Page 3 - The Draft Constitution News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

We don't know how they were using this money is not factually true. you heard mcclk chin tok saying he had the -- mcclintock saying that he had the prosecutor fired. yet those talking points are respited despite the fact they're not based on fact. >> it's an important moment. i want to get your sense of the history of what we're about to see. you see the members showing up, the staff, they're showing up. the witnesses will be there. they'll be sworn in as well. it's a moment that doesn't happen very often if american history. >> it doesn't and it shouldn't. because it's so important you think ...

One of the witnesses who appeared in the live hearing because i would not speak about these things without reviewing the facts, so i'm insulted by the suggestion that as a law professor i don't care about those facts. but everything i read on those occasions tells me that when president trump invited, indeed, demanded, foreign involvement in our upcoming election, he struck at the very heart of what makes this a republic to which which pledge allegiance. >> that demand as professor feldman just explained constituted and an abuse of power, indeed as i want to explain in my testimony, drawing a ...

For the opportunity to appear. my name is noah feldman, i serve as the -- >> the witness will proceed. >> i serve as the felix frankforter professor of law at the harvard law school. >> i seek recognition. >> my job is to study -- >> the gentleman will suspend, the time is the witnesses. >> the privilege motion needs to be recognized. >> you can call it not a privilege. >> in between the witnesses, it may be recognized, not once i recognize the witness. the witness will proceed. we'll entertain the motion after the first witness. >> he started before. >> my job is to study and to teach the con...

Testimony. >> mr. chairman and members of the committee, thank you so much for the opportunity to testify. twice i have had the privilege of representing this committee and its leadership in voting rights cases before the supreme court. once when it was under the leadership of the chairman sensenbrenner and it's good to see you again, sir, and with mr. shabba as one of my other clients and once under the leader scholarship of chairman conyers. it was a great honor for me to represent this committee. because of this committee's key role over the past 50 years in ensuring that american citizen v...

The other forms of abuse of office, abuse of office to effect elections and abuse of office to compromise national security were further forms that were familiar to the framers. now, how does this language of high crimes and misdemeanors apply to president trump's alleged conduct? let me be clear. the constitution gives the house of representatives, that is, the members of this committee and the other members of the house, quote, sole power of impeachment. it's not my responsibility or my job to determine the credibility of the witnesses who appeared before the house thus far. >> that is your ...