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It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may radio i'd the storm and direct the whirlwind. ladies and gentlemen, the storm in which we find ourselves today was set in motion by president trump. i do not wish this moment on the country. it is not a pleasant task that we undertake today. but we have each taken an oath to protect the constitution. and the facts before us are clear. president trump did not merely seek to benefit from foreign interference from our elections. he directly is and explicitly invited foreign interference in our elections. he u...

Impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors up to date the constitution. in particular, the memorandum and other testimony relateing to the july 25th 2019 phone call between the two presidents, president trump and president zelensky, more than sufficiently indicates that president trump abused his office by soliciting the president of ukraine to investigate his political rivals in order to gain personal, political advantage, including in relation to the 2020 election. again, the words abuse of office are not mystical or magical. they are very clear. the abuse of office occurs when the president u...

Convention actually moved to take out the impeachment provision from the draft constitution. they had a reason for that. the reason was, they said, well, the president will have to stand for re-election. if the president has to stand for re-election, that is enough. we don't need a separate provision for impeachment. when that proposal was made, significant disagreement ensued. the governor of north carolina, a man called william davie, immediately said, if the president cannot be impeached, quote, he will spare no efforts or means whatever to get himself reelected. following davie, gorge maso...

Misdemeanors under the constitution. they each incapsulate the framer's worry that the president of the united states would take any means whatever to ensure his re-election and that is the reason that the framers provided for impeachment in a case like this one. >> mr. chairman, i -- >> the gentleman's time is expired. >> mr. chairman, i seek recognition. >> the gentleman will is recognized. >> i offer a motion to postpone to a date certain. >> i mof to table the motion. >> motion to table is heard and is not debatable. all in favor of the motion. >> mr. chairman. >> may we have the motion re...

That's the question you asked. lay out your case. >> all constitutional power can be abused, right? so the allegation against the president by the democrats, they've tried toin nrait it in various ways. what it comes down to is that as president, he has control under article 2 of the constitution of the foreign relations of the united states. and they want to have a simple, clean allegation that says he leveraged that constitutional power for his own political gain. what i am pointing out is that may be an abuse of power but also an abuse of power to launch an impeachment under circumstances w...