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other important things that are going undone. within this committee s own jurisdiction we should address the opioid epidemic and could be working together to find solutions to the challenges on our southern border. protecting americans from jobs stolen by chinese companies and enhancing election security to name a few things. congress as a whole could be working on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, providing additional tax relief to the nation s middle class families and providing additional security to our people here at home and abroad. instead here we are spinning our wheels once again on impeachment. what a waste. the american people deserve so much better. i yield back. gentleman yields back. thank you, mr. chair. i take no pleasure in the fatha we re here today. as a patriot who loves america, it pain meese ths me the circum force us to undertake this solemn obligation. nonetheless on the public evidence it appears president trump pressured a foreign governmen ....
There were five key meetings between president zelensky and senior officials in our government. five key meetings, at the call on july 25th. very next day. july 26th, ambassador volker, taylor and sondland met with president zelensky in kyiv. then ambassador bolton end of august meet with president zelensky and then the vice president met with president zelensky september 1 and two senators republican and more importantly democrat senator murphy with republican senator johnson meet with president zelensky on september 5th s none of those five meeting, none of those, was aid ever discussed for exchange of investigation into anybody. not one. you would think the last two after the ukrainians did know aid was being withheld, you think it could come up then. particularly senator murphy was talking about it. the facts are on the president s side. we got an unfair process, ....
broadly. i assume so. how about when president johnson put a wiretap on goldwater s campaign plane? would that be for political benefit? well, i can t exclude anything under that definition. a few other presidents see where we go. congressman deutch informed us fdr put country first. now, franklin delaware roosevelt directed the internal revenue service to conduct audits of his political enemies. namely huey long, william randolph hurst, hamilton fish, father coughlin. would that be abuse of power for political benefit according to the other panelists? impeachable conduct? all subsouped into it. highway about when president kennedy directed his brother robert kennedy to deport one of his mistresses as an east german spy? would that qualify as impeachable conduct? once again i can t exclude it. how about when he directed ....
Bottom of every fact of this investigation. gentleman s time thanks for bringing down the gavel hard. that was nice. gentleman yields back. in johnson. thank you, there chairman. the president has regularly and recent recently interfered in our elections. professor turley says it s an impulse by moments and suggests the house should pause. professor karlan, do you agree with professor turley? no. if you conclude as i think the evidence to this point shows that the president is soliciting foreign involvement in our election you need to act now to prevent foreign interference in the next election like the one we had in the past. thank you, professor karlan. in 30 seconds or less, why was the president conduct so egregious it merits drastic ....
The sole power to impeach. the constitution only uses the word sole. once with reference to the house in this area and once with reference to the senate with respect to impeachment trials. sole means sole. means only. this is your decision. let me get professor turley into this. professor turley, you re a self-described, self-anointed defender of article 1 congress guy. but of you justify a position that says legally issued subpoenas by congress enforcing its powers don t have to be complied with. seems in this circumstance you re an article 2 executive guy. and your talking ak the johnson impeachment is not useful. maladministration. this is a criminal act. thank you, professors for helping us understand high crimes and misdemeanors. we the peoples representatives in the peoples house have a high responsibility charged with the sole power to uphold our constitution and defend other democracy and we sha do that. ....