know, there s still a day left, donald trump. you can resign before the impeachment. but this is also i mean we joke about it, but i again say this. read this like an authoritarian. it s as if an authoritarian wrote it. but thankfully we still live in a democracy. there s accountability. there s checks and balances. and if you re a fan of the constitution and the intent of the framers of the constitution, you should celebrate tomorrow because we are holding a president accountable. he s not the chosen one. he s a servant of the people. yeah. so he called laura, he called pelosi s actions spiteful. right after he says that she is offending americans of faith, and he says it s a terrible thing you are doing. but you will have to live with it, not i. and then pelosi responded, calling the letter sick. i mean what is it about strong, powerful women that really puts trump over the edge? well, you know, it appears that there is a trend here, and the idea that a strong, powerful perso
slavery once divided the nation, but emancipator s rose up to clarify that all men are created equally. suffrage at once divided the nation, but women rose up to clarify that all voices must be heard and on democracy. jim crow once divided the nation but civil rights champions rose up to clarify that all are entitled to equal protection under the law. there is a difference between division and clarification. we will hold this president accountable for his stunning abuse of power. we will hold this president accountable for undermining our national security. we will hold this president accountable for corrupting our democracy. we will impeach donald john trump. we will clarify that in america, no one is above the law.
faces a stark choice. if we choose to turn a blind eye to put political then we are complicit in the subversion of democracy. if we do not hold this president accountable we have failed the people who sent us here. and we have replicated our own oath to defend the constitution. hi no one is above the law. thank you. it s my pleasure to yield 2 minutes. gentleman is recognized for . madame speaker in three months we ve gone from receiving an unsubstantiated to hear a sigh and discredited whistle-blower complaint to the production of articles of impeachment against the president of the united states. not since andrew johnson has a house engaged in a partisan political stunt. from the beginning this has been
this president does nothing but project onto others his own lack of morality. this is someone who mocks others constantly but can t stand to be mocked himself. the call record speaks for itself, and it s damning. he doesn t want to defend it. he can t defend it. he doesn t want to explain why he held up $400 million of military aid to coerce an ally at war with russia into doing his election dirty work. he d rather attack me. when bob mueller was the investigator he attacked bob mueller. when colonel vindman is testifying, he attacks kol ncol vindman. anyone willing to stand up to him he s going to go after. i just view it as a part of my job and i m going to keep my focus on holding this president accountable. we re going to turn the corner and get to the what s happening today in a minute, i just wanted to follow up. this weekend you went on chris wallace, and chris wallace questioned you about the i.g. report whether you should have known more in september about
you shouldn t do a political investigation, prosecution of your past president, and you know what yermak s response was, oh, you mean like you want us to do of the bidens and the clintons? threw it right back in his face, and this is really what is at stake here, which is we have been for, you know, for decades, even centuries promoting the rule of law. we have stood for something. america has meant something, and now we have given the rest of the world reason to believe that we don t stand behind the rule of law anymore, that we re no different than any other thugocracy, that to quote the president when asked why he can t criticize vladimir putin, are we really so different. that s what s at stake. i think about that a great deal. i do think that whatever the senate does there is merit in what we do today to tell the rest of the world that we are a functioning democracy. we do hold our president accountable even at this point