'Why does Ukraine matter to the United States?' Rep. Adam Schiff asks. 'Countries like Ukraine are fighting our fight against authoritarianism—at least that used to be our fight. And God help us if it's not our fight still.'
House manager Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado makes an effort to challenge the upcoming defense expected from Trump's legal team.
House impeachment manager Rep. Jason Crow speaks during the fourth day of impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 24, 2020."The president's assertion that other countries did not support Ukraine is meritless," he says. "The evidence is clear, the question for you is whether it's okay for the president to withhold taxpayer money, aid for our ally, our friend at war for a personal political benefit. Whether it's okay for the president to sacrifice our national security for his own election," Crow says."It's not okay to me. It's certainly not okay with the American people, and it should not be okay to any of you.
“All the information we're looking at, it's in a prism, a very binary outcome. You're either acquitted, or you're convicted, and if you're convicted it’s the death sentence. There's no kind of range, or spectrum. ...I think it means that when you do bring a case, especially for as this applies to the future, you better have all your ducks in a row, it better be solid, and most importantly, it ought to be a little bipartisan when it arrives over here,” Braun says.
The recording appears to contradict statements by President Trump and support the narrative that has been offered by Parnas during broadcast interviews in recent days. Trump has said repeatedly he does not know Parnas, a Soviet-born American who has emerged as a wild card in Trump’s impeachment trial, especially in the days since Trump was impeached.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, speaks to the media along with with Rep. Jason Crow, left, and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, right, on the fourth day of the impeachment trial, Jan. 24, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
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