Ambitions. Our selfrespect. Our love of freedom and the rule of law. Our fierce constitutional patriotism. Now, it looked like President Trump might get might get away with his ukraine shakedown. After all, most americans didnt know anything about it. And the few who learned of it would be too afraid, too intimidated to cross the most powerful man on earth. Fr President Trump could rest easy. But if donald trump misjudged the american character, the framers of our constitution did not. I count 17 honorable Public Servants who came forward to testify over the intimidation and disparagement of the president. Is that right, mr. Goldman . Yes, there were 17. And i count a dozen Career State Department and National Security officials who served republican and democratic president s alike, over decades, who came to testify. In fact, four of President Trumps own National Security councils staffers, hill,
vindman, morrison, and mcguyer, came forward to report trumps scheme to nsc lawyers as so
whether president trump obstructed justice and colluded with russia.st he also included mayor bill de blasio in an investigation of mayor de blasio s fundraising activities. for my fellow americans and floridians watching this charade this isth who is sitting at the top of thiso dais, a partisan w york lawyer with a written bias against president trump who gave thousands to hillary clinton s presidential sacampaign. and all of this spectacle, all of it, not a single fact witness has appeared in front of this committee. we have been denied a minority hearing day, which i asked for the last hearing. i all we have had testify are partisan lawyersha giving their opinions. so let s talk about the facts that we do have before us. we heard from mueller. no evidence in the trump campaign colluded with russia to influence the 2016 election. no obstruction of justice. after e denying the witnesses t call in closed door secret proceedings and denying republicans from calling witnesses in closed d