Rachel Maddow reviews highlights from the testimony of Kurt Volker and Tim Morrison, who, despite being requested by Republicans, still described Donald Trump's behavior toward Ukraine as inappropriate. Aired on 11/19/19.
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Republican-Requested Impeachment Witnesses Do Trump No Favors | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
The more Guiliani’s name is mentioned the better. I have a feeling that federal agents will soon knock on his door and read him his rights 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
That’ll be a great day!!!
@Din we hope he does just that
@Thoughts exactly. Din didnt realize that.
@Willliam Fish he was one of the main perpetrators
@Elizabeth Newcity he would have to be the president in order to do that 😉
Every Republican in the Intelligence committee should be censured and removed for WILLFULLY DEFYING intelligence…
Nevyn of OZ 1973 I assume you meant “Aussie”?
@Captain_Dirt The only thing.that hurts is that it’s this many stupid Americans . I guess when we.vote the repugnuts out they will say Africa and Obama interfered with the elections
@WrothBog remember when all the.repugnuts were crying about how Obama increased the deficit over a trillion dollars to rescue banks and the.auto industry. Now Trump didn’t have.to rescue anything and the deficit is well over a trillion but now they don’t care.
@Andrew Bises their not being fired , they are.real journalist and just can’t take all the B.S. anymore
“Fire up the embroidery hoops”. Maddow is a genius.
Mind Freshener never mind.
@Georgina Black, don’t waste your time. That guy is beyond help. Anyone, who can’t see it at this point, is beyond help.
snowflake liberal Thanks. I had come to that conclusion as well. Best wishes to you.
Mind Freshener look at little Mindy spin around and around and around. Keep trying little Mindy
@Mind Freshener
That what trump supporters are conditioned to do. Pathic
The GOP House members do not understand that Always Republicans are not necessarily Always Trumpers. If one is not gob smacked by their seat on the Hill, it is possible for a Republican to be honest. Both Volker and Morrison realized they could keep their integrity and go find another playground for the next step in their lives.
Not willing to lie under oath and face criminal charge for someone with no respect who will dump them and pretend he barely know them when things get tough.
What Morrison described is the definition of a bribe.
Trump isn’t interested in fighting corruption, because he IS corruption. He is the embodiment of corruption, in all of its manifestations.
@delaze 23 so if your boss takes your pay check and hold it until you do what he wants you to, it’s not extortion ?
@delaze 23 because they got caught before it was completed. So I guess you can call it, attempted.
Melvin Cohen Foreign Aid is charity, it’s not money that countries worked for.
Yes, if you GIVE me money that I didn’t work for, you can set conditions… “here’s $20 but you can’t use it on drugs, it has to be used for schoolbooks.”
@delaze 23 once you give me something it mind charity or not. The Money was already given Trump used it to get them to be corrupt 🙄
So basically Sondland said ” there is no quid pro quo, it’s a straight-up bribe.”😄
@Kip McEwen he flipped because he was going to go to prison like. Roger Stone. Also he only flipped after his coworkers all gave their testimonials and that’s when realized oh shyt they’re not sticking with the lies anymore and not defying their orders because they’re all scared. Just wait for Guilliani to flip….get the popcorn ready
@Willliam Fish i thought as much
@Kip McEwen LOL do you even read the full articles from the far right rags you are quoting? I watched the entire hearing and he did nothing of the sort. Why would you even quote things like redstate here? You know we’ll just laugh at that non-sense..
@Kip McEwen feel better now?
@Kip McEwen …..most obvious russian troll I have witnessed yet
Innocent people dont run to lawyers after hanging up from “perfect” calls..
Vance Menapace Denial is a disease
Trump should describe what his idea of a perfect call is.
@April Jones-Foston And to think that he leads the largest legal system on the planet, yet gives it no credence.
@Vance Menapace chump hired twice-convicted pedophile George Nader, but you probably consider that “only the best people” anyways. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/george-nader-child-pornography-charged-trump-843869/
As for chump himself there’s his family’s tax fraud, chump university was a scam, the chump foundation was a scam charity, there was Russian money laundering in trump tower, multiple shady deals with the Turks, Saudis, Russians, and Chinese that we don’t know about because he won’t release his taxes like he promised, over a dozen credible sexual assault allegations, campaign finance violations, and as I said earlier CHUMP HIRED A CONVICTED PEDOPHILE. All before even becoming president, so maybe that’s why people wanted him out before he even got in.
Licking all those boots might’ve done some brain damage to you buddy…
When Guillianni come’s to testify, install an eye shield. Those puppies are going to be shooting all over the place.
Ghouliani’s not coming. Trump has already ordered him not to. Rudy would be the nail in Trump’s coffin if he testified because his brain is as bad as Trump’s. Senile.
He isn’t coming to testify and if he did he would be useless he can plead the fifth cause he is under criminal investigation
Volkers opening statement was something to watch. He twisted himself into a pretzel trying to cover for Trump and not perjure himself at the same time. In the end, he couldn’t deliver what Trump and Republicans wanted.
DataWaveTaGo I tend to avoid listening to any story published by a group whose name begins with “The Daily”. Beast, Caller, Wire; they just don’t have a good track record.
The exception being The Daily Show with John Stewart/Trevor Noah. But that’s a show and they are both hilarious.
Volker was at best naive and at worst willing to spin, spin to cover himself.
“I am the walrus”
“Go tell the lawyers”
“they are the egg men”
“Goo goo g’joob”
– John Bolton
It looks like the Trumpists will have to start trashing the reputations of their own witnesses too.
@Andrew Mitchell I can see how you believe what you hear seeing you have been stuck in alt left echo chamber.Block out the truth, Typical alt left trait. Russian troll is getting old NPC 000683 # orange man bead # we should protest. . . LMFAO ! ! !
@Bubbles While it’s true that most Americans were working while the hearings took place, they could watch them later, since they are available online in their entirety. Retirees such as myself got to see them real time, but the truth of the matter is, the evidence was placed on full display for all to see by the White House back in September, clear evidence of the quid pro quo and the content of same. Just like the Mueller Report that did not by any stretch of the imagination exonerate the traitor in the White House, the documented evidence is there for all to see, but instead you are just parroting the traitor. Your argument falls flat.
It is almost like they called on a hostile witness. What kind of strategy is going on?
“Dude, don’t you have the lawyers on speed dial by now?”
He complained about Vindman but they both reported to NSC lawyers. So Eisenberg needs to submit to questions about this.
Rachel Maddow’s: “Dude talk to the lawyers” deserves an Oscar!!! Brilliant.
… that’s the flip side to the “..read the transcript” T-shirt 😆
Now I know why the Republicans wanted this people to testify, Sondland and Guiliani are going to the sacrificial lambs
Exactly. That’s what experienced corrupt officers do in countries like Ukraine. They settle bribes and other criminal acts through a third person who will then be sacrificed if things don’t turn out smoothly.
Sondland was like if I’m going down WE ALL going down 😂
We need to let Republicans call more witnesses like these ones 😁
Draconis The Wyvern And I admit that I’m wrong about the source of information regarding if Ukrainian was aware of the solicitation of political bribery. It wasn’t Vindman, it was in an article by the AP. https://apnews.com/139dd535eac749aa961bc0205d10e872.
So far the veracity of the reporting has not been contested by the GOP or the witnesses that testified to date.
@Norman Wang 1) no where does the transcript even come close to solicitation of political favors. Trump said “i heard Ukraine has the server, that it all started in Ukraine. I would like you to investigate this incident” HE DOESN’T MENTION BIDEN in that section of the transcript.
He was talking about the server and the Mueller report NOT Biden.
2) do you know how easy it is to photoshop a tweet? That’s why i went through Twitter. I went through hundreds of tweets and I couldn’t find it. I went all the way back to October 17th.
“Many outlets…” can be wrong and lie intentionally. Many outlets lied about the syrian rebels. Many outlets lied about WMDs. Many outlets continue to lie.
For sake of argument though, lets say he did. So what? If it’s been shown repeatedly that the whistleblower lied about the contents of the transcript (and not just the transcript) that is the definition of sedition and treason.
Trump right now legally can arrest schiff and the others, but he hasn’t.
H3ll he could have done what Lincoln did, but he hasn’t. In fact Lincoln was a tyrant, his only redeeming quality is that he stepped down from the massive amount of power he took before his assassination.
You are delusional.
Trump is not that bad. His not Adolf, or “prime minister” assa of Iran, his not stalin, his not Saddam.
He is NOT that bad.
Draconis The Wyvern Errrrrrrr…
Trump literally, in the transcript that he himself released asked Ukraine for a favor and the witnesses testified that rather than a systemic investigation of corruption in Ukraine, as was the case under the earlier administration that led to the removal of prosecutor Shokin, which I remind you, is a bipartisan policy also supported by the EU and the IMF, what is happening here is not foreign policy. Mulvany himself, and Pompeo and in general, the WH and the State department have entirely failed to show that the push to investigate (and Sondland testified that it only needs to be a public announcement and Ukraine need not to carry out the investigation) Burisma was a part of an official policy.
How has the whistle-blower lied? Do tell and cite your sources. I could not find a credible source to this effect. However, I grant you that the whistle-blower may be the least credible of all sources we’ve heard so far but his/her claims has also been corroborated or replaced by the witnesses that have direct and first hand knowledge of the matter.
And it’s not that bad?
Let’s see.
The president of United State withheld congress approved military aid and restricted diplomatic channels to an ally who is fighting an undeclared war against Russia to use as leverage to solicit political favor against a domestic political rival. In doing so, Ukraine was denied access to crucial weapons for self-defense purposes and therefore and undermined US national security as well as her foreign interests.
The President communicated through his personal agents, particularly Rudy Juliani, and though the help or at least compliance of players such as Mulvany, Pompeo, Sondland and others, created a secondary, unofficial diplomatic channel that was outside the purviews and oversight of regular governmental machinery in pursuit of the personal political benefits of the president rather than in pursuit the country’s foreign policy. In fact the actions of this so called “shadow foreign policy” ran in direct opposition to what was being done through the regular diplomatic channels, and led to the sudden and causeless removal of Yovanovich.
There are also other tangents which I’m sure will spawn other investigations in due time but that does not relate to the impeachment so that’s not relevant to this discussion.
And this is “not that bad”?!
With that said, thanks for taking the time and being civil.
@Norman Wang “I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike… I guess you have one of your wealthy people… The server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. I think you’re surrounding yourself with some of the same people. I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it. As you saw yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance, but they say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do, it’s very important that you do it if that’s possible.”
He is NOT talking about Biden in this section of the transcript. He is talking about the Mueller Report.
Secondly if that where true, that Burisma is clear and is actually a part of policy than why just today a inquiry was launched against Burisma? The Ukrainians re-opened the investigation as well and are demanding that Hunter Biden be made to submit to questioning on the recently discovered siphoning of tax payer funds.
This is a clear case of corruption, the us president can investigate corruption.
It’s not illegal to investigate corruption.
All you are doing at this point is saying “well his motive was Z not X obviously”.
@GreenRuled chump hired a twice convicted pedophile. that must be what deplorables consider “only the best people” nowadays…
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/george-nader-child-pornography-charged-trump-843869/
Giuliani: “You know the former vice-president used his influence in favor of his son. This happens all the time, I know Trump is doing it as we speak. Oops.”
Btw, Guliani’s son works in the Trump whitehouse.
It’s a strange world when Bolton turns out to be the least repugnant of the bunch!!
M T I was thinking the same thing.. Never thought I would ever be on his side 😳 We’re in the upside down!
M T sad stuff i agree 😩
So true, oh!! So true
Anybody who’s watching the impeachment hearings today Morrison is one of the Republicans witnesses that they called to testify
Is everyone happy that the Biden distraction is all bull… as in who smelt it dealt ( trump).
It doesn’t matter if your a republican or democrat, WRONG IS WRONG!!!!!
One would like to think so unless you’re a Right wingnut