Power to determine its own rules. When president nixon during the time he was going to be impeached ruling how that proceeding would go forward. When the Clinton Impeachment was brought forward, there was a unanimous consent request to govern how we conducted ourselves and im not sure how likely it would be that we would get a unanimous consent request. Id like to ask unanimous consent without objection to enter into the record a letter that was sent to the chairman of the Judiciary Committee signed by 70 republican members including the republican leader every parliamentary tool available to us and committee on the house floor, to highlight your inaction translated means to try to delay them to make this process as impossible as it can be made. Im not sure in light of this letter that we could get a unanimous consent request and these seedings and break for a cup of coffee, never mind, i just want to stay for the record because i think its important that i think the house has engaged
judiciary committee to weigh in on that saying let s assume that you think, let s stipulate that you think the president did nothing wrong here. do you think it s wrong for the president of the united states to get foreign powers involved in our election and we couldn t get an answer. i reassured mr. collins, i believe in his heart, he thinks that s wrong and i certainly would not want that to become the pattern for all future presidencies. i don t want this to become the pattern for the future impeachments. this is the problem i have in the understanding here is i guess it s okay to get involved in the 2016 election when you play a third party to pay for a dossier. these are the kind of things we can talk about but the interesting issue that is just discussed here is exactly where we are right now in a question and comment. what mr. raskin just brought up is an interesting point. is it okay if you re running for president that you can t be investigated? even if you did something ove
questions and i appreciate your forbearance. in this sense in the finest sense of the word. so i express my appreciation for that. to my friend mr. raskin, a number of my questions have been drafted or were originally crafted for chairman nadler. you may or may not be able to answer those directly. we certainly understand why he s not here and has mr. chairman said, we sympathize with him the difficult time but we think it is still important for the record. mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record a document authored by congressman jerry nadler and posted on jerry nadler.com on november 16th of 2016. without objection. thank you. in this document, he wrote we
really? i respect mr. raskin but i m not sure he got that statement out without stumbling over everything. you cannot say talk about metadata and numbers. at some point, somebody with a ranking member s phone number have to go and look for the ranking member s phone number. they had to go look for mr. solomon s phone number. this is what they don t want to deal with. this is how bad it is screwed up. i know they want to gloss over process and how they did the investigation. this is what we are talking about and they wouldn t talk about it so to say that nobody was doing this intentionally is just not being factually accurate. it doesn t happen on its own. i would ask both of you this question. who matched the phone numbers of ranking member nunes and what method did they use? i have no idea. if i could say, the whole line of questions, the president of the united states was given the
about this question. i would just direct you to article one, section two. the house of representatives is the sole power of impeachment and can design and structure impeachment. not outside of house rules, they can t. not without passing a resolution that goes outside house rules. they were going outside of house rules and again, they have not been here forever trying to make this happen, this is what happened, they went outside of house rules that s the problem i have with this and we can discuss that more in depth. this has been going on for quite some time, longer than the former proceedings. mr. raskin, on december 10th, 1998 during the clinton impeachment proceedings, chairman nadler stated in the house judiciary committee that there must never be and there will be voted impeachment over and impeachment supported by one