other important things that are going undone. within this committee s own jurisdiction we should be addressed in the opioid epidemic. we could be working together to find a solution to our immigration and asylum challenges on our southern border. we could be protecting americans for having their intellectual property and jobs stolen by chinese companies and we could be enhancing election security just to name a few things. congress as a whole could be working on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. providing additional tax relief to the nation s 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. the gentleman yield back. thank you, mr. chair. i take no pleasure in the fact that we are here today. as a patriot who loves america,
it pains me that the circumstances forced us to undertake this grav
other important things that are going undone. within this committee s 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 nation s 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 we re 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 i
american people s money on this impeachment, there s so many other important things that are going undone. within this committee s own jurisdiction, we should be addressing the opioid epidemic. we could be working together to find a solution to our immigration and asylum challenges on our southern border. we could be protecting americans from having their intellectual property and jobs stolen by chinese companies. and we could be enhancing election security just to name a few things. and congress as a whole could be working on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. providing additional tax relief to the nation s 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. mr. cohen. thank you, mr. chair.
i take no pleasure in the fact that we re here today. as a patriot who loves ame
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The case against despair
Updated at 2:30 p.m. ET on February 8, 2021.
In 2020, President Donald Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine to blackmail its president into fabricating dirt on Joe Biden. The House of Representatives impeached Trump for this act. The Senate acquitted him.
In 2021, Trump incited a mob of his supporters to attack the Congress, in hopes of overturning his defeat in the presidential election. This act of incitement immediately followed Trump’s attempts to mobilize election officials in Republican states to find votes to reverse in his favor the certified election outcome.
The House of Representatives impeached Trump for this act, too. The Senate seems certain to acquit him again.
Constitution tells about impeachment and also what the previous experience is that we ve had in this country with impeachment. up until that time. again, this was february of 1974 when this came out, which is the nixon impeachment. so at that point in 74 there d only been one other attempt at presidential impeachment. that had been andrew johnson way back in the 1800s. and the impeachment committee in watergate walked through what had happened with president johnson and they walked through what the constitution says and what our history offers us in terms of how to approach impeachment. and you can see here the way they stack it up. the historical origins of impeachment. the english parliamentary practice, the intention of the framers, the purpose of the impeachment remedy, the adoption of, quote, high crimes and misdemeanors. they ve also got a whole section on what they call the criminality issue. which i feel like we should