themselves in the awkward position of trying to have it both ways saying shokin should have been investigating, but nobody should be investigating it now and later. that, i think, is very problematic for them. i m interested to see how they re going to try to get out of it, and i think some of the statements that they made about the factual details of what was going on when shokin was prosecutor are probably going to be challenged. i was very surprised they chose to make hunter biden so central to this presentation and to insist over and over and over again that they knew for a fact about the details of what was going on with burisma and biden. and i will just say for my part, if we re going to call witnesses, i think it s now clear we absolutely must call hunter biden, and we probably need to call joe biden. based on the house managers presentation today, i think we are probably going to need to hear from the former vice president if, indeed, we call witnesses. senator, o
between abuse of power and business as usual. a good faith disagreement between the president and congress, between the president and other people in the cabinet about how to exercise his massive authority and we also heard about president nixon the idea that pressuring the fbi, pressuring the cia is stop. that justified his resignation from office so the moment in the moment we are now, the question i think for americans, is whether using the office of the presidency to get ukrainians to announce an investigation into a political opponent is more in the nixon camp. or if it s more in the camp of business as usual foreign policy. we also saw the counter narrative i think debunked in part by the clip of the fbi director chris ray who said, as far as corruption, ukrainian corruption being justification for withholding the aid, we don t as the fbi have any evidence to support that. so there s two parts. one is, is this legally abuse of power, that s for the senators. second is
coming? how s the attack on corruption going? no, he just says is he going to do the investigation? is zielinski gonna do the investigation? and sunderland says, yes he will do anything you want. he loves your. this the extent of his interest in the ukraine and they go on to talk about other things and then they hang up and david holmes turns to the ambassador and says, and language i will have to modify , to remove an expletive. he says something along the lines of does th the president give a blank about ukraine? and sunderland says no he doesn t give a blank about ukraine. he only cares about the big stuff like the investigation of the bidens that giuliani once. this is a million-dollar donor to the trump inaugural. admitting the president doesn t care about ukraine he doesn t care whether they get militarily dollars to defend themselves he doesn t care what position zelensky goes into in these investigations. he doesn t care about that. isn t that clear? it s a why he did
of the them peach made of donald john trump, president of the united states, now pending to do impartial justice according to the constitution of the law so help you god? the secretary rolled out the name of the senator who has just taken the oath and will present the oath to him for signatures. the sergeant and arms will make the proclamation. all persons are commanded to keep silent the senator of the united states is sitting with the trial of the articles of impeachment exhibited by the house of representatives donald john trump president of the united states. the majority is recognize. for the information of all senators the trial briefs filedd yesterday have been printed and are now on each senators desk. they are now printed for the journal january 16, 2020 the summons issued on january 16, january 16, 2020 the following documents received by the secretary of the senate for printing in the senate journal in the order january 16, 2020 the answer of donald john tr
jeffries i have the honor of representing the eighth congressional district of new york in brooklyn and is one of the most diverse districts in the nation. in fact i have been told that i have the ninth most african-american district in the country and the 16th most jewish. here on the hill they have said is that complicated? but as my friend leon goldenberg says back home, you have the best of both worlds. in america, our diversity is a strength. it is not a weakness. one of the things that binds us together, all of us as americans regardless of race or religion of reason or sexual orientation or gender that we believe in the rule of law and a fair trial. supporting this amendment to support witness testimony including with respect to nick mulvaney. who has ever heard of a trial with no witnesses? that is exactly what some are contemplating here today. this amendment would address that fundamental flaw to ensure the trial includes testimony from a key witness , the president