House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler Jerrold (Jerry) Lewis NadlerJudiciary panel releases report defining impeachable offenses READ: White House letter refusing to participate in impeachment hearings White House tells Democrats it won't cooperate in impeachment hearings MORE (D-N.Y.) said Sunday that he is confident in the case against President Trump ahead of a vote on impeachment.
“We have a very rock-solid case,” Nadler said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“I think the case we have, if presented to a jury, would be a guilty verdict in about three minutes flat,” he added.
The top Judiciary Democrat also dismissed Republicans' "nonsense about hearsay evidence," saying there is "considerable direct evidence."
“And it ill behooves a president or his partisans to say you don’t have enough direct evidence when the reason we don’t have even more direct evidence is the president has ordered everybody in the executive branch not to cooperate with Congress in the impeachment inquiry, something that is unprecedented in American history and is a contempt of Congress by itself,” Nadler said.
“We have a very rock solid case,” @RepJerryNadler says about the House Democrats' impeachment case. “The case we have if presented to a jury would be a guilty verdict in about three minutes flat.” https://t.co/TWeC2mhpgk #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/QCYqBEcK1G — State of the Union (@CNNSotu) December 8, 2019
“The only testimony we have are from public spirited, patriotic people in the CIA, the Pentagon, the White House itself who came forward and defied the president's orders and testified,” he added.
Nadler said that if the president or Republicans had “any exculpatory evidence, they would have brought it forward.”
He also said he would be rejecting the GOP witnesses as part of the next impeachment hearing, calling the requested witnesses “not relevant” to the allegations. For example, he said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff Adam Bennett SchiffPence's office questions Schiff's request to declassify more material from official's testimony: report Sunday talk shows: Lawmakers gear up ahead of Monday's House Judiciary hearing Trump denies report that he still uses personal cell phone for calls MORE (D-Calif.), whom the Republicans have requested as a witness, did not witness any of the actions and therefore is not relevant to call as a witness.
The Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing Monday to receive presentations of evidence from investigators as it moves forward with the impeachment of Trump.
Nadler said it is “possible” that the House will hold a vote on the articles of impeachment this week.
He said the scope of the articles will not be decided until after Monday's hearing.
feignapathy on December 8th, 2019 at 18:37 UTC »
Nadler said that if the president or Republicans had “any exculpatory evidence, they would have brought it forward.”
Been saying this for weeks.
Where's the evidence that exonerates Trump?
Edit: You guys can really stop telling me "innocent until proven guilty".
This is not a criminal case. This is a political course of action outlined in the Constitution. Every Constitutional expert will tell you, you don't have to be convicted of a crime to be impeached.
The House of Representatives have provided a very damning IMPEACHMENT case against Trump. So far he has countered none of the allegations and provided no defense outside of acting like a paranoid old man claiming everyone in the government is a never Trumper out to get him.
Big-Schiff-Energy on December 8th, 2019 at 15:59 UTC »
And to think that there's even more incriminating evidence being obstructed by the White House.
reddit_1999 on December 8th, 2019 at 15:51 UTC »
But a Republican Senate, whose sole criteria is looking at the rising stock portfolios of their wealthy masters, will turn a blind eye.