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
But their constituents and also the president that they don t believe that he acted in accordance with the constitution they re saying they re doing this to protect their rights as the Congress to be a check and balance on the and on the presidency you heard the number of Democrats say that they are doing this because we do not have a monarchy in the United States we average public and it is their job and duty and they believe to hold this president accountable where they see wrongdoing now Republicans are trying to dismantle that argument saying that this is entirely political. As we ve said we ve heard this argument play out over and over over the last 12 hours let s zoom out for a 2nd because if the Democrats do this evening I should say there are only 3 hours left in this evening on the. They do this evening pass these articles of impeachment through the committee and then impeach the president in the full House of Representatives it goes to a trial in the Senate but the expectati
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