Just seeing those young people, this veteran coming to speak for them, 90some yeereds old. At the end of his remarks he said i just want one message, i doesnt know if its appropriate to say, but i will, pray for peace. Pray for peace. Thats what we all do. Protect the American People is our first responsibility. Protect and defend, an oath we take. Not only of our constitution but of the American People. Pray for peace. Thats what we must do. So what happened in the view of many of us is no peace, its an escalation. Not that we have any confidence in the goodness, of the good intentions of iran. And we certainly do not respect and from my intelligence background know just how bad soleimani was. Not because we expect good things from them, but we expect great things from us. In terms of impeachment, you keep asking me the same question. I keep giving you the same answer. As i said right from the start, we need to see the arena in which we are sending our managers. Is that too much to ask . In october we put forth h. R. 660 which is House Resolution which talked about the terms under which we would proceed further to further proceed with the investigation so that people knew what the battlefield would look like. We expect to see that here. I hear different things. I hear they might want to you probably heard, one where some of them suggested they might want to dismiss, dismiss equal coverup, dismiss equal admission. The truth, the witnesses, and documentation. It ould have hoped that as with the clinton process there would have been a bipartisan resolution determining how to proceed. Contrary to what the majority leader said, he said this is like the no, its not. And i sent our members said six points in which, six of the points in which it is different. But nonetheless, at some point we would hope that we would see from them what the terms of engagement will be. We are ready. We are proud. Of our defense of the constitution of the United States. We are concerned that the senators will not be able to live up to the oath they must take to have an impartial trial. So much for that. At the same time as this is all going on, its important to note that theres so many other things of concern to the American People. One is the salt on the Affordable Care act the assault on the Affordable Care act that this administration is engaged in in the courts, in the congress, and we are fighting them in the courts, in the congress, and in the country. But right now they are in the court. Instead of defending the law of the land, as is the responsibility of the justice department, this administration is fighting the law of the land. That means benefits for preexisting conditions, no lifetime limits, or annual limits, child staying on your policy until 26. Being a woman no longer a preexesting condition. The list goes on and on. That they want to tear down. So with all of the other, shall we stay say, distractions going on, which are a collateral benefit to the administration because it is a distraction, as they are masterful at, of whats going on, in addition to that, unrelated to house, is a statement from the administration that they are no longer going to enforce the National Environmental protection act. This means more polluters will be right there next to the water supply of our children. Thats a Public Health issue. And their denial of climate, they are going to not use the climate issue as anything to do with environmental decisionmaking. Public should know this. Denial, denial about the Climate Crisis in the midst of fires in australia, and we have them in our own country. And then ill close by just talking about how proud we are of the work our members have done for the people. We have moved to Lower Health Care costs by lowering the cost of prescription drugs. H. R. 3, wildly popular in the country. Hopefully it passed the house before we left, so we are proud to pass the mexico u. S. Mexicocanada trade agreement, which is sitting over in the senate. Its sitting over there with 400 bills we sent over, more than 275 of them bipartisan legislation. One of them we observed yesterday, the ninth anniversary of the assault on Gabby Giffords life. A bullet. Of the highest priority because if they would pass this bill, it would save lives, the bill to have background check legislation. Again we are proud of our legislative agenda to Lower Health Care costs, keep the American People safe, building infrastructure. This week, this coming week, the next period of time, our chairman, led by peter defazio, of the infrastructure and transportation committee, will be putting forth our st Current Initiative on i say climate because you cant do infrastructure without having a recognition of resilience and technology. Thats where we are there. Now today we again send sad condolences to the person who lost his or her life in puerto rico. Others whose homes were damaged. We call upon the white house to stop its unlawful withholding of funds from puerto rico. We also there are needs that need to be met. There has been a disaster designated, but the ongoing withholding of funds appropriated by congress to puerto rico is illegal and we call upon the administration to cease and desist that illegal activity. What else do we have here . Take some questions from all of you. Reporter you say you need to know what the arena looks like. Articles of impeachment ms. Pelosi its interesting to listen to what they say. The other day probably heard the leader say, im glad to show you what it is when im ready. But we dont know when hes going to be glad to be ready to show it to us. So there is something that they will have. And then he says, well, well pass it once we get he articles. In the past few weeks since we have had this, shall we say impasse, because they wont reveal the terms of engagement, many things have been accomplished that are collateral benefit to the discussion, and they relate to on december 20 new emails showed that 91 minutes after trumps phone call with the ukrainian president , it was asked to hold off military aid to ukraine directly related to that call. On december 29, report public revelations about mulvaneys role in the aid of aid. The lawyers at the d. O. J. And what justifies the delay and the alarm the delay caused within the administration. Everyone was not in agreement. By thursday, unredacted pentagon email showed serious concerns by the administration about the legality of the president s hold on the aid. Legality of the president s hold on the aid to ukraine ukraine. Bolton announced he would comply with a subpoena compelling his his testimony. Saying he has new relevant information. These and others and our investigation and our articles necessitate a fair trial with documents. They dont want doults. The documentation. They dont want witnesses. They may want a dismissal, which is proof that they cannot, cannot clear the president of the wrongdoing. Ill send them over when im ready. It will probably be soon. If you dont send them over im going to pass the u. S. Mexicocanada trade agreement. Ok. We want to see what they are willing to do. And the manner in which they would do it. But we will not let them ay, oh, this is documentation, witnesses, facts, truth thats what hey are afraid of. Reporter House Democrats given scernable] ms. Ct that osi ms. Pelosi resolution. Reporter that we should be binding. I know theres some parliamentary question. Why not make this with real teeth, make this ms. Pelosi this is with real teeth f you are familiar with the war powers act, gate you the text. The war powers text enabled two approaches to go forward. One is a concurrent resolution, and it gives the procedure for that, which we will be following today. Nd it gives a path for h. Con. Resolution. We are taking this path because it does not require a signature of the president of the United States. This is a statement of the congress of the United States and i will not have that statement be diminished by whether the president will veto it or not. Reporter a number your members have raised concerns about the timing of the strike against soleimani. You have been briefed. Do you think the administration misled the American People about an imminent attack . Ms. Pelosi i think that its very unfortunate right now because i was briefed in the gang of eight and i s briefed in the demeening demeening briefing demeening briefing that some of the heard. In the Public Domain, its difficult to address some of what they contended. However, i will say this ecause i was informed by some earlier, i thinkdy, but that when i was briefed by the secretary of defense and chairman of the joint chiefs over the weekend, taking responsibility for the killing, it was disdainful in terms of not consulting with congress, dismissive. So if you want us to all join together, let us have a strategy that we Work Together on. I do not believe in terms of what is in the Public Domain that they have made the country safer by what they did. And that is what our responsibility is. I will have more discussion of this on the floor today at some length, but its again, i go back to the battle of the bulk, pray for peace. We must avoid war. And the cavalier attitude of this administration, its stunning. And the president said i informed you by reading my tweets. No, thats not the relationship that our founders had in mind in the constitution of the United States when they gave power to the white house to do nothing in terms of our National Security and to the congress to declare war and to allocate resources nd the rest. This is an important one, we, again, we will have two hours of debate. An hour on the rule, two hours on the bill today to put forth on a factual basis of the concern that we have. Let me just say this, because you hear the administration say well the office of Legal Counsel said the office of legal so whatever the president wants to declare legal, his office of Legal Counsel declares it so. So its misleading to the public as to what the war powers act, article 2 gives the president certain powers. Article 1 gives the congress certain powers are. Thats a very big issue now because its nothing less than preventing war as we honor our first responsibility to protect the American People. Reporter several people come out and said the briefers told them that putting out the information, the war powers act, would empower iran. This debating war powers around iran. What do you say to the Trump Administration if they are telling you thats the power ms. Pelosi im going to hold because i dont know what their basis of judgment is to receive information. However, i will say this. If they think that any statement they make is there to curtail public debate on the subject as serious as this, it just explains to you the seriousness of the situation that we are in. We will debate on the floor. We are not going on the floor talking about what we learned in the i said at the beginning, even if you read it in the newspaper, you cant talk about it. Then they proceed to tell us many things that we had read in the local metropolitan journals or seen on tv. Thats foolish. Thats completely foolish. As i say we have no illusions about iran. No illusions about soleimani. He was a terrible person. Did bad things. But its not about how bad they are. Its about how good we are. Protecting the people. Not have us repeat things again and again, generation. Suffering because of it. Let me just close with this. When we were there, the 70th anniversary of normandy, when i met them there. These are so brave teenagers, mostly they were, 18, 19, some 17 years old. When we talked to them this time, deeper relationships over time, they said, you know, i never wanted to kill anybody. I didnt want to kilt germaps. I was incapacitating them. And one of them told me, i killed somebody and found out later he was a doctor and i i said, you were instructed to shoot him. You take him, ill take him. They said, i still never forget that. We all would die for our country. We take pride in saying that. But to kill for our country is a pretty traumatic thing. When we engage in these whatever we are going to call this that the president engaged in, have to be really careful about how we endanger our men and women in uniform. Who courageously, patriotically put themselves out there to protect and defend. Any other questions . Reporter because the targeting soleimani happened in iraq, is there times the aumf, i know the legal justification the administration is using to move forward with the air strike, is it time for congress to get rid of the 20012002 ms. Pelosi we did get rid of the aufm in 2002. It was in an appropriations bill and passed in bipartisan way. In the park of night the then speaker ryan chose to take it out, highly unusual. Highly unusual. They went and took it out. Thats ridiculous. Thats what he d did. So congress has already passed rejecting after it passed both houses. And signed. We will have that resolution coming up soon under leadership of congresswoman barbara lee. And then the question is, what do we do about an aufm . Its harder than you would think because an aufm shows democrat or republican, how much power, confidence do you have in that person, gardless of party, and the decision that is have to be made about an aufm, its important to note are, what is the timing of it . This one was too wide. Didnt have a date. Should have a date. Thats one that couldnt be renewed, but should have a date. The timing. What are we talking about . This was to go into iraq. It was used to pursue al qaeda different places. And here we are. And third, what is the scope . Are we talking about boots on the grond . Talking about air cover . What are we talking about . Timing, geography, and scope. When you have that debate, its not i want the president to have as much power or not have as much power. Its harder than you think. We have to do it. When we do it we have to have enough team thats realistic militarily, but also not endless so that we are in the situation we are in now. To your point the argument would be made that putting the shoe on the other foot is the United States had a high level, maybe the second most important person in the country, assassinated wherever, the United States might consider that assault on our country. And the iranians might as well, even though this took lace at the airport. Its foggy. There are those who say it was in iraq so it counts. But it was an assault on iran so it shouldnt count. I dont think there is anybody who thinks that that aufm were to fly in iran aumf were to fly in iran. To your other point, though, it needs to be addressed, rewritten, because we have to have an authorization of use of military force specific to danger that we are porter [indiscernable] ms. Pelosi they are in the senates hands. This is the senate and they have tried to have a bipartisan approach to how they would conduct the investigation. T conduct the trial. Conduct the trial. Feeblely the majority leader has said this is just like clinton, except it isnt. It is not like clinton in that he wont do a bipartisan agreement of how to proceed. Thats very important. It is not incidental to say but for the documentation and the witnesses. Separate from all of that, that ules of 1986 allowed for the presentation from the house, one person to speak. One person. Is that what we should be ready for . Or is there Something Else that they have in mind . One person to seek for the house and one person to speak for the white house. Did you know that . 1986. Is that the rule under which all we want to know what rule . It doesnt mean we have to agree to it, but we have to like the rule, we just want to know what they are. Football, football, college, high school. Football. We send in our team. We have to send in special teams, as well as the team because we have no know. They have a negotiation. The senators have said he has doesnt have to have wbses and the rest. We may send them over. Im not responsible for Mitch Mcconnell or anybody else except my members and people who worked so hard on this. Members and staff. Patriots honoring the constitution of the United States. And i will give them their our best shot. Thank you very much. Reporter are you going to the niners game . Ms. Pelosi we watched together the second game. I have, unfortunately, responsibility to save our country. Or y democratic hat political leader this weekend. Our family will enjoy our season tickets at the 49er game. One day at a time. We have the baltimoreSan Francisco super bowl. That would help because i had been rooting for both teams all along. Again going to the 49er games and watching the baltimore games on tv right there at the stadium. What happens they both win. Nobody was in a more difficult situation than the mother of the coaches. Brothers coaching the teams. And then you saw what happened at that game. Ut the dalesandros in baltimore came all dressed in purple. The pelosis from San Francisco came in red. We had a lovely family reunion. This time i hope we get a similar result that we have both teams. Because of my, shall we sarkse responsibilities to win the house for the democrats and hopefully the Electoral College for the American People, i was scheduled to be in florida that weekend. Im all set. Ne way or another. We are talking about tom brady. Who knows . Isnt it interesting . Its wonderful because its so ue filing. Whatever your unifying. Whatever your politics, forget it. Its about the team. I like to say we all believe we are all team u. S. A. However it turns out. Thank youall very much. 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