>>> THEY DON’T HAVE THE VOTES TO
CONVICT.
WE THIS 45 PEOPLE, REPUBLICAN
SENATORS, SAY THAT THE WHOLE
CHARADE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
IMPEACHMENT, THE TRIAL, IS DEAD
ON ARRIVAL.
THERE WILL BE A SHOW, THERE WILL
BE A PARADE OF PARTISANSHIP, BUT
THE DEMOCRATS REALLY WILL NOT BE
ABLE TO WIN.
>> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, RAND
PAUL.
WITH 45 SENATE REPUBLICANS
VOTING TO DISMISS DONALD TRUMP’S
IMPEACHMENT TRIAL, "NEW YORK
LINCOLN PROJECT, SET OUT TO
DEFEAT TRUMP AND TRUMPISM.
STEVE, DONALD TRUMP HAS VANISHED
FROM SIGHT, FROM TWITTER, OUT OF
SIGHT, OUT OF MIND IN ALL BUT
MAGA NATION.
WHY THEN DOES HE ONLY SEEM TO
LIVE ON IN THE MINDS AND HEARTS
OF THE SNIFFLING COWARDS?
>> WELL, GOOD EVENING, BRIAN.
LOOK, LET ME JUST START WITH
RAND PAUL’S COMMENTS.
AND THIS IS SOMEBODY WHO RAN
TALKING ABOUT HIS FIDELITY TO
THE CONSTITUTION.
HIS COMMENTS ARE A TRAVESTY
THERE.
EVEN IN THE HEIGHT OF JIM CROW
IN THE SOUTH WHEN THERE WAS
VIOLENCE DONE AGAINST BLACK
AMERICANS, OCCASIONALLY THE
PERPETRATORS, WHITE PEOPLE,
WOULD BE BROUGHT BEFORE A JURY,
AND A TRIAL WOULD TAKE PLACE.
MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, IN MOST
INSTANCES, THAT TRIAL ACQUITTED
THOSE WHITE PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF
THE PREPONDERANCE OF THEIR
GUILT.
IT DIDN’T MEAN JUST BECAUSE YOU
KNEW IN ADVANCE THEY WOULD BE
ACQUITTED THAT THERE SHOULDN’T
BE A TRIAL.
BECAUSE ONE DAY THERE WAS
ACCOUNTABILITY, THERE WAS
JUSTICE.
IT’S NOT ABOUT WINNING.
IT’S ABOUT JUSTICE.
IT’S A TRIAL.
WE ALL SAW THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES INCITE A MOB OF
WHITE SUPREMACISTS, WHITE
NATIONALISTS, EXTREMIST MILITIA,
FASCIST PROUD BOYS, HE INCITED
THEM TO VIOLENCE.
HE ATTACKED THE CAPITOL, THE
CAPITOL FELL, THE AMERICAN FLAG
WAS TORN DOWN AND THE MAGA FLAG
RAISED IN ITS PLACE.
FLOOR OF THE UNITED STATES
SENATE AND HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES WAS DESECRATED.
THE MOB WAS THERE TO KILL THE
VICE PRESIDENT AND SPEAKER OF
THE HOUSE.
DIDN’T SUCCEED BUT KILLED FIVE
PEOPLE, INCLUDING BLUDGEONING A
POLICE OFFICER TO DEATH.
THERE MUST BE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR
AN ATTACK AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF
THE UNITED STATES, AGAINST THE
PEOPLE’S GOVERNMENT, GOVERNMENT
OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE,
FOR THE PEOPLE.
SO IT DOESN’T MATTER.
WE’LL SEE THE COMPLICITY, THE
COWARDICE, WE’LL SEE THE
SUBORDINATION OF THEIR OATH OF
OFFICE TO THE CONSTITUTION AS
THEY ONCE AGAIN ASSERT THEIR
LOYALTY TO DONALD TRUMP.
AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL
ONCE AGAIN GET TO TAKE THEIR
MEASURE.
IT IS A GOOD THING THAT DONALD
TRUMP HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM
POWER.
BUT HE LEAVES BEHIND A REAL DEAL
AUTOCRATIC MOVEMENT IN THIS
COUNTRY.
AND THAT MOVEMENT IS SUSTAINED
IN PART BY THE CYNICISM OF THE
ELECTED ELITES OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY, MEN LIKE KEVIN McCARTHY
AND TED CRUZ AND JOSH HAWLEY,
AND MEN LIKE RAND PAUL.
THIS IS WHY YOU’RE SEEING AN
ACTION BY CORPORATE AMERICA
SAYING 147 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
THAT ROSE AN ENACTION, WOULD
HAVE DISENFRANCHISED, ERADICATED
THE VOICE OF MILLIONS OF
AMERICANS ON THE BASIS OF THEIR
SKIN COLOR, THAT VOTE AFTER THE
VIOLENT INSURRECTION WAS A
CROSSING OF THE RUBICON AND
COMPANIES ARE SAYING NO MORE
DONATIONS.
I THINK YOU’LL SEE $100 MILLION
TO $200 MILLION COME OUT OF THE
POLITICAL COMMITTEES THAT
SUPPORT THESE MEMBERS.
WE’RE AT TIME OF GREAT
TURBULENCE IN THE COUNTRY, AS
THE PRESIDENT TRIES TO DEAL WITH
THIS CRISIS, THERE MUST BE
ACCOUNTABILITY AND JUSTICE, NOT
JUST FOR THE INCITED WHO STORMED
THE CAPITOL AND DID THE
VIOLENCE, BUT FOR THE INCITERS,
STARTING WITH THE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES BUT ALSO
SENATORS HAWLEY, SENATOR CRUZ,