Jamie Raskin

Totally without merit. Vice President Biden was acting to articulate and implement U.S. foreign policy at that moment, and that policy was to get rid of a corrupt prosecutor.

Rudy Giuliani is a hand grenade that is going to blow everybody up.

I think that it is almost a patriotic duty for us in this very tough time to see that we try to bridge partisan and ethnic and racial and sectional differences.

Our Department of Justice special counsel found a sweeping and systematic campaign to subvert and undermine the American election.

Well, it is a great question. We asked that to numerous of the witnesses, whether there was anything to this conspiracy theory basically. And the answer we got was, no, there is basically nothing to it, they are not aware that there was an…

The people's body will speak this week. And if it goes the way I hope we will go, we will impeach this President for abuse of power, we will impeach this President for obstruction of the Congress.

Attorney General Barr himself released a statement saying that President Trump had never contacted him with any evidence about the Bidens that he wanted to be investigated.

It was because Joe Biden was running for President, and he was looking for a hook to go after Joe Biden.

Well, there is an unstated premise there, which is that the President had a general interest in fighting corruption in Ukraine. And we saw little or no evidence of that at all.

The general concern was that no one knew quite in what capacity Rudy Giuliani was operating

He is elected as a reformer, he has taken on the corrupt forces in his society, but he is being presented essentially with yet another corrupt scheme.

But there was a history of corruption going back, and Zelensky was elected as a reformer.

It is impossible for me to take it seriously, given that I have researched all of the circumstances and the context.

Ambassador Sondland, closely involved in the campaign to pressure Ukraine at the behest of the President, declared in no uncertain terms that this was a clear quid pro quo.

Dr. Hill testified to the back channels outside of our usual national security and diplomatic policy that sought to exchange a White House meeting for investigations pursued by the President.

Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman described the unprecedented subversion of America's national interest in a strong Ukraine, in favor of a wholly personal interest of President Trump.

And last time this committee gathered on the subject of the inquiry, I spoke of my hopes that the public phase of this process would bring answers for the American people on those allegations.

So when we get elected, we have to try to think about the good of everyone.

The Framers of the Constitution were trying to decide whether impeachment should be located in the Supreme Court and treated as a matter of law and legal induction or whether it should be with Congress and the people's Representatives.

But I do want to push back against the idea that this conversation is only for people wearing pins.

Nothing strikes me as more conservative than wanting to conserve the Constitution and the Bill of Rights

President Trump is essentially being charged with conducting a break-in of American democracy in order to harm his political opponent.

Oh, absolutely. I mean, you know, first of all, all four witnesses... said that abuse of power is an impeachable offense.

Are we going to be allowing the President of the United States to be working with Vladimir Putin's Super-PAC?

Dr. Fiona Hill in her testimony said Russia can't beat us militarily. Russia can't beat us economically.