Impeachment related transcripts keep getting released, and the latest one captures the moment Rep. Matt Gaetz, a strong Trump ally, tried to crash closed-door proceedings. Chairman Adam Schiff, however, kicked Gaetz out, saying: 'Please, absent yourself'
released Friday vividly captures how one such lieutenant tried to crash the proceedings.
“You’re going to have someone remove me from the hearing?” Gaetz responds, to which Schiff shoots back: “You’re going to remove yourself.” “Mr. Chairman, I think in the 20 hours of testimony we’ve heard in the two previous interviews, there have been a grand total of 12 members of Congress present,” Jordan argues. “I don’t think it’s going to hurt to have a 13th member actually hear something that, in my judgment, all 435 members of Congress should be entitled to hear.”“Mr. Gaetz, why don't you take your spectacle outside?” Schiff asks. “This is not how we conduct ourselves in this committee.
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