.jonkarl on 6-page letter Pres. Trump had sent to Speaker Nancy Pelosi: 'This letter I am told was written without the White House counsel...this is pure, unadulterated Donald Trump, he did not want the lawyers telling him to tone it down.'
December 17, 2019, 8:52 PMTrump said he was not going to be watching as the House votes Wednesday on the articles of impeachment against him.The House Rules Committee on Tuesday began the next procedural step before a full House vote Wednesday on the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.debate on the House floorIn one big decision, the committee decided late Tuesday to debate the articles of impeachment in the full House for six hours Wednesday.
House Rules Committee chairman Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., speaks during a House Rules Committee hearing on the impeachment against President Donald Trump, Dec. 17, 2019, on Capitol Hill.The committee, which can hear testimony from any member of the House, spent much of Tuesday huddled in their hearing room on the top floor of the U.S. Capitol with Chairman Jim McGovern, D-Mass.
McGovern asked him:"Was the call perfect?" referring to the president's call with Ukraine's president, during which Trump pressured him to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden.Representative Tom Cole before a meeting of the house committee on rules to consider H. Res. 755 Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors on Capitol Hill, Dec. 17, 2019.
"We believe this conduct is impeachable and shouldn’t take place ... under our constitutional system," Raskin said.
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