Stop repeating themselves and move on but not. Ok let s listen as they read the results of this latest amendment and we re assuming the nos will have it as they have with the other 23. Degree 2 committee will now stand in recess for half an hour. Ok. We have gone into recess here but I will say as we kick off our recess from this day long markup that you know at the end of the day as long as this is taking this is going to go down in history because this is going to be the 1st time since 1988 Articles of Impeachment have been advanced through the House Judiciary Committee and it s going to be only the 4th time in u.s. History that there have been articles of impeachment the other 3 being Andrew Johnson who was impeached but not removed from office Richard Nixon where the articles of impeachment through the committee but not to the full house before he resigned and Bill Clinton where he was impeached in the end but not removed from office right and you know I think what is really inter
Yes and come back and vote tomorrow now this will be the 3rd day of a markup session a markup session session this is really the sausage making process on Capitol Hill that they do it on almost every bill and they certainly do it on Oracle s one page but where they consider amendments and amendments become the actual legislation the same thing here Fox s jet program on Capitol Hill the unexpected recess just before midnight angering Republicans including ranking member Doug Collins a chairman just ambushed the entire committee did not have any consultation with a ranking member said I will have votes at 10 am in the morning I guess they didn t think enough today of spreading their very paper thin impeachment process for over 12 or 14 hours is enough Fox s Davis but with more on that grueling session we must impeach Donald j. Trump this is gonna stop before it goes too much for the Democrats are pushing forward with 2 articles of impeachment the 1st abuse of power Democrats say the pre
The goals of impeachment The 1st is abuse of power the president of the United States this is. The sitting foreigner for interference in our elections sheeting the American voters how did he do it Q leveraged life saving tax payer funded military aid that Ukraine desperately needed for assistance in his reelection campaign and he leveraged a White House meeting that he had promised to the new president Ukrainian president that president s allies keep desperately needed to show Vladimir Putin that the United States is willing to stand with Ukraine and he leverage that meeting for assistance in his reelection campaign that s abuse of power now my colleagues have suggested that somehow abuse of power is not a serious offense that. We should make light of the president s actions not treat it as the constitutional violation that is in fact abuse of power was a principal concern of the framers of the Constitution and it it was clear what it meant the exercise of official power to obtain imp
But their constituents and also the president that they don t believe that he acted in accordance with the constitution they re saying they re doing this to protect their rights as the Congress to be a check and balance on the and on the presidency you heard the number of Democrats say that they are doing this because we do not have a monarchy in the United States we average public and it is their job and duty and they believe to hold this president accountable where they see wrongdoing now Republicans are trying to dismantle that argument saying that this is entirely political. As we ve said we ve heard this argument play out over and over over the last 12 hours let s zoom out for a 2nd because if the Democrats do this evening I should say there are only 3 hours left in this evening on the. They do this evening pass these articles of impeachment through the committee and then impeach the president in the full House of Representatives it goes to a trial in the Senate but the expectati
Go ahead tell us about obstruction of Congress while obstruction of Congress is the allegation that the president has tried to stop me the question of us occasion into his alleged misconduct well that he admits to the president was very clear I mean he personally directed people not to comply with a congressional investigation and several of those individuals devise defied congressional subpoenas to come and testify about a dozen people never appeared Ok we just heard the gavel there is often a warning gavel before the official start gavel commuters and you re aware of the chair lookers and I mean agreed yesterday through the nature of a substitute and articles of impeachment against President down to trump the pending business is reporting the resolution favorably to the house reporting quorum being present the question is now in the motion to report the resolution 8755 is amended favorably to the house pursuant to cause 5 house rule 16 because the resolution contains 2 distinct prop