schiff s chamber of secrets. the american people see president trump has not been treated fairly in this process and impeachment based on hearsay and opinion, not facts. it s a sad day in this chamber. the people s house. i yield back. members are again reminded to address remarks to the chair. gentleman from new york. madam speaker, i inform you that the gentleman from california, mr. schiff, the chairman of the intelligence committee i will now serve as my designee and control the reminder of the time on the majority side. does the gentleman yield to the gentleman from california? he s my designee. to the gentleman from california yield to himself? yes, as much the gentleman is recognized. i thank my colleague, chairman nadler. i thank him for the extraordinary job he s done throughout these difficult proceedings. madam speaker, my colleagues, my follow americans, i raise to
while they held secret depositions behind closed doors, but the american people see president trump has not been treated fairly in this process, impeachment based on hearsay and opinion, not facts. it s a sad day in this chamber. the people s house. i yield back. members are again reminded to address their remarks to the chair. gentleman from new york. madam speaker, i would now inform you that the gentleman from california, the chair of the intelligence committee will now serve as my designee and will control the remainder of the time on the majority side. does the gentleman yield to the gentleman from california? he s my designee. does the gentleman from california yield to himself? yes, madam speaker, i yield to myself as much time is considered. i think my colleague chairman nadler, i thank him for the extraordinary job that he has done as chairman of the judiciary committee and throughout these difficult
inclusion of these phone records in the schiff report? ranking member, i m afraid i can t answer these questions. i just don t know. is. undoubtedly it was the intelligence committee carrying out what is an improper process. do you think you can not tarnish political names by crossing out the names? no, they could have done it person 1, they chose not to keep the names. do you think it s appropriate for those numbers and names to be released? they weren t targets of the investigation, they were just swept up. i was not involved in that part of it, so forgive me. will the gentleman yield for a minute? we did have testimony on this. no, i m not going to yield my
specifically ordered the inclusion of phone records in the schiff report? ranking member, i m afraid i can t answer these questions. i don t know. let s see. undoubtlely the intelligence committee carrying out a vendetta against a member of congress. any of you think it s proper to have individuals call logs who are not the target of criminal investigations? nothing but a political drive-by i brought that out. they could have done it different ways. number one, person one, they could have done it any other way, but they chose to use the names. it was a political hit job. opportunity to respond. do you think it was appropriate for numbers and names to have been released? again not the targets of the investigations. just swept up. yeah. i was not involved in that part of it and so forgive me again. again, i understand. will the gentleman yield for a minute? we did have testimony on this.
will the gentleman yield for a question? no. yield back. thank you, mr. chair. strike the last word. gentle lady is recognized. thank you, mr. chair. democrats are articles of impeachment claim the president had corrupt purposes in pursuit of personal political benefits used to influence the 2020 united states presidential election. well, they have absolutely no proof of that. let s read the actual transcripts of the phone call in question. and i want to remind you for the people that read it, there s only one section in this entire transcript and it s not until page 4 out of 5 that president trump brings up biden, which is well into the july 25th call. president trump said to the ukrainian president, and i