Russian investigation . James comey testifies there was no doubt they we re testifies there was no doubt they were meddling in the investigation. He says its about as unfake as you can get. This was appointment viewing and such a crowd puller this morning in washington. The bars even opened early. Welcome to 100 days plus, im katty kay in washington. Christian fraser is in london. The fired director of the fbi doesnt think the current president of the United States tells the truth. James comey told senators at a Block Buster Hearing Today that donald trump lied about his firing mr comey also said he was worried mr trump would lie about other things too. Mr comey confirmed much of what we already knew from his testimony the president asked for his loyalty, he asked him to drop the investigation into former National Security adviser Michael Flynn and he did it repeatedly. But mr comey would not say whether he thought the president was guilty of Obstructing Justice in the russia investiga
Last word. The gentleman is recognized. I yield to the Ranking Member. The gentle lady from california misstieated somethin that i addressed head on last night. Undersecretary stated this was perspective money, it was not interfering and dealing with this issue. For those of us who have been in a war, people die in a war zone. This money did not cause that. Thank you, reclaiming my time. Mr. Chairman, the biggest difference in the clinton impeachment and this one is that president clinton committed a crime, perjury. This president isnt even accused of committing a crime. The constitution is pretty clear on what constitutes an impeachable defense, treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. Its not, or whatever else nancy pelosi and adam schiff deem impeachable. I think we can all agree that no president should abuse the powers of his or her office, just like the chairman of the House Committee shouldnt abuse
the powers of his office to obtain and publish the Phone Records
were during watergate? the way they were during iran contra. we don t do that anymore. we don t grill these guys on tv. shouldn t they be grilled? it s very educational for the public, i ll tell you that. first, the ratings were high for watergate inquiry. for example, my week of testimony, i was in front of 85 million americans. others similar numbers. so this educates the public and i think it does perform a very important function. today, they tend to take depositions, have counsel do it. and it doesn t serve the same educational process. right. it made oliver north a superstar during iran contra. you might have hit on something there, john. you emphasize how the ratings might be huge. donald trump may go along with all this. but thanks so much for those insights. we appreciate it. thanks, jim. coming up, president biden is abroad, but storm clouds are gathering on capitol hill.
donald trump the president. they violated due process and all the rest. my colleague, sheila jackson lee, evoked and quoted barbara jordan but she said during the watergate inquiry, impeachment quadrupl quadrupled. this impeachment is going to fail and the democrats will pay a heavy political price for it but the pandora s box they ve opened will do irreparable damage to our country in the years ahead. i yield back. the gentleman yields back. mr. chairman, i move to strike the last word. the gentle lady is recognized. mr. chairman, i m opposed to this amendment. it s incredible to me that the other side of the aisle has not seen the facts and has not apparently read some of the evidence before us. it is obvious to me that this president has put his personal
hill. he also served several positions in the state department. barbara mcquade former u.s. attorney for eastern district of michigan. she is also an msnbc contributor and current law professor at the university of michigan law school. and michael conway is former counsel to the house judiciary committee during the impeachment inquiry of president richard nixon. so, michael, let me start with you because you were involved in similar proceedings during the watergate inquiry. when you look at the effectiveness they had in turning public opinion, which then turned republicans in congress, on richard nixon. how do you compare what we ve seen in the last two weeks? i think, as you ve said, the witnesses were very, very powerful. and gordon sondland really just laid the wood to the president. he said the president directed me to do this. he did that to escape his own sense of personal liability because some republicans were arguing this was a rogue operation of giuliani and sondland and pe