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Adam Bennett Schiff is an American lawyer and politician currently serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district, a position he has held since January 3, 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has played a significant role in various legislative efforts and is known for his work on national security and intelligence issues. He served as the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, where he was involved in high-profile investigations and oversight of intelligence agencies.
And for those senators -- and there have been a few -- to say, we didn't need to hear from John Bolton because, basically, the House proved the president guilty, even without him, and we should let the voters decide, they could not explain…
the actions that we take today, including impeaching the president and trying him, I think, will have the effect of slowing that momentum of the country away from democracy, until we return to our bearings and once again we have an…
Rob this country of a fair trial, and there can be no representation that the verdict has any meaning. How could it? If the result is baked in by the process?
Yet another reason why we ought to hear from witnesses. The facts will come out. They will continue to come out.
Mr. Trump gave the instruction, Mr. Bolton wrote, during an Oval Office conversation in early May that included the acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, the president's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and the White House…
Mr. Trump gave the instruction that Mr. Bolton wrote during an Oval Office conversation in early May.
What is not permitted is for a president to withhold congressionally-appropriated money for a corrupt purpose, to secure help, elicit foreign help to cheat in an election.
I don't think we could have imagined a circumstance where a President of the United States would have told a foreign leader that the U.S. Ambassador, our anti-corruption champion in Ukraine, was 'going to go through some things.'
If the President is allowed to decide which subpoenas they will deign to consider valid and which they will deign to consider invalid, your oversight power, our oversight power is gone.
Do any of us have any question that Barack Obama would be impeached for that kind of misconduct?
They -- as we understand, the chief justice will be fair. I don't -- I'm not, for a moment, suggesting they don't think the chief justice is fair, quite the contrary. They're afraid he'll be fair.
Well, the short answer is if the President were so confident that this was a perfect call and that those around him would agree that there was nothing nefarious going on, he would want witnesses to come and testify. But, of course, he…
He truly believes that he is above the law. Doesn't matter who's listening. If it's good for him -- this is I guess a version of the Dershowitz argument, if it's good for him, it's good for the state because he is the state.
If they were operating in good faith, if they really wanted a fair resolution, if they weren't just shooting for a delay, they would allow the chief justice to make these decisions.
If you dare, if you have the unmitigated temerity to want witnesses in a trial, we will make you pay for it with endless delay.
The President of the United States used taxpayer dollars, the American people's money, to withhold aid from an ally at war to benefit his political campaign.
The important constitutional point here is not that the acts within abuse of power constitute bribery, although they do. The important point is we charged a constitutional crime, the most serious crime.
You can't have a fair trial without witnesses, and I think when I was asked that question before, I answered at the affirmative, what I meant (ph) the negative.
Bear in mind that efforts to cheat an election are always going to be in proximity to an election. And if you say you can't hold the president accountable in an election year where they're trying to cheat in that election, then you are…
When you hear graphically a man say the President of the United States told me to hold aid from our ally, to coerce foreign assistance in his election, when the American people hear that firsthand, not filtered through our statements, they…
If we say that Donald Trump can do this, then this could happen to you.
The President said there was no quid pro quo. I guess that's the end of the story.
If you can't have the ability to enforce an impeachment power, you might as well not put it in the Constitution.
That means that we protect people have the courage to come forward and blow the whistle, that we don't think, though the president might, that they're traders and spies.
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