Mr. Chairman. What purpose ir trying the last word. The gentleman strikes the lastem word. Recognized. Thank you. I yield to the rankingst member just real quickly, the gent thely lady from california stat something irn addressed head on last night. Undersecretary haleig said it w perspective money, not interfering or dealing with the issue. For those of us who have been in a war zone people do die. This money did not stop that. That is something that cannot be continuedme to perpetrated on ts world. Reclaiming my time. Theec difference in the Clinton Impeachment and this one, president clinton committed a crime, perjury, this president isnt accused of committing a crime. The constitution is prettymi clr on what constitution impeachable offense, treason, bribery and other High Crimes And Misdemeanors. Its not treason, bribery, other High Crimes And Misdemeanors and adam schiff an nancy pelosi deem impeachable. No president should abuse the
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hearing about the crimes of the candidate trump and then the crimes of president trump and we come nowp today, based on the initial fraud that got this whole impeachment stuff started, and no one on the other side is willing ton acknowledge the frd that brought us here, nor the fact that so many people here have been screaming about the president s crimes and we re even hearing today like we did, oh, yes, there were crimes. why aren t they in this impeachment document? because they don t exist. they ve been disproven over and over and over again. that s why theag gentleman s amendment is so well taken. you don t want to go down this ground. i think it s a bad idea when it wasad proposed before. high crimes and misdemeanors, if it s not treason, even
debate they don t have in their impeachment resolution because they can t prove them because there are no underlying fact. i hear my friend no new york mr. jeffries bring up russia, the residue of impeachment theories pastmp and failed, how is debatg about how are we here debating about military aid, javelins, that president trump delivered, that president obama withheld. i hear them crying the alligator tears, trump didn t give the aid, we have to impeach him. wrfs the concern about how to make thebo ukraine great when obama was president. it s four things. they ve never changed. i think mr. jordan dreams of them in his sleep. both president trump and president zelensky said, there was no pressure. we saw the call transcript. there s no conditionality. there was never awareness on the part of thear ukraine that ther was a delay in aid. and the ukraine got the aid
their ultimate objective is to nullify the votesto of the 63 million americans who voted to elect donald trump. they violate due process and all the rest. my colleague, sheila jackson lee quoted barbara jordan but she said during the watergate inquiry, impeachment not only mandates due process but due process qua dropled. they have violated that here, the rule and everybody in the country can see it. impeachment is going fail, the democrats will pay a heavily political box but the pandora s box will do injury to our country in the years ahead. we re concerned, that s why the facts matter and that s why we need to move on. i yield back. the gentleman yields back. mr. chairman. miss garcia seek recognition. i move to strike the last word. the gentle lady is recognized. i m opposed to this amendment. it s incredible that other side of the aisle has not seen the facts and has not apparently read some of the evidence before
nowhere in that transcript does the president make a demand. you know where the word demand came from? it came from the whistle-blower. that s the first time we heard the wordim demand, when we notified the inspector general for the intelligence community. he said president trump made a demand. he thought he could do that because he thought no one would ever be able to prove, because what president would take the unprecedented step of releasing a transcript with a foreign leader? this president did, something that the whistle-blower never expect expected. president trump, we keep hearing, got caught. president trump, we keep hearing, is obstructing justice. the president thats took the unprecedented step of releasing a transcript so that everyone could see the truth is not obstructing congress. the president didn t get caught.