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Rep. Collins’ full opening statement in hearing with legal experts | Trump's first impeachment
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December 4, 2019
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10:32Now PlayingTrump's first impeachment - 2020
Rep. Doug Collins, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, said "this impeachment is not really about facts." Collins criticized the Democrats for pursuing impeachment proceedings, following a string of investigations into President Donald Trump, including the Mueller report, which looked into Russia's investigation into the 2016 presidential election. "But if you want to know what's really driving this? There's two things. It's called a clock and a calendar," Collins said. "[The Democrats] want to do it before the end of the year. Why? Because the chairman said it just a second ago, 'Because we're scared of the elections next year. We're scared of the elections; we'll lose again,'" he added. Collins spoke ahead of testimony from Noah Feldman, a Harvard law professor, Pamela S. Karlan, a Stanford law professor, Michael Gerhardt, a University of North Carolina law professor, and Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor. The Dec. 4 questioning came on the first day of public hearings by the House Judiciary Committee as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. The focus of the Judiciary hearing, which came after the House Intelligence Committee had hearings in late November, is to define the grounds for a presidential impeachment.
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