House Intelligence members say committee has evidence of a Trump-Ukraine 'extortion scheme'

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• House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Eric Swalwell said on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday that the impeachment inquiry has uncovered evidence of an "extortion scheme" involving President Donald Trump so far in the impeachment inquiry. 
• Swalwell said that evidence is stacking up ahead of the impeachment inquiry moving into its phase of public testimony. 
• Fellow committee member Rep. Jim Himes echoed Swalwell's point about corruption, saying that lawmakers around the impeachment inquiry need to move away from using the term "quid pro quo" to describe Trump's alleged behavior, and start using harsher language suggesting "corruption" and "abuse of power."
• Himes said the very language of the phrase can be confusing, when he thought it should be simple to communicate "that the president acted criminally and extorted in the way a mob boss would extort somebody." 
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House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Eric Swalwell said on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday that the impeachment inquiry has uncovered evidence of an "extortion scheme" involving President Donald Trump pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political opponents.

Swalwell told host Margaret Brennan that though "evidence is not a conclusion," witnesses in the impeachment probe so far had pointed to Trump's floating of the threat of withholding military aid to Ukraine as extortion, but the allegations would be weighed in front of lawmakers from both parties. 

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