And i thought the threat to our nation was well articulated earlier today by Professor Feldman when you said, if we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office for personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy, we live in a monarchy or we live under a districtatorship. My view is if people cannot depend on the fairness of our elections, then what people are calling divisive today will be absolutely nothing compared to the shredding of our democracy. After the events of ukraine unfolded, the president claimed that the reason he requested an investigation into his political opponents and withheld desperately needed military aid for ukraine was supposedly because he was worried about corruption. However, contrary to president s statements, various witnesses, including Vice President pences special adviser jennifer williams, testified that the president s request was political. Take a listen. I found the july 25th phone call unusual because in contrast to other president ial ca
That we find ourselves in. And i thought the threat to our nation was wellarticulated earlier today by professor feldman. When you said if we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office for personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy. We live in a monarchy or we live under a dictatorship. My view is that if people cannot depend on the fairness of our elections, then what people are calling divisive today will be absolutely nothing compared to the shredding of our democracy. After the events of ukraine unfolded, the president claimed that the reason he requested an investigation into his political opponents and withheld desperately needed military aid for ukraine was supposedly because he was worried about corruption. However, contrary to the president s statements, various witnesses, including Vice President pences special advisor Jennifer Williams,
testified that the president s request was political. Take a listen. I found the july 25th phone call unusual because in con
we believed in american democracy. we were the best in the world. and back home on main street my mom and dad struggled to survive day-to-day. my mom worked as a maid cleaning hotel rooms for $1.50 an hour and my dad worked at a local paper mill trying to survive day-to-day and what got us up in the morning was the belief and the optimism that tomorrow would be better than today. we re a nation of freedom, democracy, economic opportunity, and we always know that tomorrow is going to be better. and today i personally sit as a testament to the greatness of this nation, me, and others in congress. and i sit here in this committee room also with one very important mission which its to keep the american dream alive. to ensure that all of us are
to beat the russians to the moon. we were full of optimism. we believed in america in american democracy. we were the best in the world. and back home on main street, my mom and dad struggled to survive day to day. my mom worked as a maid cleaning hotel rooms for a buck 50 an hour. and my dad worked at a local paper mill. trying to survive day to day. and what got us up in the morning was the belief, the optimism, that tomorrow was gonna be better than today. we re a nation of freedom, democracy, economic opportunity. and we always know that tomorrow s going to be better. and today, i personally sit as a testament to the greatness of this nation. me, out of the hoods, in congress. and i sit here in this committee room also with one very important mission, which is to keep the american dream alive.