Mr. Chairman. What purpose ir trying the last word. The gentleman strikes the lastem word. Recognized. Thank you. I yield to the rankingst member just real quickly, the gent thely lady from california stat something irn addressed head on last night. Undersecretary haleig said it w perspective money, not interfering or dealing with the issue. For those of us who have been in a war zone people do die. This money did not stop that. That is something that cannot be continuedme to perpetrated on ts world. Reclaiming my time. Theec difference in the Clinton Impeachment and this one, president clinton committed a crime, perjury, this president isnt accused of committing a crime. The constitution is prettymi clr on what constitution impeachable offense, treason, bribery and other High Crimes And Misdemeanors. Its not treason, bribery, other High Crimes And Misdemeanors and adam schiff an nancy pelosi deem impeachable. No president should abuse the
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he is trying to defend himself from cooperating. and significant also in the letter is information that mccarthy received briefings from the security threats that had come to capital immediately following january 6th, and did he convey those to the president of the united states, and what they are getting of is was the president aware of the threats before and after january 6th. all of these things are going to the question of whether the president obstructed congress. the language of the statue is whether a individual structurally or impedes the carrying out of congressional duties. trying to cover that up is going to be evidence of trying to support that. the and that is what they are trying to lay out in the letter, and it indicates how serious this was, and then he quickly changed his tune after going to
obstructed congress and refused for the first time in history, refused to cooperate with congress on an impeachment inquiry. and instructed everyone to keep quiet, silence them, refuse to allow them to turn over informati information. they ll understand that. when the trial goes forward, there are members of his own party that are going to stand up for the institution and the separation of powers. we shouldn t behave that way. he knows he owes his obligation to the constitution, not to the white house. but i have faith in the that there are senators who understand why it s so important to stand up at this moment and take this important action to protect our constitution. that s why we re moving forward with impeachment. congressman ted deutch, nice to see you in the daylight. have a night day. appreciate it. a lbig step forward on impeachment. the strategy on the last-minute moves coming up next.
how much of that pattern of not just skirting the law but brazenly breaking it, how much of that plays into your feelings watching the republicans defend him? you know, this has been a week where my thinking on my former colleagues has evolved. i think the most impressional,g taken advantage of constituency by donald trump is not the base republican voter that we see at the rallies, it s republican members of congress down pennsylvania avenue on capitol hill. i think they truly believe, republicans what we have seen this week, is they believe with conviction that the deep state is out to get donald trump. they have been convinced of this. and we talk about the abandonment of truth in politics. i think what we ve seen this week is the abandonment of reason and that s the heart breaking part for people who watch this in a cerebral, almost objective way. these republican members of
would bring back up this debunked conspiracy theory about 2016. right. which is one of the pressing urgencies that democrats have tried to convey to the nation, that this is not necessarily about what happened on a phone call over the summer, this is about activity that continues. and if congress does nothing, we will see donald trump and the team around him continue to cheat. i think jerry nadler was right to move this vote to this morning because it does allow the nation to distill the very simple narrative around the misconduct. it creates a more dispassionate forum than perhaps the circus we saw yesterday. and the simple narrative is that donald trump tried to cheat and is continuing to try to cheat. in many ways, it is less about trump and ukraine or trump and joe biden, it s about trump and us. trump and the american people, trump and the american voter. donald trump tried to cheat each