American peoples money on this impeachment, theres so many other important things that are going undone. Within this committees own jurisdiction, we should be addressing the opioid epidemic. We could be working together to find a solution to our immigration and asylum challenges on our southern border. We could be protecting americans from having their intellectual property and jobs stolen by chinese companies. And we could be enhancing Election Security just to name a few things. And congress as a whole could be working on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. Providing additional tax relief to the nations middleclass families and providing additional security to our people here at home and abroad. Instead, here we are spinning our wheels once again on impeachment. What a waste. The American People deserve so much better. I yield back. Gentleman yields back. Mr. Cohen. Thank you, mr. Chair. I take no pleasure in the fact that were here today. As a patriot who loves america, it pain
Other important things that are going undone. Within this committees own jurisdiction we should address the Opioid Epidemic and could be working together to find solutions to the challenges on our southern border. Protecting americans from jobs stolen by Chinese Companies and enhancing Election Security to name a few things. Congress as a whole could be working on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, providing additional tax relief to the nations middle class families and providing additional security to our people here at home and abroad. Instead here we are spinning our wheels once again on impeachment. What a waste. The American People deserve so much better. I yield back. Gentleman yields back. Thank you, mr. Chair. I take no pleasure in the fatha were here today. As a patriot who loves america,
it pain meese ths me the circum force us to undertake this solemn obligation. Nonetheless on the public evidence it appears President Trump pressured a Foreign Government to interfere i
Other important things that are going undone. Within this committees own jurisdiction we should be addressed in the opioid epidemic. We could be working together to find a solution to our immigration and asylum challenges on our southern border. We could be protecting americans for having their intellectual property and jobs stolen by Chinese Companies and we could be enhancing Election Security just to name a few things. Congress as a whole could be working on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. Providing additional tax relief to the nations middle class families and providing additional security to our people here at home and abroad. Instead, here we are spinning our wheels once again on impeachment. What a waste. The American People deserve so much better. I yield back. The Gentleman Yield back. Thank you, mr. Chair. I take no pleasure in the fact that we are here today. As a patriot who loves america,
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the framers have thought of a president who only cares about the quote big stuff that benefits him? the framers were extremely worried about a president who served only his own interests or the interests of foreign powers. that was their most serious concern when designing the remedy of impeachment. the evidence also suggests president trump didn t even care if the investigation actually happened. what he really cared about was the public announcement of the investigation. so professor karlan, how do we analyze these facts in the context of abuse of power? well, i think that to have a president ask for the investigation of his political opponents is an arc-type 6 abof abuse of power. there were past examples and to say those weren t impeachable is a big mistake. if a president wiretaps his opponents that s a federal crime
the framers have thought of president who only cares how about the big stuff that benefits him? the framers were extremely worried about a president who served only his own interests or the interests of foreign powers. that was their most serious concern when they designed the remedy of impeachment. the evidence also suggests president trump didn t care if the investigation actually happened. what he really cared about was the public announcement of the investigation. professor karlan, how do we analyze these facts in the context of abuse of power? i think with to have a president and ask for the investigation of his political opponents is an archetype of the abuse of power and mr. buck mentioned past examples of this. to say that those weren t impeachable, i think it s a big mistake. if a president wiretaps his opponents, that s a federal crime now.