WASHINGTON -- It was the rarest of moments in the nation's capital, a seemingly sincere attempt at persuasion across the partisan breach by the Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on the eve of the panel's vote to impeach President Donald Trump."I know this moment must be
WASHINGTON — It was the rarest of moments in the nation’s capital, a seemingly sincere attempt at persuasion across the partisan breach by the Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on the eve of the panel’s vote to impeach President Donald Trump.
But now, less than three months after the allegations in a whistleblower complaint catapulted Democrats into an investigation of whether the president pressured Ukraine for political gain, the country is exactly where Pelosi worried it would be — on the brink of an intensely partisan impeachment with deep consequences for both parties and the country.
They called each other liars and demagogues and accused each other of being desperate and unfair. At one point, Republicans all but abandoned their pursuit of trying to persuade their Democratic colleagues, instead making a motion to strike the most critical lines out of the articles — essentially taking the “impeach” out of impeachment.
“Ukraine was not aware of the aid,” Johnson insisted Thursday, referring to the $391 million in security assistance that Trump had ordered withheld. If they didn’t know the money had been frozen, he explained, Ukraine couldn’t have been on the receiving end of a pressure campaign by the president. And after Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., said it was “clear” that Trump cared about rooting out corruption in Ukraine, Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., scoffed: “The president never brings up corruption.”
“If this was a muddying the waters, y’all are an EPA hazardous waste site at this point,” Collins snapped back.
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