jeffries: question. [indiscernible] the icilline: so investigation i hope will conclude in the first quarter of this year with the expectation we will have a final report and set of recommendations early enough to be able to move introduction of legislation. we have a field hearing in colorado. one bly will have at least or two more hearings. maybe one additional roundtable. exciting is very this has been a bipartisan effort and the expectation is may not agree on every solution that we'll have a set of proposals that enjoy bipartisan support. and as i've said throughout the investigation, it's hard for me o imagine we would complete this investigation without hearing in some of the key technology the major companies. they have all pledged to ooperate and they have been in terms of document productions and other things. so it's my expectation that some c.e.o.'s will be heard from before the investigation is concluded. mr. jeffries: house democrats, we are going to continue to families, orking enior -clas

jeffries: last question. reporter: given the urgency of the situation in the middle east, do you need to do war powers before you send impeachment articles? mr. jeffries: one issue doesn't have to do with the other. they haven't been joined in terms of any other discussions we have had. thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. isit ncicap.org] >> good morning, everyone. thanks for joining us this morning. thanks for saying good morning back.

thank chairman jeffries. i want to underscore the importance of documents, because about john bolton and other witnesses. witnesses may tell the truth and itnesses may not tell the truth. documents don't generally lie. and in the documents that we submitted to the judiciary last night, you see the importance of documents. the parnes on ocuments we obtained is a letter from giuliani trying to set up a meeting with president lens key -- zelensky to discuss a particular matter. that is the investigations that he president wanted to undertake of his political opponent. there have been explanation from time maybe the president or his allies will throw mr. bus.ani under the that letter makes clear that giuliani in his own words is at the behest and with the knowledge and consent of the president. fobbing no forking -- this off on others. the president was the architect of the scheme. doemths are important. we have -- these documents are important. we have only sampled a small documents that the president is withhol

chair hakeem jeffries of new york. jeffries is the chair house democratic caucus and is serving his fourth term in congress. he's a member of the house judiciary committee. before being in congress he served in the assembly of new york for six years. an accomplished litigator and private practice before running for office. mr. jeffreys clerked for the honorable howard bare, jr. for the southern district of new york. congresswoman val demings of florida. she's a member of both the house permanent select committee on intelligence and the house judiciary committee. ms. demings is serving her second term in congress. as the orlando police department for 27 years. part of that time as the first woman police chief in orlando. congressman jason crow of colorado. he served our country bravely as an army ranger in iraq and afghanistan before coming, running for congress. esther crowe was a respected litigator in private practice in colorado. congresswoman sylvia garcia of texas. she's a member of the house judiciary committee.

there you see hakeem jeffries on the senate floor. it would be followed by 24 hours of defense rebuttal by the white house legal team. president trump he restated today after a tweet storm about impeachment yesterday. we begin with chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel and a wrap of tonight's prosecution. >> big emphasis by house impeachment managers making the case in great detail that president trump abused his pow power. speaker impeachment is not a punishment for crimes. impeachment exists to address vets to the political system. >> jerry nadler let off the impeachment effort to make the case that president trump abused his power the senate can take action. speak of the constitution is not a suicide pact. it does not mean that we are stuck with presidents who abuse our power who threaten our sense of security. >> then it was congresswoman sylvia garcia who said that president trump abuses power because public suggested joe biden lead impeachment manager adam schiff got a reaction out of senators from this line. >> thank g

hakeem jeffries, you were as good as adam schiff. and he did an amazing, awe amazingly -- amazingly good job now, we didn't hear too much about the article two, article two in the impeachment charges til this afternoon, but i believe it's the sleeper. the argument was incredible. it was strong. and it's become clear that president trump demanded complete immunity, participated in a blanket obstruction and had absolute defiance. president trump, in saying he wants immunity for everything, past, present and future said i'm not a president, i'm a king, and no one can stop me, nobody can oversee me, nobody can put a check on me. that is not america. what president trump has demanded and what justifies the house bringing these articles is totally out of sync with the constitution, the founding fathers and every other impeachment trial. neither president andrew johnson, president nixon or president clinton had the gall, the temerity to come close to even asking what president trump is asking for, which is total absolute. he says i'm going

chris: congressman jeffries, thank you. thanks for your time today. of course be following the action on the senate floor this week which could go well into the evening. thank you, sir. >> thank you, chris. chris: up next we bring in our sunday group to discuss the case against president trump with key details about the impeachment trial still not clear. what would you like to ask the panel whether the senate should call witnesses for the trial. just go to facebook, twitter, to "fox news sunday." we may use your question on the (music) (music and splat sound) (music) oops (music and patter of little shoes) (music and glass breaking) uh-oh... get on top of it before they do. (music and loud glass breaking) about every 30 minutes tipped furniture or a falling tv sends an injured child to the emergency room. preventing tipover incidents is easy, inexpensive and only takes about 5 minutes. learn how to secure your furniture and tv's to protect children at anchorit.gov. >> a lot of presidents, some good, some not so good. [laughter]. you got a good one now

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chris: congressman jeffries, thank you. thanks for your time today.f course be following the action on the senate floor this week which could go well into the evening. thank you, sir. >> thank you, chris. chris: up next we bring in our sunday group to discuss the case against president trump with key details about the impeachment trial still not clear. what would you like to ask the panel whether the senate should call witnesses for the trial. just go to facebook, twitter, to "fox news sunday." we may use your question on the air. i don't keep track of regrets. and i don't add up the years. but what i do count on is boost high protein. and now, introducing new boost mobility with collagen for joint health. when taken daily, its key nutrients help support joints, muscles, and strong bones. new, boost mobility. (sensethe lack of control when iover my businessai, made me a little intense. but now quickbooks helps me get paid, manage cash flow, and run payroll. and now i'm back on top... with koala kai. (vo) save over 40 hours a month with intuit quickboo

i'm trying to stay professional here but i'm wondering as i'm watching congressman jeffries speak, whohe intended audience is? it's hard to imagine many people watching at home will have their minds changed or understand what he's saying. what is the point? >> what i would say is lots of things are being said and introduced here which did not really bear all that directly on the question of whether witnesses t should be heard. on this the first day and evening of the proceedings, when i think it's fair to say based on what we've seen so far, the audience is probably going to be the highest it's ever going to be for a while anyway, they are trying to get as much of their case and as much of their allegations and dispersions as possible before the public. remember, they don't have much chance of convicting this president and removing him from office but they have a chance of doing two things. they can put some republican senators up for reelection on the spot if they are in states where the president didn't carry and isn't particularly popular. the second thing they can do is further tou

hakeem jeffries talking now.orrow, tonight correspondent chad program, course chad pergram with insight. what do we know about the president's lawyers contrasting the argument with those from the democrats? >> they'll try to refute some of the democratic points made the last three years here. going to be in session tomorrow starting 10:00 till about 1:00. an abbreviated session here with jay sekulow, one of the president's attorneys indicated that this was like a coming attraction, kind of like a movie trailer here. when you talk to some of the republican senators, they think democratic arguments the past couple of days have been repetitive. lindsey graham says he has seen the same piece of videotape seven times. here's were publicly louisiana senator john kenner. >> not a criticism. it's directed both sides. old expression. very few souls are saved after the first 20 minute of a sermon. >> there is a balancing act here. the attorneys may not want to go as long as the democrats but there is an audience of one in

jeffries, a serious, respected litigator. val demings, of the police force of orlando and for part of that time the first woman and african-american police chief of orlando. she knows her way around the courtroom. colorado, anom army ranger, served our country in the military in afghanistan and now in the congress of the united states. he is a respected litigator. texas, a member of the judiciary committee. that you have taken the responsibility, all of you, to bring the articles of impeachment over to the united with the case for the constitution. back to the children -- back to the children. we do not want to this president, or any president, to ever violated the constitution. that we seemportant that constitution is a central to who we are as a country. government, our constitution, so valued, so so honoredhopefully by everyone who takes an oath of office to support and defend it. hackinghe russians now in ukraine. reminds me that i think most americans would think that voters in america should decide who our president is.

jeffries and other managers suggested no attempt to accommodate. that's also not true. in the october 8th letter that mr. cipollone sent to speaker pelosi, it said explicitly, quote, if the committees wish to return to the regular order of oversight requests, we stand ready to engage in that process as we have in the past in a manner consistent with well-established bipartisan constitutional and respect for the separation of powers enshrined in the constitution, end quote. it was manager schiff and his committees that did not want to engage in any accommodation process. we had said that we were willing to explore that. house managers have also asserted a number of times -- this came up on that first long night when we were here until 2:00 as well -- that the trump administration never asserted executive privilege, never asserted executive privilege. and i explained at the time that's technically true but misleading. misleading because the rationale on which the subpoenas were resisted never depended on an assertion of executive privilege. each of the rationales that we

board will be recommending jeffry tumlin as the next director of s.f. m.t.a. this is jeffry. you can clap. [ laughter ]. >> mayor breed: jeff is an international transportation expert who brings over 25 years of experience of improving transportation in cities. he was recently the interim director at the oakland department of transportation, where he laid the foundation for the agency's future success with a lens on environmental benefits and equality. i believe jeffry will do the same at s.f. m.t.a. throughout his career, he has been known for bringing a visionary perspective on transportation in cities and helping to implement innovative ideas that are desperately needed. he will be joining the city as a long-time resident of noey valley and will be the first lgbtq director in s.f.'s history. i look forward to working with jeffry to help us deliver a great transportation system in san francisco, and i want to thank the board, including the president of the board who is here today, malcolm heinikie and gweneth borden, thank you for your leadership and coordinating the interv

adam schiff, jerrold nadler, hakeem jeffries, zoe lofgren, val demings, jason crow, and sylvia garcia. the what purpose is gentleman from new york seeking recognition? t to house resolution 767, i now send to the desk a resolution appointing authorizing managers for the impeachment of donald john trump president of the united states and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report. the clerk: mr. schiff, mr. nadler, mrs. love green, misdemmings and mr. crow are appointed managers to conduct the impeachment manager against donald john trump a message be sent to the senate to inform the senate of these appointments and the managers may in connection with the preparation and the conduct of the trial exhibit the articles of impeachment to the senate and take all other actions necessary which may include the following, one, employing legal, clerical and other necessary assistance and incurring such other is expenses paid be necessary to be from amounts made available to the committee of judiciary under applicable expense resolutions or ap lick cabble

distinguished chair of our caucus, hakeem jeffries of new york. and zoe lofgren. this is her third impeachment. impeachment, she was a staffer for a judiciary committee member of california. she was a member of the judiciary committee on the clinton impeachment. the housemember of administration with oversees elections, and a manager. with that, i thank them all for their leadership and service. i will now proceed to sign the article. [inaudible] speaker pelosi: that is why it is taking so long. [laughter] speaker pelosi: i will keep one for myself. >> the senate will receive a message from the house of representatives. >> a message from the house of representatives. mr. president, i have been directed by the house of representatives to inform the senate the house has passed h- res 798, a resolution appointing and authorizing managers for the impeachment trial of donald john trump, president of the united states. >> the

distinguished chair of our caucus, hakeem jeffries of new york. is that everybody? and zoe lofgren. this is her third impeachment. for the nixon impeachment, she was a staffer for a judiciary committee member, don edwards of california. she was a member of the judiciary committee on the clinton impeachment. and now a member of the judiciary, the house administration which oversees elections, and a manager. with that, i thank them all for their leadership and service. i am now going to proceed to sign the article. [inaudible] speaker pelosi: that is why it is taking so long. [laughter] [inaudible] speaker pelosi: i will keep one for myself. >> the senate will receive a message from the house of representatives.

we just had congressman hakeem jeffries, one of the house impeachment managers on. and he -- look.g believer in the element of surprise and anything is possible. and he seems to be kind of pinning his hopes that during these next four hours of closing arguments that something could still happen and that somebody somewhere in congress is still on the fence and they could make a compelling argument. >> i lost you a little bit there, alisyn, but i think you were asking about jeffries' argument. this puts the house democrats in a difficult spot because they've been making the point the entire time as they've been trying to prove their case that if you believe us and you don't actually do something here you're saying there's no check on the president. he can do whatever he wants. he can choose to basically make his own objectives supersede what the national american interest is. so they are basically watching -- for them, this argument from alexander is fairly a crushing one because it says you proved your case but it doesn't matter in the sense you had a case but it wasn't to convict.

hakeem, distinguished chair of our caucus, hakeem jeffries of new york. is that everybody? and zoe lofgren. this is zoe's third impeachment. she was for the nixon impeachment she was a staffer , for a judiciary committee member, don edwards of california. she was member of judiciary committee during the clinton impeachment, in her own right member of the judiciary committee and now member of the judiciary chair of house administration which oversees elections important to all of this, and a manager. so, with that i thank them all for their leadership and their service, and i'm now going to proceed to sign the articles. conversations] >> the senate will receive a message from the house of representatives. >> a message from the house of representatives. >> mr. president, i have been directed by the house of representatives to inform the senate, the house has passed h-res 798, a resolution appointing and authorizi

jeffries was a matinee idol. he has a beautiful voice. he would sing. big chase scenes and fights and things like that. a little bit of romance. he was basically an icon. one of the things that came up, i was talking to someone a few jeffries diederb not too long ago. he lived a very long life. he told a story about seeing some whites and black boys playing in the alley or something like that. the little black boy was crying. he said, why are you crying? those are my friends but they won't let me play cowboys with them because there weren't any black cowboys. he said that that was the inspiration for him doing these movies again on black cowboys. ok. ok. >> [inaudible] mike: you can still get some of these movies today. in reality, black boys played a really important role in the west. some left records. but was a black cowboy by the name of sam jones washington. he was one of the cowboys, one of the black cowboys that was interviewed. pathe late 1930's, the w went out with a body of interviewers and they interviewed. they asked them questions like, wha

new york democrat representative jeffries. mr. jeffries: he tried to cheat and got caught and then worked hard to cover it up. nick: they arguedhat coverup began on july 10 when administration officials told ukranian officials that ukraine would have to invtigatehe 2016 election and j and hunter biden betoreng a white house meeting. on july 25, presint trump spoke to the president of ukraine and repeated the investigation requests and in august, an inintelligence working at the white house filed a complaint. >> it start the with the white house lawyers failure to stop the scheme and continued with attempts toll hide the july 2 call summary and escalated with thete whiouse's illegal conceal metropolitan of the whistleblower's complaint. nick: they subenaed and asked milk mulvaney and john eisenberg refused to comply. >> because the presidenck b mr. eisenberg from testifying withouany susks, the record is silent as to a what if actions he or the white house couple s took to addr president trump's brazen misconduct and abuse of power

jeffries from new york, put an eyeglass on this and our constitutional rights. they are not being represented on the floors. both in the house and the senate floors. read. [inaudible] it is so polarized on left and right, that they cannot even meet in the middle and take this as an average american would look at this. i do congratulate any american who can watch it, is watching, has been watching and is interested in expanding their ride is him to a neutral forum skews me tongue-tied leftism to a neutral state. >> host: all right gordon and ohio thank you and for watching and calling in. you have seen a lot of the house impeachment managers on the floor, seven of them. the president also has a defense team made up of house of members and those include doug collins : mike johnson debbie lesko, mark meadows, jon ratcliffe, at least a phonic, and lead zell them. and lee's eldon is a republican from new york and he tweeted out earlier with their final words on the house floor, house dems proved their impeachment case without a doubt. yesterday they started the impea

jeffries quotes abraham lincoln, public sentiment is everything. over 70% of the american people want to see a fair trial, whatever the outcome, a fair trial with witnesses with documentation. we haven't seen even the rules. we put our rules out in october for the next couple of months, the next few months that followed for our making the case. we haven't seen what the rules are in the senate. but we do know that in the time that has transpired since december 18th, the american people have come down in favor of a fair trial, which they always wanted, but meaning that would entail having witnesses as well as documents. anyone else want to speak to that? >> well, the evidence is overwhelming that donald trump corruptly abused his power by pressuring a foreign government to target an american citizen for political and personal gain by withholding $391 million in military aid to ukraine without justification. there is a mountain of evidence in that regard. in america, no one is above the law. that is why the house proceeded with great leadership from s

hakeem, distinguished chair of our caucus, hakeem jeffries of new york. is that everybody? and zoe lofgren. this is zoe's third impeachment. for the nixon impeachment, she was a staffer for a judiciary committee member, don edwards of california. she was member of judiciary committee during the clinton impeachment, in her own right member of the judiciary committee and now member of the judiciary chair of house administration which oversees elections important to all of this, and a manager. so, with that i thank them all for their leadership and their service, and i'm now going to proceed to sign the articles. so there you have the message from the house on impeachment being delivered to the u.s. senate just a short while ago before the trial gets underway, the house managers will appear in the senate chamber tomorrow. we expect that to happen at noon eastern. they will be reading the articles of impeachment, we will see the swearing in of supreme court justice john roberts as the presiding officer of the trial and the swearing in of senators tomorrow at noon, at 2 pm easte

chair hakeem jeffries of new york. he's the chair of the house democratic caucus and is currently serving his fourth term in congress. he's a member of the house judiciary committee. before being in congress, he served in the assembly of new york for six years. and an accomplished litigator in private practice before running for office. he clerked for the honorable howard baer jr. for the southern district of new york. congresswoman val demings of florida. she's a member of the house permanent select committee intelligence and she's serving her second term in congress. before congress she served as the orlando police department for 27 years, part of that time as the first woman police chief in orlando. congressman jason crowe of colorado is a member of the house armed services committee. mr. crowe served his country -- our country bravely as an army ranger in iraq and in afghanistan. before coming -- running for congress, mr. crowe was a respected litigator in private practice in colorado. congresswoman sylvia garcia o

in other words, they laid the ground work for jeffries to talk about the phone call. they talked about rudy giuliani running around europe, running around ukraine, all these attempts predating zelensky to get this investigation started of biden. and so i thought that was effective because the president keeps saying, you know, it was just one phone call, and it was perfect. but not only was the phone call not perfect, but there was a whole lot more than that phone call. >> right, the phone call, donna, was a blueprint for what the democrats here in this presentation, their first day of opening arguments, of substantively making the case for the removal of the president, they argued this was essentially a criminal foreign policy, a foreign policy that rested on what they call a high crime. these are colleagues you know, you've served with them. i'm curious your view of how they have been making that case today, and for your analysis, i want to play the other side, we're now in the place where the democrats have the run of the show for several days in a row on the senate

speaker nancy pelosi, huddled with her caucus behind closed doors, heroes caucus chair hakeem jeffries of new york. >> the senate should conduct a fair trial, a fair trial involves witnesses and documen documents. what is the president hiding from the american people? if it was, in fact, a perfect call, we should hear from mick mulvaney, we should hear from john bolton. about the july 25th phone call. in the geopolitical shakedown. >> harris: this is "outnumbered," i'm here is faulkner, melissa francis, dagen mcdowell, fox news contributor jessica tarlov, and in the center seat, ready to go, fox & friends hose, brian kilmeade, he wrote another best seller, "the texas victory that changed american history" in stores right now, go get your copy. before that, were going to go to capitol hill. chad? >> well, the big questions here on capitol hill today here are the wind, the who, and the how. when does the house speaker send the articles of impeachment to the senate, who will be the impeachment managers, and how will the senate conduct the trial? just in the past 15 minutes or so nancy pel

and we'll talk with hakeem jeffries arguing the case against mr. trump. it's a fox news excl national tv? >> a hot mic captures a tense exchange between elizabeth warren and bernie sanders. we'll ask the sunday panel how their split shakes thins up just two weeks before the iowa caucuses. and our power player of the week. doctors said he'd never walk normally again. now he's pushing the limits of human potential. all right now on fox news sunday. and hello again from fox news in washington. the senate impeachment trial of president trump is set to begin in just two days. but we still don't know exactly what the trial will look like, how long it will last and whether senators will hear from witnesses. >> reporter: president trump is spending part of the weekend here but is scheduled to fly in for an economic summit sunday. >> do you solemnly swear -- >> reporter: senators return to washington to begin battle over establishing rules governing president trump's impeachment trial. >> our members feel that we have an obligation to listen to the argument. >> a

jeffries' and the manager's three-part test for abuse of power., the president exercises his official power. president obama's actions clearly meets the test for exercising official power because it is role as head of state during a nuclear security summit after asking president medvedev for space, he promised him that, "missile defense can be solved." what else could that mean but solved in their way favorable to the russians? who were dead set against expansion of a u.s. missile defense system in europe? two, two gained a corrupt personal benefit for president obama's actions were clear for his own corrupt personal benefit because he was asking an adversary for space. for the express purpose of furthering his own election chances. again, president obama said, this is my last election. after my election, i have more flexibility. president obama knew the importance of missile defense in europe, but decided to use that as a bargaining chip for the russians, for the russians to further his own election chances in 2012. three, while ignoring or injur

manager jeffries said the idea that trump cares about corruption is laughable.this is what doctor hill said. eliminating corruption ukraine was one of, if not the central goal of us foreign policy in ukraine. let me say that again. doctor hill testified that eliminating corruption in ukraine was one of, if not the central goal of us foreign policy in ukraine. if you are taking notes you can find that in the hill deposition transcript 34:7-13. doctor hill also said she thinks the president is quite publicly said he was very skeptical about corruption in ukraine. he's not alone, she said this as well, everyone has expressed great concerns about corruption. ambassador yovanovitch, they didn't play this, said we all have concerns. national security director morrison confirmed the, quote, he was aware he thought the president had a corruption problem as did many other people familiar with it. i am not going to continue to go over and over and over again the evidence that they did not put before you because we would be here for a lot longer than 24 hours. but to say t

manager jeffries said the idea that trump cares about corruption is laughable.is is what doctor hill said. eliminating corruption ukraine was one of, if not the central goal of us foreign policy in ukraine. let me say that again. doctor hill testified that eliminating corruption in ukraine was one of, if not the central goal of us foreign policy in ukraine. if you are taking notes you can find that in the hill deposition transcript 34:7-13. doctor hill also said she thinks the president is quite publicly said he was very skeptical about corruption in ukraine. he's not alone, she said this as well, everyone has expressed great concerns about corruption. ambassador yovanovitch, they didn't play this, said we all have concerns. national security director morrison confirmed the, quote, he was aware he thought the president had a corruption problem as did many other people familiar with it. i am not going to continue to go over and over and over again the evidence that they did not put before you because we would be here for a lot longer than 24 hours. but to say tha

i'm not blaming you, congressman jeffries. but you got burned in congress. they had the yellow cake. they said they had the weapons of mass destruction. it was bogus. now, you know how it works. they try to make it a little bit more legit, the people who were around bush every year. it was bogus. they voted for it on that basis, and now congress is scared because they got burned on that. and ever since -- and really before also -- presidents can do whatever they want. you guys watch. even with obama, they cross the red line. he says, oh, they crossed the red line. i'm going to go to congress. you guys say, do whatever you think is right. it was your job then. it's your job now. but is the cat out of the bag? is it too late? will presidents do whatever they want and you won't be able to come together because of partisan politics to stop it. >> i do not believe that it's too late in part because the american people are understandably frustrated at the concept of failed, unnecessary, endless wars in the middle east. >> i'm with you. >> having experienced the co

congress and manager jeffries said that the olc opined without any reasonable evidence that they did not have to turn over the complaint to congress and the way he portrayed this is there is a statute that if the inspector general finds a manager one - - a matter of urgent concern it must be forwarded to congress. but manager jeffries portrayed this the only thing is if the claims were urgent he said what could be more urgent than a sitting president tried to cheat an americancl election with foreign interference? that is not the only question it doesn't just say if it is urgent you have to forward it, talks about urgent concern as it one - - as a defined term if the house manager went to have accusations for a political and career official at the office of legal counsel to provide opinions for the executive branch on governing law then they shouldd come backed up with analysis with what the law actually says. and i think we have a slide of that urgent concern, if defined a series of flagrant violation offvi law related to the operation of the intelligence activity within the respons

congressman hakeem jeffries, a two years tillst his date voted in support of impeachment. you know that was more than a year before the ukraine call place.ok of the e just some managers. if you think about the members, there's people who were on the sworn in to this supported hose who them the greatest that they were going to impeach him. s i've said in the past, there's an issue with fairness, but instead of looking to the senate, speaker pelosi should be her own caucus. from the beginning, this investigation was marred by to the media, a completely predetermined process. we've been through impeachment before. but it was much different. of law ved in the rule back then, that we would face accuser, that you could cross-examine, that the minority actually ask for witnesses. the day that impeachment was sked to come forward, i sent a letter to the speaker laying out 10 items, none that were made up. what they were? a fair process we've always used in the past. answer was no because they've been working on this for 2 1/2 years. could not let fairness determine the outcome. an

manager jeffries said that olc opined quote without any reasonable basis that the acting dni did not have to turn over the complaint to congress. the way he portrayed this, there's a p statute that says if the inspector general of intelligence community finds the matter of urgent concern that must be forwarded to congress. manager jeffries portrayed this as if the only thing to decide was where these claims urgent vicki said what could be more urgent than a sitting president tried to cheat in an american election by eliciting foreign interference. that's not the only question. the statute doesn't just say if it's urgent you have to forward it. it talks about urgent concern as a defined term. if the house managers want to, and cast accusations at the political career officials at olc which we all know is a respected office of the department of justice, provides opinions for the executive branch of what governing law is, they should, backed up with analysis. so let's look at what theke law actually says. and i think we have the slide of that. urgent concern is defined as a serious or f

adam schiff, jerrold nadler, hakeem jeffries, zoe lofgren, jason crow, and sylvia garcia will act as prosecutors in the senate trial. speaker pelosi: good morning, everyone. this is a

our distinguished chair of the caucus, and hakeem jeffries of new york. is that everybody? and zoe lofgren, and this is zoe's third impeachment, and here for the nixon impeachment, and staffer, and for a judiciary committee member don edwards of california, and she was a member of the judiciary committee of the clinton impeachment in her own right, and member of the judiciary committee and now a member of the judiciary here of the house administration which oversees the elections and important to all of this and a manager, and with that, i thank them all for the leadership and the service, and i am now going to proceed to sign the articles. >>> so apparently she has a lot of pens there, and she is going to be handing out the pens to all of the special guests who are accompanying her in this signing ceremony. she is signing the two articles of impeachment, and which will now be formally delivered to the u.s. senate in another ceremony and the impeachment managers all seven of them together with the house clerk and the house sergeant of arms will proceed through the national

jeffries, miss demings, mr. crow, and ms. garcia are appointed managers to conduct the impeachment trial against donald trump. that a message be sent to the senate to inform the senate of these appointments and that the managers may, in connection with the preparation and conduct of the trial, may exhibit articles of impeachment to the senate and take all other actions necessary, which may include the following. employing legal, clerical, and other assistance and incurring other expenses as may be necessary to be paid from amount available to the committee on the judiciary under applicable expense resolutions. number two, persons and papers filing with the secretary of the senate on the part of the house, any pleadings and conjunction with or subsequent to the exhibition of the articles of impeachment that of the managers may consider necessary. i will now read the articles of impeachment. house resolution 755, impeaching donald trump, president of the united states, for high crimes and misdemeanors. resolved. the president,

and manager jeffries portrayed this as if the only thing to decide was were these claims urgent. he said, quote, what could be more urgent than a sitting president trying to cheat in an american election by soliciting foreign interference? it's not the only question. the statute doesn't just say if it urgent you have to forward it. it talks about urgent concern as a defined term. now, if the house managers want to, and castt accusations that political and career officials at the office of legal counsel which we all know of a respected office of department of justice provides opinions for the executive branch on what governing law is, , they should come back up with analysis. so let's look at what the law actually says. and i think we have the slide of that. urgent concern, is defined as a series or flagrant problem,, abuse, violation of law relating to the funding, administration, or operation of an intelligence activity within the responsibility and authority of the director of national intelligence involving classified information. so the office of legal counsel was consulted b

our caucus, hakim jeffries, a serious respected litigator, val demings, member of the police force of orlando and for 27 years and for part of that time the first woman and african-american police chief of orlando. she knows her way around the courtroom. jason crow from colorado, army ranger, served our country in the military in iraq and afghanistan, and now in the congress of the united states. he, too, a respected litigator. a sylvia garcia of texas, judge in a number of capacities in texas and member of the judiciary committee. we are very honored that you have taken the responsibility, all of you, to bring the articles of impeachment over to the united states senate withle a case for the constitution. -- with a case for the constitution. a case for the constitution. so back to the children, back to the children. we don't want this president or any president to ever violate the constitution. it is very, very important that we see that that constitution is central to who we are as a country. our system of government. our system of government. our constitution. so valued, so respect

jeffries, mrd are appointed managers to conduct the impeachment trial against donald john trump, president of the united states hathat a message be sent to the senate to inform the sentence appointments and that the managers so appointed in connection with the preparation and conduct of the trial, exhibit articles of impeachment to the senate and take all of their actions which may includee the following. employing legal clerical and other necessary assistance, and incurring such other expenses as may be necessary to be paid for amounts available to the committee on the judiciary under applicable expense resolutions. our from the applicable account of the house of representatives. number two, persons and papers filing the secretary of the senate on the part of the house of representatives. any pleadings in conducting with her subsequent to, the exhibition of the articles of impeachment that the managers may consider necessary. with the permission of the senate, i will not read the articles of impeachment house resolution 755. house resolution 755, impeaching donald john trump, president of

my name is hakeem jeffries and i represent the eighth congressional district of new york and brooklyn and queens. it is one of the most diverse districts in the nation. i have been told i have the ninth most african-american district in the country and the sixteenth most jewish and