Been looking for an excuse to impeach this president for a long time now. In fact, when they took over the house pardon of the interruption here. Im going to step out here at the top of the hour, but our coverage of the impeachment proceedings continue now on msnbc. Stay with us. Its all about politics, hurting the president , hurting his reputation. They dislike him intensely. As i mentioned the other day, they really loathe this president and theyre trying to hurt his chances in the next election. But one of my real concerns, and i have a lot of them about this whole thing, and i mentioned this earlier today, im very concerned about is that the democrats are really lowering the bar for impeaching a president in the future. Its becoming too routine. Its becoming the new normal. For 200 years in our nation we had one impeachment, one in 200 years, Andrew Johnson. And now in less than 50 years
were in our third one this time around. And i really am concerned that from now on in all like
President for a long time now. In fact, when they took over the house, one of their members filed articles of impeachment that very day and really since Inauguration Day many wanted to impeach him. This is really all about in my view, its all about politics. Its all about hurting the president , hurting his reputation. They dislike him intensely. As i mentioned the other day they really loathe this president , and theyre trying to hurt his chances in the next election. It may well do just the opposite. One of my real concerns, and af lot of them about this whole thing. I mentioned this earlier today, im very concerned about is that The Democrats are really lowering the bar for impeaching a president in the future. Its becoming too routine. Its becoming the new normal. For 200 years in our nation wed had one impeachment, one in 200 years, Andrew Johnson and now in less than 50 years were in our third one this time around. And i really am concerned that from now on in all likelihood when
i take issue at insult that one would suggest the work of the committee is about a dislike for those who voted for president trump. president trump is before this committee in articles of impeachment for his own behavior. for his desire to do with public moneys and a public position to do a private matter. and a political matter. that is to get dirt on his 2020 potential opponent. in honoring and defending the constitution, we defend and honor ourselves and 23r that reason as a indicting body through articles of impeachment we ll give the opportunity for the congress to decide on president trump s ultimate result. i stand with the constitution. and stand with justice. time expired. what purpose does swalwell. move so strike the last word.
in 2016. i take issue at insult that one would suggest the work of this committee is about a dislike for those who voted for president trump. president trump is before this committee in articles of impeachment for his own behavior, for his desire to do with public monies and a public position, to do a private matter and a political matter. and that is to get dirt on his 2020 potential opponent. in honoring and defending the constitution, we defend and honor ourselves. and for that reason, as an indicting body to articles of impeachment, we will give the opportunity for the congress to decide on president trump s ultimate results. but i stand with the constitution the gentlelady s time. and stand for justice. i yield back. the gentlelady s time is expired. for what purposes does mr. swalwell seek recognition? strike the last word. the gentleman is recognized.