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Just alvin bragg and you know so much of what's happening. it's so bad for our democracy to see republican leaders literally undermining our democracy and our democratic institutions. the very by the very constitution, they swear an oath to uphold and defend, and i think it's critical in this moment that democrats just continue to do their jobs, no fundraising, no gimmicks. no popcorn. so far, we haven't seen any anything like that. which i think one or two have maybe done fundraising, which i wish they would not do that, because this is a very serious moment for our country, and we should tre...

Horowitz says, but this is uncharted territory. nobody wants to apologize on the other side. okay. i get that. it might be politically embarrassing. but to say we don't need to go to court? i mean, the obama administration was just incredible at getting subpoenas, doing document dumps of stuff that didn't -- we really weren't looking for, asking for, especially from judiciary, but the other stuff that we demanded, we couldn't get it, and we tried to get an order for court to hold them in contempt. the other way we'll ever get this done and he wouldn't do it. and so those of us that understand ...

Corrupt purposes. the bottom line is the aid was lawfully delayed and lawfully delivered. that means that this entire process has been a sham. with that i'm going to address a couple of issues i heard. i heard one of my colleagues on the other side say not long ago that the president should come in and prove his own innocence. think about what that does. come in and prove your own innocence. first of all, that is antithe c antithetical to the anglo-american judicial process. antithetical to the constitution and the constitution particularly the bill of rights. it's antithetical to what we do h...

Sole, not shared. not shared with the judiciary. not shared with the executive. this means that we have the sole opportunity and obligation frankly to determine what evidence is necessary for impeachment. sole, not shared with the executive. think back. judiciary chairman peter rodino warned president nixon. under the constitution not within the power of the president to conduct inquiry into his own impeachment to determine which evidence and what version or portion of that evidence is relevant and necessary to such an inquiry. these are matters which under the constitution rodino wrote, the h...

Constitutional attorneys over there distract you. this is not an ordinary dispute, folks. this is a very rare, thankfully, very rare dispute. it is not an ordinary dispute where you go to the court. we don't need permission to go to use our constitutional rules. if president trump is allowed to refuse to comply with requests for information it would gut the house impeachment power and undermine our bedrock principle of separation of powers. last night as we left i wanted to tell you this. i went outside and there was a team of about 12 high school students from ohio with their teacher. they sa...