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Executi executive? >> no. >> did the democratic department come into quid pro quo with the iranian controversy? >> no. >> has anyone in the trump administration been convicted of a crime related to the claim? >> no. >> let me continue. it's my understanding that the majority properly exercised the cause to j-1 of rule 11 to demand a minority hearing. is that the case? >> that is correct. >> what day did you ask for that hearing? >> i asked the first time. >> i don't have the dates in front of me. >> i have them right in front of me so i'll be happy to provide that. >> in a long letter, we were...

Chairman mcgovern, i ask unanimous consent this this memo be made part of the record. i will note that the memo states in part that a point of order may lie against reported measure in which the minority's demand for a hearing was rejected. >> objection noted. i also refer in the record our response to kwour lettyour lett can talk about that afterward. >> chairman nadler overruled the ranking member's point of order, and determined that the rule requires that the normal hearing day would permit the minority to improperly delay proceedings. were you improperly trying to delay proceedings, mr. c...

Passage of these articles of impeachment, isn't a hearing day now irrelevant? >> i believe it is. i believe that's kpr vrnen the skej mild nort committee. we agree it would have been and the american people just to have the hearings. it's just one day. >> i learned it the other day when mr. collins raised it. i looked at the rule and the rule does say that the chair of the committee is not required to schedule the minority hearing as a condition precedent to the continuing course of legislative action. for my first term year, i feel

Hearing. there are times in which the minority waives the right for a majority hearing. for instance, we waived that right to a minority day hearing in order to secure two more witnesses. mr. collins, at any time did you waive your rights to rule j-1, rule 11. >> no, i did not. i believe that's why we're here today. >> did you provide a a second witness in exchange for waiving your rights for a minority day hearing? >> my colleague on the other side of the aisle produced chld t a minimum safe sts guard doop p. perhaps in 1996 when the majority was willing to provide

Years here. we pulled our hair out with this. we had everything else and we were constantly being stonewalled and stopped, had to actually issue subpoenas which finally the courts did rule, ask you'll think this is your problem. the courts ruled many years later that attorney general holder did violate not giving the information out, and that was actually done. it was many years later, and again, your clock can cand cale is a terrible master, but you promised it. the other thing is we talk about fairness here. my friend said, oh, this has been completely fair. nobody is questioning the fact th...