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♪ >>> IT HAS BEEN ALMOST TWO FULL
WEEKS SINCE THE SENATE ACQUITTED
DONALD TRUMP ON TWO IMPEACHMENT
CHARGES, ABUSE OF POWER AND
OBSTRUCTION OF CONGRESS.
SINCE THEN HE HAS BEEN ON A
REVENGE TOUR, GOING AFTER ALL OF
THE PEOPLE THAT HE BLAMES FOR
THE HUMILIATION OF IMPEACHMENT.
INSTEAD OF LEARNING HIS LESSON,
SUSAN COLLINS, HE IS REDOUBLING
HIS EFFORTS TO ABUSE HIS POWER.
OUT IN THE OPEN.
HE IS TESTING THE LIMITS JUST TO
SEE HOW MUCH HE CAN GET AWAY
WITH, AND RIGHT NOW WITH
REPUBLICANS TAKING THE KNEE AND
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR
BEHAVING AND THE HAND OF THE
KING, THE HOUSE WHICH VOTED TO
IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT SEEMS TO
BE THE ONLY CHECK ON THE
PRESIDENTIAL WRONG DOING.
WHAT CAN THEY DO TO MAKE SURE HE
DOES NOT CONTINUE TO ABUSING HIS
POWER?
POWER? TO HELP ANSWER THAT I AM JOINED
BY SOMEONE CALLING FOR HIS
IMPEACHMENT SINCE 2017,
CONGRESSWOMAN MAXINE WATERS WHO
CHAIRS THE GENERAL SERVICES
COMMITTEE.
COMMITTEE. GREAT TO TALK TO YOU.
>> THANK YOU.
DELIGHTED TO BE WITH YOU THIS
EVENING.
EVENING. >> THANK YOU.
LET’S TALK ABOUT DONALD TRUMP
POST-IMPEACHMENT.
POST-IMPEACHMENT. IMPEACHMENT, AS WE HAVE TALKED
ABOUT A LOT, IT IS NOT A
PUNISHMENT, IT IS A SANCTION,
RIGHT?
RIGHT? EVEN IF A PRESIDENT IS NOT
REMOVED, IT IS MEANT TO BE A
SANCTION AND SEND A MESSAGE THAT
THIS IS THE LIMIT BEYOND WHICH
YOU CANNOT GO.
DONALD TRUMP SEEMS TO BE BLOWING
DIRECTLY THROUGH THAT LIMIT,
IGNORING THE SANCTION AND
BEHAVING EVEN WORSE THAN HE DID
BEFORE.
BEFORE. IS THERE ANYTHING THE CONGRESS
CAN DO ABOUT THAT, HAVING
ALREADY PULLED THE LEVER OF
IMPEACHMENT?
IMPEACHMENT? >> NO, YOU KNOW, JOY, YOU ARE
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. WE’VE GONE THROUGH THE TRIAL.
THE HOUSE VOTED TO IMPEACH HIM,
BUT THE SENATE DID NOT ACT
RESPONSIBLY AND THEY BASICALLY
EXONERATED HIM.
EXONERATED HIM. SO WE HAVE A PRESIDENT THAT’S
OUT OF CONTROL.
REMEMBER, THE PRESIDENT SAID HE
COULD STAND ON 5th AVENUE AND
SHOOT SOMEBODY AND NOTHING WOULD
HAPPEN TO HIM?
HE’S ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT.
SO NOW THAT HE’S GONE THROUGH
THE IMPEACHMENT, WHICH HE NEVER
THOUGHT THAT HE WAS GOING TO GO
THROUGH, HE IS GOING TO GET
REVENGE.
REVENGE. HE IS GOING TO SHOW YOU THAT
THERE ARE NO LIMITS TO THE
PRESIDENTIAL POWER AND, YOU
KNOW, WHILE EVERYBODY IS TALKING
ABOUT THE COMMUTATIONS AND THE
PARDONS AND THE CLEMENCY AND ALL
OF THAT, HE’S GOING TO BE EVEN
WORSE.
WORSE. HE IS GOING TO WREAK REVENGE ON
SOME PEOPLE.
SOME PEOPLE. I DON’T KNOW IN ALL OF THE WAYS
THAT HE’S GOING TO DO IT.
THEN HE IS GOING TO PUT PUTIN
RIGHT IN OUR FACE.
HE IS GOING TO BRING HIM TO THE
WHITE HOUSE AND HE IS GOING TO
SAY, BE -- THE CONGRESS OF THE
UNITED STATES, I’M GOING TO DO
WHATEVER I WANT TO DO.
SO WE’VE GOT TO TURN OUT THOSE
PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND THAT HE’S
DANGEROUS, THAT HE DOESN’T CARE
ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION.
WE’VE GOT TO ORGANIZE AND WE’VE
GOT TO TURN OUT THE VOTE.
WE HAVE TO VOTE HIM OUT OF
OFFICE.
OFFICE. >> DO YOU BELIEVE THAT IF DONALD
TRUMP IS RE-ELECTED THAT HE WILL
DROP ALL SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA
AND, AS YOU SAID, BRING VLADIMIR
PUTIN TO THE WHITE HOUSE?
>> OH, ABSOLUTELY.
ABSOLUTELY.
ABSOLUTELY. HE WILL PARDON MANAFORT.
HE WILL LIFT ALL OF THE
SANCTIONS FROM RUSSIA.
HE WILL BE EVEN MORE INVOLVED
WITH THE OLIGARCHS OF RUSSIA,
AND HE WILL BRING PUTIN TO THE
WHITE HOUSE, I BELIEVE THAT, IF
HE IS RE-ELECTED.
BUT WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE, THOSE
OF US WHO REALLY RESPECT AND
CARE ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION AND
KNOW THAT RUSSIA HAS HACKED INTO
OUR DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL
COMMITTEE, INTO OUR STATE
ELECTION SYSTEM, AND WE ARE
KNOWING VERY WELL THAT THEY’RE
GOING TO DO IT AGAIN IN THIS
ELECTION, WE HAVE GOT TO WORK
HARD TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY
DON’T GET AWAY WITH IT, THAT WE
DON’T HAVE THIS PRESIDENT WHO
WILL CARRY OUT THAT KIND OF
AGENDA IF HE IS RE-ELECTED.
WE’VE GOT TO MAKE SURE THIS MAN
IS NOT ELECTED AGAIN.
>> PART OF THE RISK OF DONALD
TRUMP IS NOT JUST THAT HIS OWN
SORT OF SENSE OF, YOU KNOW,
MONARCH NATURE AND HIS DESIRE TO
BE AN AUTOCRAT, IT IS THAT HE IS
SURROUNDED BY PSYCHO FANTSTHOSE
HE SHOULD BE A KING.
HERE HE IS TALKING ABOUT HIS OWN
LAW ENFORCEMENT POWERS.
>> JUST SO YOU UNDERSTAND, I
CHOSE NOT TO BE INVOLVED.
I’M ALLOWED TO BE TOTALLY
INVOLVED.
INVOLVED. I’M ACTUALLY, I GUESS, THE CHIEF
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER OF THE
COUNTRY, BUT I’VE CHOSEN NOT TO
BE INVOLVED.
BE INVOLVED. >> AND HE IS TALKING ABOUT THE
ROGER STONE CASE, BUT HE IS
ENABLED BY THAT BY THE ATTORNEY
JEN.
JEN. HERE IS WILLIAM BARR.
HE HAS INSINUATED BEFORE THAT
PRESIDENTS ARE THE CHIEF LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, THAT THEY
HAVE ABSOLUTE POWER.
THIS IS IN A SPEECH HE GAVE IN
2001, TALKING ABOUT WHAT HE SAID
TO GEORGE H.W. BUSH.
I REMEMBER RIGHT BEFORE WE
INDICTED THE PAN AM 103 PEOPLE,
THE INVESTIGATION WAS GOING ON,
AND THE PRESIDENT, GEORGE H.W.
BUSH, SAID TO ME, WOULD IT BE
OKAY FOR YOU TO BRIEF US IN THE
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL ON
WHERE THINGS STAND?
WOULD IT BE OKAY?
WELL, I WORK FOR YOU, YOU’RE THE
TOP LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER.
>>
>> THE FACT THAT HE HAS THIS
ATTORNEY GENERAL WHO BELIEVES HE
SHOULD BE KING, IS THAT MORE
DANGEROUS IN THE SENSE OF DONALD
TRUMP’S OWN PROKCLIVITIES.
>> THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SHUNOULD
FOCUSED ON BARR AND WE SHOULD BE
JOINING WITH THE ATTORNEYS THAT
HAVE DECIDED HE SHOULD STEP
DOWN, THAT HE SHOULD RESIGN.
WE SHOULD BE SUPPORTING THEM AND
BACKING THEM UP.
I’M ANXIOUS TO SEE WHAT THE
FEDERAL JUDGES WHO HAVE DECIDED
THEY CAN’T WAIT UNTIL THE YEARLY
ASSOCIATION MEETING, THAT THEY
SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT IS
GOING ON NOW AND REVIEW WHAT HAS
HAPPENED.
HAPPENED. I’M ANXIOUS TO SEE WHAT THEY’RE
GOING TO COME OUT WITH.
BUT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC SHOULD
GET BEHIND THIS IF THEY CARE
ANYTHING ABOUT OUR DEMOCRACY.
YOU KNOW, FOR ALL OF THOSE
PEOPLE WHO SAY THAT THEY, YOU
KNOW, HONOR THE FLAG AND THAT
THEY ARE IN SUPPORT OF, YOU
KNOW, OUR DEMOCRACY BEING
STRENGTHENED, FOR ALL OF THOSE
PEOPLE WHO SAY THAT, WHERE ARE
YOU?
YOU? CAN’T THEY SEE WHAT IS
HAPPENING?
HAPPENING? WE’RE IN A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS
IN THIS COUNTRY, WITH A
PRESIDENT WHO IS RUNNING AMOK.
HE IS OUT OF CONTROL.
WE HAVE GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT
HE’S NOT REALLY -ELECTED.
WE HAVE TO SPEAK UP, WE HAVE TO
RESIST.
RESIST. I DON’T HEAR ENOUGH VOICES.
IT IS THE AVERAGE AMERICAN WHO
GETS UP EVERY DAY, WHO IS TAKING
CARE OF THEIR FAMILIES, WHO IS
THINKING SOMEBODY ELSE WILL SEE
TO IT THAT THIS PRESIDENT IS NOT
RE-ELECTED.
RE-ELECTED. BUT, NO, IT HAS TO BE ALL OF US
OUT THERE WORKING AND WORKING
VERY HARD.
VERY HARD. WE HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS
AND WE’VE GOT TO DEAL WITH IT.
THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY IS ALL
ABOUT, WHEN YOU SEE A PRESIDENT
OUT OF CONTROL, WHEN YOU SEE
THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO
OFFICE, WHO ARE NOT ACTING
RESPONSIBLY AND THEY’RE
ENDANGERING OUR DEMOCRACY, YOU
HAVE TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THEM.
YOU HAVE TO WORK AGAINST THEM.
YOU HAVE GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT
THEY’RE NOT RE-ELECTED EVER
AGAIN.
AGAIN. >> WELL SAID, CONGRESSWOMAN