Power of the office to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring and injuring the national interest. Or acts in ways that are grossly inconsistent with and undermine the separation of powers that is the foundation of our democratic system. Now, these this question of whether president engaged in abuse of power came up before when this congress considered the impeachment of president nixon. And after action was taken, president nixon famously said if the president does it, it is not illegal. And this body rejected that because thats not so. That goes directly contrary to what the founders said. But President Trump has said the same thing in responding to the prior investigation by Department Of Justice and defending his conduct. Here is what he said then i have an article, too, where i have to write to do whatever i want as president. That he has the right to do
whatever he wants as president. That is as wrong as when president nixon said a similar thing. That is not what the c
verge dramatically from those listening had expected. president trump spoke to gordon sondland prior to this phone daul, the u.s. ambassador to the european union who donated $1 million to the president s inaugural campaign. and who had been directed by the president himself to take on a leading role in ukraine issues. ambassador sondland relaid the president s message to president zelensky through ambassador kurt volker who had had lunch that day with president zelensky s top aide andre yermac who appears repeatedly through this scheme as president zelensky s right hand man. ambassador volker texted mr. yermac with president trump s direction. good lunch. thanks. heard from white house. assuming president z convinces trump he will investigate, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail down visit for we will nail down for