President for a long time now. In fact, when they took over the house, one of their members filed articles of impeachment that very day and really since Inauguration Day many wanted to impeach him. This is really all about in my view, its all about politics. Its all about hurting the president , hurting his reputation. They dislike him intensely. As i mentioned the other day they really loathe this president , and theyre trying to hurt his chances in the next election. It may well do just the opposite. One of my real concerns, and af lot of them about this whole thing. I mentioned this earlier today, im very concerned about is that The Democrats are really lowering the bar for impeaching a president in the future. Its becoming too routine. Its becoming the new normal. For 200 years in our nation wed had one impeachment, one in 200 years, Andrew Johnson and now in less than 50 years were in our third one this time around. And i really am concerned that from now on in all likelihood when
facts from the american people. federal courts have ruled that congress has a constitutional right to obtain documents and testimony from the trump administration. one federal court said that the president s obstructions is a farce and he is openly stonewalling, and i agree. he is the first president to engage in wall to wall stonewalling, and in some respects an outright cover-up of his own behavior. he has refused to comply with all the congressional subpoenas that have been issued to try to uncover the truth about his misconduct, an act that no other citizen can do without consequence. as has been stated before, even president nixon shared documents and allowed current and former aides to testify as part of the impeachment process, and the committee still recommended an
out, both calls that president trump had with president zelensky trump never mentioned corruption. the department of defense vetted giving the aid and said that it was okay. once upon a time, president trump loved his generals. this time he ignored them. members of congress authorized the aid ask lobbied the white house to release the aid. staff from the office of management and budget resigned because they were worried about what was going on and why the aid was withheld. they were worried about what the president was doing, and they believed that withholding the aid was wrong. trump even cut funding for programs to deal with corruption in countries like ukraine, so a man that is so concerned about corruption also has interesting friends. he has bromances with some of the world s most corrupt lead ers, the leaders from saudi arabia, turkey, he had president erdogan from turkey a couple of
i take issue at insult that one would suggest the work of the committee is about a dislike for those who voted for president trump. president trump is before this committee in articles of impeachment for his own behavior. for his desire to do with public moneys and a public position to do a private matter. and a political matter. that is to get dirt on his 2020 potential opponent. in honoring and defending the constitution, we defend and honor ourselves and 23r that reason as a indicting body through articles of impeachment we ll give the opportunity for the congress to decide on president trump s ultimate result. i stand with the constitution. and stand with justice. time expired. what purpose does swalwell. move so strike the last word.
blankets. so again, no case can be made for abuse of power. obstruction of congress, this is what we would describe as ripe or not right. it isn t right because only letters have been sent. there s been no subpoena. how this works is a subpoena s issued. the executive branch exercises their executive privilege, just like obama did, and then the courts decide this. the courts have never decided this, so where s the obstruction? it doesn t exist. so i would defend this case every single day. as a judge, i would dismiss this for lack of merit. even if the facts are viewed in light most favorable to the democrats, you still, again, cannot make out what we as lawyers call a prima fascia case. this case would be dismissed on day one in a courtroom. i ll tell you what case i d prosecute i d prosecute schiff for abuse of power any day of