you know, i agree. elections are the appropriate venue for public policy disputes. however we are not talking about a public policy dispute, we are talking about a president who supported national security by soliciting interference in our elections. the exact same our founding fathers feared. the exact circumstances from which they drafted the impeachment clause. our democracy, our constitution deserves standing up for. not donald john trump. and i will leave my colleagues with this last thought as they decide how to cast this historic vote. for what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world to lose his own soul. i yelled back. the gentleman has up and recognize for a minute and a half. this is the day the founding fathers feared.
you know, i agree. elections are the appropriate venue for public policy disputes, however, we re not talking about a public policy dispute. we re talking about a president who subverted national security by soliciting foreign interference in our elections. the exact thing our founding fathers feared. and the exact circumstance from which they drafted the impeachment clause. our democracy, our constitution deserves standing up for, not donald john trump and i will leave my colleagues with this last thought as they decide how to cast this historic vote. for what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world only to lose his own soul. i yield back. lady yields back. gentleman from georgia. thank you i yield a minute and a half to the gentleman from texas, mr. goodwin. gentleman is recognized for a minute and a half. thank you, madam speaker. this is the day the founding
to be threatening their aid. president trump was told told. he didn t giving them blankets. hoe chose not to give aid even though congress told him to. he withheld aid. i think presidents from times past have tried to influence and give aid and they don t always give it the way congress tell themselves and there s a dispute between the branches. but that s a public policy dispute. if we re going to impeach presidents over everything that s a public policidy putte, we re going to criminalize the president and be in this all the time. final question, why doesn t the president just own it and stop saying no quid pro quo and instead, senator, say there was a quid pro quo, it was all about corruption and i didn t want to have them get the money? right. if you re my bark barber and yo my hair for 20 bucks, that s quid pro quo. we ve gotten tied up in sml something. it s only corrupt if you bribe