Through this difficult period and thats been helpful. Where is chad . I want to congratulate him on his promotion. Well tell him for you. Tell him i congratulate him. He gets promoted and he stops coming. Whats up with that . Wheres the love . I dont see it. All right, today we had a conference and republicans in the house and across the country received some very good news from our conference chair this morning with liz cheney, announcing that she will remain on our Leadership Team and in the house. She is a fighter and a powerful voice for conservatives and is the type of person we need to help us lead the charge to win back the majority. Liz, i speak on behalf of our members when i say thank you for your commitment in the Republican Party and to the vision that will truly help propel americans across the country for a better future. What you need to read into it, theres a real chance that were going to win the majority. The idea that our conference chair, an opportunity to go to the senate. She chose to stay here to help us win the majority. I thank her for that. Now, let me shift to what we saw yesterday in this chamber. The taxpayer funded Campaign Stunt for the democrats. They took americans hard earned dollars and funneled them into years of worthless and baseless investigation meant to discredit this president. And after three years with zero facts to back up their accusations, democrats rammed impeachment down the throats of the American People. If this was really a as serious as they claimed this would be, yesterday was no cause for celebration, but in that case democrats did what you would expect in a campaign event. Posed for pictures, smiled, handed out gifts to one another and Speaker Pelosi even fist pumped on the house floor during what should have been a serious debate. Im sure most of you got a pen as well. The behavior is disgusting and appalling. Every person in this country should be enraged at the fraud, waste and abuse they have seen from democrats in this majority. Millions of dollars spent, countless hours lost in their unrelenting hatred towards this president. It is not enough for Speaker Pelosi and her colleagues to embarrass the president in our own country, but there is a worst trend that has taken on. Whenever the president is helping to strengthen our country on the international stage, democrats are trying to bring him down on capitol hill. Let me point that out to you. September 24th, the president was at the United Nations general assembly. Speaker pelosi had her press conference to announce impeachment. December 4th, the president was at the nato leaders meeting, democrats hold a hearing with law professors. And yesterday as the president was on pennsylvania avenue signing phase one of a trade deal with china, Speaker Pelosi, after needless waiting for a month, decides that it is the day shell send articles of impeachment to the senate. Theyre sabotage has filed and juvenile behavior has only succeeded in showing the American People the sharp contrast between the failed majority and what real leadership looks like. It was a progress on the china trade deal yesterday and today the senate is expected to pass the united statesmexicocanada agreement. Promises made, promises kept. Most people did not think this president could accomplish this. He did something others could not. He first promised the American Public he would do it and he carried it out. He carried it out at the same time that this majority spent their entire time trying to investigate him. He never let that get him down. Ill guarantee you this, when we are back in the majority we will take our responsibility seriously and we will stay committed to helping you, the American People. Open for questions. Yes, maam. Republicans have maintained that the president and the white house have done nothing wrong, there was no crime committed, no laws broken. The obo came out and said he did break laws by withholding the aid to ukraine. Ombs response was that they disagreed with the opinion. Omb has authority to ensure taxpayer dollars are properly spent. These are taxpayer dollars going to another country that people believe there was corruption with a new administration. I think it was the rightful thing to do. Yes. Yesterday lev parnas, Rudy Giulianis associate, said that President Trump was fully aware of the efforts on his behalf to dig up damaging information. And im wondering if this changes your view in any way or if you have any reaction to the fact that he has said not only was mr. Trump aware, but the attorney general was involved, mike pence was involved, everybody was involved . Not at all. This man lacks all credibility. This is the same pattern ive seen before with cohen. The media tries to build something into it. Just to show that he went on and the nature of what he spoke, this is the same man that said devin nunes was in vienna when he was not. So he doesnt have any credibility. Yes, maam. Do parnass allegations put more pressure for more witnesses to come forward and be part of the senate trial . Not at all. You have the transcript of the phone call. Thats all you need. You have the phone call. Thats what they based their impeachment on. Even though their managers have decided on impeachment, you have hakeem who voted for it two years almost to this date, a year before the phone call even took place. You have adam schiff, who met with the whistleblower but lied. Said he had proof beyond sir coup couple stanchl. They made their impeachment and the senate role is to judge it. Do you think that the state of the union should be delayed until the trial is completed . Well, the trial could be completed by then. How weak the case is itself, but i would leave that up to the president. I think it would be appropriate for him to be able to speak to the American Public when they can all watch and listen. Every time hes given a state of the union, the country feels stronger and has a better understanding of where theyre going, more hope, more opportunity. And i want to make sure hes given that opportunity. Unfortunately, the way that the speaker has held her papers, when it was such an urgency, when she got nothing in the process of holding it but really harming any senator thats running for president. Theyll be sitting in their chairs for six days with no phones, cant campaign. Im not sure if nancy pelosi was waiting on all of those pens to arrive. Im not sure why she held the papers. But she achieved nothing by it. Any other questions . Congressman. Yes, sir. A week ago today you told this exact day . This exact day, you told me that lev parnas, i guess i met him one time. We know now thats not true, and my question is why do you need to guess how many times you met lev parnas. Because i dont know him. Let me finish my question, sir. Please finish. Along with igor fruman, wasnt there an investigation, didnt your team look into this, will there be an audit thats released to the public and the press . I dont know how much money he gave me. When it came out in the press, if youll look, ive been pretty successful, i have raised more money than as the leader of the Republican Party, as the speakers of the Republican Party before me. People come to events and they take photos with me. This seems to be the case. I saw a photo that he had on there that he actually walked up to me at the inaugural and he put his hand around me and snapped a picture, like hundreds of thousands of other people did as well. That seems to be of interest to you. When i found out that this individual had given money to protect the house, it was given away to charity. I dont know what more you need by that. Because you come back every week with the same question. Every week you avoid answering it. Okay, lets be honest and fair, okay . You just said a week ago you asked me the question and i answered. Now i answer the same question again. We can do this each and every week, but the facts dont change. Last week when you asked me the question the money he provided was sent to do i get to answer as well . Yes, you do. But can i ask the question . Once you let me answer. Last week when you asked me the question it was the same facts that it is this week. Yes, the answer you gave me, congressman, was not true. My question is last question. Thank you. My question is, given that these big ticket donors who donated 100,000 to protect the house, more than 100,000 to protect the house, did your team audit what happened and given the different answers and make that audit available to the American People . That we gave the money away . It already shows that it does. How many times you met him, what the nature of what happened. Because you said i guess i met him one time. Can you look into it and just release the findings of whatever you look into, whatever you find . Okay, let me release everything i know and everything i find about less parnas, the central figure in the impeachment investigation. Are you done with your question . Yes. Let me be very clear to you. Its the exact same answer youve had every week that youve asked me. I do not know the man. He came to a fundraiser and he provided me money. I learned from the media that he provided money to a fund. A learning of that information, we gave that to charity. I think that will answer the same question if you come back next week, youll get the same answer. Have a nice week. Thank you, congressman. The impeachment of President Trump, watch unfiltered coverage of the senate trial on cspan2 live as it happens, and sameday reairs. Follow the process on demand at cspan. Org impeachment and listen using the cspan radio app. Washington state governor jay inslee recently gave his state of the state address whether he expresses his goal of reducing homelessness in the state by giving job programs and Affordable Housing options. [ applause ] good afternoon. Thank you adam jamal for your moving in