misdemeanors, ukrainians received a one week prior to the laws requirement, a previously no pressure from the trump administration ever. simply put, there was no quid pro quo and no crime. only the majority s disdain for the president, that is not an impeachable offense. if the majority does not trust the american people, too many have said that the impeachment is necessary so the president is not reelected in 2020 and that is shameful. today s vote sets a new president for america. in the future, the majority will use impeachment as a tactic to remove a president based on partisanship. i ll find founders feared this and i strongly oppose this but i want my statement to be in the record till the end of time the show i was on the side of the constitution. taking a duly elected president who did no crime and i elected for the truth.
so it was unfortunate that he was willing to meet without the commitment on the investigation. thank you, ambassador. mr. ambassador, let s pick up there. you would have preferred if they just have the meeting with the president of ukraine without these conditions. yes. but there were these conditions. it involved an investigation. the initial invitation that the president sent to president zelensky had no conditions. but that didn t last very long, did it? then there were conditions. it s not controversial, i don t believe. you thought the conditions were burisma and the 2016 elections. we now know that burisma means bidens. today we do. weekend, from today to the end of time, set aside any confusion that when somebody is asking for an investigation of burisma over the summer, what they really meant was bidens.
quick, unconditional meeting. so it s unfortunate that he was unwilling to meet without the commitment on the investigation. thank you, ambassador. thank you. mr. maloney. mr. ambassador, let s pick up right there. you would have preferred if they just had the meeting with the president of ukraine without these conditions. is that what you re saying? yes. but there were these conditions. and it involved an investigation, right? well, remember, the the initial invitation that the president sent to president zelensky had no conditions. but that that didn t last very long, did it? and then there were conditions. this is not controversial at this point i don t believe, sir. there were conditions that the president wanted investigations, right? right. and you thought they were of burisma and the 2016 election. correct. we now know of course that burisma means bidens, right? today, we do. and we can probably, from today until the end of time, set aside any con
olive garden i m paying for bread sticks. the bread sticks are free. i m paying for the bread sticks. he just wants to be in trouble. he didn t actually do anything bad. juan: greg, mock away. greg: it s too easy. i m going to defend him in the end. it does suck when you have created your own nickname. he will be known as spartacus for the end of time. it s worse than pocahontas because he gave it to himself. the idea of him like somehow is he risking his capital, his career. like me saying, you know, i m going to risk something here on fox news by saying i love america. i hope i don t get fired for saying i love america. but i will say in his defense he might be like trump in that he is incapable of embarrassment. i mean, might be like he gets up the next day and rolls off his back which, i mean, cnn made fun of trump for being this way. and trump became president. you never know, this guy
intelligence investigation and it never leaked. their view was, this is crazy. how could a democratic administration, how could the people who are for hillary clinton, how could they have not let this out? their view was equally in some ways corrupt. someone should have leaked it. to your point, no one leaked it. on election day, we got to election day and the 350 million americans had no idea anybody was investigating donald trump. for suspicious ties to russia, the very thing people will debate till the end of time, that was one of the things the american public deserved to know. the notion they were trying to take donald trump down, there are 50 easy ways to do it. frank figliuzzi, since you were the deputy director for counter intelligence, let me let you in on this. yeah, so, look, the american people and particularly president trump should actually be thankful that the fbi chose restraint over aggressive posture in this investigation. they chose the least invasive