Speaker pelosi good morning. Lets begin where our founders began in 1776. When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for people to dissolve the political bonds that have connected them with another. With those words, our founders courageously began our declaration of independence from an oppressive monarch for, among other grievances, the kings refusal to follow rightfully passed laws. In the course of todays events, it becomes necessary for us to address, among other grievances, the president s failure to faithfully execute the law. When crafting the constitution, the founders feared the return of a monarchy in america. Having just fought a war of independence, they specifically feared the prospects of a king president , corrupted by foreign influence. During the constitutional convention, james madison, the architect of the constitution, warned that a president might betray his trust to foreign powers, which may prove fatal to the republic. Another founder, george mason
Speaker pelosi good morning. Lets begin where our founders began in 1776. When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for people to dissolve the political bonds that have connected them with another. With those words, our founders courageously began our declaration of independence from an oppressive monarch for, among other grievances, the kings refusal to follow rightfully passed laws. In the course of todays events, it becomes necessary for us to address, among other grievances, the president s failure to faithfully execute the law. When crafting the constitution, the founders feared the return of a monarchy in america. And having just fought a war of independence, they specifically feared the prospects of a king president , corrupted by foreign influence. During the constitutional convention, james madison, the architect of the constitution, warned that a president might be betray his trust to foreign powers, which might prove fatal to the republic. Another founder fear
And 15 minutes long. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this committee will come to rnder. Good morning, everyone. This is the first of a series of public hearings the committee will be holding as part of the impeachment inquiry, without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at the committee of any time there is a quorum present. Here is how the committee will proceed for the hearing. I will make an Opening Statement in the Ranking Member will have opportunity to make a statement. We will go to witness statements and then to questions. For audience members, we welcome you and we respect your interest in being here. In turn we ask for your respect as we proceed with todays hearing. It is the intention to proceed without disruption. Man making a polymer entry inquiry. This is our first hearing under the new set of rules, House Resolution 660 gives you the discretion to allow yourself in the Ranking Member
Impeachment inquiry and theres been testimony from a number of and ministries and officials and soon we will be moving to public hearings. At the same time as we head into the 2020 election there is concern about foreign interference in the security of our election infrastructure. There is a concern about hacking voter registers and databases, sowing societal discord and spreading disinformation. You should have copies of the constitution at each of your seats so if theres anything that comes up during the course of this conversation or you need to refer to that legal documents, feel free to do so. To help us think about these issues we have for distinguished experts. He writes a column for the wall street journal and is the author of type realism, a populace that to liberal democracy. Molly reynolds is a senior fellow and government studies in brookings and is the author of exceptions to the rule and the politics that filibuster limitations in the u. S. Senate. Elaine is a senior fell
A few minutes well be hearing from the last of this weeks witnesses fear the hill was the white houses top russia analyst she reported directly to former National Security adviser john bolton whos so far refused to testify shes expected to give details of a socalled shadow Foreign Policy run by trumps post the lawyer Rudy Giuliani and gordon sunderland. David holmes is a political counsellor at the u. S. Embassy in ukraine he will testify alongside her he says that he overheard a cold between donald trump and some glue and the u. S. Ambassador to the e. U. In which the president asked the diplomats if ukraine would investigate the bidens lets go live now to what the the capital of this is how the job castro is just outside the chambers where todays impeachment inquiry will begin what will wait just run through for us what were expecting to hear today. Sure adrian so the testimony this morning from the yonah hill who is a former member of the National Security council she was the ukrain