When that s abuse of power now my colleagues have suggested that somehow abuse of power is not a serious offense that that we should make light of the president s actions not treat it as the constitutional violation that is in fact abuse of power was a principal concern of the framers of the Constitution and it it was clear what it meant the exercise of official power to obtain improper personal benefit while ignoring or injuring the national interest that s abuse of power it s rooted in the president s duty constitutional duty to faithfully execute the law to put service over self to put the country over his personal interests I note from my colleagues that all 4 of the constitutional scholars who testified including the Republicans own witness have confirmed that abuse of power is an impeachable offense. President Tom s actions in fact exemplify the framers fears and the very reason that abuse of power is a high crime and worse worse than President Nixon President Trump pressured a
Kelsey we have got into recess here but I will say as we kick off our recess from this day long markup that you know at the end of the day as long as this is taking this is going to go down in history because this is going to be the 1st time since 1988 that Articles of Impeachment have been advanced through the House Judiciary Committee and it s going to be only the 4th time in u.s. History that there have been articles of impeachment the other 3 being Andrew Johnson who was impeached but not removed from office Richard Nixon where the Articles of Impeachment made it through the committee but not to the full house before he resigned and Bill Clinton where he was impeached in the end but not removed from office right and you know I think what is really interesting about this hearing much as we are hearing people repeating themselves is that we re really seeing a cohesive defense emerge from both Democrats and Republicans in a way that we hadn t really seen that in previous days they ar
Stop repeating themselves and move on but not. Ok let s listen as they read the results of this latest amendment and we re assuming the nos will have it as they have with the other 23. Degree 2 committee will now stand in recess for half an hour. Ok. We have gone into recess here but I will say as we kick off our recess from this day long markup that you know at the end of the day as long as this is taking this is going to go down in history because this is going to be the 1st time since 1988 Articles of Impeachment have been advanced through the House Judiciary Committee and it s going to be only the 4th time in u.s. History that there have been articles of impeachment the other 3 being Andrew Johnson who was impeached but not removed from office Richard Nixon where the articles of impeachment through the committee but not to the full house before he resigned and Bill Clinton where he was impeached in the end but not removed from office right and you know I think what is really inter
The goals of impeachment The 1st is abuse of power the president of the United States this is. The sitting foreigner for interference in our elections sheeting the American voters how did he do it Q leveraged life saving tax payer funded military aid that Ukraine desperately needed for assistance in his reelection campaign and he leveraged a White House meeting that he had promised to the new president Ukrainian president that president s allies keep desperately needed to show Vladimir Putin that the United States is willing to stand with Ukraine and he leverage that meeting for assistance in his reelection campaign that s abuse of power now my colleagues have suggested that somehow abuse of power is not a serious offense that. We should make light of the president s actions not treat it as the constitutional violation that is in fact abuse of power was a principal concern of the framers of the Constitution and it it was clear what it meant the exercise of official power to obtain imp
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