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House been in contact with your committee and been involved with the discussions with mark meadows or others? >> no, i'm not aware of that. um, look. what -- what we're doing -- our committee is charged with assembling a complete and comprehensive documentary record that explains what happened to us on january 6th. who were the criminal elements that attacked the u.s. congress? who tried to overthrow the election? what were the motivations behind it? how did they work? who paid for it and so on? so we're in the process of collecting all that information. most people have been very cooperative....

They went to process. maybe here and there they contested one or two things that are on the table. but this is a remarkable amount of evidence given that the president obstructed us at every step of the way. so that was one thing. and then the second was the gravity of the moment, the gravity of what we are debating. and i was struck by professor feldman's quote when he said "if we do not impeach a president for abuse of power, then we are no longer a democracy. we are a monarchy or we are a dictatorship." that is what we're talking about, the sanctity of our elections. >> and on that issue of...

No longer a democracy, we are a monarchy or we are dictatorship. that is what we're talking about, the sanctity of our elections. >> and on that issue of abuse of power and let me direct this to congressman swalwell in part you are on the intelligence committee and so you were part of the production of the documentary record that has been produced by the intelligence committee and that's the basis here. but also you were a key part of the intelligence committee and its investigation into the russia matter that produced the mueller report among other things. do you expect that some of the abuse...

Those events simply don't square with my own or with those of ambassador volker or secretary perry. i recall mentioning the prerequisite of investigations before any white house call or meeting. but i do not recall any yelling or screaming or abrupt terminations as others have said. instead, after the meeting, ambassador bolton walked outside with our group and we all took some great pictures together outside on the white house lawn. more important, those recollections of protest do not square with the documentary record of our interactions with the nfc in the days and weeks that followed. we ...

Their recollections of those events simply don't square with my own, or with those of ambassador volker or secretary perry. i recall mentioning the prerequisite of investigations before any white house call or meeting. but i do not recall any yelling or screaming or abrupt terminations as others have said. instead, after the meeting, ambassador bolton walked outside with our group and we all took some great pictures together outside on the white house lawn. more important, those r recollections of protests do not square with the documentary record of our interactions with the nsc in the days a...