Rep. Gregory Meeks tells Lawrence O’Donnell that Republican committee members feared that everything they asked William Taylor would just further confirm the whistleblower’s damning account. Meeks says that every transcript that has come out so far speaks for itself. Lawrence also discusses with Mieke Eoyang and Ned Price. Aired on 11/06/19.
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Foreign Affairs member: Republicans Were Scared Of Bill Taylor's Deposition | The Last Word | MSNBC
The Banana Republicans swamp critters are scared of the light…
Agreed. The Dems needs to give criminal drumpf a deal. Resign b deported 2 his suggardaddy country or face life in prison or George Washington justice. Hanging nor Fire Squad 4 treason. In Public not behind doors close just like Sadam Hussain hanging.
Or George Washington justice. Hang in public or Fired Squard with workable muskets or 2nd amendment AK 47, colt 45 or any legal weapon. President 45 needs 2 b eliminated by a Colt 45 for TRE45ON. Right between his raccoon eyes or between his mushroom tiny balls.
A K 47 will fit better. A Russian machine gun to get rid off, of a traitor with an orange tiny mushroom.
Trump days r number. The treasonous traitors GOP r number 2. Thanks Donald 4 your criminal mind.
Yes they are
Shakedown town.
Flush the republicans.
Their floating in the moral toilet again.
The Republican Party is a crime syndicate and after 2020, should be declared as such and outlawed.
@ss Literally a crime syndicate, which is why I call it the Mafia White House.
ss ….……….. An ongoing criminal enterprise and a domestic terrorist organization .
@JoeyFiveandDimes Yes, well the Orange Turd is already partaking in stochastic terrorism that has resulted in deaths. Aided and abetted by McConnell and Barr.
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Repugnicans with their Collective Spineless Backs against the wall is a Beautiful Thing!
JUST ME : Last night, Trump accused his opponents of wanting to, “Suppress Dissent,” by establishing a, “Totalitarian State.” What’s the Golden Rule, America? Donny ALWAYS accuses his opponents of what HE IS GUILTY OF.
It is a beautiful thing. Now, let’s wrap it up and tie it with a big bow.
Vote blue up and down the ticket in 2020.
JUST ME …………………… To use an old High School sports chant: KICK ‘EM AGAIN – KICK ‘EM AGAIN – HARDER ! HARDER !
“The sky is not blue.” ~Every republican
Sean Sbragia no…it is the wave that is blue.
“Every zebra is green.” – Every republican. “Every zebra is green.” – Every Trumpturd cult member.
A lot of gray skies ahead for Republicans and trump
I would like to suggest that each time you describe or relate what Trump did please emphasise that ‘Thats why he is refusing to show the phone transcript/ that’s why he is refusing his employees to testify. ‘ so they understand it’s the hidden evidence. To prove himself clean to public. Why is he refusing with it
Trump *already* used the same extortion against Ukraine ayear or two ago, and got them to stop cooperating with Mueller in the investigation of Manafort’s doings over there.
Because they know all about manafort’s doings over there he was working for with John podesta for Hillary Clinton oh but nobody else goes to jail but manafort isn’t that special
Billy Pardew So much whining!
@Billy Pardew Boy, you Russian puppets are getting desperate. What next? Osama bin Laden was working for Obama? Stormy Daniels is Nancy Pelosi’s stage name?
In an open hearing they cannot attack the witness on facts, so will attempt to denigrate the process to cause confusion in the public.
The Republicans are scared because they know everything is starting to unravel and quickly. Truth always comes out. 🙏
McK H ………………… Yes, and here’s the straight, er …stuff: After trump secured the 2016 Republican nomination for president, Republicans on the national level experienced a dramatic drop-off in donations from their traditional big-money donors . Those donors saw it as throwing ‘good money after bad’ with such a poor candidate at the top of the ticket . BUT, they needed money . So, they worked out this elaborate transfer, i.e. money laundering, whereby Russian ‘oligarchs’ ( mobsters ) and other foreign influence peddlers filtered funds to the NRA, and then the NRA being the middle-men to distribute the dough . The architect of this scheme ? None other than Moscow Mitch .
Stop with the quid pro quo. This is bribery and a shake down. Impeachable
It’s flat out extortion.
Fat man needs a jail term.
Correct… I am a military veteran: It is not a quid pro quo, it’s life or death of young, brave souls on a battlefield, defending THEIR homeland against a better equipped enemy invader. Holy crap you Trump-supporting cowards… don’t you get? Human beings are needlessly dying because a weak, tangerine-stained, fleshy old man is prepared to watch husbands and daughters and sons die, just so he can run out the clock on his personal criminal liabilities. May whatever god you bow your head to have mercy on your utterly worthless, morally bankrupt souls. But, whatever you do, don’t look to the likes of me for forgiveness; I would happily slit all your throats to save just one courageous Ukrainian soldier. You are all beyond redemption because you have no standards, no self-respect, no sense of humour or duty, no dignity, no compassion, no understanding of history and not one ounce of human compassion. You literally make me feel sick to my stomach.
@Jim Alley Respect… and peace to you also
Bravo, thank you, thank you, Steven Robinson. You have COMPLETELY expressed my feelings, but more eloquently than I could have done. Those dead Ukrainians, and now Kurds, leave an ineffaceable sorrow with all of us who care about other human beings lives.
@Michele Mcneill MM… That is very kind of you, and [bye-the-bye] you sound extremely eloquent. Like you, my heart is crushed with sorrow for such forlorn people. Believe it or not, I am not a violent man (nor was I ever trained to be); I was taught resilience and resourcefulness, comradeship and honour (you may surmise from my spelling that I am British) and that it was my duty to uphold a high standard of decency. Wicked people are so very, very weak but they are a multitude and they are remorseless. For myself, I have never needed courage to face them… it has always been anger; because my indignation informs me that my personal standards are equitable and securely rooted. I wish you peace and respect…
Thank you Steven Robinson, for expressing true feelings and emotions, the truth, something Trump and supporters (who are upholding a criminal) are not in touch with. They blindly follow Trump the Pied Piper into his Mind Trap. Question is, how do we get them out!!
Thank you, Steven. You speak for so many people who are appalled at what’s happening all round the world. Respect to you for articulating our feelings.
The claim that Europe needed to do its fair share was debunked the moment the words came out of Trump’s mouth. Anyone who cares to check knew right then that the European nations and affiliated organisations have been donating more than the US to Ukraine. There are also European and UN military bases all over central Europe, special forces in close and naval and air patrols round the clock. It was classic Trump – he believed it, wanted you to believe it and wanted you to take his word for it.
He’s dangerous because he’s the perfect blend of stupid, lazy, arrogant and persuasive. He doesn’t “put out a narrative” or “spin the story”, he produces a blizzard of crude lies.
@Paul Romano I can speak from personal experience over a number of years starting back in the days of Rukh. As with much of the former USSR, there was a great deal of established Russification – there wasn’t really a hardcore Ukrainianisation drive in response. Ukrainian is reasonably close to Russian and was always spoken interchangeably, just not as the official language. I speak Russian but have a smattering of Ukrainian – you just pick it up if you live there for a while. There are a number of historical difficulties involved – for instance I give you an old Russian pejorative “khokhol” (referring to the Cossack top-knot) which is really weird since Stalin brutally deported the Cossacks from the region en masse. And I do have a bit of a problem with the lazy assumption that Russia “annexed” the Crimea. A classic of historical sectarianism. It was primarily a Russian region until Khrushchev sentimentally (hic) gifted it to the Ukrainian SSR in a symbolic gesture.
In modern times, Ukraine has remained second only to Belarus as pretty much Kremlin property. But geopolitically right now, it’s a tug of war child – straining westwards but hammered from the east. It’s also potentially a powder keg for major war across Europe just as the Balkans were. Serious military and political people understand that – Trump just wants to make the poor buggers dance for his advantage.
@Andrew Brent There’s a legal term for it (I forget the Latin for it – it’s been a long time since I’ve dealt with court proceedings). A judge can actually dismiss argument on the basis that it’s fundamentally changed from the original premise. Of course, It only applies once formal legal proceedings have been convened.
@Impromptu Thank you for your thoughtful and informative reply. It is a tragedy that Ukraine, long the victim of imperial struggle, continues to suffer at the hands of hegemonic powers. Most Americans have no knowledge of the region and its history and just kneejerk embrace the jingoist language of the cold war. Boris Badenov vs Dudley Dooright. The situation is far more nuanced and complicated than they can grasp. I have spoken with Crimeans who thank god for the day Russia interceded to protect them from the maniacs in post 2014 Kiev.
How many people died while trump withheld military aid for Ukraine 😢
Paul Romano is a Russian apologist who wants to force the Ukraine to surrender its sovereign territory to a foreign invader.
Paul Romano showed his true colors by claiming that the Ukrainian government are Nazis. He is apparently unaware of Godwin’s Law, which holds that the first person to invoke the Nazis in any argument has lost that argument.
Paul Romano actually defends the kleptocrat and murderous dictator Putin as a voice of “reason.” There is consequently no reason to take anything he says at all seriously.
@Paul Romano if Putin is so loved in Russia why doesn’t he have real presidental election? Stop having the canidates that run against him thrown in jail.
@Karen Piotte What you know about Russia you hear in the Russophobic Western press. Name the candidates who were jailed. Name one who polls over 3% nationally. There is no politician in Russia who is an actual threat to Putin. Why would he jail rivals who have no chance of winning? Unless of course they commit crimes.
bribery, extortion, corruption, lie, cheat, steal, bully, threaten and divide. All trump and gop motto.
You forgot hypocrites. But I got you.
I love that Republicans are complaining about the very laws of Congress that they themselves put in place back when they were the House majority xD
Hypocrisy is not a word in the rightwing lexicon and not in any of their dictionaries. They pass laws and procedures for everyone else, but themselves to follow. Same goes for the Constitution. Trump himself disavows the Constitution.
Cause Benghazi…
Ya mon Da Troll
The Senate Majority Leader has said that the public has a short memory. Please say it again, Mitchell…
Extortion is what we have here. No thoughts of the russian aggression in the Ukraine and lives lost. This is not what American values represent. This is a vile administration and the complicit gop.
Jim Jordan has abased himself…, his family should be disgusted and ashamed…
Agree 1000%
You mean, even more disgusted and ashamed now, than when they learned about his not doing a thing about the sexual abuse of hundreds of young athletes at Ohio State, which was common knowledge when he was a coach there?
@Serendipity Shop “Hundreds”? I imagine more like dozens, not that that makes it OK…
@Massialot 177 instances, but some were repeat assaults on the same guys. Any way you slice it, not OK. https://crooksandliars.com/2019/05/jim-jordan-knew-nothing-osu-sexual-abuse
Apparently there are another 30 in a different scandal he also claims ignorance of, with a longtime political aide and protegee: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jim-jordan-ohio-state-700578/
In sum, Jim Jordan has had a lot of practice turning a blind eye to abuses when convenient. That should serve him well in the current impeachment proceedings.
Himself and RUSSIA. HES A TRATOR..ORRRR THEY HAVE COMPRIMISED HIM EITHER WAY HE NEEDS TO GO!!
let’s not Forget: when the republicans stood up against Trump he stood down – like when he wanted to host the G7 summit at his golf Resort. So if they had been more critical to him, he wouldn’t have gotten this bad. They must be considered enablers and co-conspiritors.
Exactly. They have been Trump’s enablers, his partners in crime. As I’ve said, the Republican Party is a crime syndicate, involved in politics.
I suspect the foreign leaders also had something to say to Trump in private about holding the G7 at the Doral. And there are few things more embarrassing than throwing a big public party to which nobody comes.
Along with some Democratic individuals.
@Hugin Starkstrom kind of like a kid that the parents didn’t discipline
Just as guilty as Trump.
FINALLY the correct word for Trumps Devious Actions 🖤 Has BEEN TOLD OUTRIGHT…..EXTORTION ⁉️
Thank you, Gerry Connolly! Enough of tiptoeing round the words.
“I am not going to read the transcripts…”. From a senator. That one will stay with me for as long as I live.
IKR. SMH on that one.
It’ll stay with Lindsey Graham, too
His state needs to vote him out.
Graham should be force to resign as he won’t uphold his oath of office or simply do his job!