Political Quotes

“Mr. Chief Justice, I send a question to the desk. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Thank you. Senator Durbin asks the House managers: If President Trump were to actually invoke executive privilege in this proceeding, wouldn't he be required to identify the specific documents or communications containing sensitive material that he seeks to protect? Mr. Manager NADLER. As stated before, executive privilege is a very limited privilege that must be claimed by the President. He has at no time claimed executive privilege. Rather, he has claimed absolute immunity, a nonexistent concept that every court that has ever considered it has rejected. Instead, he has simply said: We will oppose all subpoenas. We will deny to the House all information--all information. Whatever they want, they can't have. This is way beyond the pale, and it is intended to be because he fears the facts. The facts are, he tried to extort a foreign government through withholding military aid that this Congress had voted--he broke the law to withhold the aid that this Congress had mandated be sent to them in order to pressure them into announcing an investigation of his political opponent. Those are the facts. Those facts are proven beyond any doubt at all. So what do we have? We have a diversion after diversion, diversions about what Hunter Biden may have done in Ukraine--irrelevant, whatever he did in Ukraine.…”