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Look at the uncontested facts in front of us, the gravity of the situation, and they should stand with us to vote yes on the articles of impeachment. do you know of any house republicans who might vote to impeach? well i m waiting for them to emerge. two weeks ago my former washington state senator slade gordon, a republican, came out with an op-ed that said republicans have plenty in front of them to vote to impeach the president and that is what they should do. he broke with the party on the clinton impeachment. that is the kind of courage we need. we need the patriotism and courage similar to the many foreign service individuals who came and testified before us. and so that s i think the most important thing. it looks like a lost my earpiece. okay. you don t have the earpiece. hopefully you ll be able to get it. okay. there you go. so democratic sources tell cnn that the chairman of the house judiciary committee, your committee, jerry nadler, ....
Long time. he is a very skilled expert on the law, on the constitution. and he will be you know, like i said, this is not people should not expect this to have the same tone as the intel committee because they are two very, very different committees. but i know that he is prepared and we are prepared on the democratic side for all the games that the republicans may throw out. i just again would say that, you know, it s i m trying to find the right words. this is a moment when essentially the republicans have allowed the president to get away with anything. and, you know, two weeks ago i think my former washington state senator republican slade gordon wrote an article in the paper. i think it was the washington post or the new york times and said that republicans have plenty in front of them to impeach the president. just recently we had bill ruckles just die from my state. ....
That attitude. we are not talking about some game here. we are talking about our democracy. we are talking about our elections, we re talking about our national security and i just had the former republican senator from my state, slade gordon wrote an op-ed about a week ago saying republicans have enough information in front of them to impeach this president. bill reclehouse stepped down during the saturday night massacre because he was not willing to fire the special prosecutor. we need some of that courage and patriotism from our republican colleagues instead of treating this like this is a game. i don t think that s helpful at all. i hear you on that. you have a republican apparatus and outside group spending millions of dollars essentially trying to strike fear into some of your colleagues in tougher districts, they have played, they basically decided to make this a campaign. and engaged in it like a paid ....
mitchell get you exhausted enough, you will agree unanimously to anything. i thought that was a little oversimplification, because there was a lot more to that. i e told my son, chet, who is with me here with me, after a few months in the senate, i am either going to leave this place or change this place. so i kept my options open, and then i finally decided to change it. one of the ways we did that is to apply common sense and try to loosen the place up. i had people give me a hard time sometimes because of the things that we did, but we would have dinners for our spouses. we d have bill coyne who became secretary of defense and write a poem, and i don t know if you helped me, don, write ode to patricia and we had the singing senators. we were pathetic, but the whole idea was to keep jim jefferts with us. and we had a good quartet, and one night we sang with barbara boxer and then we realized the problem of the senate, they could not harmonize. th first time in the s ....
something they consider a serious area of budget cutting. there would have to cut $170 billion. i think these sound bites are part of the deal. certainly when it comes to the presidential space, it helps them make up their minds, but there s still a lot of gridlock on capitol hill. that is just as much of their problem. have been focusing on the results in south carolina. the president has been marking on his state of the union address. what can we expect it? the need to bring back jobs, manufacturing jobs, and staying on the same course. the jobless rate is decreasing, which it has been. its working in his favor. he will be talking about the need for congress to work with him. the president wants to move the country forward. this sets things up for the coming year which will be nothing but gridlock in congress. it would give both things that they need passed otherwise nothing will happen. it works in obama s best interest to say, i have a vision, i have a plan. r ....