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Demonstrates his unfitness to serve as a united states district court judge. on each count judge portus was convicted by at least 68 and up to 96 bipartisan senators. thankfully that senate did not buy your argument that a federal official should not be removed if he is not charged criminally and respecialfully, professor, we don t buy it either. but we re here because of this photo. it is a picture of of president zelensky in may of this year standing on the eastern front of ukraine as a hot war was taking place and up to 15,000 ukrainians have died at hands of russians. i would like to focus on the impact of president trump s conduct particularly with our allies and our standing in the world. this isn t just a president, as professor karlan has pointed out, asking for another foreign leader to investigate a political opponent, it is a president leveraging a white house visit as well as foreign ....
An argument saying that article two allows him to do whatever he wants. he not only said that but he believes that because he did something no other american president has ever done before. he used foreign military aid as a lever to coerce a foreign government to interfere in an american election to discredit an opponent into advanced his reelection campaign. professor karlan, what does the existence of the impeachment power tell us about the president s claim that the constitution allows him to do whatever he wants. it blows it out of the water. if he s right, and we accept this radical claim that he could do whatever he wants, all future presidents seeking reelection will be able to bring foreign governments into our campaigns to target their rivals and to spread propaganda. that is astounding. if we let the president get away with this conduct, every president can get away with it. ....
Evidence in the 300-page report from the intelligence community so let s dispense by that clim by my republican colleagues. professor turley wrote on august 1st, 2014 in a piece called five myths about impeachment, one of the myths he was rejected was that impeachment required a criminal offense and he wrote, and i quote, an offense does not have to be indictable. serious misconduct or violation of public trust is enough. end quote. was professor turley right when he wrote that back in december of 2014. yes, i agree with that. to professor karlan. at the constitutional convention eldridge jerry said foreign powers will meddle in our affairs and spare to expense to spare them and a president might be tray his trust to a foreign power. professor carlin can you explain ....
Wait in long lines to exercise the right to vote and choose their own leaders. this right does not belong to foreign governments. we not and won a revolution over this. free and fair elections are what separate us from authoritarians all over the world. as public servants and member of the house we would be negligent in our duties under the constitution if we let this blatant abuse of power go unchecked. we ve heard about hating this president. it is not about hating this president. it is about a love of country. it is about arming the oath that we took to protect and defend the constitution of this great country. and so my final question is to professor feldman and to professor karlan, in the face of this evidence, what are the consequences if this committee and this congress refuses to muster the courage to respond to this gross abuse of power that undermined the integrity of our elections and undermined the confidence we have to have in the president to not abuse the power of his of ....
if this committee and this house fail to act, then you re sending a message to this president and to future presidents that it is no longer a problem if they abuse their power. it is no longer a problem if they invite other countries to interfere in our elections and no longer a probe if they put the interest of other countries ahead of ours. professor karlan. i agree with professor feldman and i apologize for getting over heated over a moment ago but i have a constitutional right under the first amendment to give money to candidates and we have a constitutional duty from foreigners spending money in our elections and these are two sides of the same coin. thank you. and with that i yield back. the gentleman yields back. mr. johnson. thank you. i was struck this morning by the same thing as all of my friends and colleagues on this side of the room. chairman nadler actually began this morning with the outrageous statement that the facts before us are undisputed. of course, ev ....