Facilities across the country. The administration has worked with the Committee Staff to observe 11 cpb, 13 i. C. E. Detention activities to contract with hhs. Contrary to the assertions from the democrats, the Trump Administration has cooperated substantially in matters related to the border and elsewhere, but lets just contrast that with the democrats combative posture. In letters to the state Department Employees the committee threatened witnesses that, and i quote, any failure to appear, any failure to appear in response to a mere letter requesting their presence for deposition shall, and i quote, constitute evidence of obstruction. This is just letter, not subpoenas. In letters the state Department Employees in letters to the state Department Employees the committee threatened witnesses that if they insist on having
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witnesses, were you a part of bribery? instead of bribery, treason, extortion, you have abuse of power. the low-energy version. i m disappointed in my colleague, but probably even those who doeb support the president would share that disappointment in this very moment, and i yield back. mr. chairman, i have unanimous consent request. i have the unanimous consent request to enter the letter i referenced which is the letter from chairman engle to john sullivan in which chairman engle says officials who insist on counsel without objection. thank you. the question now occurs on the amendment. those in favor say aye. aye. those opposed no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it and the amendment is not agreed to. the roll call is requested. the clerk will call the roll. mr. nadler? no. mr. nadler votes no.
thank the incredible members of all three committees, as well as our amazing staff that did long hours of work through depositions, open hearings and compiling all of the evidence into today s report. it was an enormous task and i want to begin by acknowledging the great work of the great and late colleague of mine, elijah cummings. we continued to be inspired by his legacy and guided by thoughts of his integrity and the great moral clarity that he always showed in his work. i also want to thank my colleagues, chairman engle, chairwoman maloney for their tremendous work as well. this report chronicles a scheme by the president of the united states to coerce an ally, ukraine, that is at war with an adversary, russia, into doing
i m someone that thinking a classified setting is probably the appropriate place for some of these briefings, but what should be ma could be made pu should be made public. this shouldn t be partisan. we are fighting for our democracy. we need to be looking at this as americans, not part sans. speaker pelosi had a call with the caucus yesterday what did he say about next steps or strategies? you know, i think the speaker has tried very hard we ve been home for two weeks while the committee has been doing the work they had to do because of the jewel wish holidays. she has kept people abreast , chairman schiff, who s been doing the classified briefings, but assisted by chairman engle and chairman cummings have been talking about the work that s been done. she too is being very deliberative. she wants people to know what s
after another. and yes, i think he should consider resigning, because i think it s a disgrace. chairman engle, thank you so much for your time, sir. thank you. next, president trump said he had nothing to do with the air force s decisions to stay at his properties because he s rich. i don t need to have somebody take a room overnight at a hotel. plus, 2020 contender tim ryan defending comments he made about joe biden declining. it s not like i said something that a lot of people aren t thinking or he wouldn t have went on colbert to talk about it. are democrats really worried? and the president calling my next guest a joke, a laughingstock. so what is 2020 republican contender for the white house mark sanford s response? i have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.