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Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan tells the House Judiciary Committee at its first public impeachment inquiry hearing that the list of impeachable offenses the framers included in the Constitution shows that the essence of impeachable offense was a president's decision to sacrifice the national interest for his own private ends or treason, the first listed giving aid to a foreign enemy or putting adversaries interests above those of the United States, bribery occurred when an official solicited, received or offered a personal favor a benefit to influence an official action and put his private welfare above the national interest to disregard public interests in the discharge of the duties of political office, and the evidence of record had not been seen before, a president who had double down on violating his oath to faithfully execute the laws and protect and defend the Constitution.