it s like the holiday season. it doesn t jump up and sneak up on you when you ve been expecting it the whole time, and that s what we ve been doing. what has been amazing to me was is some things we have seen. so let s take some perspective here for a little while. what has our committee, this great committee come to? that s the question for us. let s just take it for just a moment inside these impeachment hearings. this is our third i ll count it into tomorrow for three three hearings in this committee of impeachment, and that s all we re having. what do we get out of those three hearings? we had a bunch of law professors three of which who cannot stand the president, who cannot stand his voters and cannot stand the fact he s still in office telling us why he should be impeached and that inferences were okay to find impeachment. we had a hearing just two days ago from staff lecturing us on what s relevant and not relevant
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we ve seen here is obstruction from chairman schiff of this investigation. he did not turn over the documents as he was supposed to. we get those last saturday in a massive document after we ve had a hearing, after we ve had another hearing where we re supposed to lay out the report, and tonight he sends the letter of classified information that has been classified over to us tonight. don t think for a second, american public, that this majority wants you to find the truth. the obstruction has only occurred from adam schiff and the majority. keeping people from actually trying to find the truth, that s the only obstruction here, so why don t we just have that as an obstruction charge? but it would be against adam schiff and the majority, not the president. two articles like that? abuse of power and obstruction of congress in 70 something days? the only abuse of power here is the majority racing the fast s they ve ever had the clock and the calendar determining what impeachment looks li
forever. when his time has passed, when his grip on our politics is gone, when our country returns as surely it will to calmer times and stronger leadership, history will look back on our actions here today. how will you be remembered? you have each taken an oath to support and defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. i hope to be remembered for honoring that oath. i hope you feel the same. and so with a heavy heart i support these articles of impeachment. i urge my colleagues to support them as well. i yield back the balance of my time. i now recognize distinguished ranking member of the judiciary committee the gentleman from georgia mr. collins with his opening statement. thank you, mr. chairman. i find it amazing at best, hilarious i guess at worst we
former chief of staff to nancy pelosi the speaker, joyce vance is former u.s. attorney and jeff bennett is nbc news correspondent. jeff, you ve been carrying us and taking us all this way. take us now to the finish line. we assume tomorrow night in terms of the committee s work in actually writing these articles. well, the committee right now, chris, is opening a markup of these two tightly focused articles of impeachment. and so a markup for people who aren t familiar with it is a process by which a congressional committee debates or amends measures or legislation. so tonight there ll be a lot of debate. so each member gets his or her five minutes to make an opening statement. democrats i m told are not planning to offer any amendments. they re not planning to make any change tuesday the two articles that have already gotten the blessing of the house speaker and house leadership.