Senate but i really hope and pray the senate will not just pick it up and dismiss it. America needs to hear from the witnesses. And we didnt get to hear from them here. This was a kangaroo court. Outrageous, to put the country through this, and we get a report, and we dont even get to examine the maker of the report, so it is a very sad day. Have such an Incredible Team i got to be on. These are really quality folks. Thank you. This is really a travesty for america. It is really telling america apart. Tearing america apart. I have never in my life seen such an unfair, rigged railroad job against the president of the united states. Known that my fellow democrats were going to go for impeachment since january of this year when they got power. , theye are today predetermined they were going to do it and they did it. Come hell or high water. They had no proof, no evidence, no crime, but they went ahead anyway and they are tearing the country apart and they should be ashamed. Fathers warned against single party impeachments and they had a very specific reason for warning us against that. They said it would be bitterly divisive, perhaps irreparably divisive for the country, and that is what has happened now. This is the first time in the history of this nation that a president has been treated in this manner, when one party has followed in pursuit and pursued a predetermined political outcome. Were remember, before the famous july 25 phone call between President Trump and president zelensky that supposedly sparked this charade, 95 House Democrats had already voted to impeach donald trump before these facts came forward. That is not right. They determined this, they said it for the day from the day he took the oath of office that he would be removed and they pursued that. 14 hours yesterday and a few moments this morning, this anticlimactic end to this charade was fitting and appropriate. There wasnt much there. That is what happened here. I think the American People will militate against this. The polls show they have been frustrated. They see the lack of evidence, they see this paperthin impeachment proceeding, what ultimately developed, there is nothing hunt that. I think we showed that clearly and there will be a huge political price by the democrats at the polls next year. What were ultimately concerned inut beyond the price paid the short term is what this will do to our republic going forward. The founders were right. They divided the country even further and i think it will be difficult for us in this genietution to put this back in the bottle. In the media, you should hold the democrats to the standards they set for themselves, not the standard they set back in 1998 when jerry nadler said impeachment would have to be apported by substantially Bipartisan Group to be legitimate. Look at the standards they set for themselves a few months ago. Democrats said the evidence would have to be overwhelming, yet been hearing after hearing the evidence they presented was hearsay, speculation and conjecture or the result of a policy disagreement about how to treat the ukraine. Democrats promised at the public hearings there would be newfound animated public support for impeachment. The reality is, they failed to meet their burden. Now, with no bipartisanship, matter of fact the only bipartisan vote will be against impeachment with no direct evidence, no enhanced public support for impeachment, democrats will continue to visit the opportunity costs for this division on our country. As republicans we would like to policy infrastructure, changes that will actually impact the quality of life for our constituents, but for democrats, impeachment is their theirtheir obsession, total focus and it is deeply disappointing that they failed to meet the standard they set for themselves. Questions you can questions . Do you worry about [indiscernible] cooperate [indiscernible] the administration has cooperated with fair and reasonable oversight. When democrats made clear this was not about oversight, it was about impeachment emma and thatitimate process, informed the administrations position on whether to validate this absurd process. The nixon and clinton administrations provided some information in their impeachment investigation. Me address this as we did yesterday. You have to understand, the Trump Administration has cooperated. Just this year, they understand congresss oversight and they acknowledged it. 25 members of the administration testified before oversight, 20 before the Judiciary Committee. When the impeachment proceeding began 100,000 pages were submitted by the white house to Congress Pursuant to our request. He immediately released the transcript of the phone call. The president hasnt been obstructing this at all. What he is worried about is the process, this unprecedented charade that has gone on. Adam schiff controlling this in the basement, having secret hearings, cherry picking witnesses, denying republican questions, not allowing republican witnesses to come forward. There is no chance for the republicans counsel to participate. I am an attorney. ,f we were advising our client we would tell him not to participate in that because it is an ambush. We were ambushed last night on the scheduling and that they , democrats have tried to railroad the president. They brought in impeachment claim of obstruction and its absurd. The Obama Administration went to court, they didnt turn in pleadings and the documents and witnesses that were requested in the fast and furious investigation. They went to the third branch of government. That is how the system is set up , when there is a natural impasse between the legislative and executive branches, we have a third branch, the judiciary. They could have gone a few blocks away to a federal court am a gun in order to compel the production of anything else they needed, but they didnt have time to do that. That is because they guaranteed to the radical left base that they would impeach trump by christmas. That is why we are here. That is why they didnt go through the normal process. The democrats control the house. They can determine what the process is. You might not like it, there are politics in this, we hear what you are saying but that said, dont they have the right to handle this in the fashion they dont have the right to abuse the process and this was a abuse of process. It was a witchhunt. That is why they couldnt settle on a charge until they had exhausted that there was no evidence of a crime. Let me tell you, if the doj and the fbi went after you and your family and your business associates, harassed them and you find out, as the president did early on, this was all a scam to bring him down, you would be wise enough, and most any attorney would say, dont you go and, they are looking for anything. Dont help them crucify you. It would not be smart. The president did the right thing. The obstruction of justice was doj, the fbi,e hopefully people will pay for that. Not likely to bring forth witnesses [indiscernible] how do you think you will get your story out . This is not [indiscernible] they would have witnesses and i really understand the desire. This was a ridiculous process. A report, no real witnesses. I understand their desire to just get it behind us but the country needs to hear what a farce this was. They really need to bring in witnesses. To clean thisance up and i hope they will. This is a president who yesterday called a teenager on the autism spectrum person with an anger management problem. Does that make it harder to defend him this vigorously . The president communicates in a unique way. He doesnt communicate the way many of us would. Let me answer. 63 million americans voted to make him the president. He has an unorthodox style. What were talking about is removing a president because democrats dont like that style, they dont like him, they dont like his twitter or his staff members, they dont like what he does in the office. ,he way our system is designed the party in charge, even if you have the majority in congress, you dont get them remove a president dont get to remove a president because they dont like him. That isnd of the day, why we are so frustrated. We may not have a trail in the senate. The president may not get a chance to put on the defense but we will do it for our constituents every opportunity we have. Why is it ok for an american tosident to have more power investigate a political rival . Why do you think that is ok . He doesnt do that. He asked president zielinski to investigate joe biden and hunter biden. That was because logically, more likely in the democrats story, its because he wanted to vet out the questions. He saw the video of joe biden bragging about how he was going to withhold 1 billion from ukraine if they didnt fire the prosecutor, the same prosecutor that had been investigating bur company whereupt his son was getting paid to be on the board. That is corruption. That had corruption plain and simple. According to an Obama Administration person on a similar cases said that his corruption, plain and simple. I think it is the responsibility of the president of the united states, before he hands over to investigates, corruption. I believe part of that corruption was with the bidens. You havent mentioned corruption at all. [indiscernible] whenever you are. Rep. Nadler today is a solemn and said day. And sad for the third time in a little over a century and a half, the house judiciary of power and obsf congress. The house will act expeditiously. Thank you. [yelling questions] [i cspan. Org impeachment has our impeachment coverage. Watch the tapings and administrations response. Continue to follow the proceedings on our network as the proceedings moved to the house floor. With the Judiciary Committee approving two articles of impeachment against President Trump, abuse of power and obstruction of congress some of the House Rules Committee will meet tuesday to decide the guidelines for how the debate will unfold on the house floor. Watch live coverage of the House Rules Committee tuesday at 11 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan3