Gris it would be extremely dangerous precedent to set for the future Presidents and congresses in making an appeal to the judicial branch into a high crime and misdemeanor unquote here s the deal impeachment was never intended to be a remedy for political disagreements it wasn t intended to be a remedy even for legal disagreements between the legislative branch in the executive branch that s why there s a 3rd branch of government that s why we have the judiciary this is a very dangerous road indeed as president Professor Turley noted and I hope and pray that future Congresses can and will exercise greater restraint and has what what s been shown by Chairman shift and Speaker Pelosi and Chairman Adler in the rest of the stability of our republic is going to depend on that in the future and I pray that we can put this genie back in the bottle you know back. For what purpose does the gentleman from Florida seek recognition and strike to move to strike the last word. Gentlewoman s recogni
You want him to come if he s innocent here bring it to us we ll Scotch it we re going to we re going to blast it we re going to we re going to basically curve it and create the facts situation we want by Matt misinterpreting everything you do well here s a for instance they claim that the president publicly he wanted a public announcement of investigations but the only witness who said anything about that was a guy named Gordon Sunland and best record someone who admitted that no one on Earth told him that but he presumed he also said that the only direct conversation he had with the president about these things was that the president said he wanted nothing from Ukraine except that it clean up its corruption. The best evidence is the transcript between President still a ski President Trump It shows no conditionality no quid pro quo no this for that aide was never even mentioned on the call subsequently the president of the Ukraine and various Ukrainian government officials said if tho
Supported the position based on impeachment Professor Turley continues on this obstruction theory would itself be an abuse of power by Congress it would be extremely dangerous precedent to set for the future Presidents and congresses in making an appeal to the judicial branch into a high crime and misdemeanor unquote here s the deal impeachment was never intended to be a remedy for political disagreement it wasn t intended to be a remedy even further legal disagreement between the legislative branch and the executive branch that s why there s a 3rd branch of government that s why we have the judiciary this is a very dangerous road indeed as president ter Professor Turley noted and I hope and pray that future Congresses can and will exercise greater restraint than has what s what s been shown by Chairman shift and Speaker Pelosi and Chairman earlier in the rest of the stability of our probe Republic is going to depend on that in the future and I pray that we can put this genie back in
Me Tim as we ve been listening to this a lot of debate back and forth. What s the plan here as these lawmakers as far as these lawmakers are concerned the rest of the evening well right now we re considering a number of Republican amendments Democrats generally speaking are good with the tax they like what it says we re working through these Republican objections right now this is the 3rd amendment that Republicans have offered they ve pushed 7 amendments forward they are making the point they re trying to make the argument that the president released the aid because I have he saw signs from the Ukrainian government today taking steps to fight corruption ice president Ok well let s go back and listen to the hearing this is Val Demings Democrat of Florida speaking are suffering from addiction I just believe to protect this president any cost is shameful Article 2 and the Nixon impeachment said this the article Prince the bully address President Nixon s use of power including powers ves
Objective the president abused his fower and to me and at least the members on this side of the Dias that matters and with that I yield the remaining time to Mr Richmond from Louisiana. Thank you Mr Chairman very quickly I just want to Cedric Richmond a Democrat of Louisiana people watching that when you look at the credibility of a testimony and weighing the evidence you can look at other things I want to enter into the record unanimous consent the Guardian article Roger Stone and Michael Coyne The men in trumps are being implicated in crimes that is your action c.n.n. Politics 6 Trump associates Trump associates have been convicted in Mahler related investigation. Of my wise grandmother birds of a feather flock together. And then also President Trump has made $13435.00 on misleading claims over $996.00 Durning an objection to the gentleman s time has expired. For purposes. Of the Jackson Lisa Greg mission to strike the last word. Sharon thank you and I want to see Sheila Jackson Lee