will be any republicans who will break and vote in favor of the two articles of impeachment. how many democrats, though, do you expect will break and vote against these articles? i think the vast majority of the members of the democratic caucus will support the articles of impeachment. the evidence is overwhelming and uncontested. i still have some hope that maybe we ll persuade some of our republican colleagues to join us in this effort. this shouldn t be a partisan issue. this is about our oath of office and defending our democracy and protecting the national security of our country. so i i still remain hopeful that they ll do the right thing. well as you know there were two democrats who voted against beginning the impeachment inquiry. what message do you have for those democrats who wory that they could lose their seats over this there are 31 democrats elected in districts that president trump carried in 2016. i think the american people expect us to do what we ve been do
should focus on the most serious and the present danger of the president of phosphorus conduct. this is the president attempting to coax a foreign leader to rig the election in his favor. this is exactly what the founders talked about when they spoke about high crimes and misdemeanors, the betrayal of the national interest to advance your own political and personal interests, things of the democratic caucus probably believe we should focus on, the most serious, the president endangering the integrity of our election in 2020. overwhelming evidence, uncontested martha: let me ask you about the overwhelming evidence, i m just reading a piece by jonathan turley who you disagree with as a republican witness, he said this to be the first impeachment to go forward with no credible or uncontested crime at its heart. what do you say that that? i disagree pick first of all the constitution of the united states is the supreme law
they knew right at the beginning that it was all a frame up, a set up. but they hated it so nobody could see it. so they couldn t keep it going on thinking they would hurt us politically. but now we are stronger politically than we were ever before! and the fbi also sent multiple undercover human spies to surveillance record people associated with our campaign. look how they have hurt people. they ve destroyed the lives of people that were great people. that are still great people. their lives have been destroyed by scum. okay? by scum. an fbi lawyer foraged took the email, forged! forged an email used as evidence, an act that is now the subject of a criminal referral.
of the land. when our founders spoke about the basis for impeachment, what they spoke about was the abuse of power, using the office of the presidency, the enormous power of that office to advance your own personal financial or political interests and betraying the national interest in undermining our national security. this is the highest of the high crimes and misdemeanors are framers of spoke about and this is the only remedy martha: let s go back to the evidence. who would you say is the strongest witness to the bigger pretzel very reprehensible pain ever you point out the question might speak of the president. he admitted to persuade the ukrainians to launch a bogus investigation. martha: he said he wanted to launch an investigation in 2016 which really goes back to meddling with elections to your party. i m not saying it happened.
desperate donald trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being the united states president. what s this? folks, they spied on our campaign, okay? they spied. never happened before in the history of our country. and we are really wise to it. we are wise to it. the inspector general filed that the fbi s spying application contains 17 errors and omissions commonly known as lies and deceit. when the fbi and you have great people in the fbi, but not in leadership. you have not good people in leadership. when the fbi uncovered evidence showing that we did absolutely nothing wrong, which was right at the beginning, they hated that exonerated, you know that? they hit it so nobody could see it. so they could keep the hoax going on for two years.