on the subject matter at issue during the december 4th hearing. on december 2 nd, he wrote chairman nadler asking for clarity on how he plans to conduct the impeachment inquiry referencing five previous letters he had sent to questions that were never and. on december 3rd he wrote chairman nadler reminding him of his recent letters requesting the judiciary committee provide the president due process with the intelligence committee and chairman schiff did not. it s my understanding chairman nadler never provided a response to any of these letters. to your knowledge does chairman nadler not respond to letters from ranking minority members is. no. i will concede that mr. collins, like the aforementioned john adams and thomas jefferson is a prolific letter writer. i don t know whether or not they engaged in conversation to follow up on any of those. we re all together on a daily
gives the house the sole power of impeachment and the power to determine its own rules. when president nixon, during the time he was going to be impeached, the chairman of the rules committee, chairman madden, actually spoke on house floor and announced there would be a rule governing how that proceeding would move forward. when the clinton articles of impeachment were brought forward, there was a unanimous consent request to kind of govern how we conducted ourselves. and i m not sure how likely it would be that we would get a unanimous consent request. i would like to ask unanimous consent without objection to enter into the record a letter sent to the chairman of the judiciary committee signed by 70 republican members including kevin mccarthy, the republican leader, and basically, and let me read the key lines here, we will avail ourselves of every parliamentary tool available to us on the committee and house floor, in other words to try to delay and make this process as
the majority pretties this up no way you can call in four law school professors, two staff members and that s the only hearings to provide any opportunity for the president to question and get anything out of them. i have heard from my majority colleagues, as a former defense attorney is funny, if he s innocent come prove it. when is that ever a part of what we should be doing here? really? i don t think my civil libertarians in the democratic aisle laying awake how can i be associated with this. no matter what you think there is a way to do this fairly. they still out number us and they ve been trying to do this for three years. mr. raskin, did you have conversation with chairman schiff about the contents of the report? i am certain i have along the way, yes. really? because nobody on our side evidently had any conversations. to your knowledge, did chairman nadler have any conversation with chairman schiff about the contents of the report? i m certain.