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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do him a political favor. as far as i am concerned, it is abuse of power. i know you disagree with him. how is he wrong, how is it not abuse of power? i would tell tom ridge and anybody else they can t look at this in isolation, you have to look at it in context, what matters is the actual record. the president didn t ask zelensky to do him a favor, he said do us a favor, it is an important word, obscured in the judiciary hearing of the 14 hour marathon hearing, had to correct the record over and over. the context was he made sure the treasure of taxpayers was not spent overseas. that s why they re regarded the third most corrupt nation in the world. he wanted to be sure this would be done right, if zelensky that ran as a swamp drainer to clean up corruption, if he was legitimate. ultimately the president concluded he was and aid was released. all right. just so we re clear, this would set a precedent were a president
contacted state department and d.o.d. officials were acting rogue with the then ukraine ambassador to the u.s. and working to withhold information from kiev to undermine the new zelensky administration. swamp drainer. the guy who would clean up the corruption president trump affirmed later. andrei yermak confirmed president zelensky s close advisers had no knowledge of the hold until made public by the politico article august 28th. look that is a fact. like everything else they re trying to obscure you can t take your eye off the ball. i know this is hard to follow back home from conscientious constituents of ours and citizens trying to do their duty, trying to be nchbl inform and engaged. it s hard to follow. you have to know both the process and the substance of these arguments is completely empty. spr
only they misrepresent do me a favor and do us a favor but only two of the three witnesses called by schiff listened in on the call. they didn t provide key uncontra vertble firsthand testimony of what happened onan the call. all three contradicted each other. the three people listening directly didn t know. the evidence shows president trump holds a deep seated, genuine and reasonable skepticism of ukraine due to its history of pervasive corruption andve his administration sought proof that newly elected president wasew a true reformer. of course as has been pointed out the president soon found out that he is a swamp drainer and why the funds were released. president trump wanted to ensure that the american taxpayer funded security assistance would not be zaunderred by what has been reported as the third most corrupt nation in the world beforeco zelensky. and the discussions they had were neverth about what happene in bo what will happen in 202 but about what happened in 2016. the se
bret: 12%. tucker: 12% alcohol. is bret right? for loko hard seltzer officially goes on sale today and it s first offering is a staggering 12% alcohol. the flavor is called black cherry. and if you drink a whole 12 pac12black eye from a hooker named cherry. tucker: 2-0. final question is worth two points. who knows what could happen. here it is. at breeder s cup over the weekend, a horse with a trump themed name came in first place and won a million-dollar prize. what was the this is multiple choice. what was the horse s name, the winning horse? was it a, swamp drainer? b, fake news? or c, covfefe. bret: got to go. fake news. tucker: face news. was it fake news?