Charge. The truth is in the history of this republic, theres never been a single party fraudulent Impeachment Process deployed against a president like the one thats being used against donald trump. Thats whats unprecedented here. Its not the claim that a president doesnt want to turn over witnesses or documents. That, as weve said many times today, is actually quite common. And by the way, lets remember it needs to be noted again that President Trump has consistently cooperated with this congress in fulfilling its oversight you are listening to one of the many hours of todays very Historic House Judiciary Committee hearing on the articles of impeachment against president donald trump. Our live continuing coverage will take place over this hour and further hours as needed. But we want to let you know how were going to cover this. Were keeping an eye on this hearing. We have reason to believe there could be a vote on the current amendment soon. The committees obviously been going full s
document. if this committee elects to seek impeachment on the president s power to yield congressional demands on oversight, it will have to distinguish a long line of cases where prior presidents sought the very same review while withholding witnesses and documents. take the obama administration on fast and furious, congress justifily began oversight into that scandal. some members called for impeachment proceedings but president obama provoked executive privilege and barred documents. president obama did that. this is not unprecedented. the position of the obama administration was regarded as extreme there and some even said absurd. but here s the point. president obama had every right to seek judicial review in the matter and many members of this very committee supported that. on this obstruction theory would itself be an abuse of power by