On, he is surrounded by criminals. Then we hear well, it cant be obstruction of congress, you could have all gone to court. We are in december. We have an ongoing crime. We have a crime in progress. Neil youre watching history being made. Welcome everyone i am neil cavuto and this is your world. The committee is debating the articles of impeachment and will soon put it to a vote within the house Judiciary Committee. On the lower right portion of your screen, the dell racing ahead close to a record. The s p 500 got a record. Twin develop menswear following very quickly. Reports that the administration is very close on the verge of just about at a deal in principle with china. A china trade deal. A phase one deal that it will call for eliminating or at least pushing Back Hundreds of billions of Dollars Worth of tariffs on chinese goods. Including those that were supposed to kick in on about 156 billion worth of chinese goods on the 15th of this month. 12 01 on Sunday Morning Prayer that looks increasingly like its not going to happen. Separately, congress has reached a tentative deal to fund the government to avoid an outright shutdown. This as they are calling for the likely impeachment in the house of the president of the United States. If this is wall streets aversion to being panicked, it is a very funny way of showing it. Back to the hearing. It was provided and in fact provided by tremendously more helpful in both substance and in amount then prior administration, which is what people thought. I thought the acknowledgment had been the aid was provided, but now we are told this is an ongoing crime. Those two statements dont seem to Work Together well. The double standards that they serve one parity well. When it comes to the obstruction of congress, the position of the majority is a tyrannical position. When we ask for something, you either give it or we are throwing you out of office. Never mind we know what we are going to charge you with. Kind of like getting Phone Records and released them. Maybe we can intimidate people by getting their records and releasing them so that we can do what they say. Thats tyrannical. In fact when we look at obstruction of congress, a violation of the rules, the majority could have gone ahead and passed a tyrannical rule and said we are not going to allow the minority to have a minority witness date, even though its in the rules because we are a tyrant said we dont care. They didnt pass that rule, it still part of the rules. Once this thing is rushed through probably tonight whenever through the rules committee, they will probably come out with a rule as like you mentioned earlier and said all such points of order are waived. All of the times that the majority violated the rules, we are going to waive those and nobody can raise them to stop this impeachment. God really is abuse of power. It certainly is. Ive had a document prepared to offer as an amendment in the nature of a substitute, which would just change the president s name to that of chairman adam schiff and jerry nadler regarding abuse of power and obstruction of congress, because there is plenty of bases for that but it would not have been ruled to remain so i wasnt going to waste the time. Obstruction of congress, when there is no referee, there is no adjudication, there is nothing about a majority of this as you give us what we want until we find a crime or we are going to throw you out of office. That is so unreasonable, especially given the history of the last three years when the charges came and the charges went, the president was, i think it was a huge mistake for him ever to allow don mcgann to testify for 30 hours when it was a bogus charge to begin with. They are setting the perjury traps. Thank God Don Mcgann Didnt Fall into one. This is even more outrages. Give us what we demand or we are going to throw you out of offi office. There is another thing that couldve been done besides going to court, could have passed a bill requiring the president to do certain things didnt turn over certain things and gotten the senate to agree, the president vetoes it, you override the veto, which is kind of what happened to andrew johnson, then you could really have a legitimate obstruction of congress, not just obstruction of a majority in one half of the congress. That wasnt done either. Even if that had been done, the president or the congress wouldve gone the Supreme Court to get the courts to save this was a lawful act. In the case of congress and
andrew johnson. Either way youve got it end up at court at some point before it can be an obstruction of congress. The majority was in a hurry and when the majority, this majority is in a hurry, then justice is undone and so is our future. I yelled back. Speak of gentleman yields back. As i understand it, the amendment before is based on a letter that has just been issued by the white house months after the whole issue of the propriety of this july call was raised. I think it takes us Back To Basics again. The basics being if it looks like a duck, and it swims like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, its probably a duck. I am afraid that the july 25th
call is a duck. We have the president s own words, i want you to do us a favor. And then he goes on to talk about the favors that he wants involving Election Assistance for him to clarify what happened in the 2016 election and then start attacking his opponent in the 2020 election. Immediately upon hearing this, National Security professionals around the world say this is wrong. Okay . This quacks like a duck. The president is going against all of our carefully thought out National Security policy to ask for what one witness calls a domestic political favor. Okay . Right out of the bad it makes no sense to the professionals here. Then we started hearing the
thing that hes really talking about corruption. Now, the Department Of Defense said it was okay to release the eight because they had already certified that corruption wasnt an issue. The people on the ground, the ambassadors, the National Security professionals who had been appointed by this president said no, that is not an excuse. We then hear that omd officials, office of management and but it Officials Say who was holding up the aid . We dont have a problem with the aid. Its the president of. The president is holding up the eta. Then we hear from the department of justice. Thats not the dojs interest. The only person who had an interest in this was the president and it was his personal interest. Unanimous opinion of all of our agencies in the u. S. Government was this is against our National Security and our national
interest. Its now, only now after the president has refused to allow us to inquire from anyone else who was in the room after denying all of these seven, only now after articles of impeachment have been filed, only now does the white house come up with an explanation . Its way too little, its way too late, and it smells like a duck. With that i yelled back to the chair. What purpose does mr. Gates seek recognition the gentleman is recognized. Josh roberts approached the dyes and took pictures of the notes of the desk in several of my democratic colleagues. We notice. Com announced at the staff and that report a combat photographer has been removed and i would just say no member, republican or democrat, should be subject to that. We had to have the opportunity to take our notes and
participate in a debate and have a fair discussion. President trump did nothing wrong. As we sat here today, each and every action of the president has been explained. We have offered the bases, the understanding, weve gained an appreciation for why a president would have reasonable concern about ukraine. Why president would have specific concern about this biden, reese mona nexus. Heres what you havent heard today. Youve havent heard any defense of reese mona, havent heard them say this is all bogus. We have put into the record, we have cited in the record the testimony of people like george cant you said that there were deep legitimate concerns even the testimony of ambassador yovanovitch about having to expressly prepare for that. And they said this aid is been withheld. The withholding of this eight to dispatch president ial conduct. The amendment anchored my colleagues to support reference the fact that there was a very
understandable reason for why the aide was released when it was and it had nothing to do with the election or anything like that. It had to do with the fact that ukraine took substantive steps to ensure that our aid would be appropriately used for the cause that is now apparently that because of the left and that is defending the ukraine against russia. They said the president s next bad actors this great obstruction of congress. They have subjected President Trump to more president ial harassment than at any other time in american history. Attacking his family, not allowing his administration to continue to do its work on behalf of the people, and amazingly, despite all of this distraction, despite all of the obstruction of the president that the democrats have engaged in, jobs are rising. Wages are rising. Our economy is restored and renewed. There are a few things my colleagues said. The colleague from Rhode Island Red while these are the findings
of fact. The me tell you what the factual findings are. I just want america to know he was reading from the adam schiff report. The same adam schiff report that adam schiff himself would not sit there and explain. They lacked so much confidence in that report that when it was presented to the Judiciary Committee, they had some of their donors asking questions of others of their donors and then doing this weird switcheroo that was very unexplainable. I dont know how my very smart colleagues like the jenna menta from new york and say there is uncontradicted evidence of pressure. Uncontradicted evidence of pressure. What do they think zelenskys statements are when he says there is no pressure, that is at a bare minimum evidence. When mr. Year mark says there is no pressure, that is evidence. There is no evidence of a wit broke well. It is no evidence of conditionality. The reason they know they act like that evidentiary basis is because they have to keep changing the language. When their pollsters and pundits told him to call it a bribery that was the message of the week. Property was in every one of their lips. Then when we asked the witnesses did you see any bribery the answer was now and so they have to keep evolving the claims because there is no factual predicate. I also heard my colleague from new orleans say that this hearing would be informed by our understanding of regret. There would be this deep sense of regret. My friend is from a Deep Blue District so he wont be the one regarding at the most. The folks that will be regretting what they are doing are the democrats in Swing Districts who are not coming back. I tell them for the upcoming year, Rent Dont Buy here in washington, d. C. So today the only question we are left with when we conclude this hearing is whether or not as we move impeachment to the floor of the house of representatives, which will occur more rapidly. Will they lose votes, or will
they lose the majority . If these folks promise to come here on health care and infrastructure, they wont be back. We will be holding the gavels and we will remember not to tell you treated us, not just how you treated the president , we will remember how you treated the American People. We are going to come and restore a sense of honor and integrity in the next election. I yield back. The jenna menta yield back i first want to respond to the jenna menta from ohios reference that people who are listening on a call should just shut up. He couldnt disagree more passionately. The extraordinary, Courageous Patriots who love our country spoke up when they saw something that was wrong, violated the law, violated the constitution and undermine the National Security of the United States and thank god they did. Otherwise the president of the United States wouldve gotten
away with this scheme dragging foreign interference into our election to help him cheat in 2020. I salute the extraordinary amount of women in this Foreign Service and Intelligence Committee for the courage they have shown incoming forward and reporting what they have seen. I wish we could find more of it on this committee. I want to say facts are stubborn things. This amendment unfortunately is just not true because what we know is this scheme called a drug deal by the president s own mr. Bolton, called it domestic political errand by trump for which there is no explanation. My republican colleagues are trying to find an answer say it was because he was fighting corruption. The idea that donald trump was leading an anticorruption effort is like kim jong un leading an human rights effort. Its just not credible. We have facts that will demonstrate that. At the very time you claim hes interested in ferreting out corruption in ukraine, do you know he proposed . Cutting by more than 50 corruption anticorruption articles in ukraine. Trump administration sought billions of dollars of cuts of programs aimed at cutting corruption. Thats not evidence of a serious commitment to fighting corruption. In addition to that, in the letter to the chairman of the Foreign AffairsCommittee Secretary of defense said on behalf of the Secretary Of Defense, this is dated may 23rd 2019. Long before the july call. On behalf of the Secretary Of Defense i have certified that the governor of ukraine has taken substantial actions to make defense for the purpose of decreasing corruption and increasing accountability and sustaining improvements of combating capability. There is a certification. Theres only one explanation for why it was finally released. There was a report of a whistleblower report being filed. The president got caught. This notion that somehow this president was concerned but corruption is defined by all the evidence collected. I know you want to believe it. Its just not supported by the evidence. This amendment is silly, its inaccurate, it mischaracterizes the overwhelming body of evidence that was collected through the president of the United States attempted to drag a foreign power into our election to krupp the 2020 election to cheat and undermine National Security. He must be held accountable. I yield my time. I think the gentleman. I want to have a reset of the facts here. My colleagues claim that so many of these facts are in dispute, i want to hear Someone Dispute the fact that Rudy Giuliani was Donald Trumps personal lawyer. I want to hear Someone Dispute the fact that when rudy was
hired, the Anticorruption AmbassSomebody Dispute the fact that donald trump told Vice President pence not to go to president zelenskys inauguration. I want to hear Somebody Dispute the fact that President Trump ignored the talking Pout Anticorruption and is both apris with president zelensky. I want to hear Somebody Dispute the facts that President Trump invoked his political rivals name four times on that july 25th call. I want to hear the Somebody Dispute the fact that the president s Chief Of Staff said we are withholding the military aid because the ukrainians need to investigate 2016. Not i, we. We as an Mick Mulvaney and donald trump. I want to hear Somebody Dispute the fact that ambassador sondland said white house meeting absolutely quid pro quo, conditioned on the investigations. I also listen to your witness,
professor turley, and he said President Trumps call was anything but perfect. That was your witness who said it was anything but perfect. I want to hear a Show Of Hands in your side, does anybody agree with the one witness that you were able to bring that the cold was anything but perfect . That is sad. You will regret that you have sanctioned this. I yield back. The gentleman yields back. I want to speak in favor of the bigs amendment. I will ignore the Rhetorical Question commits kind of a silly one. I do want to refute what mr. Sisley and he has said and what some of the others have said, that there is no evidence on the record that the president was concerned about corruption, course that is concerned. Everyone at home knows this. The president has been talking about Foreign Governments and
foreign corruption in the misuse of american Tax Bilayer Treasures since before he ran for president. Everybody knows this. Its one of the things thats just well understood. Every witness in the record, every witness tes