at the end of this week and they will know straight away in the way that they deal with their constituents what the rest of the month yeah. and the following year s going to look like for them. all right. thank you both. joining me now, congressman jason crow. he s a democrat from colorado who just recently announced at a town hall meeting that he will vote for impeach president trump. the crowd giving him a 20-second-long standing ovation. congressman, can you tell me about what your process was on coming to your conclusion on this vote? yeah. hi, chris. thanks for having me tonight. you know, my process was about openness and transparency. i made a promise to the folks in my district a long time ago that i would focus on making sure that the process is open and fair. and that i would do what i did as a lawyer and remember when i was serving as a lawyer and when i would listen to the judge give the the admonition to the jury saying wait until all of the evidence is i
think about this. the attack startled then. they ve continued right up until today. i want you to think about something. the individual who said the fisa process was fine, the dossier was fine, the russian investigation was fine. that same individual ran the impeachment process, same individual met with the whistle-blower, only guy who knows who it is for sure, and released the phone records of the president s personal attorney, the phone records of a member of the press, and of a republican member of the united states congress. this process has been unfair. it s been dangerous. and it has been harmful to our countries. democrats have never accepted the will of the american people. nancy pelosi made that clear when she called the president of the united states an impoverty. the will of we the people, the 63 million folks who voted for this guy made him president, they ve never accepted that
the issue of republican threats to try to derail the process. so we want to make sure that we can protect the the articles against dilatory tactics. this is a big deal. i think the president committed a terrible crime. i think it rises to the level of an impeachable offensive and we need to get about the business of doing what, you know, our oath of office requires us to do, and that is to support and protect the constitution of the united states. how are you thinking about the vote that you re going to cast tomorrow? you know, these are the vote for every member, whether you re a democrat or a republican, is a vote of conscience. look, this is a sad day. i didn t run for congress to impeach a president. i ran to try to help people in my district and help working families and deal with the climate crisis and gun control, but the bottom line is, you know, this is this is important. i took my oath of office seriously and, you know, it s a vote of conscience and i will have a cl
flatly and baldly a political process, even a partisan one, and we have the votes on our side. well, george washington, benjamin franklin, james madison would be rolling their eyes. the whole reason, read the federalist papers, number 59, alexander hamilton. the senate is supposed to be and hoped it would be impartial and dispassionate and ready to hear both sides and make an independent judgement. mitch mcconnell is just turning everything inside out and it s easy to see why. he knows that he is covering up facts. we have asked for something very simple. not to rehash as mcconnell said, but four witnesses, probably the four who most know what happened. they were eyewitnesss to everything that happened in the white house. they have not been heard from. and all we ve asked is that they testify before us. mcconnell has no good answer why
the piece you wrote for the washington post about democrats don t move on from impeachment after double down on it. what do you mean by that? well, what i mean is that i think it s really important as alyssa slatkin did in her town hall meeting to go out and face the voters right. to answer every question, to study the materials, because what we see is that every time people learn a little more information then the support of for impeachment and eventually for removal actually increases, and i think we need that kind of pressure in order to compel the senate to come up with a fair trial and a fair process. this kind of public support for impeachment and explanation of it to the public really will help to do that. you know, one of the sort of macro trends in recent politics that s sort of reflected in the vote we re anticipating to happen tomorrow which will almost largely be along party