Number of significant procedural protections where the president even on the house side, as you know the role of the house is to act as the grand jury and the prosecutor and the actual trial takes place over in the senate, but still, we had significant procedural protections we invited the president and his counsel to attend, we provided the president s counsel the opportunity to cross examine witnesses and object to the admissibility of testimony, and we provided the president s counsel it make presentation of evidence before the full Judiciary Committee including the chance to call witnesses. The president chose not to avail himself of any of those opportunities. It reminds me the president Blockading Witnesses saying you dont have enough people with direct firsthand evidence. First of all, were those rights provided only in Judiciary Committee. Youre not the Principle Committee of impeachment. Youre sort of the final stop. Did the president get those
rights in the Intelligence Commi
evidence of what they re trying to spin here and that there was a pressuring or quid pro quo or however you want to put it to mr. zelensky. the problem here mark sandy testified there was a wholesale investigation going into foreign aid this year. quote 2017, 2018, but this year because of the problems there was a wholesale investigation on foreign aid everywhere. president trump raised this with mr. poroshenko and that was testified by mr. volker and the former ambassador. there s no direct evidence of what was said here and to try an then come back and put this into ative sper tech positive, going back to mr. yermak who said there was no connection between ever discussed between the aid and an investigation. also if they were trying to get out from understand it so hard i guess if we re looking at it, they never did anything to get the aid. they never did anything to get the aid. if they were that scared something was wrong.
i ll try to bring this to a conclusion. i know there will be a difference of opinion here. you certainly both can respond. contrary to my claims, to my friend s claims across the aisle, mr. collins, do you think the democratic majority denied the administration a meaningful opportunity to participate in this proceeding? they isn t effectively, they did. october 30th the rules committee held our jurisdiction markup on h-6 60 and many concerns from our side of the d dias. republican members were assured, quote, the president has been afforded all kinds of rights before the judiciary committee. we ve heard that today. this would be an open and transparent process. despite the fact that we received the text of the resolution, a mere 24 hours earlier, did not have a single