Insider whose own wife took 700,000 of donations for her Senate Campaign from a clinton bundler. He was later accused of lying to federal investigators about whether he authorized two fbi officials to speak to the media over the clinton email case as well as a separate foundation. He denied having done so when fbi officials asked and later the Inspector General office when they tried to determine who might have spoken to the media found out it was a total of four times he maid have been lying times he may have been lying and three times under oath. And misleading his boss james comey. I want you to say on national tv you were not a source for the New York Times or any other publication considering thats what you are accused of. Were you a leaker for the New York Times . I never intentionally misled anyone about anything and i never have committed a crime. Trish he was lying. He got tripped up in this one. He lied on tv, and he lied under oath. August 18, 2017, mie fbi officis met with
Rules committee will come to order. Ill now yield to the gentleman from texas, dr. Burgess. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I thank our witnesses for staying with us throughout all of this. I know youve been through a lot alread already, but i cant help but be struck by the fact that this does seem to be proceeding rather rapidly. It did, after all, all start with a phone call. No, not with a phone call in july but with a phone call in november when Molly Hemingway overheard incoming chairman nadler talking to constituents on the telephone and said that impeachment of the president was going to be of the highest order so although theres not a transcript of that call, it was well documented in social media and that seems to be one of the things that we can now use as evidence that can be introduced. Mr. Collins, correct me if im wrong, but it does seem like this is an exercise i think this is reflected in your dissenting views you submitted, this seems like impeachment first, build a case seco
Witnesses, yes. Thank you. And also another thing that i want to clear up for the record, mr. Ras kin said previously that the same process that were doing now, its the same process that was used in the clinton impeachment, mr. Collins, do you agree with that, because i sure dont. No, i do not. Would you care to expand . I think there are a lot of Different Things and it goes back to the inherent nature of what were doing here today and that is, frankly, the only bipartisan nature of this impeachment is no. Its not bipartisan in the sense of seeing it should go forward. Its bipartisan and no and that is the only bipartisan that you will see. My friends across the aisle say theyre standing for true and thats fine. Thats their argument and my argument is everything that weve talked about so far and thats also why at a certain point in time we continue to go on here, but i think when you look at the actual things that are going on the issues of how witnesses are called and how you deal wi
You dont think that affects our National Security, if you think ukraine is our ally as i believe you do and i do . I just dont accept the premise of your premises of thoughts. All right. What value for ukraine do you see in the oval office visit that was being sought . Youd have to ask ukraine. Do you recognize that such a visit would send a strong message to russia sort of like lavrov being in the Oval Office Last week and the rest of the world that the United States supported ukraine and was ready to defend it against russian aggression. I think a better statement was when mr. Trump sent russian weapons to shoot down russian assets. That ignored the fact that the aid was withhold and hot war was going. All due respect were going in circles. I do not believe there was anything wrong for the reasons stated. And mr. Trump did more for the ukrainians in the hot war than was previously done. You know, ive heard that before. Im not going to elaborate. But i can assure you if they point as
Into this Conspiracy Theory and why because it would help his own political standing President Trump even sought to withhold an Oval Office Meeting from the president of ukraine until he fell in line with president putins lies the leader who had actually invaded ukraine the 2nd demand that President Trump made of president selenski during the july 25th call was to investigate the front runner for the democratic nomination for president in 2020 former Vice President joe biden and his son hunter President Trump stated the other thing theres a lot of talk about biden son biden stop the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great if i didnt went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it it sounds horrible to me. Witnesses unanimously testified that there was no factual support for this claim rather they noted that Vice President biden was acting in support of an International Co