SO ON AND SO FORTH. IT’S HARD TO RECREATE SOME KIND
OF A EUROPEAN FORCE OUT OF ALL
OF THAT.
OF THAT. >> AND TODAY, BACK IN THE UNITED
STATES, THE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE
COMMITTEE IS EXPECTED TO VOTE ON
THE IMPEACHMENT REPORT.
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE CAN NOW
REVIEW THE DOCUMENT.
AND I TELL CHAIRMAN ADAM SCHIFF
SAYS IT WILL ALSO BE RELEASED TO
THE PUBLIC AT SOME POINT TODAY.
IF THE COMMITTEE VOTES TO ADOPT
THE REPORT, IT WILL BE SENT TO
THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
AT THE SAME TIME, CHAIRMAN
SCHIFF ALSO TOLD MSNBC LAST
NIGHT THAT HIS PANEL’S
INVESTIGATION OF THE PRESIDENT
DOESN’T STOP AFTER TONIGHT’S
VOTE.
VOTE. >> THAT’S NOT THE END OF OUR
INVESTIGATION.
INVESTIGATION. SO EVEN WHILE JUDICIARY DOES ITS
WORK, WE WILL CONTINUE
INVESTIGATING, WE’RE CONTINUING
TO ISSUE SUBPOENAS, WE’RE
CONTINUING TO LEARN NEW
INFORMATION.
INFORMATION. THAT WORK GOES ON.
>> MEANWHILE, HOUSE REPUBLICANS
ARE HITTING BACK WITH THEIR OWN
MINORITY REPORT ARGUING THAT
DEMOCRATS HAVE FAILED TO
ESTABLISH THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP
COMMITTED ANY IMPEACHABLE
OFFENSES.
OFFENSES. A COPY OF THE 123-PAGE REPORT
SAYS THIS.
SAYS THIS. DESPITE THEIR BEST EFFORTS, THE
EVIDENCE GATHERED DURING THE
DEMOCRATS PARTISAN AND ONE-SIDED
IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY DOESN’T --
DOES NOT SUPPORT THAT PRESIDENT
TRUMP PRESSURED UKRAINE TO
INVESTIGATE HIS POLITICAL RIVAL
TO BENEFIT THE PRESIDENT IN THE
2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
THE EVIDENCE DOES NOT ESTABLISH
ANY IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE.
HOUSE INTEL CHAIRMAN ADAM SCHIFF
HIT BACK AT THE GOP REPORT
WRITING IN PART TELLINGLY THE
MINORITY DISMISSES THIS AS JUST
PART OF THE PRESIDENT’S OUTSIDE
THE BELTWAY THINKING.
IT IS MORE ACCURATELY OUTSIDE
THE LAW AND CONSTITUTION AND A
VIOLATION OF HIS OUMGATH OF OFFI
JOE, I’M TRYING TO ENVISION THAT
PICTURE OF THE REPUBLICANS
PUTTING TOGETHER -- HOUSE
REPUBLICANS PUTTING TOGETHER
THAT REPORT.
THAT REPORT. YOU HAVE WOULD HAVE TO LITERALLY
PUT ON BLINDERS TO WRITE IT THAT
WAY.
WAY. >> WELL, YOU ACTUALLY WOULD JUST
HAVE TO GO INTO IT GOING --
>> I’M GOING TO LIE.
>> -- THIS GUY’S GUILTY AS HELL,
HE’S AS GUILTY AS HELL, WE CAN’T
ARGUE THE FACTS BECAUSE THEY’RE
NOT ON OUR SIDE.
WE CAN’T ARGUE THE LAW BECAUSE
THE LAW’S NOT ON OUR SIDE.
WE JUST HAVE TO ARGUE.
THAT’S ALL THEY’VE BEEN DOING.
THEY’VE BEEN MAKING FOOLS OF
THEMSELVES OVER THE WEEKEND.
THEY HAVE BEEN ADOPTING, AS WE
SAID, VLADIMIR PUTIN’S TALKING
POINTS.
POINTS. TALKING POINTS THAT THE
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY WARNED
THEM WAS PART OF A RUSSIAN
PROPAGANDA EFFORT, BUT THEY WERE
SO DESPERATE TO DEFEND THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
INSTEAD OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA ITSELF, THAT THEY
ACTUALLY PUSHED -- PUSHED THESE
TALKING POINTS.
TALKING POINTS. WHICH I THINK, WILLIE, IT
JUST -- IT BEGS THE QUESTION AT
THIS POINT IN THE PROCEEDINGS,
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND NANCY
PELOSI, AND I CERTAINLY
UNDERSTOOD THIS, THEY WANTED TO
NARROW THE FOCUS TO UKRAINE TO
KEEP IT SIMPLE.
THE PRESIDENT CLEARLY VIOLATED
HIS OATH OF OFFICE IN WHAT HE
DID, IT WAS EASILY PROVEN, IT’S
BEEN PROVEN OVER THE PAST
SEVERAL WEEKS.
SEVERAL WEEKS. HE COMMITTED BRIBERY.
HE BRIBED A FOREIGN LEADER.
SAID, LISTEN, I WILL ACTUALLY
GIVE YOU $400 MILLION IN
MILITARY AID BUT YOU HAVE TO
GIVE ME DIRT ON MY POLITICAL
OPPONENT.
OPPONENT. HE GOT CAUGHT RED HANDED.
THE REPUBLICANS AREN’T DOING
ANYTHING ABOUT THAT.
SO THE QUESTION IS THIS.
IF THEY’RE GOING TO ACT IN SUCH
BAD FAITH THAT THEY’RE NOW
ASSETS OF RUSSIA USING, AGAIN,
VLADIMIR PUTIN’S PROPAGANDA THAT
THE INTEL COMMUNITIES, ALL 17
INTEL AGENCIES HAVE INSTRUCTED
THEM, WHY NOT EXPAND THIS
IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY?
IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY? WHY NOT BRING UP THE ILLEGAL
PAYOFF TO STORMY DANIELS A WEEK
OR SO BEFORE THE ELECTION THAT
HAS A MAN SITTING IN JAIL WHO
HELPED ORCHESTRATE THAT ILLEGAL
PAYOFF?
PAYOFF? BECAUSE THAT ILLEGAL PAYOFF
WOULD HAVE LANDED ANY SENATOR,
WOULD HAVE LANDED ANY MEMBER OF
CONGRESS, WOULD HAVE LANDED ANY
CANDIDATE FOR ANY FEDERAL LAW
OFFICE IN A FEDERAL
PENITENTIARY.
PENITENTIARY. SO WHY DON’T THEY EXPAND IT IT
THOSE ILLEGAL ACTS?
TO THE TEN ACTS IN THE MUELLER
REPORT THAT VERY CLEARLY LAID
OUT OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE?
WHY NOT SHOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
THE FULL BREADTH AND THE FULL
SCOPE OF DONALD TRUMP’S
CORRUPTION, ESPECIALLY COMING ON
THE HEELS OF AN ATTORNEY GENERAL
TRYING TO RUN ROUGHSHOD OVER,
YOU KNOW, AN INSPECTOR GENERAL’S
UPCOMING REPORT.
UPCOMING REPORT. AN ATTORNEY GENERAL WHO’S LIED
TO CONGRESS ALREADY,
COMMITTED -- I MEAN, THERE IS
NOTHING BUT LAWLESSNESS IN THIS
ADMINISTRATION.
ADMINISTRATION. SHOULDN’T THE UNITED STATES
CONGRESS GO ON RECORD AND REALLY
SHOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THE
FULL WIDTH OF THIS CORRUPT,
CORROSIVE ADMINISTRATION?
CORROSIVE ADMINISTRATION? >> THE DEMOCRATS IN THE HOUSE,
THE PLAN HAD BEEN TO GET A VOTE
BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR.
THAT’S GOING TO BE TOUGH NOW
ALREADY BASED ON THE SCHEDULE
THAT THEY’VE LAID OUT, JAW
DISHNARY BRINGING IN MORE
WITNESSES AND NOW THEY’RE
STARTING HIS CHAPTER IN THE
STORY.
STORY. MAYBE THEY DO DECIDE TO OPEN IT
UP AT THIS POINT, BECAUSE THAT
123 PAGE DOCUMENT PUT OUT BY
REPUBLICANS NOW ENSLIENS ANDHRIN
CONFIRMS WHAT WE’VE HEARD FROM
THEM IS THAT THEY’RE GOING TO
LOOK THE OTHER WAY COME HELL OR
HIGH WATER.
HIGH WATER. THE IDEA THAT YOU CAN SIT AND
LISTEN TO THOSE TWO WEEKS OF
TESTIMONY FROM NONPARTISAN
OFFICIALS, MANY OF WHOM WORKED
IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION,
MANY OF WHOM WERE APPOINTED BY
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND
THINK THAT NOTHING WENT WRONG
HERE THERE ARE WAS NOTHING TO
SEE HERE, THAT THEY CONCEDE NO
POINTS, THAT HE DIDN’T DO
ANYTHING WRONG, THEN THAT’S JUST
WILLFUL AND YOU HAVE A GROUP OF
PEOPLE WHO ARE SITTING AND
LISTENING TO THAT TESTIMONY,
OBVIOUSLY WITH THEIR MINDS MADE
UP.
UP. WE KNEW THAT WHEN WE WOULD HEAR
DEVIN NUNES’S STATEMENTS THAT
THE MIND WAS MADE UP.
BUT THESE ARE NOT PEOPLE WHO ARE
GOING TO BE SWAYED.
THEY ARE NOT PEOPLE WILL EVER ON
SWAYED.
SWAYED. PEOPLE WE SEE OUT TALKING
PUBLICLY, JOHN KENNEDY AGAIN
YESTERDAY WAVING OP-EDS STAYING
WAS UDLAN MEDDLED.
DESPITE FIONA HILL’S WARNING TO
THE CONGRESSMEN IN THAT ROOM IT
WAS IRRESPONSIBLE TO CHASE THAT
CONSPIRACY THEORY.
CONSPIRACY THEORY. THE IDEA, JOE, THAT REPUBLICANS
COULD HAVE SAT IN THAT ROOM OR
WATCHED ON TELEVISION IF THEY
WEREN’T ON THE COMMITTEE FOR
THOSE TWO WEEKS AND LISTENED TO
THOSE WITNESSES AND CONCLUDE IN
123 PAGES THERE THAT THERE WAS
NOTHING TO SEE HERE IS PROPOSTER
RUSS AND TELLS US WHAT WE KNEW
ALL ALONG, WHICH IS THEY WERE
NEVER GOING VOTE FOR IMPEACHMENT
IN THE FIRST PLACE.
>> AND THEIR TAKEAWAY, MIKA,
AFTER TWO WEEKS OF DAMNING
TESTIMONY IS, ONE, THAT THE ONLY
WAY THEY DEFEND THE PRESIDENT IS
BY FIRST, AGAIN, USING
PROPAGANDA FROM RUSSIA THAT 17
INTEL AGENCIES HAVE STRUCK DOWN.
AND THAT THE INTEL COMMUNITY
ACTUALLY WARNED THEM NOT TO USE.
SAID THAT VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS
BEEN USING IT FOR TWO YEARS.
THAT’S ONE OF THEIR DEFENSES.
THEIR SECOND DEFENSE IS SAYING
THAT -- IS POINTING TO POLLS
THAT SHOW A MAJORITY OF
AMERICANS WANT DONALD J. TRUMP
IMPEACHED AND REMOVED FROM
OFFICE.
OFFICE. 50% OF AMERICANS WANT HIM
IMPEACHED AND REMOVED FROM
OFFICE.
OFFICE. BILL CLINTON AT THE HEIGHT OF
IMPEACHMENT IN THE LATE ’90s
ONLY 29% WANTED HIM REMOVED.
SO REPUBLICANS HAVE NO LEGS TO
STAND ON LEGALLY OR FACTUALLY.
AND IF THEY’RE GOING TO SHOW
SUCH BAD FAITH THEY’RE ACTUALLY
LETTING VLADIMIR PUTIN SEND THEM
THEIR TALKING POINTS.
I THINK DEMOCRATS NEED TO EXPAND
THIS.
THIS. THEY NEED TO BRING IN ALL OF THE
HIGH CRIMES AND MERCHANDISE THAT
THAT THIS PRESIDENT HAS COMMIT
AND LAY IT BEAR FOR NOT ONLY
AMERICA, BUT FOR HISTORY AND
FUTURE GENERATIONS TO LOOK BACK
AND SEE THAT AT LEAST ONE BRANCH
OF THIS GOVERNMENT WAS WILLING
TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.
STAND UP AND BE COUNTED TO SPEAK
TRUTH TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES, HIS CORRUPT
ATTORNEY GENERAL, AND A
POLITICAL PARTY THAT’S NOW