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Thank you for that question. let me frame this partly in response to what manager jeffrey said, and i went through this before. the idea that there was blanket defiance and no explanation and no case law from the white house is simply incorrect. i put up slides showing the letters, a letter from october 18th that explained specifically that the subpoenas that had been issued by the house, because they were not authorized by a vote from the house, were invalid, and there was a letter from the white house counsel saying that. there was a letter from omb saying that. there was a letter from the s...

Ukraine was trying to get reforms put in place, the court that was going to decide corruption issues was not set until september 5th. i want you to think about this for a moment, too. they needed a high court of corruption for corruption. think about that for a moment. now, that's good that they recognized it, but remember when i said the other day you don't wave a magic wand and now ukraine doesn't have a corruption problem? the high court of corruption, which they have to have because there's not just past corruption. they're concerned about ongoing corruption issues, and you could put all o...

You know them. they're not in controversy, they're in controvert. facts are clear. but doesn't it bother your sense of justice even a little bit -- even a little bit -- that bob mueller allowed the evidence on the phones of those agents to be wiped clean while there was an investigation going on by the inspector general? now, if you did it, if you did it, manager schiff, if you did it, manager jeffries, if i did that, destroyed evidence, if anyone in this chamber did this, we'd be in serious trouble. their serious trouble is they get fired. bob mueller's explanation for it is, i don't know wha...

Danger. danger. danger. to lower the bar of impeachment, based on these articles of impeachment, would impact the functioning of our constitutional republic and the framework of that constitution for generations. i asked you to put yourself -- and i'm quoting mr. schiff, manager schiff's statement his father made about putting yourselves in the shoes of someone else, and i said, i'd like you to put yourself in the shoes of the president. and i think it's important as we conclude today the reminder of that fact. the president of the united