Number of significant procedural protections where the president even on the house side, as you know the role of the house is to act as the grand jury and the prosecutor and the actual trial takes place over in the senate, but still, we had significant procedural protections we invited the president and his counsel to attend, we provided the president s counsel the opportunity to cross examine witnesses and object to the admissibility of testimony, and we provided the president s counsel it make presentation of evidence before the full Judiciary Committee including the chance to call witnesses. The president chose not to avail himself of any of those opportunities. It reminds me the president Blockading Witnesses saying you dont have enough people with direct firsthand evidence. First of all, were those rights provided only in Judiciary Committee. Youre not the Principle Committee of impeachment. Youre sort of the final stop. Did the president get those
rights in the Intelligence Commi
he was there. but i would just say that, you know, that this notion that somehow that the minority has the super power ability to be able to not only name the witnesses, but set the day and to be able to slow down progress on any bill, if that were the case, having been in the minority eight years, we would have used it to stop most of the agenda that my republican friends have put forward. so i put again, i will make that letter available to anybody who is interested. mr. chairman, i have a question. i was you made a statement and i m not sure if how you were wording it, i was never promised by mr. nad her he would work with us on a minority hearing day from now to infinity. he said no, we re not having it. he did not. my understanding is he said that in committee. maybe i m wrong, but we can find
something he didn t want he could write us a letter. he could write us a letter. a couple of these things. the white house has not received all the documents it s supposed to have. we re doing impeachment right now and they still haven t received the documentps. i still have not received all the documents. i don t know how we get around that. we can pretend and paint pretty faces. also here s another thing. the staff member they send, mr. goldman, would not testify or answer questions on the methodology of how they did their investigation. even in an egregious violation in their report where they named members of congress and their phone records, he would not actually say who ordered that, was it chairman schiff or him. i ve always defaulted as i think you would to the member with the pen, mr. schiff. mr. goldman said we would not discuss the methodology of their investigation. this has got to be the most amazing thought when you come to an impeachment when trying to
memory? that is correct. so judiciary committee majority, did it have access to any evidence beyond the actual report from the intelligence committee until the weekend before the judiciary committee actually considered articles of impeachment? well, i don t remember exactly when all of the deposition statements were released publicly. i think some of them had been released publicly before that time. we go back and check the exact chronology. there are certain members of the judiciary committee also members of other investigative committees. i understand. it s my understanding chairman schiff did not translate all to the judiciary committee, is that the case? it is still true to this day. would you not agree, i ask this of both of you, the house judiciary committee should have had the time and opportunity to
against congressional subpoenas? no. it s common. if it s pretty common, do you believe it s a high crime or misdemeanor to assert privileges in response to congressional requests for subpoenas? i want to go back an give a little history since we ve had history lessons. even in our own committee what s been interesting, there s been a total just walk toward impeachment. what was interesting in our committee we would send subpoenas or sent out letters and stuff and we never followed up on, but also one of the interesting things, we never engaged for the most part with the agencies for documents. what i thought was interesting, mr. schiff and the intelligence committee, while still struggling, mr. schiff negotiated with the department of justice and got documents released our committee couldn t. eliot engel one of the quieter chairmans but more effective across the aisle had engaged all