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The Afghan War was America’s longest war, the Afghan War spanned four Republican and Democratic presidential administrations.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Well, certainly by the end of the year, because we're like Cinderella at midnight.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think Justice Clarence Thomas has a lot of relevant evidence, and I would hope Justice Clarence Thomas would come forward and testify about what happened, we're trying to get everybody to come forward voluntarily. ... I would assume Justice Clarence Thomas's going to come forward and testify voluntarily.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I would say( Justice Clarence Thomas) has a relevant testimony to render, and she should come forward and give it. I don't want to overstate her role, we've talked to more than 1,000 people, but we'd like to hear from Newt Gingrich and we'd like to hear from her, too.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
People are going to hear the story of that tweet, and then the explosive effects it had in Trump world and specifically among the domestic violent extremist groups -- the most dangerous political extremists in the country at that point.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think that he knows, his staff knows, the U.S. attorneys know, what’s at stake here, they know the importance of it, but I think they are rightfully paying close attention to precedent in history as well, as the facts of this case.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Unthinkable : Trauma, Truth and the Trials of American Democracy.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We don't want it to read like a clunky committee effort, we want it to have an authorial voice that tells the story of what happened.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think The House select committee is quite serious that everybody needs to participate. So yeah, I don't think we give anybody a free pass, you know, what, one possibility is ? That we draft a report, and we wait until the end to see if we get everybody's participation.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is a tremendous sense of responsibility, everywhere we go, people tell us that this is the most important investigation they can remember at least since the Watergate investigation. So there's a high burden of hope being placed upon us.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We're very serious about trying to get Meadows to testify to us. And we're very serious about trying to get Jeffrey Clark to testify, but the closer you get to Donald Trump, the more afraid they are of both Donald Trump and also of being criminally prosecuted, so they're turning to the Fifth Amendment.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We want Meadows to come in and testify on everything of interest to us, if he thinks there are some questions that are covered by either executive privilege or the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, he can invoke it and a court can settle it later.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Eastman's activities are perfectly clear at this point. John Eastman was the architect of the legal strategy to claim for the first time in American history that the Vice President had the unilateral authority to reject electoral college votes that were the result of popular elections.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We need to determine to what extent there was an organized effort against Vice President Pence and we believe that, you know, some of the actors' names have become known, including John Eastman, who laid it out in a memo.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
What she said to me was,' When are you going to do your investigation of the violence surrounding Black Lives Matter ?' And I said,' Like with Kyle Rittenhouse who went and killed two Black Lives Matter protesters ? I'm sure there will be an opportunity for us to get to that,' and then, you know, it degenerated it from there as you can imagine.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
An important part of the work of the January 6 select committee is to figure out how to deal with this huge security threat of domestic violent extremism, we've already made huge investments in trying to fortify The Capitol and protect ourselves. But fundamentally, we've got to deal with this pervasive threat.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We've got to have a SALT march, like Gandhi did, let's have a SALT march in America to restore some common sense to our tax policy.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Let's make a deal, ... Let's make democracy grow. Let's admit both Washington D.C., as the Democrats have asked for and Puerto Ricoas the Republicans have asked for.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The impeachment manager Mr. Ciccilinecorrectly and accurately quoted a newspaper account which the distinguished senator has taken objection to. So we're happy to withdraw it on the grounds that it is not true and we are going to withdraw it this evening without any prejudice to the ability to resubmit if possible and then we could debate it if we need it.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Tommy left us a note, he didn't have anything in there about take some time off.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I picked a helluva time for take your daughter to work day, after an extremely long and dreadful day I was able to send Tabitha and Hank home after 9:30 or 10 p.m. I hugged them and said to Tabitha,' I promise it wouldn't be like this the next time you come to the Capitol.' And she said,' Dad there isn't gon na be a next time.'.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I haven’t spoken to [House Speaker Nancy Pelosi]today about this. Look, I know that everybody wants to focus on trial tactics and strategy and so on. I want people to focus on the solemnity and the gravity of these events.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I don't think anybody would seriously argue that we should establish a precedent where every president on the way out the door has two weeks or three weeks or four weeks to try to incite an armed insurrection against the union, this was the most serious presidential crime in the history of the United States of America.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We're putting together a trial plan, which is designed to get the truth of all of these events out, obviously, we're not going to be able to tell everyone's story, but we are going to be able to tell the story of this attack on United States and all of the events that led up to it.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Today we’re looking at Section 4, which we are asking the Vice President to invoke by activating and mobilizing the Cabinet to declare what is patently obvious to a horrified and anxious nation : the President is not even minimally discharging the basic duties of his office, i do n’t think there is a reasonable person in the country with his or her eyes open who does n’t understand that the President was hell-bent on trying to challenge, undermine, and overturn the result of the election in all of the events leading up to January 6th, and on January 6th.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This is a technical part of our investigation, we want to know exactly how the president translated his political objective to shake down the Ukrainian government for the favors he wanted (into) the budget process.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We're going to move to the public phase of the investigation because America needs to hear from these witnesses themselves, the president is actively obstructing our investigation by trying to blockade the witnesses. That in itself becomes evidence of obstruction.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
People understand what it means for The President to be spending millions of dollars in federal government tax dollars at The President own business properties.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's essentially a packet of propaganda and disinformation spreading conspiracy theories.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Dealing with the Trump administration is like a video game where all of the monsters are flying at you 60 miles an hour. And so people have to deal with them as they come, and we have to do our best to sort it out and prioritize our fact-finding investigations.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're in the middle of looking at a whole set of unprecedented lawless activities by the White House. And it's not that this is disconnected from it, it's relevant to it. I mean, judicial corruption contaminates everything. So this is relevant and we should get the information that we can, but we also have limited resources.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is a great victory for the truth and for the possibility of justice in the country, because America finally got to see what Special Counsel Mueller was talking about.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Having somebody talking about what happened from a personal perspective will be a dramatic debut for the committee.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I am very satisfied that things are moving in the right direction, and I think the American people are getting increasingly educated and engaged about the lawlessness of the president.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I am very satisfied that things are moving in the right direction.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The rationale for empowering the committees to hold people in contempt is we will be able to save floor time for prescription drug reform and health care and the Equality Act and the Dream Act, so we will be able to both play offense on public policy while we're defending the Constitution.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There are these dramatic episodes of presidential attempts to interfere with the Mueller investigation, and I think people would like to hear from a number of officials involved. White House counsel McGahn jumps out as an important witness.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The Constitution calls for impeachment in cases of bribery, treason and other high crimes and misdemeanors, so the legal case should indeed be compelling, the evidence should be overwhelming and the politics should be bipartisan. He may not be worth it but of course that's not the standard. The country is certainly worth it if The Constitution and the public interest demand it.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
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