As one of the reasons i suggested we have a lunch for johnny which we are having this afternoon. Just like there is good reason to praise johnny and the way democrats did, theres good reason that during his chairmanship johnnys committee passed so many bipartisan bills, 57 to be exact to help veterans. Because he treated everyone, democrats, republicans, with respect and johnny never let it demo our ability to get things done. He didnt have the last voice in the room, but it was often the most influential. That was built up be years of trust and we never doubted his word, he was an honest broker. So if parties were separated on a certain issue, johnny was off often the one spanning the divide. I was know that from experience and over and over again. One example in families from new york struggled with sandy orushing them with enormous debt. They worked with my office to find a solution. We made enormous progress together to strengthen shields and defending journalism will need to stand
Impeachment in the Judiciary Committee. Despite the fact that the speaker of the house said the clear,e needs to be compelling, and bipartisan, the democrats fail on every single one of those counts. And we have been pointing out and talking about now for several weeks since the impeachment process began, the extent to which the process was fundamentally unfair. I would ask people to remember that they have failed despite the fact that they had a process that basically but everything tilted in their direction. Asocrats were able to act judge, prosecutor, the democrats were able to select every single witness. They were able to prevent and did prevent witnesses from answering republican questions. They decided what the American People would the end when. They decided the timing on the release of important pieces of transcripts, they still have not theased the transcript of icy Inspector General plaguerist the democrats essentially stacked the deck in their favor. Despite the fact that t
Know, and will begin tomorrow, onrings on entrenchment impeachment in the Judiciary Committee. Despite the fact that the speaker of the house said the clear,e needs to be compelling, and bipartisan, the democrats fail on every single one of those counts. And we have been pointing out and talking about now for several weeks since the impeachment process began, the extent to which the process was fundamentally unfair. I would ask people to remember that they have failed despite the fact that they had a process that basically but everything tilted in their direction. Asocrats were able to act judge, prosecutor, the democrats were able to select every single witness. They were able to prevent and did prevent witnesses from answering republican questions. They decided what the American People would the end when. They decided the timing on the release of important pieces of transcripts, they still have not theased the transcript of icy Inspector General plaguerist the democrats essentially s
Jonathan turley, George Washington university, who usually sits with us at the table who is a cbs news analyst but testifying in congress today. This hearing follows a Party Line Vote yesterday where the House Intelligence Committee approved its final report on impeachment, and that report is really a sweeping indictment of the president. Concluding the president s efforts to investigate ukraine for political rivals sought to undermine the integrity of the u. S. President ial election process and endangered u. S. National security. Bottom line, abuse of power is what theyre saying. Republicans on the Committee Say the president did nothing impeachable. This could be fiery because of the republicans and democrats who sit on the Judiciary Committee, so somewhat of a circus this morning and a little bit of a constitutional cram session. If you love the law, if you Love Learning about impeachment, this is the place to be because well be talking about it. We have a team of correspondents, n
The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. Mr. Chairman youre upsurping the right to object. Objection is noted. I receiver tzrbreserve the r object. Peropportunity to cause g, im furnishing you with a demand on minority hearings on this subject signed by all the republican the gentleman will suspend. Pursuant to cause 2 j 1 rule 11 im furnish you with a letter signed by all the republican members of the committee. I request you set this date before the Committee Votes on any articles of impeachment i withdraw my reservation. We will confer on this later. The quorum is present. This is the first hearing were conducting pursuant to the resolution 660. And the special Judiciary Committee procedures that are described in section 4a of that resolution. Here is how the committee will provide for this hearing. I will make an Opening Statement and then ill recognize the Ranking Member for an Opening Statement. Each witness will have ten minutes to make their statements and then