At the start of a hugely consequential week for President Trump and the impeachment inquiry, Stephanie Ruhle breaks down how Democrats will try to advance their case for removing him from office with the eight public witnesses testifying over the next few days. Weighing in: Reuters’ Jeff Mason, President of Washington Strategy Group, Joel Rubin, former federal prosecutors Berit Berger and Glenn Kirschner, and former Ambassador Christopher Hill. Aired on 11/18/19.
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8 Witnesses Testifying In Public This Week | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC
9 witnesses now. David Holmes testifies now on thursday.
@Crimdor You clearly didn’t read my comments here or are unable to absorb what you read. According to your reasoning 2+2=5. You come across as that guy who would drink the kool ade under the direction of Jim Jones in Guyana. Don’t bother responding, I’m turning off notifications from this thread.
@astev52 The fact that he’s terrified of people seeing the truth is all we need to know.
Bonnie Parker – you don’t impeach a president because you think they are mean to people.
That’s childish.
Donald Trump only hiring the best and his best is being locked up one by one. Donald Trump must be tired of winning LOL
😂 Just another day in the life of “the chosen one”! 🙄
@A T
Its hilarious!!
@Clark Kent 👹
They will all be ‘the best’ prisoners, in ‘the best’ prison.
If Trump truly did nothing wrong as he says, why is he blocking key witnesses from testifying? If he’s innocent, then those witnesses could clear him of any wrong doing. So why not let them testify? Well if we use the theory of Occam’s Razor, the answer is pretty clear, he’s guilty as charged.
Yea. Agent Orange is acting totally innocent, and calm like a genius only encumbered by an incredible excess of pure uncut stability
David J absolutely TRUE statement
The Founders understanding of bribery was derived from English law, under which bribery was understood as an officeholder’s abuse of the power of an office to obtain a private benefit rather than for the public interest. This definition not only encompasses Trump’s conduct—it practically defines it.
The Ukraine scandal began in the spring of 2019, with a series of contacts between Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy, and Ukrainian officials. In mid-July, Trump decided to withhold nearly $400 million in aid to Ukraine that had already been appropriated by Congress. The White House offered no explanation, except to blame “interagency delay.” A week later, Trump spoke by phone to the recently elected Ukrainian president, Zelensky. The memorandum released by the White House describing that call—which is consistent with the accounts of the whistleblower complaint that first brought this scandal to light—reads like a classic shakedown.
According to the memo, after exchanges of flattery, Trump states that “we do a lot for Ukraine” and that “we spend a lot of effort and a lot of time,” before he complains that the relationship is not always “reciprocal.” Zelensky then raises the question of military aid to Ukraine, to which Trump immediately responds, “I would like you to do us a favor though,” and proceeds to ask Zelensky to investigate two unfounded conspiracy theories: one involving the server containing emails stolen from the DNC during the 2016 election, and the other involving the thoroughly debunked claim about then-VP Biden, his potential reelection opponent.
Trump asks Zelensky to work with Giuliani and AG Barr to investigate his potential opponent and so aid his own reelection campaign. There can be no misunderstanding that Traitor Trump was abusing his official power in the conduct of foreign policy to get a foreign government to investigate his political rival.
The Founders placed articles of impeachment in the Constitution for the purpose of protecting our democracy. A democracy that Trump clearly has no respect for, and is trying to tear apart.
Article II, Section 4, says the president “shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
Profoundly said!
David J, You explain it well and without malice towards any. Good points , well taken.
First hand information is that memo a.. pseudo transcript of his bribery. Both he and Mulvaney live and on TV!!! This is just the tip of the iceberg of corruption.
Fantastic
I agree
The stable genius only hires the best criminals
You have nailed the argument so well. Trump is delusional with truth and alien to the reality.
Oops ! If you can’t see past your nose
Last wks. testimonies were fantastic. I’m really looking forward to Sondland flipping.
@P J Dont underestimate the size of Trumps Rump. Its quite massive.
P J I agree. Nothing but hearsay and none of them thought anything was impeachable.
@The Fibler More likely thrown under the trump bus and end up in jail
Sondland has already started to flip by altering his initial testimony after he heard other witnesses after him speak to the contrary.
In 2016, Hillary *warned America* that #45 *would* inevitably treat our nation *just like* his ‘Foundation’…or one of his *many* failed marriages.
She was 💯 *correct* … 🤨
The avalanche is coming for the DEMS…….as we speak.
Indictment Against Head of Burisma Reveals ‘Hunter Biden Was Receiving Payments From Money Raised Through CRIMINAL MEANS, Siphoned, Laundered From Ukraine’
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/indictment-against-head-of-burisma-reveals-hunter-biden-was-receiving-payments-from-money-raised-through-criminal-means-siphoned-laundered-from-ukraine/
Pelosi: are ways lead to Putin.
Hah. You bet Republicans would rather “handle things behind the scenes.”
Cover-up is a Republican specialty.
^ THREE TRIGGERED TROLLS WITH NOTHING TO SAY. HA!
splace51 and freaked out when they happened. They are cats at the door wanting out then back in.
@Dan McFarland loser
Wait, what? Do the Republicans now complain that we had open hearings? They stormed the SCIF because the hearings were NOT open. It seems that Republicans should be careful what they wish for.
Ain’t gonna move the needle with the GOP. They’re going down with the Trumptanic.
R.I.P. GOP and Godspeed.
@Scott Chisman Unfortunately he had to fill the swamp before he could drain it.
@Scott Chisman – ‘Deservedly so’.
Their hypocrisy and *beyond-shameful silence* regarding #45’s numerous transgressions have brought them to a *historical nadir* that *will* ‘live in infamy’… 📚
Regardless of what the GOP decide to do . . . we’ll be voting BLUE across the board in 2020!
@Kevin Willis
👍 only way to go.
Dull? Maybe if Trump really wants to testify in public that might spice it up a bit.
Donald tRump should be forced to testify in public and under oath but no one has actually seen him since his hospital visit on Saturday.
He’d lie in any case. He doesn’t know how to tell the truth
@C&B Jones one word then: perjury
@Dan Forster Add that to the list…
I don’t care if it’s boring as long as it ends up with Trump kicked out of office and relocated to a jail cell.He can pretend to be a migrant for the next 30 years.
LET’S SEND THESE MF’S TO UKRAINE AND FIGHT WITH THEM. LET THEM SEE HOW BAD IT IS.. BUNCH OF BA’TARDS
I am waiting for Sondland….let’s see how he wriggles himself out. Perjury is serious business.
@Sharp Shooter Problem is that Sondland is NO professional diplomat. He bought his ambassadorship. But money can’t buy honesty and morals.
@Sharp Shooter well today the 20th of November was not a good day for the GOP. Trump’s lies are unravelling. I would love to see Giuliani questioned…the instigator of the drama and lies.
The Russians told him to blame the Ukraine for election 2016 interference. Nice try, Rudy.
@Barbara Arndt I heard 2 thumps today. Sondland throwing both trump and rudy under the bus.
@Sharp Shooter Sondland does not want to go to jail!
I am waiting for the “star performers” who are behind the bribe. Pompeo and Giuliani and do not forget the nodding Pense..
@Barbara Arndt P, G and P will never testify. We will need a HUGE can of raid to get them out of office.
Sondland, no experience in this realm at all, gets this job. Uses cellphone, talks out loud to the President in public in the Ukraine even though he adamantly told never to do that. Trump is weakening national security by hiring loyalists over people who are qualified to do their job. It’s going to be great watching the GOP try and defend Trump’s hires during the election season.
A vote for Trump is a vote for Putin.
Obama was in bed with ISIS. You pick
@David Gainey Obama isn’t the president. We don’t care about Obama. Trump is going to prison.
Trump didnt give an once of uranium, but the dems gave them 20%. Anyone who thinks that was smart is a block head.
@John Bennington The only way the Republicans can save their party from extinction is to DUMP TRUMP.
@John Bennington No he just turned out back on our allies fighting isis and Russia, who were then slaughtered and Russia now controls the American military base there…and now Turkey has just bought a boat load of Russian weapons….Nice work Trumpers!!!!
It’s like saying “the burglar got caught in side the bank but when he raised his hands to surrender he dropped the gun and the money so… THE MONEY IS IN THE BANK, meaning he robbed nothing”. “They released the money”??? Yes, because they got caught!
If there is a list of Never Trumpers where do I sign up
At the ballet box.Just remember,yes for America and prosperity,no for GOP.
@Mustang .308 Trump said he loves stupid people,you must be one of the ones he was talking about.
@Alex M … Trump didnt say that. You are a liar. Not a very good liar either.👎 Just a stupid🤥 liar….. 🤔
@Mustang .308 you sir are a botched abortion
When Trump said he was thinking of testifying before the House inquiry, that’s when WH staff sent him to Walter Reed to have his head examined.
LOL
Al DaSilva did TRUMP MISS his golf weekend therapy
Trump is brilliant … Always calling the leftist bluff. Trapping them in their own snares … 😅😆🤣😂 https://youtu.be/JAVauRQ9qlw
@Wayne Harris – *No one’s seen #45* since Saturday afternoon, after he was taken to Walter Reed hospital. *Not a single* public appearance… *not even* on Fox ‘News’. 🤨
“Things that make ya go ‘Hmm’, even…” 🤔
Let me guess? Trump will claim they are all never-trumpers. lol
Thats right.
Never Trumper = Non Criminal. Deep State = Career Government Employee. God Bless the Never Trumpers and the Deep State.
Burrs face LOOKS like he’s been skulking Europe.