President for a long time now. In fact, when they took over the house, one of their members filed articles of impeachment that very day and really since Inauguration Day many wanted to impeach him. This is really all about in my view, its all about politics. Its all about hurting the president , hurting his reputation. They dislike him intensely. As i mentioned the other day they really loathe this president , and theyre trying to hurt his chances in the next election. It may well do just the opposite. One of my real concerns, and af lot of them about this whole thing. I mentioned this earlier today, im very concerned about is that The Democrats are really lowering the bar for impeaching a president in the future. Its becoming too routine. Its becoming the new normal. For 200 years in our nation wed had one impeachment, one in 200 years, Andrew Johnson and now in less than 50 years were in our third one this time around. And i really am concerned that from now on in all likelihood when
With the findings in the horowitz report. Horrow its seems to be giving the fbi that part of the investigation saying its a clean bill. They had enough reason to do this investigation. Everybody who was interviewed cements to indicate they did not open an investigation. Evan perez, thank you so much. Joining our panel now, we have with us jim bakker. You are not singled out the report makes clear the fbi failed when it came to the administering the fisa warrants, too much was left out or not presented to the court. Do you accept what the Inspector General is saying . I am there are two big groups of conclusions, one is, it was not a politically motivated
investigation and it was properly predicated with us goingforward with that investigation. It was malpractice for us not to open this investigation. All of the statements that it was a hoax are wrong. The investigation was not a coup or a coup attempt. Having said that, he does point out many mistakes that were made with respect to err
Facilities across the country. The administration has worked with the Committee Staff to observe 11 cpb, 13 i. C. E. Detention activities to contract with hhs. Contrary to the assertions from the democrats, the Trump Administration has cooperated substantially in matters related to the border and elsewhere, but lets just contrast that with the democrats combative posture. In letters to the state Department Employees the committee threatened witnesses that, and i quote, any failure to appear, any failure to appear in response to a mere letter requesting their presence for deposition shall, and i quote, constitute evidence of obstruction. This is just letter, not subpoenas. In letters the state Department Employees in letters to the state Department Employees the committee threatened witnesses that if they insist on having
agency counsel present to protect the Executive Branch in their Confidentiality Interest or if they make any effort to protect Confidentiality Interest at all, these o
Other important things that are going undone. Within this committees own jurisdiction we should address the Opioid Epidemic and could be working together to find solutions to the challenges on our southern border. Protecting americans from jobs stolen by Chinese Companies and enhancing Election Security to name a few things. Congress as a whole could be working on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, providing additional tax relief to the nations middle class families and providing additional security to our people here at home and abroad. Instead here we are spinning our wheels once again on impeachment. What a waste. The American People deserve so much better. I yield back. Gentleman yields back. Thank you, mr. Chair. I take no pleasure in the fatha were here today. As a patriot who loves america,
it pain meese ths me the circum force us to undertake this solemn obligation. Nonetheless on the public evidence it appears President Trump pressured a Foreign Government to interfere i
The Ukrainian Government adopted a unilateral position in favor of one candidate. More than that, certain oligarchs certainly with the approval of the Political Leadership funded this candidate or female candidate to be more precise. And if there was ever any doubt about who benefits from this unfounded theory put forward by President Trump and his associates, President Putin made it clear very recently when he said thank god no one is accusing us anymore of interfering in u. S. Elections. Now theyre accusing ukraine. In the face of clear evidence, not only from Intelligence Community experts, but from his own National Security team that russia, not ukraine, interfered in the 2016 election for the benefit of donald trump, President Trump still pressed the Ukrainian Government to announce an investigation into this Conspiracy Theory. Why . Because it would help his own
political standing. President trump even saukt sought to with hold an Oval Office Meeting from the president of ukraine