Potentially drawing up articles of impeachment against the president. House democrats invited three positive note scholars to testify. A Harvard Law School professor, gerhardt,an, michael a professor at the university of North Carolina school of law, and stanford professor pamela karlan. Republicans invited jonathan tur ley, a professor of Public Interest law at George Washington university. The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. Mr. Chairman youre upsurping the right to object. Objection is noted. I receiver tzrbreserve the r object. Peropportunity to cause g, im furnishing you with a demand on minority hearings on this subject signed by all the republican the gentleman will suspend. Pursuant to cause 2 j 1 rule 11 im furnish you with a letter signed by all the republican members of the committee. I request you set this date before the Committee Votes on any articles of impeachment i withdraw my reservation. We will confer on this later. The quorum is present. This i
Professor. Here is the hearing in its entirety. Order. House will come to object. E the right to i am furnishing you with the subject signed by all republicans. Pursuant to clause, i am furnishing you with a letter signed by all the members of the committee can i request that you set this date before the Committee Votes on any articles of impeachment. I withdraw my reservation. Later. Ill confer on this hearing wethe first to housecting pursuant resolution 660. Here is have the committee will proceed for this hearing will openingill make it an statement and then i will rubberneck just recognized a member for making an Opening Statement. I now recognize myself for no Opening Statement. For anve the time Opening Statement. The facts before us are undisputed. President trump called roses was zelensky andent asked him for a favor. That was a concerted effort to solicit an advantage in the next. Lection to obtain that private political advantage, President Trump elected from the newly presi
Drawing up articles of impeachment against President Trump. During this portion, law professor Pamela Carlin made comparisons between kings and President Trumps conduct. Recognize gentleman let me repeat. The committee will come to order. When we broke for recess, we were under the five minute rule and i recognize mr. Sensenbrenner for five minutes. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. Im a veteran of impeachments. I have been named by the house as an impeachment manager in four impeachments. Clinton and three judges. Thats more than anybody else in history. And one of the things in every impeachment whether its the ones that i was involved in or others that have come before the committee where i was not a manager is that the debate on what is a high crime and misdemeanor and how serious does that have to be in order it for it to rise to a level of an Impeachable Offense. 50 years ago then republican leader gerald ford made a comment that saying a high crime and misdemeanor is anything a
I dont think too many people are going to watch because its going to be boring. All right . In fact, youre here, i guess youre here, and well supersede it, but not a lot of people are going to be watching today. Just think of this. Constitutional lawyers they get three and we get one. What kind of a deal is that . You dont need a constitutional lawyer because nothing was done wrong. Zero done wrong. I will say it again, read the transcript and then listen to what the president of ukraine said. He said there was no pressure whatsoever. Listen to what the foreign minister of ukraine highly respected man, very both very respected. Listen to what the foreign minister said. He said there was pressure whatsoever. Thats the only one that counts but then listen to all of their witnesses and not one of them said anything that was meaningful other than positive for me. Like the one said there was no quid pro quo. Thats what he said. And he said that i actually told him that. There will be no qui
International the Monetary Fund has improved the forecast of the growth of the Gross Domestic Product of ukraine, this year they expect 3 . This was announced by the deputy head of the imf mission in ukraine , nata nepshteim. In his opinion, the main growth factor is domestic demand, private consumption, i. E. You and me we invest in the economy mainly with our expenses, although exports remain weak. The stoppage of the grain corridor played a role in this. The representative of the imf added that the economy is adapting, showing excellent resilience, i will add that this week the representatives of the imf worked in ukraine, they are satisfied with the results, ukraine fulfills all the beacons, all the recommendations of the fund, reviewed the Cooperation Program for a total amount of more than 15. 5 billion dollars , well, we are waiting for the next portion of money to go to the National Banks coffers based on the results, and we really see positive results shift, according to Inter