President or were going to let some foreign power do it. You know who has the right to elect the american president , the citizens of this country and no one else. Men and women have died on the battlefield to protect our democracy. The least we can do is show the courage to stand up tonight and do our part to protect our democracy. With that i yield back. Gentleman yields back. Does anyone else seek recognition on the amendment . Mr. Armstrong. Gentleman is recognized. And im going to go back to the actual language of the amendment and in particular the removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States. So at numerous points in times during todays debate have they my friends on other side of the aisle have held up a pocket constitution, waved it around. I think its interesting nobodys read from it yet and i think theres a reason for that. But im going to read from the constitution. You are joining our live coverage
when we have talked about secrecy when we ve not been allowed to use minority recognizes, that this is more akin to a special counsel. adam schiff has referred to himself as a spec counsel. right now what we are doing is becoming the judge, jury and executioner. the senate has determined issues of removal and disqualification are deviceable from other articles of impeachment. essentially what happens in the senate is there a two thirds vote and a dissenting majority. while the house has the sole power of impeachment, the senate also provides the constitutional also provides that the senate has the the constitution describes the senate s conviction power which allows the senate to remove in office an official from office and disqualification that official from holding future office.
deputy, he writes a report. i had one of the greatest electoral victories in our country, huge success, tens of millions of voters and now somebody is writing a report who never got a vote. let s see if the report is fair. you came because you wanted to connect the greatest electoral victory to deputy never mind. the anticipation has been that this is coming soon. you see all sorts of evidence in people looefrg teaving the spec counsel s office, the deputy saying they re busy this week. can we connect those dots or are we not sure? i think there are some dots we can connect. andrew weissen was the head of the task force in the early 2000s in the big fraud crackdown. he left that team before it was officially over but they indicted everyone important, the