This from like the ivory towers of your law school but it makes actual people in this country when the president calls you dont get to interrupt me on this time. And when you suggest that you invoke the president s son name here and try to make a joke at referencing baron trump that does not lend credibility to your argument, it makes you look mean and attacking someones family. The minor child of the president of the United States. So lets see if we could get into the facts. To all of the witnesses. If you have personal knowledge of a single Material Fact in the schiff report, please raise your hand. And let the record reflect no personal knowledge of a single fact. And you know what, that continues on the tradition we saw from adam schiff where ambassador taylor could not identify an Impeachment Offense and mr. Kent never met with the president and fiona hill never mentioned military aid and mr. Hill was not aware of any
nefarious aid and Colonel Vindman said that bribery was invoked
said this entire is a pretempt by the u.s. to strengthen their forces, nato forces in the region close to russia s borders as well. so we re in this sort of situation at the moment where the week long negotiations that we ve just come out of have essentially come to nothing. there has been no progress on russia s core demand which is to, you know, prevent any further expansion of nato. particularly to make sure that ukraine doesn t become part of the western military alliance and now we wait to see what happens next. will there be more talks or will russia draw a line and decide to proceed with whatever military option it may be planning. and all we ve heard from the white house so far is the threat of economic sanctions, which didn t deter vladimir putin in 2014. we ll see how they respond alongside our european allies. thank you matthew. if you ve done an shopping lately, you and i both know
that is exactly what james madison warned against. that you could create a vote of no confidence standard in our constitution. well then are we in danger of abusing our own power of doing enormous violence to our constitution by proceeding in this matter. my democratic colleagues are searching for pretempt for impeachment since before the president was sworn in on this panel professor karlan called the election illegitimate and implied impeachment was a remedy. professorfeldman said over a tweet he made in march of 2017 and with succumbing to the red queen, sentence first, verdict afterwards. this is part of the probe of how your view of the president can affect your assumptions, your assumptions and view of the
invoked when the federal government is going to step in and protect some group in the state from a powerful local elite. and so obviously, states rights is very important before the civil ward to advocates of slavery. states rights were very important to advocates of segregation, who didn t want federal civil rights laws. but when you look at the history on a whole and recent history, on a whole lot of questions, when local progress ifs who are trying to enact tougher environmental rules, many conservatives wanted to pretempt that with federal power. when state attorneys general wanted to go after wall street, many conservatives said no, no, that s a federal question. being hypocritical, but i think that problem that i have, and i think you re right mr. dion, that they play it both ways. but the language, melissa, is clearly that they re trying to bring the country back to a state by state kind of