their house career to vote for impeachment? this is a very serious event. any time you re talking about impeachment it s serious. this involves national security and the abuse of power. this is something members on both sides will live with for the rest their life and i hope they all take it with that level of seriousness. you must have given more thought to a vote that could end your political career than other votes. being a former member is a much better life than being a member. tokay. if you stood up for the constitution and the country and did your duty, i think that s a vote people will be happy to live with. i know a lot of the republican senators, particularly those under the age of 50, are not excited to have to take this vote and answer for it for years. but we re still at the trial stage. it s important for people tori take the evidence with the seriousness it deserves and cast a vote they can live with.
career? well, this a very, very serious event. any time you re talking about impeachment it s serious because this involves national security and abuse of power. this is something i think members on both sides are going to live with for the rest of their life. you must have given extra thought to a vote that might end your political career as opposed to other votes. what i can say to republican elected out there being a former member is much better life than being a member. if you re thinking about living the rest of your life with whether you stood up for the constitution and your country and did your duty, i think that s one people would be happy to live with. i know a lot of republican senators particularly under the age of 50 are not excited about having to take this vote and answer for it for a lot of years. but we re at the trial stage. congressman davis, what are
if you are thinking about spending the rest of your life living with whether you stood up for the constitution and the country and did your duty, i think that s one people will be really happy to live with. i know a lot of the republican senators, particularly those under the age of 50 are not excited about having to take this vote and answer for it for a lot of years, but we re still at the trial stage, so i think it will be important to present the evidence for people to take that with the seriousness that it deserves and then cast a vote they can live with. what are the less sons learned from your view? i was advised against bringing impeachment up against president clinton. we suffered setbacks in the 1998 mid-term elections because we raised impeachment and basically begined the democratic base out in an off year. at that point only the second time in history, the president s party picked up seats. i thought it was not a good political strategy. but once faced with it, to me,
opportunity to present evidence, to cross-examine witnesses to his counsel to attend the hearings in the judiciary committee. to make a closing argument. so there are substantial rights which don t really have to be afforded at this stage. they re traditionally afforded at the trial stage in the senate, but i think what we re trying to do by this resolution is afford greater rights to be the president because we want to make sure the american people see this process as transparent and fair and that the president and his republican allies had an opportunity to make their case. i think the evidence that is being collected in this inquiry is significant and we want the president to have an opportunity to respond to it. there s a schedule for testimony behind closed doors in private depositions for the intelligence committee i think now through november 7th if i m not mistaken. do you have any sense of what the timeline is should this resolution be passed tomorrow? which knowing speaker
and what they re entitled to in this process? well, i mean, i think everyone is committed to ensuring this process is fair, that the minority and the president have an opportunity to make their case, to present evidence, to present arguments, to cross examine witnesses. so if you look through the resolution, we ve actually afforded the minority much greater rights than existed in the clinton and nixon impeachments. and we re doing that because we want to be sure the process is fair, that the president will have opportunity to present evidence, cross examine witnesses through his counsel, to attend the hearings in his judiciary committee to make a closing argument. so there are substantial rights which don t really have to be afforded at this stage. they re traditionally afforded at the trial stage in the senate. what we re trying to do is actually afford greater right tuesday the president because we want to be sure the american people see this process as transparent and fair and the