If the press cannot protect its sources, then important truths may never come to light, and Americans in our democracy suffer.

If your wife was involved in the big lie and claiming that Donald Trump had actually won the presidential election, he absolutely should recuse himself.

It is time we put an end to this pathetic and desperate inquiry.

there was nothing that remotely approached the level of proof needed to support a finding of high crimes and misdemeanors.

Even if we were to believe every single word offered by these utterly compromised and biased witnesses, their allegations do not identify any wrongdoing, much less an impeachable offense by President Biden.

Then we have statements by Mr. Jordan saying that Mr. Smirnov was the most corroborating witness that the Republicans had.

When you go to court, you have got to bring the evidence with you.

Our colleagues are the ones loyally amplifying the actual Russian hoax, not the Russia hoax, the Russian hoax.

The people of our country are the ones paying the price for their failure to actually govern.

Are you going to invite Donald Trump to come and talk about his violations of the Emoluments Clause?

There are no discrepancies. There is nothing--

There is no evidence, hundreds of thousands of pages of documents, dozens of hours of testimony, but not a shred of evidence of Presidential wrongdoing.

But criminal referrals require evidence of crimes, and the only crimes we have seen are those of the GOP's own star witnesses.

We can actually get things done, right?

In fact, Joe Biden was part of a global campaign, including by the United States, to oppose corruption and to go after the corrupt forces in Ukraine. Isn't that right?

With the impeachment bus running on empty, our GOP colleagues now are apparently preparing to save face by ending the impeachment farce with criminal referrals.

At some point, when we hit a few brick walls, all of a sudden then I saw the shift between the BLT group, which included John Solomon, the media personality, and Rudy Giuliani, and other Trump lawyers, to start trying to push narratives…

by the constant bumbling and continually shifting arguments here, you have done nothing more than exonerate President Biden.

you have actually provided more evidence to impeach Donald Trump for a third time than you have in so much as laying a glove on President Biden.

I urge my Republican colleagues to admit that their quest to impeach the President has completely collapsed.

That just makes no sense.

how low can you get, that it is the Republicans' idea that this is the best guy they can get to testify against the President.

We could focus on ending the crisis of gun violence in this country.

I would humbly, respectfully ask my Republican colleagues on this Committee to stop falling over yourself to win the approval of one because millions of people are depending on you to defend our delicate democracy.

Mr. Chairman, thank you very kindly. With any luck, today marks the end of perhaps the most spectacular failure in the history of congressional investigations.