as we sit here today we still don t have the underlying evidence we requested, again, a right afforded every criminal defendant in the united states. instead, we sit here getting lectures from law professors about their opinions, their opinions, not facts. i guess the democrats needed a constitutional law refresher course. the republicans don t. mr. chairman, you acknowledged and i quote the house s power of impeachment demands a rigorous power of due process, due process means the right to confront witnesses against you and call your own witnesses and have the assistance of counsel. those are your words, mr. chairman, not mine. what are you afraid of? let the minority call witnesses. let the president call witnesses. clinton alone called 14 witnesses to testify. let the president s counsel question the whistleblower and the intel staff who colluded with the whistleblower, rights that should be afforded to the president, rights every criminal
requesting. a right afforded to every criminal defendant in the united states. we sit here getting lectures from law professors about their opinions, their opinions, not facts. i guess the democrats needed a constitutional law broke down the pressure the house s power of impeachment requires a rigorous level of due process. the right to confront witnesses against you, the call your own witnesses and to have the assistance of counsel. those are your words, mr. chairman. not mine. what are you afraid of? let the minority call witnesses but let the president call witnesses. clinton alone called 14 witnesses to testify. let them cross-examine the whistle-blower. let the president s counsel cross-examine the intel staff who colluded with the whistle-blower. in your own words, those of the rights that should be afforded to the president. every criminal defendant is afforded. even terrorists in iraq are
dana: chad, chairman nadler on the democratic side said they expect to hear from the other committees which may also be doing an investigation. the intelligence committee will transmit by the end of the day tomorrow its report and a few minutes ago, ted deutch, democrat from florida, member of the judiciary committee, and other members talked briefly about what might happen. they indicated they expect an open session where members of the majority on the intelligence committee would come and present their findings in the minority would be invited as well. they put out kind of a minority report the other day and we don t know quite what that would look like. that is neither fish nor fowl. we are told it would be open. we don t know if that would happen this week or next week and we don t off the judiciary committee would have a additional regular hearings with a call witnesses. the other things they have to do regardless if they are going to try to impeach the president, they then go
as we sit here today, we still don t have the underlying evidence that we ve been requesting. again, a right afforded every criminal defendant in the united states. so instead we sit here getting lectures from law professors about their opinions. their opinions, not facts. i guess the democrats needed a constitutional law refresher course. the republicans don t. mr. chairman, you have acknowledg acknowledged, and i quote, the house s power of impeachment demands a rigorous level of due process. due process means the right to confront witnesses against you, to call your own witnesses, and to have the assistance of counsel. those are your words, mr. chairman, not mine. what are you afraid of? let the minority call witnesses. let the president call witnesses. clinton alone called 14 witnesses to testify. let the president s counsel cross-examine the whistle-blower. let the president s counsel cross-examine the intel staff who colluded with the whistle-blower. in your own words those are
and if the democrats continue to keep their word, then god help them when the trial begins in the senate. and please, majority leader mitch mcconnell forced a trial if it gets to you. i can t wait for the american public when they are focused on the presidential election again and refreshed in january after the holidays to hear the president present a case. call witnesses. do rebuttals. cross-examination. all those legal requirements that he was not allowed to do in adam schiff s congressional circus. now, normally i would be home with stella and sir lancelot with popcorn and junior mints. but for this one i would give anything to be a fly on the wall in that hallowed senate chambers as schiff, hunter biden, joe