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President. mr. cole rngts , its not a cri. its a sad day. its telling that the articles of impeachment, to show you how partisan it is and really the concerning part i and mr. mcgovern is a friend, we disagree probably on a lot of things, is this glass half full or empty. thats fine, thats what voters send us here for. we have worked together. the question i have here, if this was overwhelming, bipartisan and so the american people understand it, then why are we in the rules committee today? whe...

Discussed, many things. this should not be one of them. its interesting, i hear a lot today, ive heard from mr. raskin and the chairman as well, discussion of the founders. we cherry pick the founders, and thats okay, thats what partisans do, when youre in a partisan impeachment, you cherry pick of founders. the one thats not mentioned is the very thing were here for. i believe it was in federalist -- i think its 65, it was hamilton, when he said this. he said, the founders warned against a vagu...

Analysis that lead inescapebly to the conclusions embodied in these articles of impeachment. first, prs has committed the high crime and misdemeanor of abuse of office. he abused the awesome powers of the presidency by using his office to corruptly demand that a foreign government interfere in our american presidential election in order to promote his own political campaign in 2020. he corruptly conditioned the release of $391 million in foreign security assistance that he held back from the ukr...

Its clear that this president acted in a way that not only violates the public trust. he jeopardized our national security. he undermined our democracy. he acted in a way that rises to the level of impeachment. that is why we are considering 755 today, a resolution impeaching donald john trump, president of the united states, for high crimes and misdemeanors. congress has no other choice but to act with urgency. when i think back to the founders of this nation, they were particularly concerned a...

Official from omb to testify. john bolton, former national security adviser, we just heard senator schumer once again make the case that they should be allowed to testify during a senate trial. meanwhile soon, left side of your screen, it is going to be shifting to the house, back to the house. the house rules committee will be gavelled in for a hearing. theres a live look inside that tiny room thats tucked away on the third floor there. they will be setting the results for tomorrows debate and ...

There was a clear consensus in the country. neither of those two commissions are present here. indeed, the latest real clear politics average of polls on impeachment shows the country evenly split, 46.5% of americans in favor of impeachment and 46.5% against. that is hardly what i would call a national consensus in favor of impeaching president trump. when half of americans are telling you that what youre doing is wrong, you should listen. i think this is especially the case given how close we a...

The president should not be impeached. i urge all members to vote no. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you very much. i appreciate your comments. obviously we have strong disagreements, and just one technical point id like to make. none of us in this house have had an opportunity to vote on impeachment. the resolution that the gentleman refers to was -- some of us opposed tabling it because we thought it should go to committee where it could be appropriately evaluated. thats what this process h...

Though theres no basis for impeachment, theyre still moving forward today. what i cannot discern is a legitimate reason why, why the majority is moving forward when the process is so partisan, why theyre moving forward when the american people are not with them, why theyre moving forward when they havent proven their case and why theyre moving forward when there is no basis for impeachment. why? why put the country through all this? it makes even less sense to me when we consider the realities o...

Impeachment power itself to be destroyed. these articles charge that president trump is engaged in system attic abuse of his powers, obstructed congress and realized the worst fares of the framers by sub bored nating our national security and dragging foreign powers into american politics to corrupt our elections all for the greater cause of his own personal gain and ambition. article and section four of the constitution provides the president shall be impeached for treason, bribery or other hig...

Pelosis own words back in march of this year. she said, quote, impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless theres something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, i dont think we should go down that path because it divides the country, unquote. the key word in that quote is bipartisan. indeed, during the nixon and clinton impeachments, the process for even opening the inquiry was considered on a bipartisan basis. back then both sides treated the process with the seriousness it ...