Ok good afternoon to everybody. Now is everyone here knows, we have all been sworn in by the chief justice of the United States. To Service Judges and jurors in the impeachment trial of President Trump. When the chief justice walked in, you can feel the weight of the moment. I saw members on both sides of the aisle, visibly gold. The weight of history since on shoulders. This produces sometimes result you never know what will happen. For some of us here, this is the first time we have done this. For others like myself this is the second time but i assure you, there is no difference. Even though ive gone through this before, for all of us this lemonade and the gravity of the moment in our history into scorn the back when you take that oath. A separate oath designed by the senate only for senators, who will serve in a court of impeachment. The feeling in the Senate Chamber and the solemn serious profound. The weight of history, the eyes of history, you feel it are upon you. I know every
Introduce the senator from new york. Senator schumer. [applause] schumer thank you, those in government and out who are working on these issues, which are so important to the National Security of our country to the future economy of our country. Future economy as well to combine. So thank you for the commission and the good work it has done thank you for getting me to speak here. When congress set up the commission i cannot think of two bitter people to lead that. It is the most important issue facing us looking at the ratio of how much attention this issue gets of what government should be doing with its importance with one of the lowest ratios there is. And that is not good for the future of the country. We know that Artificial Intelligence is changing everything how we communicate and conduct commerce and protect ourselves. It will have a huge impact on National Security and if america can get a i write me will be the ones to maintain a National Security edge on our adversaries but
revolution against a monarchy and its absolute power. we are a nation founded by the ratification of the most radically democratic document in history, the constitution of the united states of america. under the constitution we are governed not by monarchs who act with impunity and without accountability, but elected officers who answer to and work for we the people. generations of americans have struggled and sacrifice their lives to defend that audacious vision. the senate has a duty and a moral responsibility to uphold that vision. over the last two weeks i fear that the senate has failed in that duty. i am deeply disappointed that nearly all of my republican colleagues refused to allow for the kind of witness testimony, documentary evidence that any legitimate trial would include. you cannot conduct a fair trial without witnesses. and in my view, you also can t have a legitimate acquittal without a fair trial. that the senate refused to shed more light on the facts is tru
delaying the entire investigation will pass the point of trump getting the advantage in the 2020 election that he was seeking. host: thank you for calling and sharing your views. constantine is up next willoughby ohio, independent line. please go ahead constantine. caller: hi. is one to say democrat or republican in the court of law here say his opinion. this is a bipartisan opinion. where are the actual facts and on top of that how is this fair? in what way has this been fair? i watched sunderland that he was saying one thing and then he said i did hear the president say no quid pro quo so that was his direct line. what i m asking is we all have opinions. hearsay is an opinion to fact that people are quoting this opinion is evidence, it s not evidence. on top of that looking at the actual file for impeachment abuse of power. okay abraham lincoln suspending habeas corpus. go ahead and impeach abraham lincoln. obstruction of congress we have three different branches in the
neither of those official acts got the president what he want wanted, help in his reelection campaign he turned to another official act to turn up the pressure even more withholding nearly $400 million of vital military assistance to ukraine in exchange for the investigation. withholding military assistance to ukraine may be an original abuse of power, soliciting foreign interference in our election that much worse but it was also in and of itself and abuse of power and not only th that, it violated the law, it was illegal. the government accountability office a nonpartisan independent agency concluded that president trump hold on the security assistance clearly violated the control act, a lot that congress enacted to curb president nixon s own abuse of power. president trump may not like it but once a law is passed, the president cannot change that law without coming back to us, the congress. president trump did not just break the law but jeopardized our national security be