Impeachment is in the Constitution because of public offenses by political leaders against democracy itself.

It is an after-the-fact rationalization. It is a pretext.

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

We don't have to first go out and prove that he committed bribery or committed honest services fraud or committed extortion.

We are in the process of collecting information to establish an indictment, in essence, charges against the President.

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

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…

You certainly do not have the right to call irrelevant witnesses.

There were 17 fact witnesses who appeared before the House Committee on Intelligence.

The President, who says the process is unfair, is the one who is stopping everybody from coming to testify.

This was an arrangement where the President conditioned all of this foreign assistance that we had sent, $200 million to the Department of Defense, $191 million to the Department of State, to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia, and…

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

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.

We have just set a new precedent there, a new standard, that the President can go and try to recruit foreign governments to get in our campaign by threatening, announcing, and engaging in criminal investigations of their political…

What is our ultimate check against that? It is going to be impeachment.

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

But it has never been the understanding of any Congress, whether it was the Congress--the House of Representatives that impeached Bill Clinton or the House of Representatives that brought articles against Richard Nixon or back to Andrew…

That is banana republic stuff, right? That is tin pot dictator stuff.

If you fail to act now, history will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

This President cut anticorruption funding to Ukraine by 50 percent.

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.

You know, I never thought in my lifetime we would get to a point where the President of the United States heckles people for doing their civic duty of going under oath to tell the truth.

The obstruction was clear to me, but we didn't.

Now this was 2 years before this phone call ever happened. And so, again, I am looking at Articles of Impeachment here.

You see, 'heads, I win; tails you lose' is the essence of that argument.