, abusing the office of the presidency to advance your own personal interests and to undermine the public interest. ill yield to mr. rasken. >> i yield to mr. rasken. >> thank you very much. just to flesh out the detail from what the gentleman from right si rd rd w rhode island, one of the depositions was with someone who was with gordan sondland who testifie...

Enough. abuse of power by the highest position in the land, the leader of the free world, that abuse of power is not enough to impeach. the framers were so desperate lee concerned they were terrified of the font of an unprincipled man, a person finding his way into the white house. this is just that abuse of power is not serious is not enough is simply ridiculous. the president has a constitutional duty and that is the highest documented in the land, the violate the constitution. you have a cons...