The pavilion im sure to make sure that people did as they were told. Sunday night at 8 p. M. Eastern on cspans q a. Following former special counsel Robert Muellers testimony before the House Judiciary Committee members of the committee shared theirre thoughts on the hearing. I would like to suggest we have delayed doing work of this committee for eight years and we just started it up when jerry nadler took over. This was an important important hearing. Mr. Mueller is an American Hero made clear that any other person to did ask trump did what event and data for obstruction of justice and but for a policy of the Justice Department that you cant indict a sitting president is reason whyme he was not indicted. Es so until an attorney for signal obstruction, they lie to the American People. When they said he was told exonerated, he lied and mr. Mueller made that clear. Today was an important datehe tt the Mueller Report was spoken to the American People at that the Mueller Report was let out in all of its fulsome nature. [inaudible] i think it definitely will, and to impeach understand we have an unlawful lawless president needs to be reined in. Why do you think i think because mr. Mullin may declare. Any other person other than a person hiding behind, able to hide behind the Justice Department, a policy of not indicting that particular abovedual because he is the law as i long as he is president would have been indicted. And he can be indicted once he leaves office after one term because the statue limitations will not have run. I think thats important that fact was make your we have a president who was individual water in southern tissue near but for policy of the Justice Breyer and he wouldve indicted by robert mueller. We have a lawless person in the white house. [inaudible] i thoughtmu mr. Mueller did n excellent job. I think its a Great American and i am g in awe being around him. [inaudible] well, i hope so and you think a time be there because this president will commit more acts in the future daughter violating the constitution. He just told a bunch of school kids yesterday that the constitution lets them do anything he wants your the man does not havehe restraints on h, never has since he was a baby. [inaudible] i think the fact he wouldve been indicted but for being the president , the fact he was not exonerated and the fact he did all these things to try to get people to commit perjury, that he dangles pardons in front people, particularly trying to get began to make a false statement and mcgahn stood up as an american you and as a truthful person. If i might [inaudible] let me thank you so very much. Sheila jackson lee, Judiciary Committee obviously. Let me be clear on what we accomplished today. E riveted throughout the entire line of questioning, was over and over again the president obstructed justice. And that clear point that there needs not be an underlying crime to obstruct justice. Those are elements of the constitutional process of impeachment. We are here today as a piece of the ongoing investigation. It was clear today in the words of the report, read into the record of which mr. Mullin agreed with, that he stands by his report. He stands on his report, and hes not wavering. The other point that was made is that theth star witness, if you will, refused to testify. And mr. Mueller tried for almost a year over a year to get the president of the United States to come and testify. He did not. That would not be the case of the constitutional proceeding. [inaudible] well, that is a prerogative of the colleague on today. I can assure you as this hearing is further analyzed you will find that the elements dealing with telling staff july, dealing with interfering with witnesses, dealing with the question of the dangling of a a pardon to interfere with the witness, that dealing with the attorney general to unreached use yourself. You have to ask yourself the question, if any of the president had done these acts, would a proceeding not be in place . And i would make i the argument that we are doing it the right way, which is were building the Building Blocks for people to fully comprehend how massive, and to add to the fact of the outright involvement of russians and active participation of the president s campaign with those individuals. I cannot imagine that we would accept this as the new norm of a presidency of the United States of america. [inaudible] the strategy of questioning or the approach of questioning was to so lets solicit the trigger and if we solicited the truth in the manner of presenting the report and he said yes or no, that is the truth. H. We didntes alter it. We didnt edit his words. We just gave him his words and he said yes. [inaudible] look, and about my colleagues to join me. I think theres no question that we saw at this an overwhelming evidence of obstruction of justice committed by the president of the United States and extraordinaire geico from the special counsel, specific instances with the special counsel recounted the evidence they collected the evidence by the president , tried to have him fired and directed don mcgahn to lied about it. He had the third party, and outside, private citizen to go tell the attorney general of the United States to tell a special counsel to limit it investigation to future president ial campaigns effectively ending this investigation. Those are just two examples of many examples before the committee today of obstruction of justice. The special counsel made it clear but for the eye will see memorandum this president wouldve been charged with a crime. We have now seen significant evidence. This report in july. I thinkce it will be a very powerful moment where people reflect on what action is next to we believe many of us that the time has b long passed to on a formal impeachment inquiry, to begin the process by considering whether or not articles of impeachment forco high crimes ad misdemeanors ought to be filed. I think todays testimony for the supports the argument. We live in a country where no one is above the law including the president. As a special counsel said, obstruction of justice is a serious offense and effort to impede can interfere and a criminal investigation goes to the heart of our justice system. Its a series . You dont have to be successful. Any attempt to obstruct justice is a serious crime. We saw a woman evidence of that. I think it further underscores the urgent need to open an impeachment. [inaudible] look, think the special counsel testified and it was like you would expect a prosecutor to testify. Very soberly, very succinctly. I thinkwe we often recording bak is important because he had very limited time. We want to make certain we get the evidence in, and the contents of report, i think was make this a good strategy to make sure we maximize the value of the time we had. Absolutely. Of course. [inaudible] that is what he believes. That was what we establish today in the hearing is we have a felon sitting in the white house, donald trump committed multiple crimes of obstruction of justice. Now what the American People other members of congress do with that we want to see next few days but this hearing to reestablish the president ordered don mcgahn to fire him, that the president ordered don mcgahn to cover that up and create a false paper to the president ordered Cory Lewandowski to get Jeff Sessions to curtail the investigation. Then went to great length to show how those acts that almost every element of the crime of obstruction of justice. Thats what we establish today and we established he also tampered with two two witnesse. Those are all felonies and we hope the American People see this for what it is. [inaudible] so for people who havent read the Mueller Report are followed the issues this removes that surprising. For people who have not this closer might. They saw for the first time robert most industrial section of justice by donald trump. We have a felon right in the white house. [inaudible] will we actually read back is onwards to and he agreed to them and those words show the donald trump committed multiple acts of obstruction of justice which is a felony. Its not even misdemeanor. These or straight of felonies that Robert Morgenthau said he would go to jail for a very long time. [inaudible] yes. [inaudible] well, the critical thing is the American People saw overwhelming and devastating evidence of obstruction of justice related inve fine detail both by the committee and by the witness. Itss irrefutable. Were all on the edge of receipts to see what happens in the afternoon about volume one. But in terms of volume two, this is a great victory for the truth and for the possibility of justice in the country. Because america finally got to see what special counsel mueller was talking about. There were repeated efforts by President Trump to obstruct justice, the fire the special counsel, to cover up his efforts to fire the special counsel, to get people to live, to coach witnesses, to influence testimony. All of this is an outrageous betrayal of his office and of the rule of law. The president job is to take your of the laws are faithfully executed, not to trample the law, violate the law and to commit crimes. And yet thats precisely what this president did. In trying to obstruct justice. When he learned that guy obstruction of justice investigation was looking at him, he continued to obstruct justice turkey tried to obstruct the investigation into his own obstruction of justice. So its an absurd situation that the president has plunged us into but now the whole country can seehe it. [inaudible] well, weve got to see what happens today, this afternoon and i think will take stock of the situation. Obviously there are many members of congress who read the report back when it came out, who felt there was sufficient evidenceea even in there redacted version o launch an impeachment inquiry. And so there i think 80 or 90 members of cars asked for an impeachment inquiry. We will continue to fight all of the battles in court and to stand up for the powers of congress to engage in fact, finding. The administration has been trying to stonewall and coverup from the very beginning, and im afraid to say attorney general barr was very much part of that. We should defend this hearing back in late march or early april when the report first came out and yetet attorney general barr did everything he could to pull the wool over everyones eyes, which is what prompted special counsel mueller to write two letters of protest about the confusion that attorney general barr created in the country. We didnt get even the redacted version of the report for three and half weeks, and then weve been laboring to peers this propaganda that attorney general barr and donald trump laid down. I think that today begins to dispel the fog. [inaudible] im going to let my colleagues go. [inaudible] look, i think the speakers been very clear. She has reflected the consensus of ourur caucus and think as moe members reviewed evidence can review the hearing and are persuaded that the time has come to open an impeachment inquiry, when the broad consensus of the caucus is that it is time, i think the speaker reflect that. I think those conversations continued. I see them all the time. People are really taking this seriously and soberly a look at the evidence and contemplating the next course of action and whats best for the country, and to think that ultimately a majority of our caucus with late in impeachment and we will move forward. [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] of course not. I think as representative alluvial attested earlier. Hes a prosecutors prosecutor, a patriot and he was very careful in then language that he used. You can from the contents of his report and the contents of his report revealed significant evidence of criminality and criminal conduct by the president. I think the hearing was incredibly helpful in terms of providing the American Public with clarity as what the special counsels investigation entailed. I can just tell you from sitting in the room and i suspect my call agreeag that was our sensef the testimony. [inaudible] i guess what i would say is as you all have documented previously, most of the American Public has not read the book as you so aptly put it, and many members of congress have not made it as well. I think this hearing both this morning and the satin will provide both the American Public and members of congress who have not reviewed the report with the opportunity to get to learn more about the special counsel findings. I suspect after doing that, many of them will reach the same conclusion we have. I would