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
with the facts of the ukrainian matter which is before the committee. which is the bulk of the evidence here. and this procedural sparring, which i suggest which i submit is probably of interest to few people, is a way of delaying the hearing and denying the democrats any momentum. yeah. we shouldn t be surprised by this. no. i think that s right. he really used one of the major republican talking points talking about the staffer castor, one of the major republican talking points which is that this is akin to overturning an election and i think he said that several times throughout his statement. he also i think tried to distract really somewhat from this current proceeding by referencing the administration s cooperation in a number of completely unrelated hearings. so he was describing oversight work that congress is doing and how the administration has cooperated with it, but he was talking about investigations