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>> thank you very much, mr. chairman. good morning chairman mcgovern, good morning ranking member cole, good morning to all of our distinguished colleagues on the house rules committee, and good morning to my friend mr. collins. it is my solemn responsibility this morning to present for your consideration house resolution 755 and the accompanies house judiciary report concerning the impeachment of donald john trump, president of the united states for high crimes and misdemeanors committed against the people of the united states. i'm appearing as you said, mr. chairman, this morning in place of...

Trust, he jeopardizeed our national security and undermined our democracy. he acted in a way that rises to the level of impeachment. that is why we are considering 755 today, a resolution impeaching donald john trump, president of the united states, for high crimes and misdemeanors. congress has no other choice but to act with urgency. when i think back to the founders of this nation, they were particularly concerned about foreign interference in our elections. they understood that a allowing outside forces to decide american campaigns would cause the fundamentals of our democracy to crumble. ...

>> the first part is an impeachment inquiry? has the president ever been impeached without votes from the minority party before? >> i think there's some discussion about that with the johnson impeachment for many years ago but that's when congress set himself up with the law so you have to say that was an impeachment. in a modern day, this is a partisan impeachment. >> speaker pelosi said an impeachment must be "compelling and overwhelmingly bipartisan." only democrats voted for it, there is bipartisan opposition to the inquiry and appears that will be bipartisan opposition to the articles. ra...

>> good morning to all of our distinguished colleagues and good morning to my friend, mr. collins. it is my solemn responsibility to morning to present for your consideration house resolution 755 and the accompany report of the -- committed against the people of the united states. i'm appearing as you said mr. chairman this morning in place of chairman nadler who could not be with us. i'm sure i speak for all the members of both the judiciary committee and rules committee in sending strength, love and prayers to his wife, joyce, and all of our hopes for a speedy recovery. the judiciary committ...

>> i asked unanimous consent of this memo be made part of the record and will know that the memo states in part that a point of order may lie against reported measure which was improperly rejected. >> i would ask unanimous consent in the records, a response to your letter and we can talk about that after your question. >> thank you, mr. chairman. during the markup of 755, chairman nadler overruled consideration of the resolution interpreting that the rule requires that the minority hearing date occur prior to the consideration relevant measure in a matter that would permit them minority to del...