House Foreign Affairs chairman defends Democrats' handling of impeachment inquiry
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel defended the Democrats' handling of the impeachment inquiry, while Republican Whip Steve Scalise said the inquiry is nothing like what Presidents Bill Clinton or Richard Nixon faced.
"Let's look at what he's done, no other president in American history has done something like that," he added."He tried to essentially bribe a foreign power to interfere in U.S. elections.""The transcript clearly shows the president was asking the Ukrainian president to investigate his political opponents," @GStephanopoulos says, repeatedly pressing Scalise if it's appropriate https://t.co/GInwp1CUM8 pic.twitter.
"That's not what was happening on the phone call," Scalise said."Even when the president said, 'will you do me a favor,' he went on to ask about CrowdStrike. That wasn't about Joe Biden."He also responded to Engel by saying that the rules for the impeachment inquiry were"nothing like" the ones in the Clinton and Nixon impeachment proceedings.Rep. Eliot Engel:"Well, it's not a matter of Republican support.
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