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government. and then simply says, but you can go to court because that s how things always work. again, it s just important to remember. the facts are clear. no president has ever, ever, ever obstructed congress in the manner that we ve seen from president trump. will the gentleman yield? in a moment. and so as as we go forward, and i don t know how much longer we ll be here. it s always important to make l sure that the facts are clear. and that we don t muddy the waters by suggesting that something that is sosu unprecedented, that we ve never seen before in the history of our country, is somehow just a parcel of thes way things work around here. they don t. know it. friends on the other side of the aisle know it. the american people know it. but mr. johnson s right. sometimes it s important to remind them of it.t. i yield. will the gentleman yield? nt thank you. i just want to add a little constitutional post-script to underscore the verye important point that mr. d ....
the whistle-blower made falseht statements, the whistle-blower got caught with chairman schiff. remember chairman schiff, the person that the democrats instead of the house judicial committee which has spent a full week on this, that s not who has been in charge. they put in charge was the person that got caught with the whistle-blower. have you spoken directly with the whistle-blower? no, we have not. we d like to. that wasn t true. the person that said he had evidence of the first fake impeachment scam, collusion with russia, had evidence of that collusion and didn t have it. the person who in the course of that read into the record the steele dossier because the people needed to know what happened about the truth of what happened. we heard about the truth of what happened with the steele dossier this week when the inspector general said it was all garbage, rubbish, all made up. yeah, thatad chairman schiff. and now he got caught not being truthful about a whistle-blower who ....
that we find ourselves in. and i thought the threat to our nation was well-articulated earlier today by professor feldman. when you said if we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office for personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy. we live in a monarchy or we live under a dictatorship. my view is that if people cannot depend on the fairness of our elections, then what people are calling divisive today will be absolutely nothing compared to the shredding of our democracy. after the events of ukraine unfolded, the president claimed that the reason he requested an investigation into his political opponents and withheld desperately needed military aid for ukraine was supposedly because he was worried about corruption. however, contrary to the president s statements, various witnesses, including vice president pence s special advisor jennifer williams, testified that the president s request was political. take a listen. i found the july 25th phone call unusual b ....
facilities across the country. the administration has worked with the committee staff to observe 11 cpb, 13 i.c.e. detention activities to contract with hhs. contrary to the assertions from the democrats, the trump administration has cooperated substantially in matters related to the border and elsewhere, but let s just contrast that with the democrats combative posture. in letters to the state department employees the committee threatened witnesses that, and i quote, any failure to appear, any failure to appear in response to a mere letter requesting their presence for deposition shall, and i quote, constitute evidence of obstruction. this is just letter, not subpoenas. in letters the state department employees in letters to the state department employees the committee threatened witnesses that if they insist on having agency counsel present to protect the executive branch in their confidentiality interest or if they make any effort to protect confidentiality interest at a ....
well, that s what it says, to faithfully execute the law. is there anybody here i don t care what comes out of your mouth today. is there anybody here who believes that this president has faithfully executed the law and faithfully executed the duties, the sacred trust that has been put in his hands and on his shoulder? he is supposed to faithfully execute the law, not ignore it, not abuse it and not forget it. the president is supposed to be motivated by public interest. public interest. the interest of the people. but rather than remembering that or caring about that, i m not really sure he ever really did. the president chose to try to coerce a foreign power, a newly elected, young president that we all were excited about, an anti-corruption president. the president tried to coerce him into interfering in the 2020 elections. the things that i have heard today about vice president s child, things i ve heard about the vice president s son when we have billions of people in t ....