Number of significant procedural protections where the president even on the house side, as you know the role of the house is to act as the grand jury and the prosecutor and the actual trial takes place over in the senate, but still, we had significant procedural protections we invited the president and his counsel to attend, we provided the president s counsel the opportunity to cross examine witnesses and object to the admissibility of testimony, and we provided the president s counsel it make presentation of evidence before the full Judiciary Committee including the chance to call witnesses. The president chose not to avail himself of any of those opportunities. It reminds me the president Blockading Witnesses saying you dont have enough people with direct firsthand evidence. First of all, were those rights provided only in Judiciary Committee. Youre not the Principle Committee of impeachment. Youre sort of the final stop. Did the president get those
rights in the Intelligence Commi
what was clearly going to be perfunctory and provide woed dressing of legitimacy to this process. to claim that he was given meaningful or consistent opportunity treated anywhere like previous administrations i don t think holds up when denied an opportunity to participate where the principle action is and given the last minute thing. i will yield back my time and thank both of our distinguished members former and current of the rules committee for coming up here and providing us their insight and testimony. it s great to work with both of you and i appreciate your service to your districts and to the congress and to the country. yield back. so i want to thank the gentleman for his questioning. i said i would be liberal with the time. you were. you re going to make me into a conservative by the end of this hearing. let me just do a couple things