Mr. Chairman. What purpose ir trying the last word. The gentleman strikes the lastem word. Recognized. Thank you. I yield to the rankingst member just real quickly, the gent thely lady from california stat something irn addressed head on last night. Undersecretary haleig said it w perspective money, not interfering or dealing with the issue. For those of us who have been in a war zone people do die. This money did not stop that. That is something that cannot be continuedme to perpetrated on ts world. Reclaiming my time. Theec difference in the Clinton Impeachment and this one, president clinton committed a crime, perjury, this president isnt accused of committing a crime. The constitution is prettymi clr on what constitution impeachable offense, treason, bribery and other High Crimes And Misdemeanors. Its not treason, bribery, other High Crimes And Misdemeanors and adam schiff an nancy pelosi deem impeachable. No president should abuse the
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plain language. your star professor witness here last week talked about this being theed royal we, she read e sentence, shesh said, it was i would like you to do me a favor though. that s not what it says. it saysit i would like you to d us a favor, though, because, guess what the next two words are, guess what the next two words are, because our country, not because i, the president doesn t say i would like you to do me a favor because i ve been through a falot, he doesn t say that. very clear, i would like you to do usli a favor, though, becaus our country has been through a lot. and that is the understatement of the year. heck yeahof our country has bee through a lot. this is date after bob mueller sat in i front of this committe and went learned that there was nothing there but two years he put our country through all kinds of turmoil because of you guys. that s what the president is pointing out because in this paragraph heau references bob mueller. that s what he s talking about.
their ultimate objective is to nullify the votesto of the 63 million americans who voted to elect donald trump. they violate due process and all the rest. my colleague, sheila jackson lee quoted barbara jordan but she said during the watergate inquiry, impeachment not only mandates due process but due process qua dropled. they have violated that here, the rule and everybody in the country can see it. impeachment is going fail, the democrats will pay a heavily political box but the pandora s box will do injury to our country in the years ahead. we re concerned, that s why the facts matter and that s why we need to move on. i yield back. the gentleman yields back. mr. chairman. miss garcia seek recognition. i move to strike the last word. the gentle lady is recognized. i m opposed to this amendment. it s incredible that other side of the aisle has not seen the facts and has not apparently read some of the evidence before
us. it is obvious to me that this president has put his personal interests above this country. and with that i will yield back to the gentleman from rhode island. i thank the gentle lady for yielding. we ve just heard our republican colleagues claim that there was no demand, no conditionality for the release of this aids and, in fact it was motivated by the president s deep desire to ferret out corruption. that is laughable. the president of the united states had two phone calls with president zelensky. he never once uttered the word corruption. because it wasn t about corruption and the reason we know that is the department of defense had already certified that steps had been taken to combat corruption back on may 23rd and despite that certification, that hold
political interest of the president, not the national interest ofpr the country, intended to corrupt our elections by dragging in foreign interference. it s thera highest of crimes an misdemeanors. our framers spoke about using the office of the president to advance your personal interest and undermine the public interest. i ll yield my time to mr. rascon. thank you very much. just to flesh out the detail of what the gentleman from riled w rhode island was saying, one of the depositions is from david hoe man, a state department official atar kiev who was with gordon sondland who testified there was a quid pro quo. he saw him on the phone with president trump and he reported right at that time. he said the president doesn t give a blank about ukraine. he s interested in the big stuff. what s the big stuff?