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On my point of order unless willing to immediately schedule a minority hearing day. >> that is not a proper point of ord in today's hearing as i told the ranking member several times i am considering the request. >> it's not to be considered. mr. chairman -- >> the gentleman will suspend. if the ranking member thinks we would be violating the rules of house if we considered articles of impeachment before holding a minority day his point of order will be timely and a meeting where we can sit. that is not the purpose of today's hearing and it's not timely. the gentleman from georgia. >> well, th...

Months' long campaign to solicit foreign help in his 2020 reelection efforts. withholding official acts from the government of ukraine in order to coerce and secure political assistance and interference in our domestic affairs. as part of this scheme, president trump applied increasing pressure on the president of ukraine to publicly announce two investigations helpful to his personal reelection efforts. he applied this pressure himself and through his agents working within and outside of the u.s. government by conditioning a desperately sought oval office meeting and 391 million dollars in ta...

Warning signals that if a president violated or committed one of these, that would be a reason to potentially impeach that president. they were abuse of power, betrayal of the national interest, corruption of elections. what is so extraordinary is the conduct we'll be talking about today of president trump didn't violate one of these, but all three. first, the evidence is overwhelming that the president abused his power by pressuring ukraine and its new president to investigate a political opponent. the evidence is overwhelming that the president abused his power by ramping up that pressure, b...

President trump directed a month's long campaign to solicit foreign help in his 2020 re-election efforts, withholding official acts from the government of ukraine in order to coerce and secure political assistance and interference in our domestic affairs. as part of this scheme, president trump applied increasing pressure on the president of ukraine to publicly announce two investigations helpful to his personal re-election efforts. he applied this pressure himself and through his agents, working within and outside of the u.s. government, by conditioning a desperately sought oval office meetin...

But what you are is what holds this country together, what holds our foreign policy together what makes it seamless, what makes it work. and i'm glad america gets to see that. i will just emphasize once again about the importance of your testimony. mr. kent and ambassador taylor gave us the broad outlines of this story. this is a story about an effort to coerce, condition or bribe a foreign country into doing the dirty work of the president. investigations of his political rival. by conditioning u.s. taxpayer money, by conditioning a meeting that president zelensky desperately wanted and neede...