comprehensive report to the house judiciary committee which would then make the decision about the law. do all of these events rise to what we think is impeachable conduct and of course, we did so there are lots of fact witnesses. we also had the counsel for the house intelligence committee come into deliver the report and defend the report and all of my friends on the other side of the aisle have the chance to question as we have the chance to question. when you say there were no fact witnesses, that is a perfect description of what took place during the bill clinton impeachment because all of that took place as part of the independent counsel investigation by ken starr, closed-door secret depositions taking place there. they came to deliver the report and remember all the boxes and material they brought over and gave it to the house judiciary committee.
the transcript shows no conditionality of aid. in the intelligence committee report was mr. sondland who after he got past his perfect opening statement, when question said that s what i presumed it to be and would actually talk to the president of the united states, he was told i had a conversation, he said there was nothing discussed of conditionality. so how do you put this much faith in mr. sondland when he has conditionally told stories that change? and all of the rest were hearsay? all of the rest were and even colonel vindman who i respect as a soldier said it s okay. for a president to do that to ask for a political investigation because it happens. he even said that. so the question comes back, crane was not even aware their aid was withheld, and ukraine didn t open an investigation to get the money.
the best for impeachment. a mueller report that didn t give them everything they wanted and then we came into a call. this is a pattern and i ve said this to my chairman who i respect, you got the votes, you can go explain it to the american people, this is what we are looking at. but there are a few things here that are interesting. as i said earlier on, the time and clock are terrible masters and i ve heard it from the chairman of this committee, we ve got to do this because of the 2020 election. put in a candidate that is worth voting for instead of going after a president who you are having trouble beating because of the things that happened in our country with unemployment and the economy going good and everything else. that s what political primaries are for, not this. having now set a standard that if he ran for president, you can do anything you want overseas.
after the president of ukraine has come out and denied it, you are either calling him a pathological liar, but he was actually called in our committee last week about her life. he was actually called that. compared to a battered wife. how low have we sunk? this is the problem because at the end of the day, and we can go into the process files and everything else, but i took my own chairman at his word when i read about his comments 20 years ago. so the judiciary committee should not take the report and investigate it if so, otherwise we become a rubber-stamp. congratulations. our judiciary committee became a rubber-stamp. i hope we recover because that s all we are doing right now, rubber-stamping what adam schiff does under his own time in his own way. a man who has also been after
fraud or committed extortion, all things that he could be prosecuted for. later, we simply have to allege the course of constitutional criminal conduct he was engaged in. so we can set that one aside. a second thing that my friend said was that there were no fact witnesses, that this was based on the report that was delivered to us by the house committee and that s a play on words too. there were 17 fact witnesses who appeared before the house committee on intelligence, the house oversight committee and the house foreign affairs committee. the way that we structure this impeachment process which is completely our prerogative under article one, section two is to have the fact investigation into involving foreign governments so far in the intelligence committee then to have them bring the facts in a