And i thought the threat to our nation was well articulated earlier today by Professor Feldman when you said, if we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office for personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy, we live in a monarchy or we live under a districtatorship. My view is if people cannot depend on the fairness of our elections, then what people are calling divisive today will be absolutely nothing compared to the shredding of our democracy. After the events of ukraine unfolded, the president claimed that the reason he requested an investigation into his political opponents and withheld desperately needed military aid for ukraine was supposedly because he was worried about corruption. However, contrary to president s statements, various witnesses, including Vice President pences special adviser jennifer williams, testified that the president s request was political. Take a listen. I found the july 25th phone call unusual because in contrast to other president ial ca
That we find ourselves in. And i thought the threat to our nation was wellarticulated earlier today by professor feldman. When you said if we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office for personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy. We live in a monarchy or we live under a dictatorship. My view is that if people cannot depend on the fairness of our elections, then what people are calling divisive today will be absolutely nothing compared to the shredding of our democracy. After the events of ukraine unfolded, the president claimed that the reason he requested an investigation into his political opponents and withheld desperately needed military aid for ukraine was supposedly because he was worried about corruption. However, contrary to the president s statements, various witnesses, including Vice President pences special advisor Jennifer Williams,
testified that the president s request was political. Take a listen. I found the july 25th phone call unusual because in con
actions are impeachable. but go back to speaker pelosi s words one more time and the case for impeachment must also be compelling. well after last month s schiff show this is what we learned. there is no evidence that the president directed anyone to tell the ukrainians that aid was conditioned on investigation. aside from the mere presumptions by ambassador sondland there is no evidence that trump was convinced on and if you doubt go back to the transcript because never in the call was the 2020 election mentioned and never in the call was military aid mentioned. in fact, president trump told senator johnson on 31 august that aid was not conditioned on investigation. rather president trump was rightfully skepts cal about the ukrainians, the country has a history of corruption and he merely wanted the europeans to
regardless of political party, that there is an agreement the actions are impeachable. but let s go back to speaker pelosi pelosi s words just one more time. the speaker says the case for impeachment must be also compelling. well, after last month s schiff show, this is what we learned. there is no evidence that the president directed anyone to tell the ukrainians that aid was conditioned on investigation. aside from the mere presumptions by ambassador sondland, there is no evidence that trump was conditioning aid on investigation. and if you doubt me, just go back to the actual transcript because never in that call was the 2020 election mentioned. and never in that call was military aid mentioned. in fact, president trump told senator johnson on 31 august that aid was not conditioned on investigation. rather, president trump was rightfully skeptical about the ukrainians. their country has a history of