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This report chronicles a scheme by the president of the United States to coerce an ally.
Basically what we got, is something that's actually not all that unexpected, but is very clear in a 300-page document, in black and white here, that the House is moving to impeach Donald Trump on basically two counts. One is abuse of office. Again, this is the charge that was used against Richard Nixon. We always knew this was going to be the one.
The second thing we were also expecting, but again something that's happened more recently is obstruction. Basically, the Trump administration and the White House itself, and Donald Trump, personally, has said no one who works for him should co-operate with the House impeachment proceedings. It is, what the House argues, its own prerogative, its constitutional prerogative to investigate impeachment. It would be hard to imagine a stronger or more complete case of obstruction than demonstrated by the president since the inquiry began, writes the House intelligence committee.
I think what we have produced in remarkable short order is so overwhelming that it ought to be presented to the judiciary committee now, without any further delay.
In the constitution, the House judiciary committee is the one responsible for issuing articles of impeachment. And we expect that before the Christmas break we will have articles of impeachment reported to the floor of the House and voted, probably in a party line vote, to go to the Senate. So this is a huge moment in the impeachment, but it is still just a moment in that.
Our focus is on the president's conduct, first and foremost. It may be the role of others to evaluate the conduct of members of Congress. Thank you, very much.
This is a document, a 300-page document, that tries to tell a narrative and tell a story, much like the Mueller Report, that your average American can read and understand. And again, it's very clear language they use. It's almost like a novel in terms of the way they tried to tell this story. And it's a political document as much it is a legal document, to try to convince your average voter that what they are doing is not some sort of hoax, as the president claims, or some sort of witch-hunt, as the president claims, but is a true narrative of abuse of power by the president of the United States to pressure a foreign government to get involved in domestic US politics for his own personal gain. And that is the real purpose of this 300-page document.