fairness by the majority throughout this entire circus. and finally, the only bipartisan activity related to this sham will be the votes against these flimsy articles of impeachment. i ask my colleagues to to join me in opposing this deplorable articles of impeachment and to demand that the house get back to working on the priorities athat hard-workig families care about the most. i yield back. gentleman from california. madam speaker, proud to recognize the gentleman from maryland. gentleman s recognized for one minute. yes. madam speaker, i spent 12 years on the house intelligence committee. including four as ranking member. my bipartisan cooperation with republican chairman was widely recognized. when it comes to national security, there is no room for bipartisan politics. all 17 witnesses, mostly trump appointees, told the same story during the intelligence committee hearings. each testifying that our commander in chief jeopardized american national security for the sake
they are not just voting to impeach president trump, my colleagues are voting to impeach the judgment of every person who voted for him and the process by which we elect a president and by which we will govern our nation. my democrat colleagues claim the russians influenced the outcome of the 2016 election. but it appears my colleagues have been influenced by how russia conducts political trials, no real evidence, no due process and no justice. the democrats have failed to show any legitimate justification for the impeachment of president trump. when they could not find real evidence they made it up and called it a parody. they conducted most of the hearings in secret. they constructed witnesses not to answer republican members questions and they denied republicans right to call witnesses making it absolutely clear their objective was from the beginning pathetically political. we all understand that elections have consequences. to all my colleagues, democrat and republicans alike, th
everybody see what is they want to see and we will keep rolling down this road. rob: we have this big thing today where the democrats will lay out the case, not expected as we just said to learn anything new, do you think this was designed, you put this right on monday when this report is going to come out and gives, i guess, people somewhere else to look besides that the ig report? well, what s interesting about the hearings unlike the intelligence committee hearings that we saw over the last couple of weeks they will not hear from any fact witnesses, they will hear from the lawyers on the impeachment side talking about what the intelligence community found and why it thinks these are impeachable crimes or high crimes or misdemeanors as the constitution says and ultimately the judiciary committee will have to make a decision, recommend stuff to the house familiar and they ll go forward. we sort of know what s going to happen. judiciary committee is likely to recommend articles of im
narrower rather than broader grounds for impeachment and smaller rather than larger number of articles of impeachment. i think the challenge for democrats here is that they made an obvious and clear case that the president did what he was accused of in the intelligence committee hearings. he pressured a vulnerable ally under attack by russia for assistance in the form of an announced investigation of joe biden in the 2016 election and held up a meeting with president zelensky and military aid for that purpose. there is no doubt that the president did this. the question is can you get the people who have not focused in? there is a significant number of americans, david, who are not like us, fully engaged constantly in cable news and twitter and other forms of media communication. they re very casual observers of
didn t like the fact that it was secret, we have done all that far and they still refused to participate. so they are not in any position at all to say that this has not been a fair process. it might speed up the situation. all i know right now is that we are having a hearing tomorrow. we don t have any other hearings scheduled. it doesn t mean they are not going to happen. but that s the situation right now. let me ask you about those articles of impeachment and how broad or narrow they may be. i will quote here from a north from nbc news. where do you fall on that? are you keen to thumb through volume two of the mueller report and draw out some of that material as you suggest what might be in those articles? well, you know, again, for me, i feel the sense of urgency in terms of the fact that the president is trying to cheat in the next election. so it s not so important to me as to how many articles that we have. but what is very, very clear is that this president has an