LAWRENCE O’DONNELL. DOES HE THINK, LAWRENCE.
>> GOOD EVENING, ARI, THANK YOU
VERY MUCH.
VERY MUCH. THANK YOU.
THANK YOU. WELL, OF COURSE THEY CALL
THEMSELVES THREE AMIGOS.
THAT IS OUR BREAKING NEWS
TONIGHT.
TONIGHT. "THE WASHINGTON POST" IS
REPORTING TONIGHT THAT WHITE
HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF MICK
MULVANEY ORGANIZED A MEETING IN
THE SPRING OF THIS YEAR IN THE
WHITE HOUSE IN WHICH HE PUT THE
THREE AMIGOS IN CHARGE OF
UKRAINE POLICY, THE THREE AMIGOS
AS THEY CALL THEMSELVES WERE
ENERGY SECRETARY RICK PERRY, THE
COMPLETELY INEXPERIENCED TRUMP
AMBASSADOR TO THE EUROPEAN
UNION, GORNLD SONDLAND AND THE
ENVOY TO UKRAINE, BE KURT
VOLKER.
VOLKER. "WASHINGTON POST" REPORTING
GEORGE KENT TESTIFIED ABOUT THE
MEETING IN HIS UNDER OATH CLOSED
DOOR ADOPTION
DOOR ADOPTION DOOR DEPOSITION.
DOOR DEPOSITION. GEORGE KENT MET WITH
INVESTIGATORS DESPITE BEING
DIRECTED BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT
NOT TO DO THAT.
ACCORDING TO OFFICIALS FAMILIAR
WITH THE INVESTIGATION, THE
STATE DEPARTMENT DIRECTED GEORGE
KENT NOT TO APPEAR AND SOUGHT TO
LIMIT HIS TESTIMONY.
THE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
ISSUED A LAST-MINUTE SUBPOENA
ORGANIZED HIM TO APPEAR, AND HE
COMPLIED WITH THAT SUBPOENA.
GEORGE KENT IS THE SECOND
CURRENT TOP STATE DEPARTMENT
OFFICIAL TO DEFY A REQUEST NOT
TO COMPLY WITH THE HOUSE’S
IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY, A REQUEST
GIVEN TO HIM BY HIS EMPLOYERS IS
HE STATE DEPARTMENT.
THE FIRST WAS MARIE YOVANOVITCH,
FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO
UKRAINE WHO PRESIDENT TRUMP
ORDERED TO BE REMOVED FROM HER
POST.
POST. SHE IS STILL STATE DEPARTMENT
EMPLOYEE, BUT SHE DID TESTIFY.
THE "NEW YORK TIMES" REPORTS
GEORGE KENT RAISED CONCERNS TO
COLLEAGUES EARLY THIS YEAR ABOUT
THE PRESSURE BEING DIRECTED AT
UKRAINE BY MR. TRUMP AND HIS
PRIVATE LAWYER, RUDY GIULIANI,
TO PURSUE INVESTIGATIONS INTO
MR. TRUMP’S POLITICAL RIVALS
ACCORDING TO PEOPLE FAMILIAR
WITH MR. KENT’S WARNINGS.
AS FAR BACK AS MARCH, THEY SAID,
MR. KENT POINTED TO MR.
GIULIANI’S ROLE IN WHAT HE
CALLED A DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN
INTENDED TO USE UKRAINIAN
PROSECUTOR TO SMEAR MR. TRUMP’S
ADVERSARIES.
ADVERSARIES. THOSE INCLUDED FORMER VICE
PRESIDENT JOSEPH BIDEN, MARIE
YOVANOVITCH, THEN THE UNITED
STATES AMBASSADOR TO UKRAINE AND
UKRAINIANS WHO DISSEMINATED
DAMAGING INFORMATION DURING THE
2016 CAMPAIGN ABOUT MR. TRUMP’S
CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN, PAUL
MANAFORT.
MANAFORT. LATE LAST NIGHT "THE NEW YORK
TIMES" REPORTED THAT
THEN-NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER
JOHN BOLTON WAS ALARMED BY THE
UKRAINE SCANDAL AND TOLD AN AIDE
TO TELL WHITE HOUSE LAWYERS WHAT
WAS GOING ON.
THE "TIMES" REPORTS MR. BOLTON
GOT INTO A TENSE EXCHANGE ON
JULY 10th WITH GORDON SONDLAND
WORKING WITH RUDY GIULIANI, THE
PRESIDENT’S PERSONAL LAWYER, TO
PRESS UKRAINE TO INVESTIGATE
DEMOCRATS ACCORDING TO THREE
PEOPLE WHO HEARD THE TESTIMONY.
THAT IS THE TESTIMONY OF FIONA
HILL, PRESIDENT TRUMP’S FORMER
TOP RUSSIAN ADVISER WHO
TESTIFIED TO IMPEACHMENT
INVESTIGATORS ON MONDAY BEHIND
CLOSED DOORS.
CLOSED DOORS. ACCORDING TO
ACCORDING TO "THE NEW YORK TIMES," FIONA HILL
TESTIFIED THAT MR. BOLTON TOLD
HER TO NOTIFY THE CHIEF LAWYER
FOR THE NATIONAL SECURITY
COUNCIL ABOUT A ROGUE EFFORT BY
MR. SONDLAND, MR. GIULIANI, AND
MICK MULVANEY, THE ACTING WHITE
HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF ACCORDING
TO PEOPLE FAMILIAR WITH THE
TESTIMONY.
TESTIMONY. I AM NOT PART OF WHATEVER DRUG
DEAL SONDLAND AND MULVANEY ARE
COOKING UP.
COOKING UP. MR. BOLTON TOLD MS. HILL TO TELL
WHITE HOUSE LAWYERS ACCORDING TO
TWO PEOPLE AT THAT DEPOSITION.
LEADING OFF OUR DISCUSSION
TONIGHT, DEATH PENALTY
CONGRESSMAN JAMIE RASKIN OF
MARYLAND, MEMBER OF THE HOUSE
OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE WHO ATTENDED
GEORGE KENT’S DEPOSITION TODAY.
JONATHAN ALDER FROM "THE DAILY
BEAST."
BEAST." AND RICK WILSON, REPUBLICAN
STRATEGIST AND CONTRIBUTOR TO
THE DAILY BEAST, AUTHOR OF
"EVERYTHING TRUMP TOUCHES DIES."
CONGRESSMAN RASKIN, WHAT CAN YOU
TELL US YOU LEARNED FROM MR.
KENT TODAY?
KENT TODAY? >> I CANNOT GIVE YOU ANY
PARTICULARS, UNFORTUNATELY,
PARTICULARS, UNFORTUNATELY, ABOUT HIS TESTIMONY BUT LET ME
TELL YOU WHAT I’VE LEARNED FROM
MULTIPLE WITNESSES WHO HAVE COME
FORWARD NOW FROM THE STATE
DEPARTMENT AND THE OFFICIAL
AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY.
AMERICAN BUREAUCRACY. THERE WAS BASICALLY AN
UNOFFICIAL, ILLEGITIMATE SHADOW
FOREIGN POLICY CONDUCTED BY
DONALD TRUMP AND RUDY GIULIANI
AND HIS HENCHMEN WHERE THEY WERE
ENGAGED IN A SHAKEDOWN OF THE
UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT IN ORDER TO
OBTAIN THEIR AGREEMENT TO
CONDUCT A POLITICAL HIT AGAINST
THE BIDENS.
THE BIDENS. AND THEN THEY COVERED ALL OF
THAT UP AND BURIED IT IN THE
SECRET SERVER, BASICALLY SELLING
OUT OUR CONSTITUTION AND OUR
ELECTION.
ELECTION. BUT THE TELEPHONE CALL, WHICH
MADE ALL OF THIS INFAMOUS, THE
JULY 25th CALL BETWEEN PRESIDENT
TRUMP AND PRESIDENT ZELENSKY IS
REALLY JUST THE TIP OF THE
ICEBERG BECAUSE THIS WAS AN
ONGOING CAMPAIGN OF SABOTAGE IN
EUROPE WHERE THEY TARGETED A
NUMBER OF PEOPLE.
ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WAS THE
AMBASSADOR, THE U.S. AMBASSADOR
TO UKRAINE WHO GOT SACKED AFTER
A SYSTEMATIC DISINFORMATION AND
PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN THAT WAS
WAGED AGAINST HER.
SHE WAS ONE OF THE EARLY
CASUALTIES OF THE GIULIANI
CAMPAIGN IN UKRAINE.
THAT’S AMBASSADOR YOVANOVITCH.
THAT WAS A CRITICAL MOMENT FOR A
LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE STATE
DEPARTMENT WHEN THEY WOKE UP TO
THE FACT THAT TRUMP AND GIULIANI
WERE ENGAGED IN THIS EFFORT,
TOTALLY ILLICIT TO UNDERCUT THE
U.S. FOREIGN POLICY, WHICH WAS
DESIGNED TO COUNTER CORRUPTION
BUT RUDY GIULIANI’S TEAM
BASICALLY CONNECTED WITH THE
CORRUPTION AND ESSENTIALLY
WANTED TO TAKE OVER THE
CORRUPTION RACKET IN UKRAINE.
>> "THE NEW YORK TIMES" IS
REPORTING TONIGHT THAT THERE IS
KIND OF AN INVESTIGATION OF
SORTS GOING ON INSIDE THE WHITE
HOUSE, WHICH SEEMS TO BE WHAT
THE "NEW YORK TIMES" IS CALLING
A SEARCH FOR A SCAPEGOAT, AND
THEY ARE FOCUSING ON
JOHNIZENBERG, WHITE HOUSE
COUNSEL FOR NATIONAL SECURITY.
"THE NEW YORK TIMES" QUOTES
PEOPLE WHO HAVE SEEN WHAT’S
GOING ON IN THERE AS SAYING
MR.IZENBERG IS IN A PRECARIOUS
POSITION.
POSITION. HAVE YOU DETECTED IN THE
EVIDENCE AND THE TESTIMONY THAT
YOU’VE BEEN GETTING A ROLE THAT
HE’S PLAYED IN THIS THAT YOU
COULD TELL US ABOUT?
>> UNFORTUNATELY I CANNOT, BUT I
WILL TELL YOU THIS.
I THINK THAT THERE DOES SEEM TO
BE GROWING SENTIMENT AMONG OUR
GOP COLLEAGUES TO FIND SOME
SCAPEGOATS, SOME FALL GUYS.
I THINK THAT RUDY GIULIANI RIGHT
NOW IS LOOKING PRETTY LONELY.
AMBASSADOR SONDLAND IS LOOKING
PRETTY LONELY, AND I THINK THERE
MAY BE SOME EFFORT TO TRY TO
AMPUTATE THEM FROM DONALD TRUMP
AND SAY, OH, HE WAS THE VICTIM
OF ALL THESE PEOPLE.
THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE SMOKING
GUN IN THIS INVESTIGATION IS
WHAT KICKED IT OFF.
IT WAS THE PHONE CALL WHERE
DONALD TRUMP REVEALS HIMSELF TO
BE EXECUTING THE SCHEME RIGHT
THERE.
THERE. I WANT YOU TO DO US A FAVOR,
THOUGH.
THOUGH. THAT PRETTY MUCH CAPTURED THE
ENTIRE THING.
ENTIRE THING. HE KNEW HE WAS HOLDING UP
$391 MILLION IN FOREIGN MILITARY
ASSISTANCE THAT WE IN CONGRESS
HAD VOTED FOR A BESIEGED
DEMOCRATIC ALLEY RESISTING
RUSSIAN AGGRESSION ALL IN ORDER
TO GET PRESIDENT ZELENSKY TO
AGREE TO STAGE THIS POLITICAL
HIT ON THE GUY THAT DONALD TRUMP
WAS FEARING AS HIS OPPONENT, JOE
BIDEN, AND HIS SON, HUNTER
BIDEN.
BIDEN. BUT WHAT’S COME OUT AND WHAT IS
COMING OUT MORE AND MORE EVERY
DAY, THAT THIS IS REALLY JUST
THE VERY TOP OF THE CAKE IF YOU
WILL.
WILL. IT’S BAKED TO THE BOTTOM WITH
CORRUPTION.
CORRUPTION. THERE WERE FINANCIAL SCHEMES
BEING EXECUTED, POLITICAL
SCHEMED THAT WERE BEING EXECUTED
THERE.
THERE. AND ALL OF IT SUBVERTING THE
LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY OF THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT.
GOVERNMENT. THE CARDINAL SIN OF THIS
ADMINISTRATION IS THAT THE
PRESIDENT HAS CONVERTED THE
PUBLIC OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY
INTO AN INSTRUMENT OF PRIVATE
SELF-ENRICHMENT AND POLITICAL
ADVANCEMENT.
ADVANCEMENT. THAT IS PRECISELY WHAT THE
FOUNDERS OF THE CONSTITUTION
WARNED US AGAINST.
IT’S WHY WE’VE GOT THE FOREIGN
AND DOMESTIC EMOLUMENTS CLAUSES
IN THE CONSTITUTION, WHY THE
PRESIDENT CAN’T MAKE ANY OTHER
MONEY AND HE CAN’T SELL US OUT
TO FOREIGN POWERS.
BUT THAT’S PRECISELY WHAT HE’S
BEEN DOING ON AN ALMOST DAILY
BASIS.
BASIS. >> THEY DIDN’T WAIT TO GIVE US
THE INSULTING THREE AMIGOS.
THEY PROBABLY GAVE THEMSELVES
THAT TITLE, THE MASTER MINDS OF
THE UKRAINE POLICY.
>> THIS IS A GROUP -- THE OLD
PHRASE THE GANG THAT COULDN’T
SHOOT STRAIGHT.
SHOOT STRAIGHT. THIS IS GANG THAT DOESN’T EVEN
UNDERSTAND THAT THEY’RE SETTING
THEMSELVES UP FOR LONG-TERM
MOCKERY JUST BY THAT NAME ALONE.
BUT WHAT’S TERRIFYING FOR TRUMP,
I THINK, IS THAT HE WAS SO
INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNICATIONS
WITH ALL THESE PEOPLE, IF YOU’RE
GOING TO BE THE CRIMINAL MASTER
MIND, YOU HAVE CUTOUTS, YOU HAVE
DEAD DROPS, WAYS YOU’RE NOT
IMMEDIATELY TOUCHING THE ACTUAL
STINKY PART OF THE STICK.
WELL, DONALD TRUMP IS TALKING TO
SOMEONE, TO ALL THESE GUYS AND
TELLING THEM HERE’S WHAT I WANT
YOU TO SAY AND DO.
HE’S BEEN OUT THERE ON THE
TRANSCRIPT OF THE CALL THAT HE
SAYS IT IN PUBLIC OVER AND OVER
AGAIN.
AGAIN. ALL THESE THINGS, THEY PROVE
THAT FAMOUS THING FROM
WATERGATE.
WATERGATE. THESE ARE NOT BRIGHT GUYS AND IT
GOT OUT OF CONTROL.
THEY’RE NOT SMART PEOPLE.
>> JONATHAN ALTER, MIKE PENCE
AND RUDY GIULIANI BOTH TODAY
REFUSING TO COMPLY WITH
SUBPOENAS FOR DOCUMENTS FROM THE
HOUSE IMPEACHMENT COMMITTEES.
YET WE SEE YET ANOTHER MEMBER OF
THE STATE DEPARTMENT CURRENTLY
EMPLOYED BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT
SHOWING UP TO TESTIFY, CRACKING
THAT WALL THAT THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION’S TRYING TO PUT
UP.
UP. >> AND MIKE McKINLEY, FORMER
AMBASSADOR TO BRAZIL AND
AFGHANISTAN AND A COUPLE OF
OTHER COUNTRIES, WHO HAS BEEN IN
A SENIOR POSITION IN THE STATE
DEPARTMENT, HE HAS NOW RESIGNED
AND IS GOING TO TESTIFY.
SO WHAT YOU HAVE HERE, LAWRENCE,
IS WHAT YOU COULD CALL A
PATRIOTIC SURGE.
PATRIOTIC SURGE. SO YOU REMEMBER STEVE BANNON
COINED THE PHRASE THE DEEP
STATE, RIGHT?
STATE, RIGHT? IT SHOULD BE TURNED INTO A
POSITIVE IDEA, THE DEEP
PATRIOTIC STATE.
PATRIOTIC STATE. WE’RE FORTUNATE IN THIS COUNTRY
THAT WE HAVE CAREER FOREIGN
SERVICE OFFICERS WHOSE
ALLEGIANCE IS TO THE UNITED
STATES AND THE CONSTITUTION, NOT
TO THE PERSON WHO HAPPENS TO BE
PRESIDENT.
PRESIDENT. AND THEY HAVE SERVED -- McKINLEY
IS GOING TO TESTIFY, HE’S BEEN
IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT SINCE
1982.
1982. THESE ARE REAL PROFESSIONALS.
THEY ARE VERY SMART, CAPABLE
PEOPLE WHO’VE BEEN TRAINED AND
ARE EXPERIENCED IN LOOKING OUT
FOR THE NATIONAL INTEREST.
SO THERE ARE NOW MANY
WHISTLE-BLOWERS.
WHISTLE-BLOWERS. ONE IS THREE WEEKS OLD.
THIS IS ABOUT THE PATRIOTIC
STATE MOVING IN A DIRECTION THAT
IS VERY GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY.
I’M ACTUALLY ENCOURAGED TONIGHT.
ARE WE OUT OF THE WOODS?
NO, THERE’S A LONG WAY TO GO.
THERE WILL BE BAD WEEKS FOR
THOSE WHO WANT TO HOLD DONALD
TRUMP ACCOUNTABLE BETWEEN NOW
AND THE WAY THE STORY EVENTUALLY
UNFOLDS.
UNFOLDS. BUT THE GOOD GUYS ARE GOING TO
WIN BECAUSE WE HAVE ENOUGH GOOD
GUYS IN GOVERNMENT RIGHT NOW.
>> LET’S LISTEN TO WHAT CHAIRMAN
ADAM SCHIFF SAID ABOUT WHY THE
DEPOSITIONS ARE BEING HELD IN A
CLOSED-DOOR ATMOSPHERE NOW.
LET’S LISTEN TO THIS.
>> WE’RE DOING THESE INITIAL
HEARINGS IN CLOSED SESSION AND
IT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE TO DO
THAT WHEN YOU’RE CONDUCTING AN
INVESTIGATION BECAUSE I’M SURE
THE WHITE HOUSE WOULD LIKE
NOTHING MORE THAN TO BE ABLE TO
GET THEIR STORIES STRAIGHT BY
HEARING WHAT THESE WITNESSES
HAVE TO SAY.
AND THERE ARE GOOD REASONS NOT
TO LET ONE WITNESS KNOW WHAT
ANOTHER WITNESS HAS SAID.
>> CONGRESSMAN RASKIN, THIS
PROCESS OBVIOUSLY HAS SIMILAR
VERSIONS ELSEWHERE IN THE
JUDICIAL SYSTEM FOR GRAND JURIES
FREQUENCIES AND TRIALS IN WHICH
WITNESSES ARE SEQUESTERED DURING
THE TRIAL BECAUSE THEY DON’T
WANT THE WITNESSES TO HEAR EACH
OTHER SO THEY CAN GET THEIR
STORIES STRAIGHT.
STORIES STRAIGHT. BUT ONE OF THE FLAWS IN THAT
CONCEPT HERE IS THAT PRESUMABLY
THE REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF YOUR
COMMITTEES, MANY OF THEM WILL
RELAY AS MUCH AS THEY POSSIBLY
CAN, CERTAINLY TO THE TRUMP
WHITE HOUSE, ABOUT WHAT’S BEEN
SAID IN THESE DEPOSITIONS.
>> RIGHT.
>> RIGHT. WELL, YOUR FIRST ANALOGY, I
THINK, IS THE MOST CORRECT ONE,
LAWRENCE.
LAWRENCE. IN AN IMPEACHMENT PROCESS,
ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION,
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IS
ACTING LIKE A PROSECUTOR AND THE
GRAND JURY.
GRAND JURY. IN A WAY YOU COULD STREW
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE IS THE
PROSECUTORS WHO WILL BRING
BEFORE THE FULL HOUSE ACTING AS
A GRAND JURY, THE EVIDENCE, AND
THEN THE HOUSE WILL VOTE.
AT THAT POINT IT’S SENT TO THE
SENATE WHICH WILL CONDUCT A
TRIAL.
TRIAL. I THINK A LOT OF OUR REPUBLICAN
COLLEAGUES ARE FALLING INTO THE
FALLACY OF THINKING OF THE HOUSE
AS CONDUCTING A TRIAL.
THAT’S THE POINT AT WHICH THE
DUE PROCESS PROTECTIONS WILL
ATTACH ON BOTH SIDES.
MEANTIME , WHAT WHAER DOING IS
WHAT GRAND JURIES DO.
.
. THE BENEFIT OF SPECIALS
APPOINTED AS WITH KENNETH STARR
IN THE NIXON IMPEACHMENT OR
ARCHIBALD COX IN THE NIXON
IMPEACHMENT, WE DON’T HAVE THAT
HERE.
HERE. MUELLER WAS VERY LIMITED AND
CIRCUMSUBSCRIBED IN TIME AND
SCOPE TO JUST THE 2016 ELECTION.
REMEMBER THAT STARTED AS A
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION, BUT THERE’S
NOTHING ABOUT UKRAINE THERE.
SO WE’RE DOING ALL OF THAT
FACTUAL ASSEMBLY, WE’RE STARTING
IT RIGHT NOW.
THIS IS BEGINNING OF IT, AND WE
REALLY DON’T HAVE TIME FOR ALL
OF THE KIND OF THEATRICS WHEN WE
WERE DOING THE MUELLER
INVESTIGATION.
INVESTIGATION. WE HAVE TO GET RIGHT DOWN TO
BUSINESS SO WE’RE BEING VERY
SOBER, VERY METHODICAL AND VERY
SERIOUS ABOUT IT.
WE KNOW THAT OUR COLLEAGUES
WOULD LIKE TO RECREATE THE KIND
OF CIRCUS ATMOSPHERE YOU SAW
WITH THE LEWANDOWSKI HEARING,
WHICH WAS PROBABLY THE LOWEST
MOMENT IN THE WHOLE IMPEACHMENT
PROCESS THAT WAS TAKING PLACE IN
THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
BUT THIS IS SOLEMN, IT’S BEHIND
CLOSED DOORS.
CLOSED DOORS. THE REPUBLICANS HAVE TRIED TO
CRASH IT.
CRASH IT. MATT GATES SHOWED UP AND SAID HE
WANTED TO BE THERE, HE DELAYED
HE CAN’T BY 45 MINUTES OR AN
HOUR.
HOUR. WE EXPECT FUTURE ANTICS AND
PROVOCATIONS BY THEM, BUT
CHAIRMAN SCHIFF IS RUNNING A
VERY SERIOUS AND SOBER PROCESS.
WE’RE GETTING ALL THE EVIDENCE
WE NEED AND WE’RE GOING TO GET
THAT EVIDENCE AND WE’RE GOING TO
BE ABLE TO MAKE SERIOUS
RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE JUDICIARY
COMMITTEE.
COMMITTEE. >> JUST BRIEFLY, CONGRESSMAN,
BEFORE WE GO TO A BREAK HERE,
OTHER THAN MATT GATES AND THAT
KIND OF THEATRICAL HE WAS DOING
IN THE CAMERAS IN THE HALLWAY,
THE MEMBERS, THE REPUBLICAN
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE AND THE
REPUBLICAN STAFF MEMBERS OF THE
COMMITTEE WHO WERE THERE, ARE
THEY DOING THOSE KINDS OF
THEORETICAL SLOWDOWNS IF THIS
WAS A PUBLIC.
>> EVENT WE’RE GETTING DIE
TRANSCRIBES
TRANSCRIBES TRIBES.
TRIBES. WE HAVE THIS PARADE OF EXTREMELY
CAPABLE, COMPETENT, PATRIOTIC
GOVERNMENT CERVANTES, PUBLIC
SERVANTS WHO HAVE SPENT DECADES
IN FACT THE GOVERNMENT TO
ADVANCE THE PUBLIC INTEREST.
AND THE JUXTAPOSITION IS SO
STRIKING THAT IT HAS SHAMED
KREEGZ AND THEY ARE ACTING
INCREASINGLY SHEEPISH AS THE
HEARINGS GO ALONG.
THESE ARE PEOPLE STANDING UP FOR
THE CONSTITUTION, STANDING UP
FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED
STATES AGAINST THESE CONSTANT
EFFORTS TO RIP OFF THE
GOVERNMENT, TO UNDERMINE
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, AND TO SHAKE
DOWN FOREIGN ALLIES.
IT’S A VERY SORDID TALE BEING
REVEALED HERE.
REVEALED HERE. WHEN IT’S DONE, THERE ARE GOING
TO BE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN INFAMY
BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY’VE DONE.
AND PEOPLE ARE GOING TO LIVE
THEIR LIVES IN A RESPECTABLE AND
HONORABLE WAY AND THEY WILL BE
QUIET AMERICAN HEROES.
>> CONGRESSMAN, YOU’RE MAKING ME
FEEL SORRY FOR RICK WILSON THAT
HE CAN’T WATCH THE REPUBLICANS
ON THOSE COMMITTEES BEING SHAMED
AND EMBARRASSED AND SHEEPISH.
WE’RE JUST GOING TO HAVE TO WAIT
FOR THE --
>> IT’S COMING.
I BET YOU THERE WILL BE SOME
PUBLIC --
PUBLIC -- >> WE’LL BE THERE.
>> WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO LEAVE
IT THERE.