powers to demand that a foreign government attack his political rivals. the second karticle charges tha he obstructed the investigation into his conduct. they don t like us. they don t like the 63 million people that voted for this president. i want the members on both sides of the aisle to think about what has happened over the last two days and to search their consciouses before we cast our final votes. the integrity level of this committee. the chairman s integrity is gone. his staff is gone. this was the most bush league thing i have seen. mr. jeffreys. aye. mr. jeffreys. aye. my vote is no. mr. gohmert votes no. mr. jordan. no. there are 23 ayes and 17 noes. the articles agreed to. impeachment is as it always has bp a partisan process. as we were reminded last week on up and there s been heated
impeachment against president donald j. trump. the first article charges that the president used the powers of his public office to demand that a foreign government attack his political rivals. the second article charges that the president obstructed the congressional investigation into his conduct. other presidents have resisted congressional oversight. president trump s stonewall was complete, absolute and without precedent in american history. taken together, the two articles charge president trump with placing his private, political interests above our national security, above our free and fair elections and above our ability to hold public officials accountable. this committee now owes it to the american people to give these articles close attention and to describe their factual basis, meaning and importance.
today we begin consideration of two articles of impeachment against president donald j. trump. the first article charges that the president used the powers of his public office to demand that a foreign government attack his political rivals. the second article charges that the president obstructed the congressional investigation into his conduct. other presidents have resisted congressional oversight. president trump s stonewall was complete, absolute and without precedent in american history. taken together, the two articles charged president trump with placing his private, political interests above our national security, above our free and fair elections and above our ability to hold public officials accountable. this committee now owes it to the american people to give these articles close attention and to describe their factual
member and one of the ones who will definitely be joining us tonight. the house judiciary committee is now working on towards voting articles tomorrow. a standard procedure in most committees is for the chairman and ranking minority to make opening statements only, but tonight for this momentous hearing chairman nadler allowed each member of the committee, democrat and republican to make opening statements after chairman nadler began the historic session with these words. today we begin consideration of two articles of impeachment against president donald j. trump. the first article charges that the president used the powers of his public office to demand that a foreign government attack his political rivals. the second article charges the president obstructed congressional investigation into his conduct. other presidents have resisted congressional oversight. but president trump s stonewall was complete, absolute and
and ranking minority to make opening statements only, but tonight for this momentous hearing chairman nadler allowed each member of the committee, democrat and republican, to make opening statements after chairman nadler began the historic session with these words. today we begin consideration of two articles of impeachment against president donald j. trump. the first article charges that the president used the powers of his public office to demand that a foreign government attack his political rivals. the second article charges that the president obstructed the congressional investigation into his conduct. other presidents have resisted congressional oversight. but president trump s stonewall was complete, absolute, and without precedent in american history. taken together the two articles charged president trump with placing his private political interests above our national security, above our free and