This is the Tom Hartman program.

Well, happy impeachment day.

Maybe.

They're reading the articles of impeachment on the house floor right now. In fact, this is pretty

historic. Let's just clip to that right now, Nate and Sean. We'll carry the reading of the

articles. Here we go.

Three, directing current and former executive branch officials not to cooperate with the

committees in response to which nine administration officials defied subpoenas for testimony, namely John

Michael Mick Mulvaney, Robert B Blair, John A Eisenberg, Michael Ellis, Preston

Wells Griffith, Russell T. Vote, Michael Duffy, Brian McCormick, and T. Ulrich Breckbule.

These actions were consistent with President Trump's previous efforts to undermine United

States government investigations into foreign interference in United States elections.

Through these actions, President Trump sought to irrigate to himself the right to determine

the propriety, scope, and nature of an impeachment inquiry

into his own conduct as well as the unilateral prerogative to deny any and all information to the

House of Representatives and the exercise of its sole power of impeachment.

In the history of the Republic, no president has ever ordered the complete defiance of an impeachment

inquiry or sought to obstruct and impede so comprehensively the ability

of the House of Representatives to investigate high crimes and misdemeanors.

This abuse of office served to cover up the president's own repeated misconduct and to seize and control the power of impeachment and thus to nullify a vital constitutional safeguard vested solely in the House of Representatives. In all of this

President Trump has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as president and

subversive of constitutional government to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States

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