Evidence. This will set a dangerous precedent where impeachment becomes the norm rather than the exception. Thats not what our Founding Fathers intended. They wanted impeachment to be rare. They set a high bar for impeachment, treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors. Alleged abuse of power. The first article is not a high crime and misdemeanor. In fact, its not even a crime. And since there is no concise Legal Definition of abuse of power, the Majority Party in the house can designate nearly any disagreement with the president from now on in impeachment offense. The second article alleged obstruction of congress would produce a similarly dangerous precedent. Asserting executive privilege a practice that began with George Washington is not obstruction of congress. Rather, its a function of the essential checks and balances contemplated under the constitution. Heres what nearly every Grade School Student in america knows, but apparently House Democrats
do not. If congress disagree
Other important things that are going undone. Within this committees own jurisdiction we should address the Opioid Epidemic and could be working together to find solutions to the challenges on our southern border. Protecting americans from jobs stolen by Chinese Companies and enhancing Election Security to name a few things. Congress as a whole could be working on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, providing additional tax relief to the nations middle class families and providing additional security to our people here at home and abroad. Instead here we are spinning our wheels once again on impeachment. What a waste. The American People deserve so much better. I yield back. Gentleman yields back. Thank you, mr. Chair. I take no pleasure in the fatha were here today. As a patriot who loves america,
it pain meese ths me the circum force us to undertake this solemn obligation. Nonetheless on the public evidence it appears President Trump pressured a Foreign Government to interfere i
mayorkas and he joins me now. senator cruz, welcome back. great to have you with us today. great to be back with you. martha: so what is your response to tommy tubberville, the senator and others including mitt romney who say that they see this as him carrying out the policy of the biden administration and they didn t think that this is an impeachment offense. look, i think the house is doing exactly the right thing. i think alejandro mayorkas should be impeached. you have to understand, it s not that he s bad at his job. he s openly defying federal law. he s not trying to secure the border. he s instead trying to accelerate illegal immigration. he s trying to process illegal immigrants faster. we ve had over joe biden s tenure 9.6 million illegal immigrants flood in to this country and mayorkas is ignores the laws on the books and
that is something that would have to be investigated. i am not interested in playing tit for tat. i am not interested in retaliation. so what do you interpret from that, ryan? many republicans are leaving open the possibility of impeachment using it at the very least as a partisan talking point and not wanting to concede that biden has not committed an impeachment offense and over what? is there any specificity coming? i couldn t tell you. just checking. it s become i don t see anything that s risen to that level personally. but it s something a lot of republicans use to stoke the base especially in a midterm election. we all know the composition of the senate will be very close
that is he was somewhat carefully saying give me a break guys. this isn t something to go forward on and push impeachment on for any president because, you know, that s this isn t an impeachment offense. that s the way i read between the lines on his statement. right. right. which of course, you got some and each caucus now thinks anything is an impeachment offense if they don t like somebody. thank you both very much. appreciate your time. kevin mccarthy warning any company that turns over communication records to the january 6th committee will be violating federal law so is the minority leader right or is he actually the one violating the law? breaking news, tornados tearing across maryland and pennsylvania tonight as the storm system that was hurricane ida moves east and a judge ordering one hospital to give a covid patient a drug intended for livestock. after the hospital allegedly refused.