Potentially drawing up articles of impeachment against the president. House democrats invited three positive note scholars to testify. A Harvard Law School professor, gerhardt,an, michael a professor at the university of North Carolina school of law, and stanford professor pamela karlan. Republicans invited jonathan tur ley, a professor of Public Interest law at George Washington university. The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. Mr. Chairman youre upsurping the right to object. Objection is noted. I receiver tzrbreserve the r object. Peropportunity to cause g, im furnishing you with a demand on minority hearings on this subject signed by all the republican the gentleman will suspend. Pursuant to cause 2 j 1 rule 11 im furnish you with a letter signed by all the republican members of the committee. I request you set this date before the Committee Votes on any articles of impeachment i withdraw my reservation. We will confer on this later. The quorum is present. This i
The rules committee will come to order. The rules committee will come to order. Its unfortunate that we have to be here today. But the actions of the president of the United States make that necessary. President trump withheld congressionally approved aid to ukraine, a partner under siege. Not to fight corruption, but to extract a personal political favor. President trump refused to meet with ukraines president in the white house until he completed this scheme. All the while leaders in russia, the very nation holding a large part of ukraine hostage, the very nation that interfered with our elections in 2016 had yet another meeting in the Oval Office Just last week. These are not my opinions. These are uncontested facts. We listened to the hearings. We have read the transcripts. Its clear that this president acted in a bay that not only violates the public trust but jeopardized our National Security. He undermined our democracy. He acted in a way that rises to the level of impeachment.
Then i have the article 2 where i have the right to do whatever i want as president. That is as wrong as when president nixon said a similar thing. Thats not what the constitution provides. Thats not what the country demands. He does not have the right to do whatever he wants. Turning to the second abuse of power, uninformed powers. The American People suffered that foreign influence when President Trump treated military aid that had been approved taxpayer dollars and decided to treat it as his own checkbook to try to further his own reelection chances. That is what the founders were concerned about. The framers nucor rupt leaders concentrate their powers is to manipulate elections and undercut adversaries. Thats why they thought it was a critical abuse and that could support and lead to impeachment let me show another clip on the campaign trail. Russia, if youre listening i hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by ou
President nixon said a similar thing, that is not what the constitution provides, that is not what the country demands. He does not have the right to do whatever he wants. Turning to the second abuse of power most of concern. Betraying the nation involving foreign powers. The American People have suffered that foreign influence when President Trump treated military aid that had been approved, taxpayer 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. Finally, corruption of our elections. The framers knew that corrupt leaders or leaders acting corruptly concentrate their powers to manipulate elections and undercut adversaries. They talked about it frequently. That is why the framers thought electoral treachery particularly involving foreign powers was a critical abuse that could support and lead to impeachment. Now, the American People learned last election how dangerous foreign inter
Into this Conspiracy Theory and why because it would help his own political standing President Trump even sought to withhold an Oval Office Meeting from the president of ukraine until he fell in line with president putins lies the leader who had actually invaded ukraine the 2nd demand that President Trump made of president selenski during the july 25th call was to investigate the front runner for the democratic nomination for president in 2020 former Vice President joe biden and his son hunter President Trump stated the other thing theres a lot of talk about biden son biden stop the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great if i didnt went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it it sounds horrible to me. Witnesses unanimously testified that there was no factual support for this claim rather they noted that Vice President biden was acting in support of an International Co