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This from like the ivory towers of your law school but it makes actual people in this country when the president calls you dont get to interrupt me on this time. And when you suggest that you invoke the president s son name here and try to make a joke at referencing baron trump that does not lend credibility to your argument, it makes you look mean and attacking someones family. The minor child of the president of the United States. So lets see if we could get into the facts. To all of the witne...

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...

And conservatives dont want to be around each other and so they have to spread out, you may not see this from like the ivory towers of your law school, but it makes the actual people in this country when the president calls you dont get to interrupt me on this time. Let me also suggest that when you invoke the president s sons name here. When you try to make a little joke out of referencing trump, that does not lend credibility to your argument. It makes you look mean. It makes you look like you...

Other important things that are going undone. Within this committees own jurisdiction we should address the Opioid Epidemic and could be working together to find solutions to the challenges on our southern border. Protecting americans from jobs stolen by Chinese Companies and enhancing Election Security to name a few things. Congress as a whole could be working on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, providing additional tax relief to the nations middle class families and providing additiona...

Personal benefit. given the incentives the president created for ukraine to comply for his request the president was seeking to serve his own personal benefit and interest. thats the definition of corruption under the constitution. >> other witnesses have also testified that it was their impression that when president trump said i would like you to do us a favor, though, that he was actually making a demand and not a request. professor feldman, how does lieutenant colonel vindmans testimony that...

They how that-of-knew thknew a not be checked, supervised by his own party and by congress and be impeached would effectively be above the law and use his power to get re-elected and why they created the impeachment remedy. >> thank you. how the framers concerns about abuse of power relate to president trumps misconduct. on july 25th, president trump said to president zelensky, "i would like you to do us a favor, though." professor feldman, when president trump made use of the words "favor, thou...

To use foreign aid, and they probably couldnt have imagined we even were giving foreign aid because we were a tiny, poor country then. hard to translate that. a president who doesnt think first about the security of the united states is not doing what his oath requires him to do, which was faithfully execute the laws here, a law appropriating money and defend the constitution of the united states. >> thank you. lets go back to a segment of mr. turleys quote. that if you can establish intent to u...

Do you agree with that professor feldman. >> i do. richard nixon sent burglars to break into the democratic national committee headquarters but president trump just made a direct phone call to the president of a foreign country and sought his intervention in american election. >> so this is a big moment for america, isnt it? if elijah cummings were here, he would say listen up people. listen up. how we respond will determine the character of our democracy for generations. now professors feldman ...

Karlan, abuse of power, betrayal of national interest ares and corruption of elections. is that right, professor karlan. >> yes, it is. >> and professor feldman and professor gerhardt, do you agree. >> yes, sir. >> professor karlan you stated essence of impeachmentable the presidents decision to sacrifice the national interests for his own end. do you agree with that, all of you? >> yes, sir. >> yes, sir. >> based on the evidence youve seen, professors feldman, karlan and gerhardt, has president...

President trump? >> thats -- it could be, yes, yes. >> thank you. you know, im trustruck by the parallels. one of the things nixon did, launch tax investigations of his political opponents. here the evidence shows trump tried to launch a criminal investigation of his political opponent by a foreign government. we have heard evidence suggesting that president trump did this mofor his own personal gain. although president trump claims he withheld the aid because of concerns about corruption. i bel...