We are witnessing, I believe, the most tragic mockery of justice in the history of this Nation.

The committee charged with writing up the Articles of Impeachment... wasn't allowed to be in there for the 17 fact witnesses.

It is improper and unfair to change the rules in the middle of the game, Mr. Chairman.

You have been wanting to do that for a long time. You ought to take it and just rejoice.

It is an absurdity to claim that the granting to Congress of the sole power of impeachment implies duties to the President to cooperate in any and all congressional requests, no matter their merit.

They see fit to abandon all basic tenets of fairness, due process, and justice guaranteed to every American under the Constitution.

If there is ever a microcosm of how to consume this day and the importance of it with the American people, it is that they are naming crimes in debate that they don't even have in their impeachment resolution, because they can't prove them…

The President is responsible for faithfully executing the laws.

The problem that we are seeing here is when you even get to the articles themselves, abuse of power, when you look at these articles and compare them to history.

Well, this is precisely the abuse of impeachment the American Founders feared, that the power to overrule a national election would devolve into a weapon of partisan warfare, reducing the President to serving at the pleasure of Congress…

What the call made clear is we are interested in finding out about if there was Ukrainian collusion or interference in our election.

This impeachment is going to fail. And the Democrats are going to justly pay a heavy political price for it.