The whistleblower made falseht statements, the whistleblower got caught with chairman schiff. Remember chairman schiff, the person that the democrats instead of the House Judicial Committee which has spent a full week on this, thats not who has been in charge. They put in charge was the person that got caught with the whistleblower. Have you spoken directly with the whistleblower . No, we have not. Wed like to. That wasnt true. The person that said he had evidence of the first fake impeachment scam, collusion with russia, had evidence of that collusion and didnt have it. The person who in the course of that read into the record the steele dossier because the people needed to know what happened about the truth of what happened. We heard about the truth of what happened with the steele dossier this week when the Inspector General said it was all garbage, rubbish, all made up. Yeah, thatad chairman schiff. And now he got caught not being truthful about a whistleblower who, as i told you t
article 12/10/2019 into the record. without objection, the20 article will be entered. for what purpose does mr. cohen seek recognition? strike theek last word. the gentleman is recognized. i took theater and drama when i was in college, one course. i was told the first thing you have to do is having the willing suspension of disbelief. the republicans obviously took that course over and over and over again and they don t they re the fifth avenue crowd. they ve talked about sondland. that s theut man the president appointed as his ambassador to the eu. that s the man he said was a great guy. that s the man who is still employed. and sondland said, they were all in the loop, pompeo, giuliani, mulvaney, bolton. they were all in the loop and it was about the quid pro quo.
says i can do whatever i want, i m erpresident. that s not right. when het. said, i need a favor, though, he was talking about getting dirt on the bidens. he feared joe biden as his primary political rival. michaelpo cohen told us the president doesn t come out and say exactly what he wants. he speaks in code. that s the president s code. michaelnt cohen knows it and michael cohen is in prison now. individual one is not in prison because individual one could not be indicted because of the justice department s policies that say you can t indict a sitting president.nd but michael cohen who is in prison because he facilitated the payments to ms. daniels and the payments the ms. mcdougal. you talk about abuse of power. abuse of power is having a charitable foundation and taking advantage of the charities and using the money for your own purposes and having to pay a $2
himself willing to withhold that aid and to do other things based on what he says. based on what he says. based on whether he s willing to play along with the president for his personal political goals. of course he denies he was pressured because he knows that if he didn t deny that there might be heavy consequences to pay, and you cannot credit that denial and you cannot credit that denial without any aspersions on his character but simply on the fact that the president of the united states holds a gun to his head. i yield back. and the question is on the amendment. those in favor say aye. aye. opposed no. no. in the opinion of the chair the nos have it. roll vecall. is requested. the clerk will call the roll. mr. nadler. no. ms. lofgren ms. love grep votes s.no. miss jackson-lee votes no. mr. cohen. mr. cohen votes no. mr. johnson of georgia. mr. johnson of georgia votes no. mr. deutch.