Business, the media, across the board, and the president since hes been in office has stoked that in an unprecedented way. The argument that theyre going to make about the fact that hes obstructing certainly matters on constitutional level but does it matter on a who cares level. This is an issue, i think the loss of institutional integrity, because our politics are tribalized and divisive, why nancy pelosi did not want to move forward with impeachment for the longest time, because it would be so divisive and she feels like her hand has been, you know, that theres no choice but to move forward. Whether its i remember during the health care debate, senator dodd said this is a really bad idea to do this on a party line vote. Doing impeachment this way is really hard because it allows one side to cast the other as seeking to legitimize them. Thats what the American People should not want because it undermines our institutions. Were going to hear from three witnesses basically at length to
president trump did what a president of our nation is not allowed to do. it is why last week the constitutional scholar, professor michael gear hard said, if what we re talking about is not peaimpeachable the nothing is impeachable. president trump s actions are impeachable offenses. they threaten our rule of law, they threaten our institutions, and as james madison warned us, they threaten our republic. let me begin where we must with the facts in evidence. first, it s important to understand why ukraine was so important to our national security. ukraine was under attack by its aggressive and hostile neighbor russia. they encroached on its territories. the ukraine was at great risk that russia would, again, take further territory or try.