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American people need to recognize about this. our constitution is the supreme law of the land. it is not political and able to be manipulated depending whether youre democrat or republican. for everyone who is invoking the rule of law that doesnt mean that the legislative branch here just because they have sole power of impeachment can exercise that in any way, shape or form they want. our founders specifically said you have to work in tandem with article 2, section 4, treason, bribery or other ...

In this great institution that i love and the people of my district did i ever expect to encounter such an obvious wrongdoing by a president of the united states. nor did i expect to witness such a craven rationalization of presidential actions that should put our national security at risk, undermine the integrity of our elections and defied the constitutional authority of the congress to conduct oversight. weve heard from republicans that this impeachment really has to do with policy difference...

Pelosi on down, have said these not about partisan, this is not about politics. so if he commits crimes, wont it be their obligation to do it every time. >> i think its readily important to do the two times of offenses. one is policy differences. we dont like plan closures in michigan, but were not going to impeach him over that. the reason would you the ukraine scandal is on unique, its about rigging the 2020 election. its not an issue that can be revolved. with upcoming elections. it needs to ...

On something like this. the country deserves a lot better than theyre getting in this impeachment process, and it -- ill be glad when we get beyond this, because its bad for the country, very divisive, and i yield back. >> the gentleman yields back. does anyone else seek recognition on this amendment? for what purpose does mr. buck seek recognition? >> move to strike the last word. >> the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i heard my colleague from rhode island say this isnt ab...

What we have all known is that they have policy differences. and as he said, theyll deal with it next november. theyre not really interested in removing this president from office. they dont think that the senate is going to remove him from office. they get it. this is all a political exercise on their end just to help them in next novembers election. thats what its all about for them. and its infuriating to me that they put on this show and wave their constitutions, which they must have just fo...

Word. >> the gentleman is recognized. >> i want to thank the gentleman, my colleague mr. jeffreys for laying bare what weve all known. they have policy differences and as he said theyll deal with it next november. theyre not really interested in removing this president from office. they dont think the senate is going to remove him from office. this is all a political exercise on their end just to help them in novembers election. thats what its all about for them. and its infuriating to me that t...

President. they are wafer thin. we should not be moving forward on something like this. the country deserves a lot better than theyre getting in this impeachment process, and ill be glad when i get beyond this because its bad for the country and very divisive. i yield back. >> does anyone else seek recognition of this amendment? >> move to strike the last word. >> the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i hear my colleague from rhode island say that this isnt about policy differ...

Pre-ordained conclusion and that is a partisan vote for impeachment and something that both the speaker and the chairman of this committee rejected earlier on when they thought they could make this bipartisan. if they could have made it bipartisan, they blew their opportunity very early on with their trashing of the rules and the trashing of what is in the history of this committee. now lets look at these two articles. unlike the nixon and clinton impeachment, there is no crime thats alleged to ...

Take too long. an election is coming. no, adam, what you need to continue to say is, we cant beat him next year. the only thing we need say 30-second commercial saying we impeached him. >> unlike the nixon and clinton impeachment, there is no crime thats alleged to have been committed by the president of the united states. there are policy differences, theres no allegation of bribery in these articles. theres no allegation of extortion. >> we are marking up articles of impeachment for offenses t...

Enough to realize that youre willfully ignoring the facts to protect a corrupt and dangerous president. >> if we decide the president is above the law, then we will no longer live in a democracy. we will live in a dictatorship. trading the values of madison for the values of moscow. >> i know theyre desperate. you know how i know it? adam schiffs own words yesterday. we cant go to court. that would take too long. an election is coming. no, adam, what you need to continue to say is, we cant beat ...