showed no conditions were placed on the aide. president trump and president zelensky have said there was no pressure and ukraine received the aid without taking any actions. the president may only be impeached for committing treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors. nowhere in the articles of impeachment is argued that the president has committed treason, bribery, or any crime under the law. this is not overwhelming, it is not compelling, it is not bipartisan about the speaker was right in one way, this is incredibly divisive and has lowered the bar for what future presidents will face. i strongly oppose the articles before us today and i hope we will finally move past this nightmare and get to work to deliver results for the american people. i yield back. the gentleman yields back. the mr. speaker, it s clear that he abuse the powers of his office to pressure ukraine to help his reelection campaign. this is the highest of high
faithfully executed, donald j. trump has directed the unprecedented categorical indiscriminate defiance of subpoenas issued by the house of representatives pursuant to its sole power of impeachment. president trump has abused the powers of the presidency in a manner offensive to, and subversive of, the constitution and that the house of representatives has engaged in an impeachment inquiry focused on president trump s corrupt solicitation of the government of ukraine to interfere in the 2020 united states presidential election. as part of this impeachment inquiry, the committee is undertaking the investigation, serve subpoena seeking documents and testimony deemed vital to the inquiry from various executive branch agencies and offices in current and former officials. in response, without lawful cause or excuse, president trump directed executive branch agencies, offices, and officials not to comply with those subpoenas. president trump thus interposed
irreparably divide our nation. the truth is, in the 243 years of this republic there has never been a single party, fraudulent impeachment process like the one being used today. our democrat colleagues have weaponized the impeachment provision of the constitution to nullify the votes cut that 63 million americans who elected president donald j. trump. this is not about a phone call or ukraine or even his use of the executive privilege. you have to remember that 95 of the democrats on this floor today voted to impeach donald trump before the july 25th phone call ever happened to be between president trump and president zelensky and not only is this a single party impeachment, it s also evidence free. after all their herculean efforts they could only come up with two short articles of impeachment. on the first, the democrats know there is zero direct evidence of the record of these proceedings to show president trump engaged in any abuse of power. as you will hear today, their entire cas
for democracy and for freedom and anti-corruption in europe. that is something that has been very important to you. the president essentially empow empowered and outsourced an alternative channel to the regular department of state and national security council officials. and rudy guliani, as you said, was at the heart of it. we have a lot of testimony from witnesses that said when the president got some of report on ukrai ukraine, talk to rudy. he has the franchise on ukraine. we know what rudy wanted to do. he said we had an update on it. rudy is front and center in the campaign to on fox news this morning. he s front and center to smear our ambassador, the u.s. ambassador to ukraine who is fighting corruption. she understood that ukraine had a chance here with the election
happening, we re hearing from the top democrat in the senate, the senate minority leader, chuck schumer, and he is making his own pitch for how a senate trial would go forward. he would like to see witnesses come forward. he would like to see documents be subpoenaed. the four witnesses he says senate democrats want to see come forward in what he is describing as a fair trial, would be the white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney, his senior adviser, robert blare, john bolton and michael duffy, a associate director for security programs at the national security council. duffy is one of the officials who signed off on several of the documents on that aid freeze of $400 million in security aid to ukrai ukraine. this is the opening offer we re hearing from chuck schumer. schumer and mitch mcconnell are expected to sit down to discuss these requests from senate democrats and discuss how to move forward with a trial. but again, unless schumer can