Eric Swalwell

Did you also hear testimony that these acts by the President, while being wrong and an abuse of power, also harmed U.S. national security?

This is not due process, this is not the rule of law, and this is not how to impeach an American President.

Who told Vice President Pence to not go to President Zelensky's inauguration?

Who told Ambassador Sondland and Ambassador Volker to work with Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine?

the Framers thought electoral treachery, particularly involving foreign powers, was a critical abuse that could support and lead to impeachment.

He really does believe he can act as though he were above the law.

What do you think, Professor Karlan, does the President's conduct say to the millions of Americans who left their families and livelihoods to come to a country that represents the rule of law?

Today, 50 million immigrants live in the United States.

This isn't just a President... asking for another foreign leader to investigate a political opponent.

It certainly shows a pattern of conduct, meaning that the President in the past has invited foreign governments to involve themselves in our elections and he has obstructed justice.

I think they're all on the table, Anderson. And to most people watching at home what it is, is that if your hometown mayor called the police chief and said, I know that you need more police officers to keep the streets safe, however…

The American people saw, Anderson, serious scholars lay out the president's abuse of power by using his office, your taxpayer dollars to ask a foreign government to help him cheat an election, and that we're not helpless to that.

Congress should end these injustices by modifying the Bail Reform Act to eliminate financial conditions and truly put rich and poor on equal footing.

I urge you to take action and to bring the federal pretrial system back in line with Congress's intent.

This presumption of detention must be changed. It has had far-reaching consequences and very devastating ones.

Our holding up of security systems that would go to a country that is fighting aggression from Russia for no good policy reason, no good substantive reason, no good national security reason is wrong.

Again, our holding up of security systems that would go to a country that is fighting aggression from Russia for no good policy reason, no good substantive reason, no good national security reason is wrong.

``I would like you to do us a favor, though.'' President Trump said those 10 words on July 25 to Ukraine's President before asking Ukrainian President Zelensky to investigate a potential political opponent. For the past month, the…

That, Anderson, is a 'this for that', in other words, a quid pro quo.

That, Anderson, is a 'this for that,' in other words, a quid pro quo.

We're going to protect the whistle-blower outside the hearing. We're going to protect the whistle-blower inside the hearing.

We have a number of witnesses who have told one version of events about this, quote, irregular channel as Ambassador Taylor described, that President Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Ambassador Sondland trying to shake down the Ukrainians.

If all the president did was ask the Ukrainian president to investigate his opponent, that would be a gross abuse of power.

He leveraged $391 million in taxpayer dollars over the Ukrainian president, as well as a White House meeting.

I have an amendment at the desk, No. 6, made in order under the rule. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 3, line 15, insert ``and each immediate family member of a…