therefore, i will uphold my oath to protect and defend the constitution of the united states in favor of impeachment. it is our solemn responsibility to honor all of those who fought and given their lives. to uphold the truth. in america, no one, no one, is above the law. i yield back. the gentleman from georgia. remember quid pro quo? didn t work well for them because they didn t have pressure on mr. zelensky. you had to go poll testing, we threw it in there. a bribe. if they had a bribe, it would be in the article. guess what, doesn t have it. can t put it in there. this is all fluff and circumstance because they can t get to the president and that s what s killing them. a minute and a half to the gentleman from indiana. madam speaker, house democrats have been obsessed with impeaching president trump since he was elected. he was not supposed to win but how could the voters support
york city. what we re watching here is perhaps washington at work. perhaps politics at work, perhaps a little bit of both. arguments have not changed. i would say that when we go back and history looks at some of the turning points in this one of them is going to be a little noticed poll that the house democrats did all of a sudden blew up a few weeks ago where they were poll testing quid pro quo versus bribery in all of the rest. significant because it stripped off the bark of any pretense this was about prayer and the constitution as we heard nancy pelosi say. instead it was about raw politics. you could still believe as some democrats believe in their heart that the president did something wrong and they want to prove that to the american people. but the fact of the matter is politics, they would have to admit, is a key part of this. politics is played in washington on just about everything. i m not a rookie on that. when you come forward to the american people and say it will be
you see, this is where we re at. it s a money and time issue. it would be nice if it was high and noble. it would have been nice except for all the crimes they talked about extortion, bribery. it would have been nice if they actually found facts to put that into an article. they couldn t. they won t. why because they can t. maybe because they re having trouble explaining those because poll testing wasn t good enough and they ve members who need to go back to their districts and say oh, my i was forced to do this but really the president is a bad guy and this is abuse of power. again, say it long enough and someone might believe it, but this is where we re at. and it s really interesting again from obstruction of congress to watch this congress, this majority work is just truly, truly amazing. and to say this when no facts put together, abuse of power, obstruction of congress, this is all they ve got, all they have to make this excuse?
congress, they don t know what it is they re going to be voting on and debating the defense. the republicans not allowed a minority day as per the rules of the house of representatives and this whole thing has been a total sham. i could go on for a whole hour but it is a total miscarriage of justice and fundamentally wrong and the democrats will pay a heavy price because they have forced us the system. dagen: no bribery. aware that they focused to see if it would resonate, and you have seen the poll numbers and we will get into how partisan this is, you ve seen the poll numbers continue to fall among republicans but no bribery in there. katie: you have democrats continuing to say this is about protecting the democracy in claiming this is not political, this entire thing is political, they have not been poll testing words in order to get them on board, thinking about whether they keep the house in the next
mandatory buyback is a shiny object distracting us. how can you say that? i was offended by those comments. i think he represents the kind of politics that s focused on poll testing and focus group driving and triangulating and listening to consultants before you arrive at a position. our politics has to be about doing the right thing. dana: kamala harris and elizabeth warren. check out harris appearing to swipe at warren s numerous campaign proposals. by the way, another part of my intention i m not going to say plan. everyone is a plan for something. i am talking about what i fully intend to do. dana: warren laughing off the calls to shut down trump s twitter account. should donald trump be banned from twitter? no. dana: that was an easy answer. i ve been waiting for this because there is 20 of them. they spent all of this time only going after president trump and at some point they were going to have to go after each other so that they can find a winner.