investigative context and, as you wereve saying, for professionals to do some of that. does that mean in your es view, do youur see that as some democrat politician saying, i m going to give up this precious tv time and handci it to someone most americans have never heard of, today only. this hearing only to get to the facts. i don t think the members ari real excited about rule 11 going out theul window because they a believe every member of congress believes if they can just get a shot at the microphone, they will be the star.he it s having to do partly with the personality of people who run for office. pot-kettle here. you re letting us in here on that truth. absolutely, absolutely. and it takes a lot, perhaps more than people would like to believe in the best day of what we hope fores our government, i takes a lot. but you re saying it has hit that point. let me say one thing that will be very interesting here. we ve talked about i the presidt being able toed subpoena
sean, you just laid out the reason why i was investigating and the reason why the president of the united states had an obligations toto ask the presidt of the ukraine to follow up on these allegations. because theree is substantial i don t want to overexaggerate it but there is pretty close to overwhelming evidence including the finding by ukrainian court that hillary clinton and the democrats cooperated with ukrainians with the order coming directly from the white house in january of 2017 to dig up dirt on her political opponent and they did. i bet politico regrets printing that, actually, because now they are doing everything they can to cover up. in fact, they laid out the reasons why if i didn t it investigate it, i would be guilty of malpractice. they seem to forget that i am a lawyer.
the guy at the top is eager to support his employees and enforce the law. we ve never seen anything like this in american history, with the president being immune from criminal charges, the only remedy this situation has is impeachment. and that s a political remedy. we ve been talking from the twitter storm from the presid t president. arrested for treason? can the president legally order for anyone he chooses to be investigated. the president is in charge of the justice department. he could issue an order to schiff.
impeachment proceedings against the president. i m announcing the house of representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. i m directing our six committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry. the president must be held accountable. no one isst alove the law. this week, the president has admitted toas asking the presidt of ukraine to take actions which would benefit him politically. the actions of the trump presidency revealed the dishonorable fact of the president s betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of our national security, and betrayal of theec integrity of our elections. the speaker s decision comes after months of caution, and it could result in trump becoming just the third president in history to be impeached. at this hour last night, 147 house democrats backed some type of impeachment action.
what cnn did this morning the perfect example of laundering information around the d.c. bubble.around the swam. new america is a 20-year-old think tank in washington, d.c. staff bed all the people who staff all the other think tanks, whether it is breakings institution and all this stuff it is the seam sort of arkansase see. you have cnn and they go on to recite a report written by a new america which was written by another cnn employee. reporting on cnnaer is where thy are getting their information from.cnn sources, as the presidt always says, there are no sources for some of the things they say. the source is themselves.