American peoples money on this impeachment, theres so many other important things that are going undone. Within this committees own jurisdiction, we should be addressing the opioid epidemic. We could be working together to find a solution to our immigration and asylum challenges on our southern border. We could be protecting americans from having their intellectual property and jobs stolen by chinese companies. And we could be enhancing Election Security just to name a few things. And congress as a whole could be working on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. Providing additional tax relief to the nations middleclass families and providing additional security to our people here at home and abroad. Instead, here we are spinning our wheels once again on impeachment. What a waste. The American People deserve so much better. I yield back. Gentleman yields back. Mr. Cohen. Thank you, mr. Chair. I take no pleasure in the fact that were here today. As a patriot who loves america, it pain
Other important things that are going undone. Within this committees own jurisdiction we should be addressed in the opioid epidemic. We could be working together to find a solution to our immigration and asylum challenges on our southern border. We could be protecting americans for having their intellectual property and jobs stolen by Chinese Companies and we could be enhancing Election Security just to name a few things. Congress as a whole could be working on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. Providing additional tax relief to the nations middle class families and providing additional security to our people here at home and abroad. Instead, here we are spinning our wheels once again on impeachment. What a waste. The American People deserve so much better. I yield back. The Gentleman Yield back. Thank you, mr. Chair. I take no pleasure in the fact that we are here today. As a patriot who loves america,
it pains me that the circumstances forced us to undertake this grave and sol
favorite constitutional legal scholars for his taking the jury if there s impeachment trial in the senate, republican senator mike lee of utah, good to have you back with us. what do you make of what the president is saying, trying to address the point that came up again and again, i think we have professor carmen testifying today, we have her addressing the specific point. when the president said do us a favor he was using the royal we. it wasn t a favor for the united states which he should have said do me a favor because only kings say us when they mean me. the president responding tonight. that was a very irresponsible statement by that professor. the fact that she would compare him to a monarch indicates she doesn t understand the meaning of the word tyranny, the risk associated with concentrated power. all the president did was ask the ukrainian government to investigate a foreign company, a
wait to be seen. can you imagine for one minute if i had told my patients i can move you up in line and take care of your pain but i do need a favor from you. my patients were in pain and they were desperate and they would have agreed to do anything i asked. this would have been such an abuse of my position because of the power dynamic. i had the power to relieve my patients from experiencing pain. it is fundamentally wrong and in many cases illegal for us to use power to take advantage of those in crisis. especially a president, especially when lives are at stake. i yield back. the gentle lady yields back. mr. ratcliffe. thank you, chairman. professor turley, i would like to start where you started because you said something that i think bears repeating. you said i m not a supporter of president trump. i voted against him in 2016 and i have previously voted for
if it s manipulative i foreign interference? that s correct. the framers were generally and deeply concerned with the threat of foreign interference, true? yes. why were they so deeply concerned? because foreign nations don t have our interests at heart. they have their interests at heart. with the framers find it acceptable for an american president to pressure a foreign government to help him win an election? i think they would find it unacceptable for a president to ask a foreign government to help them, whether they put pressure on her not to break direct evidence shows, direct evidence shows that on july 25 the president uttered five words: do us a favor, though. pressure the ukrainian government to target an american citizen for political gain and at the same time simultaneously with health ringer $91 million