What does the president want to know . Did he ask about ukraines efforts to battle corruption . Of course not. Did he ask how the war with russia was going . Not a chance. On the phone, his voice loud enough, President Trump asked sondland, is hes going to do the investigation . The answer was clear. He ensured trump that the ukrainian president was going to do it and that he would do anything you asked him to. If that wasnt telling enough, my colleagues, in a conversation that followed, an american Diplomat Dining with sondland asked if it was true that President Trump didnt give a blank about ukraine, sondland agreed, saying the president cared only about big stuff. The diplomat noted that there
was big stuff in ukraine, like a war with russia. Sondland replied that the president cared only about big stuff that benefits him personally. Like the Biden Investigation that mr. Giuliani was pushing. In that short conversation, we learned everything we need to know about the 45th president
this country to crimes were involved. johnson violated a law that congress had just passed over his veto. nixon was involved in a cover-up with watergate. clinton lied to a federal a grand jury. crimes. all instances of crimes. now comes extensively reading the president s minds, knowing what his intent was, and dictating to us and to the witnesses that were in the hearings what his mind set was and quite frankly they didn t believe that he had the quite dull mike wright to be interred to foreign policy. we heard ambassadors and yes we heard career bureaucrats, whatever you want to call them. they get to ride the bus, they don t get to drive the bus. the president is in charge of foreign policy. they said the president had the audacity to use his judgment on foreign policy instead of theirs. opinions, opinions. suppositions indeed. the very swap he is draining is
call of ukraine. that was the russia collusion host and obstruction of justice and then bribery and defend quid pro quo. none of which are included in these articles before us today. the first article of impeachment crafted is a fiction is not an enumerated basis, the democratic majority would have you believe that abuse of power is a high crime or misdemeanor. it is not. it s an opinion. is not even a crime that can be charged on the court of law, unlike presidents nixon and clinton newark tried for actual crimes, this president is being impeached on vague phrases that appear nowhere in our constitution. the second article, obstruction of congress, again doesn t exist in the constitution as a basis for impeachment and is intending to impeach a duly elected president that have been asserted on a bipartisan basis by both political parties throughout our nation s history. this house is impeaching a president over a phone call to another world leader. iif you lines and no phone transcript