ambiguous abuse of power charge. prior to the election, a member of this committee launched a change.org petition regarding mental diagnosis of the president. and shortly after the election, our chairman stated he was legally elected but russian interference makes his election illegitimate. a press release from another member read, this president s semi-elect does not deserve to be president. and once president trump was sworn in, the democrats introduced articles of impeachment almost immediately. in three years, they have introduced ten resolutions related to impeachment, and 17 members of this committee have voted to consider impeachment. and every one of those votes occurred before the july 25th phone call. here are some statements made by members of this committee. cloud of treason means we must have a total shutdown of any potus agenda item. march, 2017, a tweet
country is above the law. i yield back my time. for what purpose does mr. armstrong seek recognition? move to strike the last word. gentleman is recognized. i think that argument would have a lot more merit on the abuse of power charge if we don t take a look back and look at the whole destination and the way we got here. for two years we heard about russian conspiracy, russian collusion. how are we going to prove it? chairman of the intelligence committee went on national television and said he had direct evidence of russian conspiracy. about a week before the mueller report came out, we started switching to obstruction and obstruction of justice and so we go through that. and the mueller report comes out and shows there s absolutely no conspiracy, absolutely no collusion. we re going to check that off the list. now we go to 10 articles of obstruction of justice. we walk through it. we bring bob mueller into the judiciary hearing. i m pretty certain people were marking out sta
found things wrong with the fbi. said there was no political motivation in starting the investigation. barr disagreed with him vociferously and said, wait a minute. you ll find out the real story pretty soon. so, you know, this is somebody started out executive power and has gone really beyond that to a great degree in defending donald trump. everybody stand by. we re waiting for the start of the judiciary committee. the gavel will go down momentarily, but let s get a likely preview of what to expect today. last night there were many, many statements. listen to how republican congressman kelly armstrong of north dakota framed his defense of president trump. listen to this. so here we are tonight on an ambiguous abuse of power charge. this began the day president trump was elected, and it s culminated here. but this never-ending march towards impeachment and overturning the results of the 2016 election has consequences.
nobody, no president in this country, is above the law. i yield back my time. i move to strike the last word. i think that argument would have a lot more merit on the abuse of power charge if we don t take a look back and look at the whole definition of how we got here. the reason i say that is because for two years we heard about a russian conspiracy. russian collusion. how are you going to prove it? treatment of the intelligence committee went on national tv and says he has direct evidence of national conspiracy. the miller report came out and actually if you watch the media about a week before the mueller report came out we started switching to obstruction and obstruction of justice. so we go through that end up mueller report comes out and says there is absolutely no conspiracy and absolutely no collusion. were going to check that off the list. now we go to ten articles of obstruction of justice and we
that is why we re here today. no one, no president in this country, is above the law. i yield back my ten. the gentle woman yields back. for what purpose does mr. armstrong seek recognition? move to strike the last word. i think that argument would have a lot more merit on the abuse of power charge if we don t take a look back and look at the whole destination and how we got here. and the reason i say that is because for two years, we heard about russian conspiracy. russian collusion. how are we going to prove it? chairman of the intelligence committee went on national tv and said he had direct evidence of russian conspiracy. well, the mueller report came out. and actually, if you watch media, about a week before the mueller report came out, we started switching to obstruction. and obstruction of justice. and so we go through that. and the mueller report comes out and shows there s absolutely no conspiracy. absolutely no collusion. so we re going to check that off the list. now, we