i yield back. i don t yield back. i yield to the gentleman, mr. jordan, you want the time? i ve got 30 seconds. look, in 2016 democrats had the insurance policy. peter struck and lisa page, that was their deal in 2016. the fbi, 2020 it s impeachment. 2020 they re going to use impeachment. insurance policy didn t work in 2016, impeachment s not going to work in 2020 because the american people appreciate what this president is getting done on their behalf. i yield back. gentleman yields back. does anyone else seek recognition? mr. chairman. what purposes move to strike the last words. gentleman is recognized. thank you. it really is amazing. we ve heard over and over this was all about the bidens, all about getting information on a
this president said, no, i m going to do it. even though the same interagency consensus we ve heard so much about in this impeachment inquiry, even though this interagency consensus was probably against him in that move, this president said i m going to do it. and it s been a good thing. and that s what the american people appreciate, and that s why we ve got this rigged and rushed process because it s really about next november. they re all afraid. some of their colleagues have said it straight up, they re all afraid that can t beat him at the ballot box so they re going to do this rigged, rushed and wrong impeachment process. i would yield the remanldinder my time to the gentleman. i wanted to ask the gentleman of ohio a question. based on the standards asserting here if someone is in the house running for president and they support or push impeachment of
democrat witness, fact witness that can prove that fact. second, do those offenses rise to the gravity that s worth putting the country through the drama of impeachment? absolutely not. and third, have the democrats laid out a case so clear that even the opposition has to agree? no. you and house democrat leadership are tearing the country apart. you said the evidence needs to be clear. it is not. you said offenses need to be grave. they are not. you said that once the evidence is laid out that the opposition will admit that they had to do it. well, that hasn t happened. in fact, polling and the fact that not one single republican voted on the impeachment inquiry resolution or the schiff report and i doubt that one single republican will vote on these articles of impeachment tonight or on the floor of the house of representatives, reveals that the opposite is in
first has the president committed impeachable offenses? second, did those offenses rise to the gravity that s worth putting the country through the drama of impeachment? and number three because you don t want to tear the country apart, you don t want half of the country to say to the other half for the next 30 years we won the election, you stole it from us. you have to be able to think at the beginning of the impeachment process that the evidence is so cleat of offenses so grave that once you ve laid out all the evidence a good fraction of the opposition, voters will reluctantly admit to themselves they had to do it. otherwise you have a partisan impeachment, which will tear the country apart. if you meet these three tests, then i think you do the impeachment. now, let s see if chairman nadler s three prong test has been met. first, has the president committed an impeachable offense? no. there has been no witness, no
good luck. that dog ain t hunting anymore. nobody is. just ain t working. with that i yield back. gentleman yields back. does anyone else seek recognition? mr. chair? thank you, mr. chair. i think it s an appropriate time i move to strike the last word. gentlewoman is recognized. thank you, mr. chair. i think it s an appropriate to recognize again of your own words that were stated just a few months ago last year. during an interview on msnbc s morning joeing on november 26, 2018 chairman nadler outlined a three prong test that he said would allow for a legitimate impeachment proceeding and now i quote chairman nadler s remarks. there are really three questions i think.