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Partisanship, i remind you of the great words of lincoln and paraphrasing him slightly when one party would inflame partisanship rather than let the nation survive, i'm proud to be the party that would accept partisanship than let the nation perish. in this moment, the answer is clear not because we want to impeach, but because we must. so when you vote in a few hours, don't vote your party. vote your character. that's how you'll be judged and that's how we'll all be judged. i yield back. >> gentleman from georgia. >> i ask for a time check for both. >> gentleman from georgia has an her and 44...

I yield back. >> gentleman yields back. gentleman from north dakota. >> madam speaker, i yield one and a half minutes to the gentleman from florida. >> gentleman's recognized. >> thank you, madam speaker. i wanted to thank my republican colleagues, who have toiled honorably in defense of the constitution and rule of law under difficult circumstances, madam speaker. you know, mister -- madam speaker, it's a darn shame that we have found ourselves in this position today. every time i step into this chamber, i'm humbled to be serving in the greatest legislative body in the history of the world. h...

Voted for donald trump. so, yes, this is -- there are times, and you know this, john, when the leadership twists arms and says this is a party line vote. this is shirts and skins time. get on board. impeachment isn't one of them. first of all, just on the substance of it, it's a vote your conscience, very monumental vote. but second of all, just on the practical side of it, nancy pelosi wants the democrats to keep their majority. in order to keep their majority, if there are some moderates who feel that if they vote yes on impeachment, they could lose their seats over it and she still has enou...

There's a more granular policy to have on this on another show, but if you took a quick snapshot, it's become in the modern political era with a short lens, we have rigged the system to reward hyper partisanship, when we have brought in big data gerrymandering, when we choose partisan districts, where we have closed primaries that choke off participation by independent voters and the inability of valid access by independent candidates, and when we have a big money campaign finance system where partisan money flows through the leadership of both parties on both sides of the capitol, what we hav...

I think he's created enough doubt about exactly what he was doing and who was doing it for that it would be difficult for the attorney/client privilege to survive under this context. i think it would be a very tricky argument for him to try to communicate with the president and others as well. >> if any story ever fell into the category oh what a tangled web we weave, this is the story for that. we'll have to back that up. there is an argument to be made that this is a at a tile the optics of what you see in the rom, it wasn't meant for hyper partisanship.