maybe he should invite president zelensky to be a character witness in the trial in the senate and ply second reaction, maybe invite vladimir putin to be his character witness in the trial. people that are republicans and democrats are, in the senate, are not going to buy what he s saying in this letter. that s what i wanteded to ask about senator. hone in on colleagues across the aisle in the senator. how will this letter sit with them and when it comes to the trial in january, will this change anything? well, i don t know. i certainly don t think it s going to have a positive effect for the president, because it really does show he s existing in some completely alternate reality. there are people on the other side who are saying, well, he shouldn t have done what he did with ukraine but it doesn t rise to an impeachment offense. i wonder if they think the president continues to believe that what he did in this attempt to extort a foreign leader to get them to involve themselves
impeachable offense? abuse of power is the essential impeachment offense. that s why it s in there. what it s about is elevating the personal interests and ambitions of the president above the common good, above the rule of law and above the constitution. the founders didn t want a president who was going to behave like a king. we wanted a president who was going to implement the law might go out and implement the affordable care act and implement environmental law so that s their job, that s what you re supposed to be doing. we met we have seen evidence the president decided to withhold important official acts. the white house visit, military aid in order to pressure ukraine to announce investigations of vice president biden in the 2016 elections. why does that constitute impeachable defense? it basically implicates every single one of the concerns that were raised by the founders at the constitutional convention.
a road box and the rules and precedents for how they can push for better fact-finding on the case of president trump. later we also will get into a new admission from none other than rudolph giuliani. some say it actually helps the impeachment case against donald trump. that s what we call giuliani lawyering. we begin right now with the painstaking process for impeaching a process. to paraphrase cold play, nobody said it would be easy. for good reason. the founders did not intend for this process to be easy or fast. neither the house nor the senate. tomorrow s vote is being teed up in today house rules committee meeting. it stretched over seven plus hours. he jeopardized our national security and he undermined our democracy. there is a lot of discussion about crimes. they couldn t fiblds it in themselves to charge one. abuse of power is the essential impeachment offense. president trump makes richard nixon look like a little leaguer
against the american people, he needs to be removed to protect democracy. why is abuse of power an impeachable offense? abuse of power is the essential impeachment offense. that s why it s inadverte there. what it s about is elevating the personal interests and ambitions of the president above the common good, above the rule of law and above the constitution. so the founders didn t want a president who was going to behave like a king. we had seen enough of that. we wanted a president who was going to implement the laws, implement the affordable care act, implement environmental laws, that s your job, that s what he should be doing. we ve seen white house visit, military aid in order to pressure ukraine to announce investigations into vice president biden and the 2016 elections. ide why does that constitute an impeachable offense? well, it basically implicates every single one of the concerns
the tapioca. beyond the bingo card, everything jim s talking about, everything jim jordan was talking about yesterday, it s so far afield from the evidence. and, again, the questions before congress about whether or not president trump abused his power and committed an impeachment offense, they are not in any way and they haven t from the beginning, we know that, addressing the evidence. they re not addressing the question. do you believe it s okay for the president to use his office to extort, to bribe a foreign country to get dirt for a presidential election? that is the question before them that they don t want to answer. yeah, they don t want to answer the question. again, the flyover space argument is so hilarious. i mean, when i so, when i represented flyover space, we supported, i fought for, the reason i ran for office was for balanced budgets. and donald trump and jim jordan are responsible for the biggest