Jamie Raskin

The President and his team had the power to call whatever witnesses they wanted.

Rudy now puts himself front and center in the campaign to smear our Ambassador, the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine who is fighting corruption.

The President essentially empowered and outsourced an alternative channel to the regular Department of State and National Security Council officials.

If we say that forever hereafter we are going to allow the President of the United States to use the awesome powers of his office to shake down particular governments...

I believe the American people know that Joe Biden is an honorable man and they know it is wrong to seek foreign help to cheat in an election.

What makes me suspicious, Mr. Hastings, is that he decided to tie that in with his other plan.

The President there was essentially just repeating Russian disinformation and propaganda, either wittingly or unwittingly.

Dr. Fiona Hill, leading Russia expert who figures importantly in this whole matter, has testified before this committee--and it is completely uncontradicted and unrefuted--that this CrowdStrike story about Ukraine being the one that…

He has tried to block all of the witnesses.

Zero have been produced. We have not gotten anything.

We are the people's body.

Solely in the House of Representatives.

The President cannot have the power to destroy our oversight investigative power.

I think this was an essential betrayal of his oath of office.

I believe that they did. Ukraine had been invaded and attacked by Russia.

It is overwhelmingly clear that he did.

You recall the testimony of Dr. Fiona Hill, who said that this was a domestic political errand that the President's team was on in order to extract this commitment from President Zelensky.

When Lieutenant Colonel Vindman testified, he said that this request for a favor was not in any sense a friendly request; it was a demand in the context of the hundreds of millions of dollars that were being held up.

Now, either we think that is in appropriate and proper thing for the President of the United States to be doing or we think it is wrong.

This President cut anticorruption funding to Ukraine by 50 percent.

Moreover, if you go to the July 25 telephone call, President Trump never raised the word 'corruption' once, but he did talk about Joe Biden three times.

The President removed Ambassador Yovanovitch, and we have learned today from Mr. Giuliani that he was involved with the campaign by Parnas and Fruman to smear Ambassador Yovanovitch to say there was something wrong with her.

I think that there is not any credible evidence from any of the witnesses, or anything in the record to suggest that the President was actually trying to ferret out corruption as opposed to impose a corrupt scheme on the President of…

President Trump makes Richard Nixon look like a little leaguer when it comes to obstruction.

The President chose not to avail himself of any of those opportunities