Republican Rep. Mike Conaway (TX) was not pleased that House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) got the last word at the second public impeachment hearing on Friday.
During his closing remarks, Schiff said Trump had engaged in "an effort to coerce, condition or bribe a foreign country into doing [his] dirty work."
"The fact that they failed in this solicitation of bribery doesn’t make it any less bribery. Doesn’t make it any less immoral or corrupt. It just means it was unsuccessful. And to that we owe other dedicated public servants who blew the whistle. Had they not blown the whistle we wouldn’t be here and I think it is appalling that my colleagues continue to want to out this whistleblower so that he or she can be punished by this president," Schiff said.
"But let’s underscore once again, while you are the beginning of this story, you’re not the end of it -- but nonetheless, the beginning is important, because the beginning of the story is an effort to get you out of the way... to get you out of the way, because they felt you were an impediment to the political investigations the president so desperately wanted.
"Giuliani has made it abundantly clear he was in Ukraine on a mission for his client for the president to investigate the Bidens. And you were viewed as an obstacle that had to go. Not just by Giuliani but by the president of the United States, and if people had any doubt about it, they should do what the president asks. Read the transcript. What they will see in the transcript is the president praises the corrupt, he praises the corrupt, Lutsenko. He condemns the just, you. And then he asks for an investigation of the Bidens. There is no camouflaging that corrupt intent," Schiff concluded.
"Chairman, you disparaged those members on this side of aisle and we should have a chance to respond to your disparaging remarks," Conaway fired back.
"Chairman, I demand to speak. Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman," he shouted, to no avail.
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