Gives the house the sole power of impeachment and the power to determine its own rules. When president nixon, during the time he was going to be impeached, the chairman of the Rules Committee, chairman madden, actually spoke on house floor and announced there would be a rule governing how that proceeding would move forward. When the clinton articles of impeachment were brought forward, there was a unanimous consent request to kind of govern how we conducted ourselves. And im not sure how likely it would be that we would get a unanimous consent request. I would like to ask unanimous consent without objection to enter into the record a letter sent to the chairman of the Judiciary Committee signed by 70 republican members including kevin mccarthy, the republican leader, and basically, and let me read the key lines here, we will avail ourselves of every parliamentary tool available to us on the committee and house floor, in other words to try to delay and make this process as
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but the other thing he wanted president zelensky to do was rehabilitate the completed discredited conspiracy theory that it was ukraine that interfered with our election rather than russia. our intelligence agencies all say the same thing, it was russia that conducted what the department of justice called a sweeping and systematic campaign against our election in 2016. you remember, mr. chairman, they injected propaganda into our polity through social media, facebook and twitter and so on. they directly conducted cyber invasion and attack and espionage against the democratic national committee, the dccc, hillary clinton s headquarters. and they directly tried to get into our state boards of elections. not two or three. all 50 of them they tried to get into. that s what russia did. now suddenly we have the president of the united states telling president zelensky that if he wants the $391 million
that is correct. did that impeachment report rely on hearsay to support their insertions? yes. what explanation does chairman schiff provide when asked why hearsay rather than firsthand testimony was incorrectbly presented as evidence? besides his own discussion making up the phone call to start with, he s not provided one because he didn t testify in my committee. did you ask chairman nadler to invite chairman schiff to come testify? i did. just to be clear, you were asked to vote on articles of impeachment against our commander in chief based on a report full of hearsay and you were not permitted to ask the author of the report any questions? that is correct. all i got was a staff member. i would like to note for the record, mr. chairman, chairman schiff refused to discuss the report with the minority, and he was more than willing to appear on fox news sunday, two days ago, it s unfortunately
this process. i ve seen in the closed-door depositions, i saw the democratic counsel get an hour, i saw the republican counsel get an hour, i saw the democratic members get a chance to question, i saw the republican members get a chance to question. while the president of the united states is stopping at least seven witnesses from coming forward. it may be more than that. but he has blockaded witnesses. the president, who says the process is unfair, is the one who is stopping everybody from coming to testify. and is essentially trying to blockade the whole investigation. look, why is this essential, mr. chairman? it s essential because for institutional reasons. it s essential for institutional reasons because in the future it might be a majority democratic congress, it might be a majority republican congress, but in any event, it s congress. one of our jobs is, as members of congress, is to make sure
minutes ago about have we now set a precedent that you can do anything overseas and not get investigated for it. haven t got an answer. as the chairman knows and also my chairman knows because my chairman likes subpoenas, he likes to threaten them, anyway. the secretary of defense responded, he said it was open for negotiation. the secretary of state, part of the document dump was part of that. the document dump from the intelligence committee had documents from the office management and budget in it. if you didn t receive a letter, as we have done in the past when we were in the majority under president obama, president obama in fast and furious and other times, the thing that amazes me, it seems like the majority all of a sudden discovered that the legislative branch and the administrative branch don t play well in the same sandbox. we saw this happen over and