Truth. Those facts. This is so far off field, this is ispolitical. This is totally political. And it is a dangerous moment for our country that the doj has i mean, doesnt the meeting on the tarmac with bill clinton and the airplane look quaint now . Actually, thats a perfect it looks quaint. We have been talking about what feels like a frantic publicrelations effort. Two statements released from william barr on a report hes had for some time. An extraordinary report about ao open,t ongoing investigation. Some of the most sensitive intelligence and Law Enforcement in our country. And now, guess whos weighing in . Guess. Guess. Guess. Donald j. Trump. Lets listen. Okay. Thank you very much. The ig report just came out. And i was just briefed on it and its a disgrace whats happened with respect to the things that were done to our country. It should never again happen to another president. It is incredible. Far worse than i would have ever thought possible. And its its an embarrassment to
that s the issue we ve got to get in this committee. to understand the difference between doing something for the national good, for the international good, for the common good, and for your own good. that s the difference. got to get that across. those witnesses, many career, non-partisan officials were clear they thought it was wrong to ask a foreign government to investigate a political rival. video. to investigate the vice president of the united states or someone who is a u.s. officia official. i don t think we should be asking foreign governments to do that. i would say it s true of a political rival. it is improper for the president of the united states to demand a foreign government investigate a u.s. citizen and politicalu. opponent. it was inappropriate and we said that in the time in realtime. again, our holding up of security assistance that would go to a country that is fighting aggression from russia, for no
to hurt his domestic political opponent? yes, that s what the evidence showed. i ve come to understand that america s values of democracy and justice must have the vital pillars of thtruth, factual tru, and trust. the former judge and one who set on this committee during impeachment in 1998, the truth matters. it s clear that the8, president really cared about did not really care about fighting corruption in ukraine but wanted his own personal interests to be considered. that kind of puts in perspective, ambassador sondland, that they didn t care whether ukraine actually investigated. but really whether they just announced it. it is certainly well-known that it is our duty as the president poses a continuing threat to under the constitution,ea pursu the untruth. that is our duty. we re now proceeding to do our duty to find the truth. thank you, mr. chairman. the gentle lady yields back. the gentleman from ohio. thank you, mr. chairman. this is the second hearing on impeachmen
of his events in iowa last week. calling the man a liar. challenging him to a pushup contest, among other things. falsely, stating, once again, that nobody said there was anything wrong with his son s deal in ukraine. well, you know what? that s a lot of malarkey. a lot of people have been saying that for quite a while now and they re right. what s worst is first the intelligence committee and now this committee are conducting an impeachment investigation against president trump based on, as professor turley put it last week, wafer-thin evidence and ignoring evidence of a high-level u.s. official who actually did engage in a quid pro quo with ukrainian government.ag in fact, confessed to it in this video. i said i m telling you you re not getting a billion dollars. i said you re not getting the billion. i think it was, what, six hours. i, said, i m leaving in six hours. if the prosecutor s not fired, you re not getting the money. well, son of a bitch. got fired.
credibility. that would be evidence that we should takeen into account befo. but we ll never know, will we? because the majority counsel has a righte to assert a privileges to information that s relevant to this committee s decision. the majority counsel has a right to assert a privilege in any communications he has with the chairman adam schiff, doesn t he? as does minority counsel. that s a privilege that we have reserved here in congress, isn t it? yeah. and the same thing is true of the freedomis of information ac does not apply to memos that majority counsel writes. isn t that true? correct. so we have demanded that of the executive branch. but we have allowed ourselves notd to be part of foia, corre? correct. so the majority has a privilege. the president also has a privilege. it s called executive privilege. he can s meet with the secretar of state. he can meet with the secretary of defense. that s a privileged