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.

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.

It is my solemn responsibility this morning to present for your consideration House Resolution 755 and the accompanying House Judiciary Committee report concerning the impeachment of Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for…

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.

What does that have to do with the foreign policy of the United States? What does that have to do with what Congress voted for?

You don't like the guy. You don't like the conversation. You don't like how he does business.

That is why we are trying to get back to the facts of what took place here with the Ukraine shakedown.

he got caught red-handed; and I don't see any ambiguity in the historical record about that.

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.

Our system is based on the idea of popular self-government, so you need to have the channels of effective political participation open.

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

We have a clear and present danger to our democracy right now because of the electoral corruption.

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

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

The facts of this case are painful and indisputable. We know that the President abused his office, asking the leader of the Ukraine to announce an investigation of his political rival.

I think this is what you call obstruction, plain and simple.

The July 25 contemporaneous memorandum itself is overwhelmingly damning of the President's designs on President Zelensky.

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…

For the President to say he is being treated worse than the Salem witch trials is unhinged, just like so many of the missives on impeachment.

Zero have been produced. We have not gotten anything.

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

Not a single Republican today even hinted that what the President did was wrong. It was wrong. It was wrong.

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

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.

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.