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Trump Impeachment Is 'Not A Fair Process,' GOP Rep. Mike Johnson Says

Impeachment hearings continue Monday with a presentation of the House Intelligence Committee's 300-page report.
Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson speaks with Republican Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana, who is a member of the Judiciary Committee. (Patrick Semansky/AP)

As House Democrats move forward with impeachment proceedings, hearings continue Monday with a presentation of the House Intelligence Committee’s 300-page report.

The report concluded that Trump “solicited the interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.” President Trump faces a Friday deadline to decide whether or not to send a White House lawyer to the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment proceedings.

Republican Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, says he does not think this report presents enough evidence to support impeachment.

“Our concern is that we still … don’t have access to all the underlying evidence that supposedly supports this claim or these allegations that impeachment is necessary,” he says.

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