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Because they have the courage to answer a subpoena to come and testify. and for this theyre called career bureaucrats. well, we should have more career bureaucrats of that caliber. im pleased to-year-old one minute to the gentleman from california, mr. costa. >> madam speaker, i rise with a heavy heart. the two most difficult votes any member of congress ever asked to cast is to vote to go to war or to impeach. today i will vote for the articles of impeachment. over the last few minutes i have l...

You. and you will have a very hard time defending yourself because as president he has a bully pulpit almost no one can compete with. thats essentially what were hearing from lisa page. here i was a public servant. you know, i regret some of those exchanges, and we should not -- we should not ignore that, of course. public servants have political views that they must keep to themselves and not have infused in their work. but she was cleared of any wrongdoing by an inspector general, and she stil...

American adversary, the president weakens america. this abuse of power also jeopardizes the integrity of our elections. all americans agree that american voters should choose our president, not some foreign government. the founders understood that it is profoundly corrosive for our democracy for a president to invite interference in our elections. as george washington, our nations patriot under whose gaze we stand today, warned, history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the m...

Abuses his power is not of the people. a government where the president pressures a foreign country to undermine our elections is not by the people. and a government where the president puts his own interests before the country is not for the people. this isnt complicated. you know it, i know it, the american people know it. president trumps wrongdoing and the urgent threat that his actions present to our next election and our democracy leaves us no principles alternative but to support these ar...

Attorney general rosenstein was due to testify to congress, the justice department literally invited reporters to come to the department to view personal text messages between lisa page and peter struck. 375 of those personal text messages. i mean, this is the justice departments own employees. and the justice department is posedly in the middle of an investigation into whether these text messages or anything else implicated any wrongdoing. in the middle of that ongoing investigation without any...

You, has been how unfair this process is. do you trust the democrats to run a fair process? do you trust lapd to be fair? it seems like a johnnie cochran defense of the president, intentional or not. are they winning or losing that argument? >> thats not what constituents calling into my office are saying, that theyre winning the argument. they disagree. they think the impeachment inquiry began properly, the proceedings were conducted fairly. you saw the witnesses in open hearings. the republica...

The impeachment articles rely almost exclusively on hearsay and opinion testimony. and they present no direct evidence of wrongdoing. as a former district attorney, i am dismayed that the democrats have submitted articles of impeachment against a sitting president. using circumstantial evidence that fails to offer proof of an impeachable offense. additionally, the charges levied against the president in the articles of impeachment lack historical precedent. and are motivated by pure political re...

And have me support the article of impeachment. first, president trump pressured an election government to help his re-election campaign. second, the president used the power of his office again to construct an investigation into that wrongdoing. the president has falsely claimed hes been denied the chance to defend himself but at the same time hes preventing the testimony of witnesses with direct knowledge of the events under investigation. if the president were innocent as he claims, surely th...

Love this country. our country needs prayer and not this destructive partisanship. thank you, i yield back. >> gentleman from new york. >> madam speaker, the presidents obstruction is unprecedented and categorical. president trump claims the house cannot investigate his misconduct outside of impeachment inquiry. he defies lawful congressional subpoenas and then sues to block third parties from complying with such subpoenas. even as he pursues his own interest in court, his administration simulta...

Clearly merited removal from office. the president faces a second article of impeachment for his efforts to obstruct our investigation of his misconduct. the constitution grants the sole power of impeachment to the house of representatives. within our system of checks and balances, the president may not decide for himself what constitutes a valid impeachment inquiry, nor may he ignore lawful subpoenas or direct others to do so. many presidents including president trump have asserted privileges a...