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February 3, 2020 | Clip Of Senate Impeachment Trial, Day 12, Part 1
LEAD HOUSE MANAGER ADAM SCHIFF WRAPS UP CLOSING ARGUMENTS IN IMPEACHMENT TRIAL
2020-02-03T14:33:34-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/e1f/20200203144627002_hd.jpgLead
House manager Adam Schiff wraps up closing arguments in the impeachment trial of
President Donald Trump and urges the Senate to convict and remove him from
office. Representative Schiff asks senators if the president can be trusted to
do the right thing and he warns that those who vote to acquit the president will
stand on the wrong side of history.
Lead House manager Adam Schiff wraps up closing arguments in the impeachment
trial of President Donald Trump and urges the Senate to… read more
Lead House manager Adam Schiff wraps up closing arguments in the impeachment
trial of President Donald Trump and urges the Senate to convict and remove him
from office. Representative Schiff asks senators if the president can be trusted
to do the right thing and he warns that those who vote to acquit the president
will stand on the wrong side of history. close
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UNION. MR. CHIEF JUSTICE, I WANT TO BEGIN BY THANKING YOU FOR THE DISTINGUISHED
WAY YOU HAVE PRESIDED OVER THESE PROCEEDINGS. SENATORS, WE ARE NOT ENEMIES BUT
FRIENDS AND WE MUST NOT BE ENEMIES. IF LINCOLN COULD SPEAK THESE WORDS DURING
THE CIVIL WAR, SURELY WE CAN'T LIVE THEM OUT AND OVERCOME OUR DIVISIONS AND OUR
ANIMOSITIES. IT IS MIDNIGHT IN WASHINGTON AND THE LIGHTS ARE FINALLY GOING OUT
IN THE CAPITAL AFTER A LONG DAY OF THE IMPEACHMENT OF TRENTON TRIAL OF DONALD J
TRUMP THE SENATE HEARD ARGUMENTS ONLY HOURS EARLIER ON WHETHER TO CALL WITNESSES
AND REQUIRED THE INITIATION TO THESE DOCUMENTS IT HAS WITHHELD. COUNSEL FOR THE
PRESIDENT STILL MAINTAINS THE PRESIDENTS INNOCENCE WHILE OPPOSING ANY ADDITIONAL
EVIDENCE THAT WOULD PROVE OTHERWISE AND IT IS MIDNIGHT IN WASHINGTON. AND THIS
NIGHT AND ALL THE LIGHTS HAVE BEEN EXTINGUISHED SOMEWHERE IN THE BOWELS OF THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DONALD TRUMP'S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, A LIGHT REMAINS ON.
SOMEONE HAS WAITED UNTIL THE COUNTRY IS ASLEEP TO HIT SEND TO INFORM THE COURT
IN A FILING DUE THAT DAY THAT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, DEPARTMENT THAT WOULD
REPRESENT JUSTICE, IS REPEATING TO PRODUCE DOCUMENTS DIRECTLY BEARING ON THE
PRESIDENT'S DECISION TO WITHHOLD MILITARY AID FROM UKRAINE. THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION HAS THEM AND IT IS NOT TURNING THEM OVER AND IT DOES NOT WANT THE
SENATE TO KNOW UNTIL IT IS TOO LATE. SEND. THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED LAST FRIDAY
NIGHT WHEN YOU LEFT HOME FOR THE WEEKEND AND A REPLAY OF THE DUPLICITY WE SAW
DURING THE TRIAL THE PRESIDENT'S LAWYERS ARGUED HERE AT THE HOUSE MUST GO TO
COURT AND ARGUED IN COURT THAT HOUSE MUST COME HERE THEY WERE AT IT AGAIN
TELLING THE COURT IN A MIDNIGHT FILING THAT IT WOULD NOT TURN OVER RELEVANT
DOCUMENTS EVEN AS THEY ARGUED HERE THAT THEY WERE NOT COVERING UP THE PRESIDENTS
MISDEEDS. MIDNIGHT IN WASHINGTON. ALL TOO TRAGIC A METAPHOR FOR WHERE THE
COUNTRY FINDS ITSELF AT THE CONCLUSION OF ONLY THE THIRD IMPEACHMENT IN HISTORY
AND THE FIRST IMPEACHMENT TRIAL WITHOUT WITNESSES OR DOCUMENTS, BEFORE TRIAL OR
NON- TRIAL IN IMPEACHMENT HISTORY. HOW DID WE GET HERE? IN THE BEGINNING OF THIS
PROCEEDING YOU DID NOT KNOW WHETHER WE COULD PROVE OUR CASE AND MANY SENATORS
LIKE MANY AMERICANS DID NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO WATCH MUCH, LET ALONE ALL
THE OPEN HEARINGS AND HOUSE DURING OUR INVESTIGATION. NONE OF US COULD
ANTICIPATE WHAT DEFENSES THE PRESIDENT MIGHT OFFER. NOW, YOU'VE SEEN WHAT WE
HAVE PROMISED, OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE OF THE PRESIDENTS GUILT, DONALD JOHN TRUMP
WITHHELD HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO AN ALLY AT WAR AND A COVETED WHITE
HOUSE MEETING WITH THEIR PRESIDENT TO COERCE OR EXTORT THAT NATIONS TO CHEAT IN
OUR ELECTION. WHEN HE WAS FOUND OUT HE ENGAGED IN THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE EFFORT
TO COVER UP HIS MISCONDUCT IN THE HISTORY OF PRESIDENTIAL IMPEACHMENT CITING
SUBPOENAS FOR DOCUMENTS AND WITNESSES AND USING HIS OWN OBSTRUCTION AS A SWORD
AND SHIELD, ARGUING HERE THAT HOUSE DID NOT CITE HARD ENOUGH TO OVERCOME THEIR
NON- INDICATION TO PRIVILEGE IN COURT AND IN COURT THAT THE HOUSE WAS NOT BEAT
HER TO ENFORCE THEIR SUBPOENAS BUT THAT IMPEACHMENT IS A PROPER REMEDY. HAVING
FAILED TO PERSUADE THE SENATE OR THE PUBLIC THAT THERE WAS NO QUID PRO QUO AND
HAVING OFFERED NO EVIDENCE TO CONTRADICT THE RECORD THE PRESIDENTS TEAM OPTED IN
A KIND OF DESPERATION FOR A DIFFERENT KIND OF DEFENSE. FIRST, PREVENT THE SENATE
AND THE PUBLIC FROM HEARING FROM WITNESSES WITH THE MOST DAMNING ACCOUNTS OF THE
PRESIDENTS MISCONDUCT AND SECOND, FALL BACK ON A THEORY OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER SO
BROAD AND UNACCOUNTABLE THAT IT WOULD ALLOW ANY OCCUPANT OF 1600 PENNSYLVANIA
AVENUE TO BE AS CORRUPT AS HE CHOOSES WHILE THE CONGRESS IS POWERLESS TO DO
ANYTHING ABOUT IT. THAT DEFENSE COLLAPSED OF ITS OWN DEADWEIGHT. PRESIDENTS MAY
ABUSE THEIR POWER WITH IMPUNITY, THEY ARGUE. ABUSE OF POWER IS NOT A
CONSTITUTIONAL CRIME, THEY CLAIMED. ONLY STATUTORY CRIME IS A CONSTITUTIONAL
CRIME, EVEN THOUGH THERE WERE NO STATUTORY CRIMES WHEN THE CONSTITUTION WAS
ADOPTED. THE PRESIDENT HAD TO LOOK FAR AND WIDE TO FIND A DEFENSE LAWYER TO MAKE
SUCH AN ARGUMENT. UNSUPPORTED BY HISTORY, THE FOUNDERS OR COMMON SENSE. THE
REPUBLICAN EXPERT WITNESS IN THE HOUSE WOULD NOT MAKE IT. SERIOUS CONSTITUTIONAL
SCHOLARS WOULD NOT MAKE IT. EVEN ALAN DERSHOWITZ WOULD NOT MAKE IT. AT LEAST HE
WOULDN'T IN 1998. THIS HAS BECOME THE PRESIDENT DEFENSE AND YET THIS DEFENSE
PROVED INDEFENSIBLE. IF ABUSE OF POWER IS NOT IMPEACHABLE EVEN THOUGH IT IS
CLEAR THE FOUNDERS CONSIDERED IT THE HIGHEST OF ALL HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS
BUT IF IT WERE NOT IMPEACHABLE THEN A WHOLE RANGE OF UTTERLY UNACCEPTABLE
CONDUCT IN TO THE PRESIDENT WOULD NOW BE BEYOND REACH. TRUMP COULD OFFER ALASKA
TO THE RUSSIANS IN EXCHANGE FOR SUPPORT IN THE NEXT ELECTION OR DECIDED TO MOVE
TO FLORIDA PERSONALLY AND LET JARED KUSHNER RUN THE COUNTRY, DELEGATING TO HIM
THE DECISION WHETHER TO GO TO WAR. BECAUSE THOSE THINGS WERE NOT NECESSARILY
CRIMINAL THIS ARGUMENT WOULD ALLOW THAT HE COULD NOT BE IMPEACHED FOR SUCH
ABUSES OF POWER. OF COURSE, THIS WOULD BE ABSURD. MORE THAN ABSURD, IT WOULD BE
DANGEROUS. SO, MR. DERSHOWITZ TRIED TO EMBELLISH HIS LEGAL CREATION AND
DISTINGUISH AMONG THOSE ABUSES OF POWER WHICH WOULD BE IMPEACHABLE FROM THOSE
WHICH WOULDN'T, ABUSES OF POWER THAT WOULD HELP THE PRESIDENT GET REELECTED WERE
PERMISSIBLE AND THEREFORE UNIMPEACHABLE AND ONLY THOSE FOR PECUNIARY GAINS WERE
BEYOND THE PALE. UNDER THIS THEORY, AS LONG AS THE PRESIDENT BELIEVES HIS
REELECTION WAS IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST, HE COULD DO ANYTHING AND NO QUID PRO QUO
WAS TO CORRUPT. NO DAMAGE TO HER NATIONAL SECURITY, TWO GREAT, THIS WAS SUCH AN
EXTREME VIEW THAT EVEN THE PRESIDENT'S OTHER LAWYERS HAD TO RUN AWAY FROM IT.
WHAT ARE WE LEFT WITH? THE HOUSE HAS PROVEN THE PRESIDENTS GUILT. HE TRIED TO
COERCE AN ALLY INTO HELPING HIM CHEAT BY SMEARING HIS OPPONENT. HE BETRAYED OUR
NATIONAL SECURITY IN ORDER TO DO IT. WENDY WITHHELD MILITARY AID TO OUR ALLY AND
VIOLATED THE LAW TO DO SO, HE COVERED IT UP AND COVERS IT UP STILL. HE IS
CONTINUING OBSTRUCTION IS A THROAT TO HER OVERSIGHT AND VESTRY POWERS OF THE
HOUSE AND SENATE AND IF LEFT UNADDRESSED WILL PERMANENTLY AND DANGEROUSLY ALTER
THE BALANCE OF POWER. THESE UNDENIABLE FACTS REQUIRE THE PRESIDENT TO RETREAT TO
HIS FINAL DEFENSE. HE IS GUILTY S AND BUT CAN'T WE JUST LET THE VOTERS DECIDE
AND HE IS GUILTY AS SIN BUT WHY NOT LET THE VOTERS CLEAN UP THIS MESS? HERE TO
ANSWER THAT QUESTION WE MUST LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF THIS PRESIDENCY AND TO THE
CHARACTER OF THIS PRESIDENT OR LACK OF CHARACTER AND ASK CAN WE BE CONFIDENT
THAT HE WILL NOT CONTINUE TO TRY TO CHEAT IN THAT VERY...
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ELECTION? CAN WE BE CONFIDENT AMERICANS AND NOT FOREIGN POWERS WILL GET TO
DECIDE AND THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS SHUNNED ANY FURTHER FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN
OUR DEMOCRATIC AFFAIRS? THE SHORT, PLAIN, SAD, INCONTESTABLE ANSWER IS NO, YOU
CAN'T. YOU CAN'T TRUST THIS PRESIDENT TO DO THE RIGHT THING, NOT FOR ONE MINUTE,
NOT FOR ONE ELECTION, NOT FOR THE SAKE OF OUR COUNTRY. YOU JUST CAN'T. HE WILL
NOT CHANGE AND YOU KNOW IT. IN 2016 HE INVITED FOREIGN INTERFERENCE INTO OUR
ELECTION. RUSSIA, IF YOU ARE LISTENING, HACK HILLARY'S E-MAILS HE SAID AND THEY
DID. IMMEDIATELY. WHEN THE RUSSIANS STARTED DUMPING THEM BEFORE THE ELECTION HE
MADE USE OF THEM IN EVERY CONCEIVABLE WAY, TOUTING THE GUILTY LUCRE AT CAMPAIGN
STOPS MORE THAN 100 TIMES. WHEN HE WAS INVESTIGATED HE DID EVERYTHING HE COULD
TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE GOING SO FAR AS TO FIRE THE FBI DIRECTOR AND TRY TO FIRE THE
SPECIAL COUNSEL AND AS THE WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL TO LIE ON HIS BEHALF. DURING THE
SAME CAMPAIGN WHILE TELLING THE COUNTRY HE HAD NO BUSINESS DEALINGS WITH RUSSIA
HE WAS CONTINUING TO ACTIVELY PURSUE THE MOST LUCRATIVE DEAL OF HIS LIFE, A
TRUMP TOWER IN THE HEART OF MOSCOW. SIX CLOSE ASSOCIATES OF THE PRESENT WOULD BE
INDICTED OR GO TO JAIL IN CONNECTION WITH THE PRESIDENT'S CAMPAIGN, RUSSIA AND
THE EFFORT TO COVER IT UP. ON THE DAY AFTER THAT TRAGIC CHAPTER WHEN IT CAME TO
AN END WITH BOB MUELLER'S TESTIMONY, DONALD TRUMP WAS BACK ON THE PHONE, THIS
TIME WITH ANOTHER FOREIGN POWER, UKRAINE. ONCE AGAIN, HE SOUGHT FOREIGN HELP
WITH HIS ELECTION ONLY THIS TIME HE HAD THE FULL POWERS OF THE PRESIDENCY AT HIS
DISPOSAL AND THIS TIME HE'S COULD USE COERCION AND THIS TIME HE COULD WITHHOLD
AID FROM THE NATION WHOSE SOLDIERS WERE DYING EVERY WEEK. THIS TIME HE BELIEVED
HE COULD DO WHATEVER HE WANTED UNDER ARTICLE TWO AND THIS TIME WHEN HE WAS
CAUGHT HE COULD MAKE SURE THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WOULD NEVER INVESTIGATE THE
MATTER AND THEY DIDN'T. DONALD TRUMP HAD NO MORE JEFF SESSIONS. HE HAD JUST THE
MAN HE WANTED IN BILL BARR, A MAN WHOSE VIEW OF THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY,
PRESIDENCY IN WHICH THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IS LITTLE MORE THAN EXTENSION OF
THE WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL IS TO DO THE PRESIDENTS BIDDING. SO, CONGRESS HAD TO DO
THE INVESTIGATION ITSELF AND JUST AS BEFORE HE INSTRUCTED THAT INVESTIGATION IN
EVERY WAY. HE HAS NOT CHANGED. HE WILL NOT CHANGE. HE HAS MADE THAT CLEAR
HIMSELF WITHOUT SELF-AWARENESS OR HESITATION. A MAN WITHOUT CHARACTER OR ETHICAL
COMPASS WILL NEVER FIND HIS WAY. EVEN AS THE MOST RECENT AND MOST EGREGIOUS
MISCONDUCT WAS DISCOVERED HE WAS UNAPOLOGETIC, UNREPENTANT AND MORE DANGEROUS
UNDETERRED. HE CONTINUED PRESSING UKRAINE TO SMEAR HIS RIVALS EVEN AS THE
INVESTIGATION WAS UNDERWAY. HE INVITED NEW COUNTRIES TO GET INVOLVED IN THE ACT
CALLING ON CHINA TO DO THE SAME. HIS PERSONAL EMISSARY, RUDY GIULIANI,
DISPATCHED HIMSELF TO UKRAINE TRYING TO GET FURTHER FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN OUR
ELECTION. THE PLOT GOES ON, THE SCHEMING PERSISTS AND THE DANGER WILL NEVER
RECEIVED. HE HASN'T DONE IT BEFORE. HE WILL DO IT AGAIN AND WHAT ARE THE ODDS IF
HE WILL CONTINUE TRYING TO CHEAT? I WILL TELL YOU. ONE 100%. NOT FIVE, NOT TEN
OR EVEN 50 BUT ONE 100%. IF YOU HAVE FOUND HIM GUILTY AND YOU DO NOT REMOVE HIM
FROM OFFICE HE WILL CONTINUE TRYING TO CHEAT IN THE ELECTION UNTIL HE SUCCEEDS.
THEN WHAT SHALL YOU SAY? WHAT SHALL YOU SAY IF RUSSIA AGAIN INTERFERES IN OUR
ELECTION AND DONALD TRUMP DOES NOTHING? WHAT SHALL YOU SAY IF UKRAINE
CAPITULATES AND ANNOUNCES INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE PRESIDENTS RIVALS? WHAT SHALL
YOU SAY IN THE FUTURE WHEN CANDIDATES COMPETE FOR THE ALLEGIANCE OF FOREIGN
POWERS AND THEIR ELECTIONS? WHEN THEY DRAFTED THEIR PLATFORMS SO TO ENCOURAGE
FOREIGN INTERVENTION IN THEIR CAMPAIGN, FOREIGN NATIONS AS A MOST SUPER OF SUPER
PACKS OF THEM ALL IF NOT LEGAL, SOMEHOW PERMISSIBLE BECAUSE IT DONALD TRUMP HAS
MADE IT SO AND WE REFUSED TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT BUT WRING OUR HANDS. THEY WILL
HACK YOUR OPPONENTS E-MAILS, THEY WILL MOUNT A SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN TO SUPPORT
YOU, THEY WILL ANNOUNCE INVESTIGATIONS OF YOUR OPPONENT TO HELP YOU AND ALL FOR
THE ASKING. LEAVE DONALD TRUMP IN OFFICE AFTER YOU HAVE FOUND HIM GUILTY IN THIS
IS THE FUTURE YOU WILL INVITE. WE HAVE KNOWN SINCE THE DAY WE BROUGHT THESE
CHARGES TO CONVICTION REQUIRING TWO THIRDS OF THE SENATE MAY BE PROHIBITIVELY
HIGH AND YET, THE ALTERNATIVE IS A RUNAWAY PRESIDENCY AND A NATION WHOSE
ELECTIONS ARE OPEN TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER. AND SO, YOU MIGHT ASK, HOW, GIVEN THE
GRAVITY OF THE PRESIDENTS MISCONDUCT, GIVEN THE ABUNDANCE OF EVIDENCE OF HIS
GUILT, GIVEN THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT BY SENATORS IN BOTH PARTIES ALL THAT GUILT, HOW
HAVE WE ARRIVED HERE WITH SO LITTLE COMMON GROUND? WHY WAS THE NIXON IMPEACHMENT
BIPARTISAN? WHY WAS THE CLINTON IMPEACHMENT MUCH LESS SO? WHY IS THE GULF
BETWEEN THE PARTIES EVEN GREATER TODAY? IT IS NOT FOR THE REASON THE PRESIDENTS
LAWYERS WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE. ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE CLAIMED MANY TIMES IN MANY
WAYS THAT THE PROCESS IN THE HOUSE WAS FLAWED BECAUSE WE DID NOT ALLOW THE
PRESIDENT TO CONTROL IT IT WAS, IN REALITY, LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN THE PROCESS
AND PRIOR IMPEACHMENTS. THE CIRCUMSTANCES, OF COURSE, WERE DIFFERENT. THE
WATERGATE INVESTIGATION BEGAN IN THE SENATE AND PROGRESSED BEFORE HE GOT MOVING
IN THE HOUSE. THEY ARE, OF COURSE, MUCH OF THE INVESTIGATIVE WORK HAD BEEN DONE
BY THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR. AND CLINTON THERE WAS LIKEWISE AN INDEPENDENT COUNSEL
THAT CONDUCTED A MULTIYEAR INVESTIGATION THAT STARTED WITH A REAL ESTATE DEAL IN
ARKANSAS AND ENDED WITH A BLUE DRESS. NIXON AND CLINTON, OF COURSE, PLAYED NO
ROLE IN THOSE INVESTIGATIONS BEFORE THEY MOVED TO THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
COMMITTEE. BUT TO THE DEGREE YOU CAN COMPARE THE PROCESS WHEN I GOT TO THE
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE AND EITHER PRIOR AND RECENT IMPEACHMENTS IT WAS LARGELY THE
SAME AS WE HAD HERE, THE PRESIDENT HAD THE RIGHT TO CALL WITNESSES AND TO ASK
QUESTIONS AND CHOSE NOT TO. THE HOUSE MAJORITIES IN NIXON AND CLINTON DID NOT
SEE THEIR SUBPOENA POWER TO THEIR MINORITIES AND NEITHER DID WE HEAR ALTHOUGH
WE'VE NOW GIVEN THE MINORITY THE RIGHT TO REQUEST SUBPOENAS AND COMPEL A VOTE
AND THEY DID. THE DUE PROCESS THE HOUSE BESIDE IT HERE PROVIDED HERE WAS
ESSENTIALLY THE SAME AND, IN SOME WAYS, EVEN GREATER. NEVERTHELESS, THE
PRESIDENTS COUNCIL HOPES THAT THROUGH SHEER REPETITION THEY CAN CONVERT NON-
TRUTH INTO TRUTH, DO NOT LET THEM. EVERY SINGLE COURT TO HEAR MR. PHILBIN'S
ARGUMENTS HAS REJECTED THEM AND THE SUBPOENAS ARE INVALID, REJECTED BY THE
MCGANN COURTS BUT THEY HAVE ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY REJECTED BY THE MCGANN COURTS.
PRIVILEGE MAY CONCEAL CRIME OR FRAUD, REJECTED BY THE COURT IN NIXON. BUT IF THE
PROCESS HERE WAS SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME THE FACTS OF THE PRESIDENTS MISCONDUCT
WERE VERY DIFFERENT FROM ONE IMPEACHMENT TO THE NEXT. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF
NIXON'S TIME BROKE INTO THE D&C AND THE PRESIDENT COVERED IT UP. NIXON ABUSED
THE POWER OF HIS OFFICE TO GAIN AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE OVER HIS OPPONENTS BUT IN
WATERGATE HE NEVER SOUGHT TO COERCE A FOREIGN POWER TO AID HIS REELECTION, NOR
DID HE SACRIFICE OUR NATIONAL SECURITY IN SUCH A PALPABLE AND DESTRUCTIVE WAY AS
WITHHOLDING AID FROM AN ALLY AT WAR AND HE CERTAINLY SHOULD NOT ENGAGE IN
WHOLESALE OBSTRUCTION OF CONGRESS OR JUSTICE THAT WE HAVE SEEN THIS PRESIDENT
COMMITS. THE FACTS OF THE PRESIDENT CLINTON'S MISCONDUCT PALE IN COMPARISON TO
NIXON AND DO NOT HOLD A CANDLE TO DONALD TRUMP. LYING ABOUT AN AFFAIR IS MORALLY
WRONG AND WENT UNDER OATH IT IS A CRIME BUT IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS DUTIES
IN OFFICE. THE PROCESS IS THE SAME AND THE FACTS OF THE PRESIDENT MISCONDUCT
BEING FAR, MORE DISTRACTED THAN EITHER PAST PRESIDENT WHAT THEN ACCOUNTS FOR THE
RESULT IN BIPARTISAN SUPPORT FOR HIS REMOVAL WHAT HAS CHANGED CHANGED? THE SHORT
ANSWER IS WE HAVE CHANGED. THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS HAVE CHANGED. FOR REASONS AS
VARIED AS THE STARS THE MEMBERS OF THIS BODY AND HOURS IN THE HOUSE ARE NOW FAR
MORE ACCEPTING OF THE MOST SERIOUS MISCONDUCT OF A PRESIDENT AS LONG AS IT IS A
PRESIDENT OF ONE'S OWN PARTY AND THAT IS A TREND MOST DANGEROUS FOR OUR COUNTRY.
FIFTY YEARS AGO NO LAWYER REPRESENTING THE PRESIDENT WOULD HAVE EVER MADE THE
OUTLANDISH ARGUMENT THAT IF THE PRESIDENT BELIEVES HIS CORRUPTION WILL SERVE TO
GET HIM REELECTED, WHETHER IT IS BY COERCING AN ALLY TO HELP HIM TEACH OR IN ANY
OTHER FORM THEN HE MAY NOT BE IMPEACHED. THIS IS SOMEHOW A PERMISSIBLE USE OF
HIS POWER THAT HERE WE ARE AND THE ARGUMENT HAS BEEN MADE AND SOME APPEAR READY
TO ACCEPT IT AND THAT IS DANGEROUS WHERE THERE IS NO LIMITING PRINCIPLE TO THAT
POSITION. I MUST HAVE COME AS A SHOCK, A PLEASANT SHOCK TO THIS PRESIDENT THAT
OUR NORMS AND INSTITUTIONS WOULD PROVE TO BE SO WEAK. THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND IT'S FORMALLY PROUD OFFICE OF LEGAL COUNSEL NOW A MERE
LEGAL TOOL AT THE PRESIDENTS DISPOSAL TO INVESTIGATE ENEMIES OR CHURN OUT
HELPFUL OPINIONS NOT WORTH THE PAPER THEY ARE WRITTEN ON. THE FBI PAINTED BY A
PRESIDENT AS CORRUPT AND DISLOYAL IN THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY NOT TO BE
TRUSTED AGAINST THE GOOD COUNCIL OF VLADIMIR PUTIN AND THE PRESS PORTRAYED AS
ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE IN THE DAILY ATTACKS ON THE GUARDRAILS OF OUR DEMOCRACY SO
RELENTLESSLY ASSAILED HAVE MADE US NOMINAL BLIND TO THE CONSEQUENCES. DOES NOT
OF THAT MATTER ANYMORE? IF HE IS THE PRESIDENT OF OUR PARTY. I HOPE AND PRAY
THAT WE NEVER HAVE A PRESIDENT LIKE DONALD TRUMP IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, ONE
THAT WOULD BETRAY THE NATIONAL INTEREST IN THE COUNTRIES SECURITY TO HELP WITH
HIS REELECTION AND I WOULD HOPE TO GOD THAT IF WE DID WE WOULD IMPEACH HIM AND
DEMOCRATS WOULD LEAD THE WAY. BUT I SUPPOSE IF YOU NEVER KNOW JUST HOW DIFFICULT
THAT IS UNTIL YOU ARE CONFRONTED WITH IT BUT YOU, MY FRIENDS, ARE CONFRONTED
WITH IT. YOU ARE CONFRONTED WITH THAT DIFFICULTY NOW AND YOU MUST NOT SHRINK
FROM IT. HISTORY WILL NOT BE KIND TO DONALD TRUMP. I THINK WE ALL KNOW THAT. NOT
BECAUSE IT WILL BE WRITTEN BY NEVER TRUMP BUT WHENEVER WE HAVE DEPARTED FROM THE
VALUES OF OUR NATION WE HAVE COME TO REGRET IT AND THAT REGRET IS WRITTEN ALL
OVER THE PAGES OF OUR HISTORY. IF YOU FIND THAT HOUSE HAS PROVEN ITS CASE AND
STILL VOTE TO ACQUIT, YOUR NAME WILL BE TIED TO HIS WITH A CORD OF STEEL FOR ALL
OF HISTORY BUT IF YOU FIND THE COURAGE TO STAND UP TO HIM AND TO SPEAK THE AWFUL
TRUTH TO HIS RANK FALSEHOOD YOUR PLACE WILL BE AMONG THE DAVID'S WHO TOOK ON
GOLIATH. IF ONLY YOU WILL SAY ENOUGH. WE REVERE THE WISDOM OF OUR FOUNDERS AND
INSIGHTS THEY HAVE INTO SELF-GOVERNANCE. WE SCOUR THEIR WORDS FOR HIDDEN MEANING
AND TRY TO PLACE OURSELVES IN THEIR SHOES. WE HAVE ONE ADVANTAGE THAT THE
FOUNDERS DID NOT. FOR ALL THEIR GENIUS THEY COULD NOT SEE BUT OPAQUE LEAD INTO
THE FUTURE. WE, ON THE OTHER HAND, HAD THE ADVANTAGE OF TIME OF SEEING HOW THEIR
GREAT EXPERIMENT IN SELF-GOVERNANCE HAS PROGRESSED. WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SWEEP OF
HISTORY THERE ARE TIMES WHEN OUR NATION AND THE REST OF THE WORLD HAVE MOVED
WITH A SEEMINGLY IRRESISTIBLE FORCE IN THE DIRECTION OF FREEDOM. MORE FREEDOM TO
SPEAK TO ASSEMBLE AND PRACTICE OUR FAITH AND TOLERATE THE FAITH OF OTHERS AND TO
LOVE WHO WE WOULD AND CHOOSE LOVE OVER HATE, MORE FREE SOCIETIES, WALLS TUMBLING
DOWN IN NATIONS REBORN. LIKE A PENDULUM APPROACHING THE END OF ITS ARC THE
OUTWARD MOVEMENT BEGINS TO ARREST AND THE GOLDEN GLOBE OF FREEDOM REACHES ITS
ZENITH AND STARTS TO RETREAT. THE PENDULUM SWINGS BACK PAST THE CENTER AND
RECEDES INTO A DARK UNKNOWN. HOW MUCH FARTHER WILL TRAVEL AND ITS DIRECTION AND
HOW MANY MORE FREEDOMS WILL BE ESTABLISHED BEFORE IT TURNS BACK? THAT WE CANNOT
SAY BUT WHAT WE DO HERE IN THIS MOMENT WILL EFFECT ITS COURSE AND ITS CORRECTION
EVERY SINGLE VOTE, EVEN A SINGLE VOTE BY A SINGLE MEMBER CAN CHANGE THE COURSE
OF HISTORY. IT IS SAID THAT A SINGLE MAN OR WOMAN OF COURAGE MAKE A MAJORITY. IS
THERE ONE AMONG YOU WHO WILL SAY ENOUGH? AMERICA BELIEVES IN A THING CALLED THE
TRUTH AND DOES NOT BELIEVE WE ARE ENTITLED TO OUR OWN ALTERNATE FACTS AND SHE
RECOILS AT THOSE WHO SPREAD PERNICIOUS FALSEHOODS TO HURT TRUTH MATTERS AND
THERE IS NOTHING MORE CORROSIVE THAN A DEMOCRACY THEN THE IDEA THAT THERE IS
NO...
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TRUTH. AMERICA ALSO BELIEVES THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG AND
RIGHT MATTERS HERE. BUT THERE IS MORE. TRUTH MATTERS. RIGHT MATTERS BUT SO DOES
DECENCY. DECENCY MATTERS. WHEN THE PRESIDENT SMEARS A PATRIOTIC PUBLIC SERVANT
LIKE MARIE YOVANOVITCH IN PURSUIT OF A CORRUPT AIM WHEAT RECOIL. WHEN THE
PRESIDENT MOCKS THE DISABLED, WAR HERO WHO WAS A PRISONER OF WAR OR A GOLDSTAR
FATHER, WE ARE APPALLED. DECENCY MATTERS HERE. WHEN THE PRESIDENT TRIES TO
COERCE AN ALLY TO HELP HIM CHEAT IN OUR ELECTIONS AND COVERS IT UP WE MUST SAY
ENOUGH. ENOUGH. HE HAS BETRAYED OUR NATIONAL SECURITY AND HE WILL DO SO AGAIN
AND HE IS COMPRISED OF OUR ELECTIONS AND WILL DO SO AGAIN. YOU WILL NOT CHANGE
HIM BUT YOU CANNOT CONSTRAIN HIM. HE IS WHO HE IS BUT TRUTH MATTERS LITTLE TO
HIM. WHAT IS RIGHT MATTERS LESS AND DECENCY MATTERS NOT AT ALL. I DO NOT ASK YOU
TO CONVICT HIM BECAUSE TRUTH OR RIGHT OR DECENCY MATTERS AND NOTHING TO HIM BUT
BECAUSE WE HAVE PROVEN OUR CASE AND IT MATTERS TO YOU. TRUTH MATTERS TO YOU.
RIGHT MATTERS TO YOU. YOU ARE DECENT, HE IS NOT WHO YOU ARE. FEDERALIST 55 JAMES
MADISON WROTE THAT THERE WERE CERTAIN QUALITIES IN HUMAN NATURE, QUALITIES I
BELIEVE LIKE HONESTY, RIGHT AND DECENCY WHICH SHOULD JUSTIFY OUR CONFIDENCE IN
SELF-GOVERNMENT AND HE BELIEVES WE POSSESSED SUFFICIENT VIRTUE THAT THE CHAINS
OF DESPOTISM WERE NOT NECESSARY TO RESTRAIN OURSELVES FROM DESTROYING AND
DEVOURING ONE ANOTHER. IT MAY BE MIDNIGHT IN WASHINGTON BUT THE SUN WILL RISE
AGAIN. I PUT MY FAITH IN THE OPTIMISM OF THE FOUNDERS. YOU SHOULD TOO. THEY GAVE
US THE TOOLS TO DO THE JOB, A REMEDY AS POWERFUL AS THE EVIL IT WAS MEANT TO
CONSTRAIN AND IMPEACHMENT. THEY MEANT IT TO BE RARELY BUT THEY PUT IT IN THE
CONSTITUTION FOR A REASON, FOR A MAN WHO WOULD SELL OUT HIS COUNTRY FOR A
POLITICAL FIELD FOR AN A FOR A MAN WHO THREATENS THE INTEGRITY OF OUR ELECTIONS
AND FOR A MAN WHO WOULD INVITE FOREIGN INTERFERENCE INTO OUR AFFAIRS AND FOR A
MAN WHO WOULD UNDERMINE OUR NATIONAL SECURITY AND THAT OF OUR ALLIES, OR A MAN
LIKE DONALD J TRUMP. THEY GAVE YOU A REMEDY AND THEY MEANT FOR YOU TO USE IT.
THEY GAVE YOU AN OATH AND THEY MEANT FOR YOU TO OBSERVE IT WE HAVE PROVEN DONALD
TRUMP GUILTY. DO IMPARTIAL JUSTICE AND CONVICT HIM. I YIELD...
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