we will show you the end of the debate and the beginning of barry burke's questioning.video clip] >> he is under subpoena, he will answer all questions pursuant to the committee possible rules and if this counsel does not like it, you do not interpret our rules, with all due respect. >> these are unauthorized questions. did you everowski, becomes concerned and the president had asked you to do something that could expose you to criminal liability? become concerned the president of the united states had asked you to do something that could expose you to criminal liability? >> was i concern the president asked me to do something? not to the best of my knowledge? >> were you ever concerned the president asked you to do something that put you in harm's way, made you feel you were in trouble? >> i think i have answered that question. videoould like to show a of an interview you did on fox news. i did not do anything and the campaign did not do anything, i have no reason to take the no reason not to answer every question. >> you take the fifth when you are in trouble, you wer

barry burke will present for the majority and steven castor will present forn the majority. each of you will have 30 minutes to present. there isut a timing light on yo table, when it goes from green to yellow you have one minute to conclu conclude, when it turns read, you a minute -- >> i have not withdrawn my objecti objection, i want everyone to have an opening statement. i'min objecting to your opening statement comment. >> thank you, mr. chairman, ranking member collins, and all of the members. before i had the great honor of be e.ing a great counsel for th committee, my young son said dad, does the president have to be a good person? like many questions by young children, iton had a certain clarity, but it was hard to answer. i said son, it is not a requirement that the president be a good person. but that is the hope. and it is not a requirement that the president be a good person. that is not why we are here today. that is not the issue. but the very document that created the awesome presidency and it's powers in a e with hth made clear that the president be a person

first article of impeachment is expected to accuse president trump of abuse of power as argued by barry burkepolitical election interests over the nation's national security and the integrity of the elections. he did it intentionally and corruptly and he abused his powers the wfe the founders ed the most. nick: they are also intending to accuse the president of obstruction. as described by dani board -- daniel golden. >> ordering executive branch agencies and government officials to defy subpoenas for documents and testimony. nick: republicans argued the democrats had failed toca prove their se. republican counsel stephen caster. >> the inquiry has returned no direct evidence that the presiden withheld security assistance in order to pressur president zielinski to investigate former vwie president n. nick: despite the delay, ukraine did receive the military aid they wanted and the ukrainian president repeatedly said he did feno pressured. >> have never felt any influence on me and there are a lot of people in russia, the west, and ukraine that would like to influence me. >> the president neve

barry burke and daniel goldman for the democrats and stephen kastor for the republicans. six 2020 democratic presidential candidates spoke at a forum on labor issues hosted by the international brotherhood of teamsters union in cedar rapids, iowa. the first candidate to speak is former vice president biden. fis former vice president biden. ♪ ♪ >> ok, i want to introduce our first candidate who will tell us why we should elect him, former senator from the great state of delaware, former vice president joe biden. [applause]

when it became time for barry burk, our counsel to question mr. castor, the republicans' tactic tab to be as disruptive as possible. they didn't want barry to should all the holes in castor's testimony. i say president trump is our smoking gun. we need to look no further than what the president said about his corrupts intent around that phone call with president zelensky on july 25th. he said on the white house lawn that he wanted zelensky to open an investigation into the bidens. how much clearer do you have to get? there was enormous amounts of evidence on the table. i really felt that the republicans used a lot of time to distract, as you said, call records. they didn't want to offer a real defense. at the end of the day, my question is this -- is there even one republican who will say that it is wrong for the president to ask a foreign ally to interfere in our elections? so far none of them have said that. he hayes clearly, as you said, been asking again and again, and russia, ukraine and china, those are three that we know of, chris. es that m

we had someone who barry burke, it seemed like he was a witness but he was not sworn. there was a motion about him early on where the chairman of the committee said he was a witness. then changed his mind he wasn't. to see him go from the witness chair to back up at the podium where he was asking questions to the other witnesses and you had staffers questions staffers under circumstances where one is under oath and the others are not, it's a peculiar proceeding. it's something that would not be allowed to go on in a courtroom where you have rules against people conducting themselves as unsworn witnesses or acting as advocates or witnesses in the same proceeding. >> ken starr, you have staffers who were under oath. and congressman collins of georgia kept reminding david goldman the lawyer for the democrats about that. >> yes, exactly. it's very unusual. it may be unprecedented. it's another in the long series of things that have been unprecedented in this impeachment process. beginning with the speaker's announcement rather than having a debate on the floor. i would say

so it sets up a little bit of an awkward dynamic where norm eisen is going to be questioning barry burkeand so i think you have to wonder how entertaining is this going to be for the american public given the constitutional lawyers we saw last week. you want to keep up the momentum on this. it's a presentation of evidence. they said they want it to be like a trial. but it seems like the more effective thing would be to cross examine each other instead of just talking democrat to democrat. >> that's the thing. will they have the guts to go after the counsel from the other side when the members get to do the questioning or the counsel gets to do the questioning. we're making this case. we went in there with the idea of making that case. joe, what is the case that democrats want you or need to make today in what will be the last public hearing where there are questions of any kind? >> i think what the democrats have done has been deliberate and used building blocks. first, here's the ed. and then they had a presentation with the scholars on here's the law. now i think today's going to be mu

this is barry burke, counsel for the judiciary committee questioning attorney caster. >> so president trump -- president trump was asking ukrainian president zelensky to have the ukrainian officials look into vice president joe biden, correct? is that correct, yes or no? >> i don't think the record supports that. >> it doesn't say can you look into it, president trump is not asking him -- >> i don't think it supports that. i think it's ambiguous. >> mr. goldman, you're an experienced federal prosecutor. i know that firsthand. is this president trump asking president zelensky to investigate his political rival, joe biden? >> i don't think there's any other way to read the words on the page than to conclude that. >> congressman cicilline, to have the republican counsel sit there and say he doesn't think there was a request made by president trump about joe biden, it's right here, i'm looking at it, i'm reading it. joe biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution, so if you can look into it -- the president mentions joe biden a couple times to the president of ukraine, and

two witnesses who will testify, those witnesses from the house judiciary committee, the counsel, barry burke, the republican counsel steve caster, each will provide their own opening arguments of sorts, what democrats say like a trial. berke will lay out a detailed case of the president's conduct and pattern of behavior they want to focus on as a theme throughout this hearing and after those two testify, they will step aside and two others will come forward, they will be the intelligence committee attorneys, that's dan goldman on the democratic side, castor again on the republican side, will present each side's respective reports as part of the ukraine investigations and testify about 45 minutes each detailing their own sides' reports. afterwards we will get into the questioning, the questioning will take place much like past questioning in impeachment hearings. jerry nadler will have the first opportunity to ask questions along with his staff counsel for 45 minutes and the republican side and every member of the committee will get five minutes to question the witnesses. now wolfe, this is a

barry burke laid out the abc. corruption of the elections, and then you just kind of had this very meandering presentation by steve castro, which focused on the process, eventually got to the substance, but even then involved these cherry picked kind of mischaracterizations of the evidence. and i think it's strange to me because i think that they could, if they wanted to, get a very good attorney to push a legal theory, even ifs something as basic as, this is not an impeachable offense, and we will go to bat on that matter of law, i think that could be more effective than kind of what they're doing with the subpoenas and bringing up all of these issues. >> the other thing that's interesting is, that steve caster, the republican lawyer who's serving double duty, being the lawyer for the house intelligence committee and house judiciary committee, he's not going with what we heard from jonathan turley, the republican witness last week, which was even if you don't like this, it's not impeachable. steve castor is going

i'm saying if they're going to have barry burke do a separate presentation, it sure looks like they'veickly, rudy giuliani giving a report to congress? >> right. the president announced that today. we were all sort of startled by that. obviously we've seen that rudy giuliani has continued to investigate. he's been over in ukraine. we've been wondering what he's been finding out and the president says he wants to testify and provide a report to congress. so we'll see. sometimes he says things and they can't actually happen. we don't know who's going to come testify yet, but that's what the house has been working on moving ahead to the senate. that's what they've been focused on complete is the senate trial. they'll help the senate, the republican majority there coming up with this witness list. it'll be interesting to see if he ends up on that list. >> 30 seconds, glenn. would you call? would you have rudy giuliani if you're on the republican side? >> not in a million years. we all saw him on tv famously say in one breath i never asked the ukrainians to investigate biden and then in the

you saw barry burke preempt any republican attempt to dispute this case on the facts, which by the way we didn't see them do but he disassembled this, this hearsay argument i'll tell you right now what firsthand accounts arew starting with dad holmes theth embassy staffer overhearing trump loudly on the cell phone, consummating the deal right after sondland came outon of a private meeting with andrei yermak, yes, mr. trump they will do it for you, they will do anything for you. it's stunning. we're joined by a democrat of california. what's o striking to me that daniel goldman spent some time at the very beginning of his remarks pointing out that not a single document has been turned over, and that the obstruction of the investigation should alarm the american people as much as the actual act of seeking help from a foreign government. yourre thoughts? >> good morning, nicole and the to financial. yes, mr. goldman laid out this president putin himself at every point above our country and we were able to determine this without any documents from the white house and 12 witnesses that hewh

to pull forward the t roadmap that robe mueller shared on obstruction of justice and, you know, barry burke kind k of left the door on to that by making some of those points in hisso opening about t continuing pattern of his obstruction. >> right. >> i think that on emoluments, i certainly did not hear that obviously today. >> not att all. >> i think there's a real question about how much the american public yet understands about what some of the facts are there and what some of the constitutional issues are. >> and alsoon why are we still using theti word emolument, if may. i've got to get to this. i only have five minutes to do it. i know you were looking at it. great to see you. let me tell you what comes now. the other huge legal story which is also in here, bad news for donald trump. i'm going to tell you everything you need to know right now about president trump's own department of justice validating the origins, legally and constitutionally of the russia investigation. this is all about donald trump's famed plan and many, many tweets about investigating the investigators to find som

the counsel for the democrats on the panel, barry burke, then detailing the party's case against presidentvidence compiled by the house intelligence committee. >> and the scheme by president trump was so brazen, so clear, supported by documents, actions, sworn testimony. president trump did what a president of our nation is not allowed to do. >> reporter: but things quickly escalating when burke went from delivering his opening statement sitting in the witness chair, to sitting beside chairman nadler, questioning the two witnesses, including his gop counterpart, steve castor. >> president trump was asking ukrainian president zelensky to have the ukrainian officials look into vice president joe biden. is that correct, yes or no? >> i don't think the record supports that. >> reporter: castor and republicans on the panel maintain the impeachment inquiry has been politically motivated and biased, the argument the president has repeatedly made. >> it's a disgrace. it's a disgrace to our country, it's a hoax. and it should never, ever be allowed to happen again. >> reporter: republicans also too

. >> i have not removed my objen y >> barry burke will present for the majority and stephen castor will present for the minority. each of you will have 30 minutes to present. to help you stay within that time, there is a timing light on your table. when the light switches from green to yellow you have one minute to conclude your testimony. when the light turns red it signals your time is expired. mr. burke, you may begin. >> mr. chairman you do realize i've never withdrawn my objection. you have not talked to my objection. i want everybody to have an opening statement. >> the gentleman will -- >> i am objecting to your opening statement comment. nothing else. >> mr. burke is recognized. >> steam roll continues. >> thank you, mr. chairman. ranking member collins, and all the members. before i had the great honor of being a counsel for this committee, my young son asked me a question. he said, dad, does the president have to be a good person? like many questions by young children it had a certain clarity but it was hard to answer. i said, son, it is not a requirement that the president be

the committees will testify, barry burke and daniel goldman for the democrats and stephen kastor for the republicans. six 2020 democratic presidential candidates spoke at a forum on labor issues hosted by the international brotherhood of

that will be barry burk and steven kastor. he is doing double duty for the intelligence committee.resident trump addressed all of this saturday on his way to florida. >> will you testify? >> well, i know this. the impeachment thing is a total hoax. the numbers have swung our way. they don't want to see impeachment, especially in the swing states, they swung away. i have never seen a swing like this. because people realize it was a total hoax. we had a perfect conversation. it was only a conversation. nothing came out of the conversation except good relationship with ukraine. >> he has never seen a swing like this. meanwhile, the president's personal attorney has been in ukraine and hasn't revealed the purpose of that trip. rudy giuliani said he will reveal it, quote, when he's ready. the president, meanwhile, said this. . >> well, i just saw he came back from someplace and he's going to make a report i think to the attorney general and congress. he says he has a lot of good information. i have not spoken to him about that information. but rudy, as you know, has been one of the grea

. >> barry burke and steven castor for the minority. each of will you have 30 minutes to present. to help you stay within that time, there is a timing light on your table. when the light switches from green to yellow, you have one minute to conclude your testimony. when the light turns red, it signals your time is expired. mr. burke, you may begin. >> mr. chairman, i realize i will not withdraw my objection. have you not talked to my objection. i want to have an opening statement. >> gentleman will -- >> objection to your on statement comment. nothing else. >> mr. burke is recognized. >> steam roll continues. >> mr. burke has the floor. >> thank you, mr. chairman, ranking member collins and all the members. before i had the great honor of being a counsel for this committee, my young son asked me a question. he said, dad, does the president have to be a good person? like many questions by young children it had a certain clarity but it was hard to answer. i said, son, it is not a requirement that the president be a good person but that is the hope. and it is not a requirement that t

on that point, charlie, you tweeted and in fact, we will put it up that house judiciary lawyer barry burke will make a presentation separate from daniel goldman and that is a strong sign that they will put forth an article of the obstruction of justice mueller volume two in addition to the ukraine matters, so you believe that the items from the mueller report will be included, and what do you think that the ramifications are going to be? >> that is my speculation on burke making a separate presentation, and on that, they framed what he is going to be doing is an opening statement, and maybe he is going to talk about the abstract legal issues in that report, and they put on saturday and not get into obstruction, and on the other hand, that is a lot of time, and there are a lot of republicans, i mean, democrats including nadler who want to do that and the judiciary committee has gone into the federal appeals court here in washington in the case over the mueller grand jury evidence and talked a lot about their need to have this information, because they are thinking of impeaching trump in par

barry burke will present for the majority and steven castor will present for the minority for each of you will have 30 minutes to present. to help you stay within that time there is a timing light on your table. when the light switches from green to yellow you have one minute to conclude your testimony. when the light turns red it signals your time has expired mr. burke you may begin. >> mr. chairman you have not -- everyone gets an opening statement. i h object to your opening statement comments, nothing else. ng mr. burke is recognized. >> the steamroll continues. >> thank you, mr. chairman, ranking member collins and all the members. before i had the great honor of being at counsel for this committee my young son asked me a question and he said, dad, does the president have to be a good person -- it had a certain clarity but was hard to answer. i said son, it is not a requirement that the president be a good person but that is the hope. it is not a requirement that the president be a good person. that is not why we are here today and that is not the issue. but the very document tha

barry burke and daniel goldman for the democrats and stephen castor for the republicans.our c-span campaign 2020 bus team is traveling across the country asking voters what issues should presidential candidates address? for thisp issue election campaign cycle is the national debt. it is not being talked about enough. mark stanford got into the race just to bring that issue to the forefront. itis over $22 trillion and does affect our foreign policy and what we are able to do as a nation. it affects what we are able to do for our children and future generations. it should be curtailed. >> i would like to see washington stressed some of the foreign policy issues with a more analytical approach. i am currently pleased with president trump's choices and his actions in that area. i would hope all the politicians would approach it more analytically. >> i think in 2020 what the candidates should address are some of the crises in the united states, namely climate change, gun violence, right now the , weed states and humanity are at a crossroads between a potential disaster and a r

the committees will testify, barry burke and daniel goldman for the democrats and stephen kastor for the republicans. six 2020 democratic presidential candidates spoke at a forum on labor issues hosted by the international brotherhood of teamsters union in cedar rapids, iowa. the first candidate to speak his former vice president biden. ♪ >> ok, i want to introduce our first candidate who will tell us why we should elect him, former senator from the great state of delaware, former vice president joe biden. [applause] [cheers and applause] mr. biden: ok. >> welcome. mr. biden: thank you. it is good to be home. >> vice president biden, we are in a room full of teamsters and i want you to tell all of them here and all of them watching, why they should vote for you. but no malarkey. [laughter] mr. biden: no malarkey. i tell you why. first i should thank you. the only reason i am sitting here is that in 1972, i was losing in the polls the sunday before the election, the newspaper went on strike. you guys had put on a gigantic insert in the sunday paper to go out on the republican party. y

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