Good morning, everybody. Thanks for joining us. We want to talk about a number of things this morning but in particular we continue to watch happening with this impeachment process. Any heney it is by definition a process that is an attempt in secret, in the capitol, to he unseat a duly elected president states. Nited its unlike anything weve ever seen before. We know what a constitutionally process mpeachment would look like. We saw that happen both with with ent nixon and president clinton. This is not that. This is not a search for the truth. Not a situation where youve got the majority, the emocrats, who are upholding their constitutional duty and trying to get to the truth. Where they tuation know the outcome that they want nd they have concocted a process in secret without the president s counsel there, ithout the ability to crossexamine witnesses, without the ability of the american eople to see the evidence that theyre collecting. An appalling of duties and their its something
Thanks for joining us. We want to touch on a number of things this morning but in particular we continue to watch whats happening with this impeachment process. It is any definition a process that is an attempt in secret in the basement of the capital to unseat a duly elected president of the United States. Its unlike anything weve ever seen before. We know what a constitutionally serious impeachment process would look like. We saw that happened both with president nixon and president clinton. This is not that. This is not a search for the truth. This is not a situation where youve got the majority of the democrats who are upholding their constitutional duty and trying to get to the truth this is a situation wherethey know the outcome they want and they have concocted a process in secret without the president s council they are, without the ability to crossexamine witnesses , without the ability for the American People to see the evidence they are collecting. It really is an appalling
Partner manager at politics and prose. I just want to thank all of you for coming tonight. Love to see such a full house. I could not be more excited to introduce three powerhouse women that will speak tonight. We will have them come up in just a few minutes but first i want to show a short video. It was produced by two of our speakers tonight and it is narrated at the incomparable alexandria ocasiocortez. His very schematic to what we will be talking about tonight and its a really great introduction to our event. Well play that and then well come back together. I took the poetry and from new york to d. C. Always brings me back to when i first started. In 2019 i was a freshman in the most Diverse Congress in history up to that point. As a critical time. Ill never forget the children in our community. It would i was so inspired to meet this new class of politicians navigating the halls of power. Its often said you cant be what you cant see and for the first time they saw themselves. I t
Manager Corey Lewandowski was. Sked about the interactions on judiciary will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to call recesses at any time. We welcome everyone to todays hearing on president ial obstruction of president ial obstruction of justice and abuse of power. Before we begin i remind our Committee Members that we should refrain from making inappropriate personal references to protected parties, namely the president , Vice President , members of the senate, members of the house. This would include accusations of dishonesty, criminality, treason, or other unethical or imoper motives. The Critical Issues we are addressing today which go to the very core of our constitutional democracy, understandably bring out strong passions in us as they do in the American People. I hope that in what should but i hope that in what should be a spirited discussion of these issues today well stay focused on the issues and take care of to the keep our comments from being dire
Democrats want to ignore all of the real evidence of russian interference and hold this fake im because it happened impeachment because it happened under a different president s watch. This all happened under president obamas watch, isnt that correct . Mr. Lewandowski yes, sir. Mr. Chabot and it was the Obama Administration that failed to protect us from the russian interference and influence in our election, isnt that also true . Mr. Lewandowski yes. Mr. Chabot President Trump wasnt president. He wasnt the one that failed to protect the country. If anybody failed, it was the Obama Administration. Is that right . Mr. Lewandowski yes, it is. Mr. Chabot ive said it before and ill say it again. Were wasting valuable Committee Time engaging in this impeachment investigation. The fact of the matter is one thing this committee could be doing is to question Inspector General horowitz concerning the bias against the president at the origins of the Russian Investigation. We could be questioning