Densically record shows wrong acts on that scale here. It shows a president who delayed meeting a foreign leader and provided assistance that congressed a his own advisers agrees serves our National Interests in promoting democracy and in limiting russian aggression. Saying, russia, if youre listening, you know, a president who cant have the Constitution Say russia if you are listening, but out of our elections. It shows a president who did this to strong arm a foreign leader into smearing one of the president s opponents in our ongoing election season. Thats not politics as usual. At least not in the United States or not in any mature democracy. It is, instead, a cardinal reason why the constitution contains an Impeachment Power, put simply, a president should resist foreign interference in our elections, not demand it, and not welcome it. If we are to keep faith with our constitution and with our republic, President Trump must be held to account. Thank you. Thank you, professor ger h
truth yourself. now, let s come become to the issue of delay since the president s lawyers have suggested that having witnesses and documents would make this trial take too long. there will be lengthy court battles they say. the president might even invoke executive privilege for the very first time in this entire impeachment process. it would be better, we re told, to skip straight to the final verdict, to break from centuries of precedent and end this trial without hearing from a single witness, without reviewing a single document that the president ordered hidden. respectfully, that shouldn t happen. house managers aren t interested in delaying these proceedings. we re interested in the full truth, in a trial that is fair to the parties and to the american people in the facts of the president s counsel agrees are so critical to this trial. it s why we ve said we won t go to court. we ll follow all the rulings of
really, their goal should be to give you all of the facts. because they re asking you to do something very, very consequential, and ask yourself ask yourself given the facts you heard today that they didn t tell you, who doesn t want to talk about the facts? who doesn t want to talk about the facts? impeachment shouldn t be a shell ga game. they should give you the facts. this is nice rhetoric. but it s simply incorrect. the president s counsel cherry-picked misleading bits of evidence, cited deposition transcripts or witnesses who subsequently corrected their testimony in public hearings and said the opposite. in some cases simply left out
never seen anything like this happen before? mr. duffey knows why. shouldn t we just tab tke the t to ask him? the american people deserve a fair trial. the constitution deserves a fair trial. the president deserves a fair trial. a fair trial means witnesses. a fair trial means documents. a fair trial means evidence. no one is above the law, and i yield to my distinguished colleague, manager lofgren. mr. chief justice and senators, it s not just about hearing from witnesses. you need documents. the documents don t lie. there are specific documents
overwhelmingly clear without john bolton. if you have any question about it, you can erase all doubt. now, let me show a video to underscore number two, slide two, how important this is. house managers, really, their goal should be to give you all of the facts, because they re asking you to do something very very consequential. and ask yourself, ask yourself, given the facts you heard today, that they didn t tell you, who doesn t want to talk about the facts? who doesn t want to talk about the facts? impeachment shouldn t be a shell game. they should give you the facts. the last video, which is even more important, and on point for mr. bolton.