Somalia. As if this is another step by the president to intimidate witnesses. He did not intimidate to you. You are here. You have endured. There are other people out there that can expect this before treatment if they come forward. That is a question for us. You also indicated that the president has a prerogative to appoint a noncareer person, and to be candid, republican president s and democratic president s have done that. Mr. Sondlands transcript is out, and he was someone who indicated that everything hinged, the white house meeting and the release of the vital
defensive aid, everything hinged on the president president zelensky being able to do that election that would benefit the trump campaign. You are aware of that . Yes. And you have indicated that would be something that you would not agree to do . Yes. And sondland was quite willing to do . Apparently so. I think you for your professional service and a yield back. Ambassador yovanovitch, thank you for being here. It has be
Elect the american president . The citizens of this country and no one else. Men and women have died on the battlefield to protect our democracy. The least we can do is show the courage to stand up tonight and do our part, to protect our democracy. With that, i yield back. The gentleman yields back. Does anyone else seek recognition on the amendment . Armstrong. Armstrong. For what purposes buzz mr. Armstrong seek recognition . Move to strike is the last word. And im going to go back to the initial language of the amendment, and particularly the removal from office and disqualification to hold any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States. So at numerous points in times during todays debate have they my Friends On The Other Side of the aisle held up a pocket constitution, waved it around. I think its interesting nobody has read from it yet, and i think there is a reason for that. But im going to read from the constitution. And if we want to talk about
article one, which
Statements. The whistleblower got caught with chairman schiff. Remember chairman schiff, the person that the democrats instead of the House Judiciary Committee which spent a full week on this, thats not whos been in charge. The person they put in charge was the person that got caught with the whistleblower. Have you spoken directly with the whistleblower . No, we have not. Wed like to. That wasnt true. The person that said he had evidence of the first fake impeachment scam, collusion with russia, had evidence of that collusion and didnt have it. The person who in the course of that read into the record the steele dossier because the people needed to know the truth about what happened. Well, we heard about the truth about the steele dossier this week when the Inspector General told us it was all garbage, rubbish, all made up, yeah, that chairman schiff, and now he got caught not being truthful about
a whistleblower who as i said you the other day didnt Tell The Truth verbally and in wri
corruptly. the president did not have corrupt intent. again, democrats are using a parody version of chairman schiff when he was talking about the president when he said, quote/unquote, make up dirt about my opponent. the president didn t actually say that. that was a parody of chairman schiff, and unfortunately, it s being used to support this element. if anybody has more time, i would appreciate if it would be yielded to me. with that, i yield back. mr. chairman? mr. chairman? who is saying mr. chairman? who seeks recognition on this amendment? mr. chairman? biggs, arizona. mr. biggs? it s on this side. has not already gone. he has already spoken. you are incorrect, sir. did you recognize me? no. i m told you have already spoken. that would be in error, sir.
the president didn t have corrupt intent and that s why the democrats cannot make out a prime fascia case. contrary to shift s parody version of the july 25 call, the president wasn t asking the ukraine to, quote unquote, make up dirt about my opponent. that quote came from a parody from chairman schiff. the president didn t say it in the phone call. for whatever reason that is being missed. there was also significant reason to believe that the bidens were involved in corruption and there s also evidence ukrainian officials colluded with democrats in the 2016 campaign. there s been a lot of talk about this being a conspiracy theory. it s not a speconspiracy theory. also, the president was not seeking to help with his 2020 campaign. rather, he was seeking accountability regarding ukraine democrat collusion in 2016 and