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Somebody caught in the middle of it, and that does not excuse the person from the consequences. Professors, we have talked about abuse of power and bribery when we started, we said we would also discuss obstruction of congress. So i would like to ask you some questions about obstruction of congress. Professor gerhardt, in your view, is there enough evidence here to charge President Trump with a high crime and misdemeanor of obstruction of congress . I think that there is more than enough. As i m...

Him through this committee for eight months. So i think following proceed sure is something that you have to look at because your idea is not really point of order. The time has expired. If he wishes. He doesnt wish. Good morning, mr mr. Lewandowski. Im questioning you right now. Thank you. The president asked you who had no role at all in the white house to deliver that message to Attorney General sessions. The president could have just picked up the phone himself at any time and called the Att...

American peoples money on this impeachment, theres so many other important things that are going undone. Within this committees own jurisdiction, we should be addressing the opioid epidemic. We could be working together to find a solution to our immigration and asylum challenges on our southern border. We could be protecting americans from having their intellectual property and jobs stolen by chinese companies. And we could be enhancing Election Security just to name a few things. And congress a...

Mr. Richmond votes no. Mr. Jeffries votes no. Mr. Cicilliny votes no. Thank you for joining us tonight. This is Roll Call Vote under way right now. Were watching this historic impeachment proceeding under way in congress. If youve been watching today and into tonight you know that in technical terms this is what tay call a markup which means the Judiciary Committee is there to change or fine tune the articles of impeachment against President Trump before a final vote. In reality what todays proc...

Power to determine its own rules. When president nixon during the time he was going to be impeached ruling how that proceeding would go forward. When the Clinton Impeachment was brought forward, there was a unanimous consent request to govern how we conducted ourselves and im not sure how likely it would be that we would get a unanimous consent request. Id like to ask unanimous consent without objection to enter into the record a letter that was sent to the chairman of the Judiciary Committee si...

Charges brought by the house. I believe these documents are also of great importance to making sure senators have the information necessary to make a fully informed decision, this terribly weighty decision. The house has built a very strong case against the president. Maybe thats why leader mcconnell doesnt seem to want witnesses, at least not agree to them now. Maybe thats why the president is afraid, because the house case is so strong, that they dont want witnesses that might corroborate it. ...

European union. What does President Trump ask sondland the day after this call . What does the president want to know . Did he ask about ukraines efforts to battle corruption . Of course not. Did he ask how the war with russia was going . Not a chance. On the phone his voice loud enough for others to hear, President Trump asked sondland, so hes going to do the investigation . And the answer was clear, sondland assured trump that the ukrainian president was going to do it. And that he would do an...

Sm he20 didnt talk about 2020. Would you agree President Trump was acting wrongly and corruptly that he was askingee r the investigation explicitly to help his 2020 election prospects . Yes, my experience as ten years as a prosecutor, you never have a defendant or someone whos engaging in misconduct who would ever explicitly say in this case, president zelensky, i am going to bribe you now or i am going to ask you for a bribe, i am going to extort you, thats not theto way these things work. Mr. ...

Sought to protect us. But now along comes a president who actually says he is constitutionally empowered to do whatever he wants. That he can neither be prosecuted or even investigated for any crime. And that he can totally ignore any impeachment proceeding of which he disapproves. These are the claims of a wanna be tyrant who has extowed the virtues of tyrants from manila to moscow. To advance tyranny, he adopts an openborder policy. Inviting foreigners to come into our country and intrude in o...

You. For going on three years innocent people have been accused of very serious crimes, including treason. Accusations made even here today. They have had their lives disrupted and in some cases destroyed by false accusations for which there is absolutely no basis other than some people desperately wish that it was so. But your report is clear. No evidence of conspiracy, no evidence of coordination. I believe we owe it to these people, who have been falsely accused, including the president and h...