Ms. Pelosi violated his oath of office to protect and defend the constitution and jeopardize the integrity of our elections. Every day new and incriminating information comes forward and you are well aware of the hearing and that speaks very clearly the need for the senate to enter the documentation into their discussion. Today and this is the Government Accounting Office confirmed that the president s actions at the center of our impeachment articles withholding congresses shale approved military aid from ukraine was illegal. And these are their words. These are the words of g. A. O. Faithful execution of the law does not permit the president to substitute his own policy priorities for those that congress has enacted into law. The office of management and budget withheld funds for a policy reason that is not permitted under the impoundment act. It is not a delay. White the o. M. B. , the house, the administration broke im saying this, broke the law. Hey say, we conclude that they violated the empowerment impoundment act. This confirms the need for documents and eye witnesses in the senate. When i was in grade school there was a sign in the wall that said, what a tangle web we weave when we first practice to deceive. You see this more and more and more in all of this, this tangled web to deceive that the administration is engaged in. Also on appropriations matters, im very sad about what has happened in puerto rico. We pay for families who have lost loved ones and injury to others. The appropriation unacceptable that the administration illegally withheld for over year the federal assistance that congress appropriated and that puerto rico needs. We are concerned that the administration are looking for excuses to create unnecessary obstacles to the timely flow of assistance based on reports of new restrictions on the aid. We hope that it can be interpreted more loosely, but we are concerned. We hope the president will sign a major disaster emergency declaration. He has signed emergency but we need major disaster. People in need assistance now. Thats why the house will release the text of a bill to provide earthquake relief to be taken up soon. We pray for these families and the two americans that have died, but we are concerned who have been affected by the earthquakes and the uncertainty that we are not there for them. Democrats ran on a platform of for the people. We will lower the cost of health care by lowering the cost of prescription drugs. We would in Lower Health Care costs and Building Infrastructure of american resilient way and have cleaner government. We passed h. R. 1 to do that. In terms of Lower Health Care costs, we passed h. R. 3 to lower the cost of prescription drugs. Wisely and popularly received throughout the country. We are proud of it and another bill sitting on the desk of the grim reaper on the senate side. 400 bills we have passed. 275 of them bipartisan sitting on the leaders desk. One of them is about gun violence and passing that bill and having it signed into law would save limbs. That is one of many. In terms of prescription drugs, they have a bill, we have a bill, lets pass them and go to conference. They not only taking up our bill but not their bill. When we come back, we will be rolling out our infrastructure legislature, led by the infrastructure and transportation committee, peter defazio. Pretty exciting and something we talked about during the campaign and its a priority during the campaign. We thought we would be able to move in a positive way on this. So far they have not come on board. However, we decided well have to go forward and we do believe that now with the passage of u. S. Mexicocanada agreement, that they might be interested in cooperating in other ways. On that score, pleased that the senate will be taking up the bill this morning. I think it will be passed and then send it over the legislators will sign it and send it over to the president. What is a new thing to me, the leader was saying, if you dont send me the articles of impeachment, im going to pass the u. S. Mexicocanada agreement. Ok. Thats good news for all of us. And i want to commend richie neal and our eight members part of our task force to make sure we changed the bill they sent us could have never supported it. But what we sent back to them in enforcement, enforcement and labor rights and Environmental Protection and alimb fating their give away to phrma among other improvements we made on the bill. We had a strong vote in the house and im glad because we didnt send over it gave them enough time to bring it up this morning because the chief justice wont be able to be there until this afternoon. When we talk about health care, as i mentioned yesterday, we had a beautiful yesterday. Gold medal to steve gleason, nfl new Orleans Saints star and he has been diagnosed with a. L. S. And in the late stamings of it. In the course of meeting his challenge he helped do so many things for people with a. L. S. Or neuromuscular diagnosis. It was a beautiful thing. All of us are our families are one diagnosis, one phone call, one accident away from needing affordable Affordable Health care. This catastrophic so very important and that is again particularly proud of the progress they have made. What we are up against is the president on every front in the congress and in the courts is trying to undo the Affordable Care act, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act. Right now he goes out and says he is protecting where is it again . At a web we weave when you deceive. How can you say he is protecting when he is in court trying to overturn. Instead of the Justice Department protecting the law of the land, they are trying to overturn the law of the land in the courts. And we have asked for expedited decisions from the courts so the public will know what we are up against. They have said take it slow. Take it slow. Take it slow. This is a very important issue to the health of the American People and the financial help to the American People. We were very proud when we passed he ligea cummings, h. R. 3, lower drug costs now, that is something so transformative in meeting the needs of americas families and taking the money saved from pharmaceuticals ripoff and agreed and transform medicare in a way that it hasnt been transformed since its inception and take the money and e it for dental, hearing and official benefits. Very excited about that. And again on the preexisting conditions, about 130 million families are affected by preexisting conditions and the president is in court trying to overturn that. No longer will that benefit be available to people and no longer lifetime limits or annual limits and the list goes on and on. When we come back, we be addressing surprise billing issue. Well have the first week well have that infrastructure probably the floor and up to the democratic leader but he has told our caucus expect it in the first week, we would be bringing funds fornna bill, no iran unless Congress Approves it and the lee lemmings which repeals the antique authorization of the use of military force, aumf that has been used for justification which is beyond its scope. So there we are. Again, we are very pleased that since we returned from christmas, we passed the pfas to clean up toxic materials, these are forever chemicals and cant get rid of them. But it impacts millions of families and many of them are on our own military bases who are affected by these chemicals that are in the water supply. They serve our country and their families are negatively affected. And i met with some of the families and such a tragedy. And we passed the war powers resolution to limit the president s actions in iran and soon the senate will be taking up senator kaines version and we are helping students defrauded by predatory institutions. Stunning thing these kids incur debt, the institutions have disappeared. What degrees are not worth they have borrowed money to obtain and this administration wants to protect, not the students but the predatory lenders. With that, im happy to take any questions you have. You were the last question yesterday. Reporter whats your response to Senate Republicans who say they shouldnt have to consider new new evidence like the parnas material because it wasnt included in the house investigation . Ms. Pelosi they are afraid of the truth. The American People have seen the allegations. And we have to see more evidence that would be contained in the documentation. So this is just another avoiding of the facts and truth on their part. They dont want to see documents or hear from eye witnesses and what happens to ignore anything new that comes up. , undeniableong case case tore the impeachment of the president so no future president could think could get away what President Trump has been getting away with in his view. Any further evidence should not be avoided. And now the ball is in the court of the senate. Public opinion will have a lot to do with this. Since we passed ours and sent it over, Public Opinion has grown enormously for seeing eye witnesses and documentation. And theyll have to contend with the public on that. Reporter a question on the role of facebook. In a new New York Times editorial board, may john kerry mark zuckerberg. Do you think they have too much power . Ms. Pelosi they are different. The facebook Business Model is striggetly to make money and dont care about the impact on children or troops or where this is all coming from and they have said, even if they know its not true, they will print it. They have been very abusive of the great opportunity that technology has given them. My thought about them is all they want are their tax cuts and no antitrust action against them. And move this administration in that regard because so far thats what they have received. I think what they have said very blatantly and very clearly that they tend to be accomplices for misleading the American People with money from god knows where. They didnt check on money from russia in the last election. They have been very irresponsible and again as you say, these are people we have known and worked with overtime. They do have an office in my district and i think their behavior is shameful. Senator collins said that the timing of the parnas documents would not affect her. Why are these documents being leaked out now . Ms. Pelosi thats when they were object taped and then his going further into public interviews on that is very compelling. But again, why would they under other circumstances, if somebody like parnas came reason and there was was to believe that some of that was factual, there would be a special prosecutor appointed. Does anybody think that the role of the attorney general is going to support appoint a special prosecutor . No, because he is implicated in all of this. This is an example of all of the president s henchman and i hope the senators do not become part of the president s henchman. Reporter given the parnas interviews last night, do you believe parnas should be a witness at the trial . And if so, do you believe he would be credible . Ms. Pelosi credible relates to the documents and the rest. It certainly raises questions, but i have appointed managers who have haunted me, tracked me, who are they, they have the responsibility and im very confident in how they will proceed. And again there seems to be documentation that would validate what parnas is saying. But that has to be subjected to scrutiny. Reporter parnas is under federal indictment is he a credible witness . Ms. Pelosi he would be credible to the issue at hand, the president s behavior. There is a process for how you go forward with witnesses and thats not done in the basement of the congressional visitors center. But among those who are making those decisions about how to go forward. And im so proud of our managers. Our members have been so positive about it. And you know, this is not without risk. They are going to give a great deal of their intellectual resource, as patriots, giving a great deal of time, of course. Courageous. Ir they are courageous. [indiscernible chatter] ms. Pelosi excuse me. You had a question yesterday. I said that the attorney general implicated. The testimony implicated the rogue attorney general who has of the puppet puppet trump or the attorney general. But this is not he says this is my attorney general. This is my department of justice. Really . In any case, its not a question of saying of proof. It says what allegations have been made. And that has to be subjected to scrutiny as to how we go forward. But it should not be ignored in the context of other events that have happened that would substantiate some of that. Reporter do you think it would be appropriate to delay the state of the union until after the impeachment trial has been completed . Ms. Pelosi the president has some options and im prepared to welcome him that day or send a printed copy, which was for a long time the tradition would send a copy of his state of the Union Address or he could ask us to postponeit if, in fact, he wants to have it after all of this resolved. But the timing of the investigation, the trial of the president for obstructing congress and abuse of power should not be hastened because of a speech he wants to make to the congress of the united states. Thank you all very much. Captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org we will hear from House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy. Earlier today, in the next steps in the impeachment process, house impeachment managers walked over to the Senate Chamber to formally present the articles of impeachment against President Trump. Today at 2 00 p. M. Eastern, Supreme Court chief Justice John Roberts will be sworn in following the swearingin of all 100 u. S. Senators. For the third time in history, a president is on trial in the u. S. Senate. Watch live today at 2 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan 2. And now House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy at about1