UNDERSTAND THAT INCREDIBLY OBVIOUS DISTINCTION OR HE’S
TRYING TO MISLEAD THE PUBLIC IN
ORDER TO AID TRUMP.
I’M JOINED NOW BY SENATOR CORY
BOOKER OF JOOUJNEW JERSEY.
>> GREAT TO BE HERE, CHRIS.
THANK YOU.
THANK YOU. >> THERE’S SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY
OF LOUISIANA SORT OF PUSHING
THIS LINE, TOO.
THERE’S RICHARD BURR WHO’S
ACTUALLY THE SENATE INTEL CHAIR.
"THE WASHINGTON POST" HAS A
HEADLINE OUT JUST TODAY, GOP
EMBRACES A DEBUNKED UKRAINE
CONSPIRACY TO DEFEND TRUMP FROM
IMPEACHMENT.
IMPEACHMENT. WHAT IS GOING ON?
>> PT I TO TAKE A BIG LENS BACK
WHAT THE RUSSIANS ARE DOING
RIGHT NOW TO WESTERN DEM OCDEMOC
THEY ARE TRYING TO UNDERMINE
FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY WITH THIS
SAME PLAY THEY’RE PERFECTING
EACH TIME.
EACH TIME. AMERICA IS UNDER ATTACK.
THEY’RE USING OUR SOCIAL MEDIA
PLATFORMS.
PLATFORMS. THEY’RE USING ALL KINDS OF WAYS
TO TRY TO M.D. MINE DEMOCRACY,
MAKE US DOUBT OUR INSTITUTIONS,
WHAT THE TRUTH IS, MAKE US DOUBT
THE MEDIA.
THE MEDIA. TO SEE REPUBLICANS ROLLING OUT
WE’RE ALL PRIVY TO INTELLIGENCE
REPORTS THAT SHOW THIS IS
ACTUALLY THEIR STRATEGY, PITTING
AMERICANS AGAINST EACH OTHER,
UNDERMINING IDEALS.
UNDERMINING IDEALS. THIS TO ME IS A GROWING CRIES.
WHEN I WAS VISITING UKRAINE WITH
AMBASSADOR YOVANOVITCH, MEETING
WITH UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS WHO WERE
EXPLAINING THE URGE ENS AFFOUR
AID THEIR MILITARY AND OUR
MILITARY WAS CALLING IT A WAR.
THEY CONSIDERED THE ATTACKS ON
OUR DEMOCRACY NOT A COLD WAR BUT
A HYBRID WAR TRYING TO STOP OUR
DEMOCRACY AS WE KNOW IT.
AND I FIND IT VERY
FRUSTRATING -- IT MAKES ME ANGRY
TO SEE REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE
AND ELSEWHERE PARROTING THE SAME
KIND OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES
THEY’RE PEDALING WITH THE
INTENTION TO UNDERMINE OUR
DEMOCRACY.
DEMOCRACY. >> THERE’S A QUESTION HOW YOUR
COLLEAGUES ARE PREPARING TO
PERCEIVE THIS TRIAL.
I THINK THIS FROM MITT ROMNEY
WAS INTERESTING AND IT WAS
NOTEWORTHY AND NEWSWORTHY
BECAUSE HE STATED THE CONSENSUS
FACTS OF THE MATTER.
TAKE A LISTEN.
>> I SAW NO INTELLIGENCE FROM MY
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITIES NOR
FROM THE REPRESENTATIVES TODAY
AT THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE IT
THAT THERE IS EVIDENCE OF ANY
KIND UKRAINE INTERFERED IN OUR
ELECTIONS.
ELECTIONS. WE HAVE AMPLE EVIDENCE RUSSIA
INTERFERED IN OUR ELECTIONS.
>> THAT’S JUST A BASIC STATEMENT
OF FACT, BUT IT SEEMS FACED WITH
A CHOICE BETWEEN THE FACTS OR
PRESIDENT THEY’RE GOING TO
CHOOSE THE PRESIDENT.
>> THE RUSSIANS INTENTION WAS TO
TRY TO FRAME THE INTENSIONS.
>> MANY HAD BEEN WORKING FOR
MONTHS AND MONTHS AND MONTHS.
THIS IS INSIDIOUS AND DANGEROUS
AND NOT JUST A THREAT TO DONALD
TRUMP WHETHER IT’S THE LENGTH OF
THE LONG-TERM OF THIS NATION TO
AN ADVERSARY AND THIS IS
CORRUPTION FROM WITHIN.
>> THERE’S ALSO A DANGER, IT
SEEMS TO ME IN THAT SORT OF LINE
I THINK WHEN YOU REFERENCED BACK
BECAUSE THE RUSSIANS ARE PUSHING
SOME LINE DOESN’T MAKE IT
ILLEGITIMATE.
ILLEGITIMATE. THERE WERE PEOPLE BACK DURING
THE COLD WAR WHERE THE RUSSIANS
WERE USING IT AS AN OPPORTUNITY
OPPORTUNISTIC.
OPPORTUNISTIC. >> WHEN YOUR ENEMY IS TRYING TO
DESTROY YOU AND YOU’RE PICKING
UP YOUR ENEMIES LINES AND THE
WORK THEY’VE BEEN DOING AND
PARROT TG
PARROT TG PARROTING IT AROUND.
WHETHER YOU WANT TO SAY IT’S
IMPEACHABLE OR NOT, ARGUE WITH
ME ON THAT LEVEL.
BUT WE KNOW REPUBLICAN OR
DEMOCRAT, THIS IS MORAL