President that he has the right to do whatever he wants as president that is as wrong as when president nixon said a similar thing it is not what the constitution provides that is now with the country demands it does not have the right to do whatever he wants turning to the 2nd abuse of power most of the concern betrayal of the nation of outing foreign powers the American People have suffered at foreign influence when President Trump treated military aid that had been approved taxpayers dollars and decided to treat it as his own checkbook to try to further his own reelection chances that reflects what the founders were concerned about and finally corruption of our elections the framers knew that corrupt leaders are leaders acting corruptly concentrate their powers to manipulate elections. And undercut adversaries they talked about it frequently that is why the framers thought electoral treasury particular evolving foreign powers was a critical abuse and and that could support and lead
Rep. Nadler the house commissioning to medium the judiciary will come forward. The quorum is present. Hearingonducting this on the impeachment inquiry into president donald j. Trump, the presentations from the house pertinent select committee on intelligence in the House Judiciary Committee pursuant to House Resolution 660 and the special to sherry Committee Procedures that are described in section four a of that were season of that. I will make an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for no statement. After that we will hear two sets of presentations. Openinghear 30 minute arguments from councils for the majority and minority. [gavel] rep. Nadler order in the room. Order in the room. Order in the committee room. [indiscernible] rep. Nadler committee will come to order. Obviously i shouldnt have to remind everyone present that the audience is here to observe, but not to demonstrate, not to indicate agreement or disagreement with any witness or with any member
Test. The House Rules Committee taking a recess on the house floor. And while we wait for the members to return, we will show you Opening Statements from tom cole and the members of the Judiciary Committee doug collins and jamie raskin who is representing the judiciary democrats in Jerrold Nadlers absence for a family emergency. The rules committee will come to order. The rules committee will come to order. It is unfortunate that we have to be here today, but the actions of the president of the United States make this necessary. President trump withheld congressionally held approved aid to ukraine and under siege not to fight corruption, but to extract a personal political favor and President Trump refused to meet with the president of ukraine in the white house until he completed the scheme, and all of the while the leaders in russia who is holding a large part of ukraine hostage and the very nation who interfered with our elections in 2016 had yet another meeting in the Oval Office L
Too. Tenyear well above 1. 8 and 1. 822. A developing story from china with big implications for u. S. Companies the Financial Times reporting that the communist party now ordered all state offices to remove foreign hardware and software within three years. This could hit firms like microsoft and dell, hp, especially hard. Now analysts estimate 20 to 30 million pieces of foreign equipment would need to be ultimately replaced. The order is not yet public yet but was described to the ft by two Cyber Security firms so this is going to this is like the fallout from huawei this is the fallout from huawei everybody out of the pool at one time think about microsoft and by the way one of the names not on the list, apple. Interesting where is apple . Apple doesnt do a lot of enterprise work in terms of corporate maybe not government. Maybe not government work but. More of a consumer play i dont know. I was thinking about that this morning. Where apple plays in that. Apple is obviously threaded
You dont think that affects our National Security, if you think ukraine is our ally as i believe you do and i do . I just dont accept the premise of your premises of thoughts. All right. What value for ukraine do you see in the oval office visit that was being sought . Youd have to ask ukraine. Do you recognize that such a visit would send a strong message to russia sort of like lavrov being in the Oval Office Last week and the rest of the world that the United States supported ukraine and was ready to defend it against russian aggression. I think a better statement was when mr. Trump sent russian weapons to shoot down russian assets. That ignored the fact that the aid was withhold and hot war was going. All due respect were going in circles. I do not believe there was anything wrong for the reasons stated. And mr. Trump did more for the ukrainians in the hot war than was previously done. You know, ive heard that before. Im not going to elaborate. But i can assure you if they point as