Powers of his high office, President Trump solicited the interference of a Foreign Government, ukraine, in the 2020 United States president ial election. He did so through a scheme or course of conduct that soliciting the government of ukraine, dont harm the election prospects of a political opponent. President trump also sought to pressure the government of ukraine to take the steps by conditioning a conditional United States government acts of significant value to ukraine on its public announcement of the investigations. President trump engaged in this scheme for corrupt purposes and pursuit of personal political benefit. In so doing, President Trump used the powers of the presidency in a manner that compromised the National Security of the United States and undermined the integrity of the United States democratic process. He thus ignored and injured the
interests of the nation. President trump engaged in this scheme or course of conduct through the following means. One, President Tr
the vice chair of the january 6th committee says the panel is now in discussions with attorneys for former u.s. president donald trump. this coming after the committee issued a subpoena seeking documents and testimony. cnn s sarah murray has the details from washington. reporter: the dead line is fast approaching for former president trump to hand over documents and on tuesday, liz cheney said that the commit see it is in discussions with trump s lawyers. well, the committee s in discussions with president trump s attorneys and he has an obligation to comply. and, you know, we treat this and take this very seriously. this is not a situation where, you know, the committee is going to put itself at the mercy of donald trump in terms of, you know, his efforts to create a circus. reporter: friday is the
the order with the portion of the attorney general s subpoena seeking documents and information and to appear for a deposition within 21 days of today. and then ivanka and donald trump jr. are also ordered to appear for depositions. so three weeks from now, these depositions are scheduled to be held, although as i said, there is the opportunity here for this to be appealed to a higher court. i need to double check the mechanism of how that would happen. eric trump, who we see on screen, has already provided a deposition and as you and i have spoken about before asserted his fifth amendment privilege thinks over 500 times during the course of that. let me see if i can help you out because i think danny cevallos is standing by for us. and so tom, hang tight for a second. danny, this is not the end of the road necessarily. we know that former president
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faithfully executed, donald j. trump has directed the unprecedented categorical indiscriminate defiance of subpoenas issued by the house of representatives pursuant to its sole power of impeachment. president trump has abused the powers of the presidency in a manner offensive to, and subversive of, the constitution and that the house of representatives has engaged in an impeachment inquiry focused on president trump s corrupt solicitation of the government of ukraine to interfere in the 2020 united states presidential election. as part of this impeachment inquiry, the committee is undertaking the investigation, serve subpoena seeking documents and testimony deemed vital to the inquiry from various executive branch agencies and offices in current and former officials. in response, without lawful cause or excuse, president trump directed executive branch agencies, offices, and officials not to comply with those subpoenas. president trump thus interposed