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It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may radio id the storm and direct the whirlwind. ladies and gentlemen, the storm in which we find ourselves today was set in motion by president trump. i do not wish this moment on the country. it is not a pleasant task that we undertake today. but we have each taken an oath to protect the constitution. and the facts before us are clear. president trump did not merely seek to benefit from foreign interference fr...

Impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors up to date the constitution. in particular, the memorandum and other testimony relateing to the july 25th 2019 phone call between the two presidents, president trump and president zelensky, more than sufficiently indicates that president trump abused his office by soliciting the president of ukraine to investigate his political rivals in order to gain personal, political advantage, including in relation to the 2020 election. again, the words abuse of offi...

Convention actually moved to take out the impeachment provision from the draft constitution. they had a reason for that. the reason was, they said, well, the president will have to stand for re-election. if the president has to stand for re-election, that is enough. we dont need a separate provision for impeachment. when that proposal was made, significant disagreement ensued. the governor of north carolina, a man called william davie, immediately said, if the president cannot be impeached, quot...

Misdemeanors under the constitution. they each incapsulate the framers worry that the president of the united states would take any means whatever to ensure his re-election and that is the reason that the framers provided for impeachment in a case like this one. >> mr. chairman, i -- >> the gentlemans time is expired. >> mr. chairman, i seek recognition. >> the gentleman will is recognized. >> i offer a motion to postpone to a date certain. >> i mof to table the motion. >> motion to table is hea...

Thats the question you asked. lay out your case. >> all constitutional power can be abused, right? so the allegation against the president by the democrats, theyve tried toin nrait it in various ways. what it comes down to is that as president, he has control under article 2 of the constitution of the foreign relations of the united states. and they want to have a simple, clean allegation that says he leveraged that constitutional power for his own political gain. what i am pointing out is that ...

Effect elections and abuse of office to compromise national security were further forms that were familiar to the framers. now, how does this language of high crimes and misdemeanors apply to president trumps alleged conduct? let me be clear. the constitution gives the house of representatives, that is the members of this committee and the other members of the house, quote, sole power of impeachment. its not my responsibility or my job to determine the credibility of the witnesses who appeared b...

My name is noah feldman. i serve as the felix professor of law at the harvard law school. >> i seek recognition for a motion. >> the gentleman will suspend. the time is the witnesses. >> the privileged motion needs to be recognized. you can call it not a privilege. >> in between the witnesses it may be recognized. not once i recognize the witness. well entertain the motion after the first witness. >> my job is to study is to teach the constitution. im here to describe three things. why the frame...

The impeachment of president trump to the house if we find that he has committed treason, bribery, or other high crimes and miss demeanors. our witness panel will help us to guide that conversation. in a few days, we will reconvene and hear from the committees that worked to uncover the facts before us. and when we apply the constitution to those facts, if it is true that president trump has committed an impeachable offense, or multiple impeachable offenses, then we must move swiftly to do our d...

That ukraine so desperately needed. it matters that he enlisted a foreign government to intervene in our elections in the first place. it does not matter that president trump felt that these investigations were unfair to him. it matters that he used his office not merely to defend himself, but to obstruct investigators at every turn. we are all aware that the next election is looming. but we cannot wait for the election to address the present crisis. the integrity of that election is one of the ...

Convention actually moved to take out the impeachment provision from the draft constitution. they had a reason for that. their reason was they said the president will have to stand for reelection. if the president has to stand for reelection thats enough. we dont need a separate provision for impeachment. when that proposal was made significant disagreement ensued. the governor of north carolina a man called william davey immediately said if the president cannot be impeached he will spare no eff...