Mr. Chairman. What purpose ir trying the last word. The gentleman strikes the lastem word. Recognized. Thank you. I yield to the rankingst member just real quickly, the gent thely lady from california stat something irn addressed head on last night. Undersecretary haleig said it w perspective money, not interfering or dealing with the issue. For those of us who have been in a war zone people do die. This money did not stop that. That is something that cannot be continuedme to perpetrated on ts world. Reclaiming my time. Theec difference in the Clinton Impeachment and this one, president clinton committed a crime, perjury, this president isnt accused of committing a crime. The constitution is prettymi clr on what constitution impeachable offense, treason, bribery and other High Crimes And Misdemeanors. Its not treason, bribery, other High Crimes And Misdemeanors and adam schiff an nancy pelosi deem impeachable. No president should abuse the
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foreign government to target an american citizen. i yield back. the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does mr. gates seek recognition. strikes the last word. there were five meetings that we have detailed that show why the aid was released. there was a beliefs on the administration previously that ukraine was one of the most corrupt countries in the world, they had not engaged in sufficient reforms and aftered number of events with the vice president with a bipartisan senate delegation there was a resolution of that aid. this debate just lacks a certain sincerity. i hearder earlier my friend fro california mr. swalwell say, list out all these crimes. ifse i m watching at home i m thinking where are they in the impeachment. that is a democrat drive-by. to list crimes that you don t allege and you don t have evidence y for. is ever a microcosm of how to consume this day and the importance with the american people they re naming crimes in
answer. on july 25th, another call. president president trump and president zelensky. the word corruption is not mentioned once, but here s what was said. zelensky talks about the defense. and the immediate response is, do us a favor, though. president trump says, i need you to look into some things. not related to procurement of defense arms, but related to a wild conspiracy theory connected to the 2016 campaign and also says, i want you to look into joe biden. then what s interesting, since you thinks it was such a perfe call, he mentions rudolph giuliani. i m looking at the transcripton right now, not once, not twice, three times, why on an official call would the president mention
theybe say. again, where were you during the obama administration when this weak ally didn t get support. iet support the jordan amendmen this article 1, the abuse of power they allege in the impeachment theory is a total joke. they have to says abuse of pow because they don t have evidence for obstruction. they have to say abuse of power because they have no evidence treason, abuse of power because all the specific crimes thatal the gentleman fro california named, cannot be supported by the evidence. this is sort of the ink blot theory testin of impeachment so the country cant stare at the k blot and everybody can see what i guess they want to see. this notion of abuse of power is the o lowest of low energy impeachment theories. heck, i don t know any political party that doesn t think when the otherpa side is in the whit house that they abused power, too much. i have a lot of constituents
of december a few days ago, because their theory of the case, even if zelensky didn t know there was pressure d there this other guy, yermak, and yermak knew from gordon sondland there was pressure but the same day that they introduced their articles of impeachment,ir yerm gives this interview with time magazine and says, i quote, gordon and i were never alone together. we bumped too each other in the hallway next toch the escalators i was walking out. i remember everything. we talked how well the meeting went. that is all we talked about. here they are with no crime, with no victim, with no witnesses, with no knowledge of any shakedown, and yet, they proceed. to accept the democrats theory of thecr case, you got to belie that the ukrainians are lying to us. you got it believe when they say there s no conditionality, no pressure, nothing wrong, that they re so weak and they re so dependent onso the united state that we can t believe a word