Professor. Here is the hearing in its entirety. Order. House will come to object. E the right to i am furnishing you with the subject signed by all republicans. Pursuant to clause, i am furnishing you with a letter signed by all the members of the committee can i request that you set this date before the Committee Votes on any articles of impeachment. I withdraw my reservation. Later. Ill confer on this hearing wethe first to housecting pursuant resolution 660. Here is have the committee will proceed for this hearing will openingill make it an statement and then i will rubberneck just recognized a member for making an Opening Statement. I now recognize myself for no Opening Statement. For anve the time Opening Statement. The facts before us are undisputed. President trump called roses was zelensky andent asked him for a favor. That was a concerted effort to solicit an advantage in the next. Lection to obtain that private political advantage, President Trump elected from the newly presi
London and she can walk us through what transpired here in the last several hours. Its just been a remarkable turn of event. As you say President Trump cancelling a planned press conference. Hes going to hold a few more meetings and then head home early. He wanted this nato trip to be a chance for him to show leadership on the world stage to try to turn the page at least temporarily from the impeachment hearings back at home and yet he has been beset by new controversies. Let me read you the tweet and then give you the broader context. The president tweeted when todays meetings are over, i will be heading back to washington. I wont be doing a press conference at the close of nato because we did so many over the past two days. Safe travels to all. Now this comes after a stunning piece of video emerged overnight showing some of the president s closest allies. The Prime Minister of canada, justin trudeax, the Prime Minister of the u. K. , Boris Johnson appearing to mock President Trump al
Jonathan turley, George Washington university, who usually sits with us at the table who is a cbs news analyst but testifying in congress today. This hearing follows a Party Line Vote yesterday where the House Intelligence Committee approved its final report on impeachment, and that report is really a sweeping indictment of the president. Concluding the president s efforts to investigate ukraine for political rivals sought to undermine the integrity of the u. S. President ial election process and endangered u. S. National security. Bottom line, abuse of power is what theyre saying. Republicans on the Committee Say the president did nothing impeachable. This could be fiery because of the republicans and democrats who sit on the Judiciary Committee, so somewhat of a circus this morning and a little bit of a constitutional cram session. If you love the law, if you Love Learning about impeachment, this is the place to be because well be talking about it. We have a team of correspondents, n
The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. Mr. Chairman youre upsurping the right to object. Objection is noted. I receiver tzrbreserve the r object. Peropportunity to cause g, im furnishing you with a demand on minority hearings on this subject signed by all the republican the gentleman will suspend. Pursuant to cause 2 j 1 rule 11 im furnish you with a letter signed by all the republican members of the committee. I request you set this date before the Committee Votes on any articles of impeachment i withdraw my reservation. We will confer on this later. The quorum is present. This is the first hearing were conducting pursuant to the resolution 660. And the special Judiciary Committee procedures that are described in section 4a of that resolution. Here is how the committee will provide for this hearing. I will make an Opening Statement and then ill recognize the Ranking Member for an Opening Statement. Each witness will have ten minutes to make their statements and then
A president who would be uses his office for personal advantage we no longer live in a democracy we live in a monarchy or we live under a dictatorship thats why the framers created the possibility of impeachment now professor karlan this high crime and misdemeanor of abuse of power was it some kind of loose or undefined concept to the founders of our country and the framers of our constitution no i dont think it was an abuse it was a loose concept at all it had a long lineage in the common law in england of parliamentary impeachments of lower level officers obviously they had not talked about impeaching as youve heard earlier the king or the like. And can you share a little bit about that lineage please yes so the you know they in the parliament in england impeached officers of the crown when those people abuse their power and if i could give you one example that might be a little helpful here right after the restoration of the king king ship in the in england. There was an impeachment