Political Quotes

“I am sending a question to the desk. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Senator King asks the President's counsel: Would it be permissible for a President to inform the Prime Minister of Israel that he was holding congressional appropriated military aid unless the Prime Minister promised to come to the United States and publicly charge his opponent with antisemitism in the midst of an election campaign? Mr. Counsel PHILBIN. Mr. Chief Justice and Senator, thank you for the question, but the question really has nothing do with this case. I mean, it seems to be trying to get at the most extreme hypothetical related to a misinterpretation of what Professor Dershowitz was saying the other night. It is totally irrelevant here. The charges that have been brought here, articulated in the Articles of Impeachment, are based on a theory of abuse of power; that the House Democrats, the House managers have made clear depends for them to make their case to establish that when the President raised two issues on the call with President Zelensky of Ukraine, he raised the 2016 election interference, and he mentioned the Biden and Burisma incident; that there was not any legitimate public policy or foreign policy interest in mentioning those things to the President of Ukraine. That is the standard they have set for themselves. It is on page 5 of the House Judiciary Committee report, and it is on page 4.…”