President for a long time now. In fact, when they took over the house, one of their members filed articles of impeachment that very day and really since Inauguration Day many wanted to impeach him. This is really all about in my view, its all about politics. Its all about hurting the president , hurting his reputation. They dislike him intensely. As i mentioned the other day they really loathe this president , and theyre trying to hurt his chances in the next election. It may well do just the opposite. One of my real concerns, and af lot of them about this whole thing. I mentioned this earlier today, im very concerned about is that The Democrats are really lowering the bar for impeaching a president in the future. Its becoming too routine. Its becoming the new normal. For 200 years in our nation wed had one impeachment, one in 200 years, Andrew Johnson and now in less than 50 years were in our third one this time around. And i really am concerned that from now on in all likelihood when
he s threatening to do it again, so we ve heard a lot of loose talk about what evidence we have or don t have. there is plenty of direct evidence of the president s wrongdoing, including, for example, his july 25th call record, in which he said to the ukrainian president, i want you to do us a favor, though. and nen procethen proceeded to investigations into his political rival and a debunked conspiracy theory that the senate and all of our national security services have rejected. we have the testimony of his appointees, ambassador sondland and volker about the may 23rd meeting in which the president said to them, talk to rudy. we have testimony of three firsthand witnesses to the july 25th call, two of whom promptly reported the call to their superiors and to legal counsel. we have the testimony of david holmes who overheard the president ask ambassador sondland whether president zelensky was going to, quote, do