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>> that he has the right to do whatever he wants as president. that is as wrong as when president nixon said a similar thing. that is not what the constitution provides. that is not what the country demands. he does not have the right to do whatever he wants. turning to the second abuse of power concern. betrayal of the nation with foreign powers. the american people have suffered that foreign influence. when president trump treated military aid that had been approved, taxpayer dollars and decided to treat it as his own checkbook to try to further his own reelection chances. that reflects what...

Told the story. they on their own produced documents that provide uncontroverted, clear and overwhelming evidence that president trump did this scheme. he put his political reelection interests over the nation's national security and the integrity of its elections. he did it intentionally and corruptly and he abused his powers in ways the founders feared the most. no person in this country has the ability to prevent investigations and neither does the president. our constitution does not allow it. no one is above the law. not even the president. and one of the concerns and requirements of find...

Public office for private gain. and we agree that no president may put himself before the country. the constitution and his oath of office, his promise to american citizens require the president to put the country first. if we could drop our blinders for just one moment i think we would agree on a common set of facts as well. on july 25th, president trump called president zelensky of ukraine and asked him for a favor. that call was part of a concerted effort by president trump to compel the government of ukraine to announce an investigation, not an investigation of corruption at large but an i...

Uphold the constitution. that was a massive malpractice. they don't care about what actually was in the transcript. they don't actually care what happened. we heard last week from witnesses they don't even care that the aid was released. they are looking at the facts to make it fit their narrative. what else happened? you know, this is also the chairman schiff who also said that there was collusion in plain sight. it was there before the mueller report ever came out. all this was going to happen. maybe i might need to just not stop commenting on chairman schiff because i may end up on the next...

Dangers of would be monarchs, populous and dem gods. they knew the most dangerous threat might come if within in the form of a corrupt executive who put his private interests above the interests of the nation. they also knew that they could not anticipate every threat a president might someday pose so they adopted the phrase treason, bribery, other high crimes and misdemeanors. george mason said it was meant to capture all manner of great and dangerous offenses against the constitution. the debates around the framing make clear the most serious such offenses include abuse of power, betrayal of...