on the evidence they considered and the findings in the intelligence committee report that the president solicited the interference of a foreign government ukraine in the 2020 u.s. presidential election. professor feldman, did president trump commit the impeachable high crime and misdemeanor of abuse of power based on that evidence and those findings? based on that everyday and those findings, the president did commit an impeachable abuse of office. professor carlan, same question. same answer. and professor gerhardt, did president trump commit the impeachable high crime and misdemeanor of abuse of power? we three are unanimous. yes. professor feldman, i d like to quickly look at the evidence in the report. on july 25th, president trump told the president of ukraine and i quote, i would like you to
the pale. i also think their goal is to make a larger case here that it set it in an historic context and say, this isn t just about democrats hating donald trump, et cetera, wanting to undo an election, but this is about the constitution as jeffrey says. and to make a larger point, as they did in the house report yesterday, that if one president can do this, then any president in the future can also do these things and not worry about it because it will be fine. and to bring you back to the founding fathers who, after all, were trying to escape authoritarian im and say, look, this is why they did this. they did not want an authorit authoritarian in the white house who could do whatever he wanted. i think the larger historic moment, if they can do that for the american public, put it in some context. it would be important.
was never far from the poston s mind. by the time he left the nato conference, president trump had not seen any judiciary committee hearing. he had only had a look at the democrats intelligence committee report. i will tell you, it is a beautiful and i think pretty much right down the road what they are doing is a very bad thing for our country. bret: but watching aboard air force one on the trip home come outrage when pamela karlan joked about president trump s son. to make a point about the difference between a president and the king. the constitution said there can be no title of nobility. so while the president can name his son, he can t make him a baron. from halfway across the atlantic, a rare rebuke from the first lady. melania trump and minor child should be kept out of politics. pamela karlan you should be ashamed of angry and biased
came for us to take this is way too early because we have not as a committee done our job. we have not as a committee come together, looked at evidence, in front of us under oath to say what happen and how did it happen and why did it happen? we are taking the work of the intel committee and the other committee seemingly at face value and i will remind all that the chairman is the biggest proponent of this not happening with a statement 20 years ago and we should not take a report from another entity and accept it, otherwise, we are a rubber-stamp. and for my democratic majority, they may not care. as i said before, this is about a clock and a calendar. a clock and a calendar, they are so obsessed with the election next year, that they just gloss
on something. it s not his job to assess the credibility of the witnesses but the committee s job. and i agree. but this committee cannot do their job if the witnesses do not testify before the committee come even the ones talked about calling today and the majority say we don t want. we still don t have an answer what this committee will do once this hearing ends. the committee received an chairman schiff s report but we don t have the underlying evidence. the rule was set up by this body are not being followed to this day, but yet, nobody talks about the majority side. the witnesseth is produced by chairman schiff and the american people talk about feelings, guesses, presumptions but even though the facts may not matter to the majority, 97% of other facts do matter to the american people. so my problem is this, as the ranking member of this committee, one of the oldest, most should be fact-based legal base committees, they