Lawmakers debate impeachment ahead of House Judiciary Cmte. vote on articles.
"First, does the evidence show clearly that the President committed these acts? Second, do they rise to the level of impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors? Third, what are the consequences for our national security, for the integrity of our elections, and for our country if we fail to act?” he asked.
The real legacy of their impeachment effort, he said,"will not be the removal of Donald Trump as president," which only the Senate has the power to do. Instead, it will be about"a three-year vendetta to get somebody that they couldn't beat and they’re desperate to do it before he beats them against next year.”, several other veterans of the impeachment process spoke for and against the articles.
On the other side of the dais, Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., who served as an acting House manager during the Clinton impeachment, said that his colleagues are now debating"the weakest case in history." He said that the articles of impeachment don't allege that any crimes like bribery, treason or extortion were committed by the president.
"They're never going to stop. And it's not just because they don't like the president," he said."They don't like us. They don't like the 63 million people who voted for this president, all of us in flyover country, all of us common folk in Ohio Wisconsin Tennessee and Texas."
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