Craig melvin will also be holding it down tomorrow. Good to see you, hallie jackson. Craig mel bin msnbc headquarters in new york city. Bracing for more, after the historic day on capitol hill, democrats and republicans are taking a break today before diving back into the public phase of the Impeachment Inquiry, as hallie just mentioned there. That will resume tomorrow. Were going to break down all the Key Developments from day one. Well also look at what we can expect from both sides tomorrow. Also ahead, a member of the community conducting these hearings, congressman Eric Swalwell will join me with reaction to everything that we heard and the strategy for tomorrow. You are looking live inside the New Hampshire statehouse where any moment now former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick plans to make it official. He will be adding his name to that already crowded field of democratic contenders. What hes saying about his decision and the new questions
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Called wafer thin evidence. This is where impeachment becomes the norm rather than the exception. Thats not how our Founding Fathers intended. They wanted impeachment to be rare. They set a high bar for impeachment. Alleged abuse of power, the first article is not a high crime or misdemeanor. In fact its not even a crime. Since there is no concise Legal Definition of abuse of power the Majority Party in the house can designate nearly any disagreement with the president are now in an Impeachable Offense. The second article produced a similarly dangerous precedent. Its a practice that began with George Washington and its not obstruction of congress. Rather its a function of the essential checks and balances contemplated under the constitution. It is what every Grade School Student in america knows but apparently House Democrats do
not. Let the third branch of government decide to come up they are the referees. The house has never, i repeat never, approved an abuse of Power Roi Obstructio
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through the now very well known transcript. this rigged process in such a concerning precedent for impeachable offenses moving forward and i wholeheartedly oppose these baseless articles of impeachment. i yield back the balance of my time. sentiment from new york. i now yield one minute from to the gentleman from californ california. many have lamented that this effort is not bipartisan but that is on my colleagues. comic they have not the truth, they sought to avoid the truth. warriors, patriots, career diplomats who provided evidence against the president. no house republican has joined us to demand the documents and witnesses that president trump has refused to produce. senate republican leaders this week have announced that president trump himself can set the rules of his own trial and there will be no fact witnesses.
president trump is keeping his campaign promises and you hate them for that. members are once again reminded to keep their remarks to the chair. gentleman from new york? madame speaker, we do not hate president trump but we do know that president trump will continue to threaten the nation security, democracy and constitutional system. president trump has instead during the impeachment inquiry, and that threatens the next election as well as constitutional democracy. i now yield one minute to the gentle men from california. gentleman is recognize for one minute. madame speaker, the house of representatives, the speaker s house is vested in the constitution with the power of impeachment to balance the power