Country. The administration has worked with the Committee Staff to observe 11 cpb holding facilities, 13 i. C. E. Detention facilities and six state licensed that contract. Good evening, im Chris Matthews in washington where tonight were watching history in the making as the House Judiciary Committee debates articles of impeachment against donald trump. Votes are expected to take place any moment now. Lets listen in. The committee threatened witnesses that and i quote, any failure to appear, any failure to appear in response to a mere letter requesting their presence for a deposition shall and i quote constitute evidence of obstruction. This is just letters, not subpoenas. In letters to the State Department employees, the committee threatened to witnesses that if they insist on
having Agency Counsel present to protect the Executive Branch in their Confidentiality Interests or if they make any effort to protect Confidentiality Interests at all, these officials would have their salaries
of bad acts and takes out the effective sentences is silly. so i urge a no vote on this amendment, and i will then urge of course that we adopt the articles of impeachment. i yield back the balance of my time. mr. chair? what purpose does mr. collins seek recognition? move to strike the last word. gentleman is recognized. it s interesting how you just described this because this is what we ve seen the entire time. the facts here is really what you have. you keep throwing around these bad facts you don t like. and you finally got to it. it took a bit to get there but the catalog of bad acts you don t like, and this simply takes away the punishment if you would or what the end route will be. this is what the democratic party and majority have done all year. in fact they did it one time on the floor of the house when the speaker of the house broke the rules of the house on the floor, and instead of owning up to breaking the rules of decorum on
the president, would they be subject to being excelled for abusing their position, just curious. well, i think i ll let my colleague answer that question, but what i do know is i think my colleagues on the other side of the aisle as i said nervous about their prospects next november against president trump based on his amazing record of leadership in the last three years. with that i would yield back. thank you. gentleman yields back. i would recognize myself to speak in opposition to the amendment. i think that the facts amply demonstrate the charges in these two articles of impeachment. namely that the president put his own interests in front of the interests of the country. that he sought to use the power of the presidency to with hold aid, military aid from an ally and to extort that ally into
loyalty is to the constitution. he got death threats. he had to publish an op-ed a few days later there was this outcry, a call for him to be removed from his teaching position. death threats because he gave an objective view of the constitution. the vitriol, the def con level, it s so crazy because of language like this in the resolution that is pushing this. i ll tell you what professor turley said, a couple of kpur s excerpts in his summary. as i have stressed, it is possible to establish a case for impeachment based on noncriminal allegation of abuse of power, right. but although criminality is not required in such a case, clarity is necessary. that comes from a complete and comprehensive record that eliminates the problem is this is an exceptionally narrow impeachment rest ogen the
thinnest possible evidentiary record. even under the most flexible impeachment model there remained an expectation impeachments couldn t be based on presumption or speculation on key elements if the underlying allegation could be non-criminal, the earlier impeachment followed a criminal trial including calling it witnesses and all the rest. he says the history of american impeachment shows restraint even when there are substantive complaints against congress. some of our greatest presidents could have been impeached for acts, but it didn t happen because cooler heads prevailed in the congress. this misuse professor turley continues, this misuse of impeachment has been plain during the trump administration. members have been called for removal. representative al green of texas filed a resolution in the house for impeachment after trump called for players kneeling during the national anthem to be