Democratic Rep. Jim Himes joins Lawrence O’Donnell to unravel—point by point—the Republican defense of Trump's Ukraine actions. And not one Republican attempted to offer that flimsy defense during the Judiciary hearing debating articles of impeachment. Aired on 12/11/19.
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Rep. Jim Himes Takes Down The GOP Defense Of President Donald Trump | The Last Word | MSNBC
Couldn’t the GOP afford a good lawyer? Politics aside, their lawyer is a terrible public speaker
@Jackie Byrd Thanks for the compliment. It does make it easier if you can laugh about it.
And this Castor so called looyer, operating out of his whole foods cloth grocery bag?? Hilarious and embarrassing eh I want to go home, Dougie Collins? Treason is a heady mix eh Republikkklans?!?
@Craig 64 , Matt Gaetz is so weak and ego driven. He failed ,yet his mouth was working like he consumes garbage ‘ !
@ManOWords Between Collins and Gym there isn’t any glass left in the house. Their voices shattered all of it and the dogs in a 3 miles radius howl every time they start talking, err, I mean screeching.
back to identity politics. Better give it up, democrats. Americans now know beyond a doubt what you’re made of. Losers
Even if t’rump actually said the words, “I am going to extort you now…” republicans would still find a way to say that’s not what he meant.
+ “no, no , exhort you now, I’m exhorting you to investigate Biden.”
If ANY Democrat president had made a call like that the Rethugliklans would call it what it is, A BRIBERY!
But, he didn’t say that. What did he say that was wrong? Really?
@Annie what about a dem vice-president? J B
Gaslight, gaslight, gaslight-
Straight out of the narcissist’s playbook.
The Republicans are just despicable
@Jerry PEAL Yeah, very hard! I mean when did President Trump ever say do this or your not getting the money?
@S Misandrst Inform us all again what the Russians did to make Hillary lose?
@Robert Garcia There was no bribery. When did he bribe? What did he say? He never said that they would not recieve that money. You know, the money from the taxes that all of us chipped in on.
@Aaron Feel it? As of now she has gotten away with Benghazi and her email scandal and…
well, we’ll be running things until 2025. Don’t like it? Move.
Weren’t the Republicans ” barking ” after Obama for not being tough on Russia. Now Potus is selling out to Putin in plain sight, (remember Helsinki!), going after his own Intel, trying to dig up dirt on a fellow American through Russian intelligence… What else can he do to stir up some sense of outrage, invite Putin to address the Senate maybe?. So much hypocrisy… Democrats are real Americans… PERIOD
The difference is there are many Russian congressmen in congress.
Abdoul Ba 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Never forget Helsinki!
Abdoul Ba No Obama made fun of Romney for telling him he needed to be tougher on Russia. Forget that 2012 debate???
if y’all are in need of a good laugh, google up a list of Obama’s accomplishments and place them alongside Trump’s.
That is why Trump wins in a landslide next year. We don’t give an f– what gets SAID. We care what gets DONE.
Do you really think Ukraine is going say there was a quid pro quo, if they did, America is not giving them the money……so you say no….
Indeed !!
lol, weakest defence iv’e ever heard!!!
Exactly. If the GOP saw a hostage video, they’d apparently believe the criminal’s claim that the hostage was being treated well, just based on the hostage saying so- as a gun is pointed at them, off camera. The GOP may not all be morons, but they certainly are betting that at least 59% of us are! Russia is off camera, pointing a gun at Ukraine, right now.
They still haven’t received all of the money either and GOP isn’t saying anything about that. What has Trump done with the $35m is the question that needs to be asked by the Dems.
@Heather King-Smith Correction, Russia is off camera, actively shooting at the hostage. 😉
Wouldn’t it be handy to have the actual transcript of the call, the one stored on the super secret server, instead of the “readout” from the call? Inquiring minds and all that….
Kristen Rdesinski- It was a 23 minute call and the repugnican highly edited alternate version
was only 9 minutes long. Colonel Vindman said the secret hidden part was even more damning than the extortion and bribery admissions in the part the White House released.
YES. BUT TRUMP DOESN’T LET THE RELEASE OF THE CALL OR ANYONE TO TESTIFY. NOT EVEN DOCUMENTS THAT CONGRESS HAS DEMAND. TRUMP IS A CORRUPT COWARD CRAZY PERSON. HE THINKS HE’S ABOVE THE LAW.
@Jeremy Backup Indeed
@Martha Martha – AND the GOP are up to their eyeballs deeply involved in trump’s crimes. WHATEVER YOU DO, VOTE BLUE 2020. Get the crooked con clown out of the Oval Office.
maybe they do exist. Right next to Hillarys smashed cell phones and 33,000 deleted emails.
GOP = Govt of Putin
We have many Russian republicans in congress.
Facts
@David Clark republican + russian = NAZI
goons of putin
gang of putin
garbage of putin
ghouls of putin
Dems – evidence, facts and truth. Reps – lies, ignorance, stupidity and further lies
@I Want Coconut
I’m just looking in fascination that you’re able to drag your knuckles across the keyboard.
Yup. And really, really creepy speakers like Gym Jordan. Ugh!
@I Want Coconut I didnt realize that if you dont build the wall the US will become an Islamic State.. Lol. You must be a hick that doesn’t know that Mexicans are Roman Catholics. The wall is the least of Trumps concerns right now.
there is also 35.2 million dollars of the aid money missing, go and ask that dog puke in oval office where is it at, ? THIS MESS MAKER HAD NO BUSINESS IN THE WH.
That’s the pacifier in chief’s Russia runaway money. It triples in Moscow and he’ll be rich there.
THATS TRUMP TAX thats what he charges to make great deals 14 %
thats how he can work for free and his lawyer that wasnt even voted in to the white house
Uh,, where’s the uranium that Hillary sold? Where is that money? Lots of questions to ask there.
Ask the Kurds how dedicated he is to American allies.
@William Platt that’s ok, I know where to find bananas
governmentcheese411 he didn’t bring them back he deployed them to Saudi Arabia
@Kristen Rdesinski probably in the same place as you find your.other used produce; some “shithole country” where the rest of your used produce come from!
Happy flushing!
It shows how corrupted the system has become that the Republicans can even expect to lie openly and obviously in this way and have that mendacity actually BE their defence of the occupant. If the Leader of the Senate manipulates the “trial” to allow no witnesses to be called, that is not a trial and he should be impeached also – and go to jail and have his assets confiscated.
Criminals of a feather Commit Crimes together, And when they get Caught, lt’s everyone else’s fault ! 🤯
@8alot4t and the justice department. The ag barr is in his pocket too
@Russ Martin Yogi Bear’s Boo Boo
@8alot4t YOU GOT THAT RIGHT ! 🤢🥂👍🏻
@8alot4t THAT’S FUNNY I KNEW HE LOOKED LIKE, SOMEONE I SEEN BEFORE SERIOUSLY ! 😁😂😀🥂👍🏻
@Russ Martin YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT, STRAIGHT CRIMINAL ENABLERS ! 😖🤢🥂🙄👍🏻
Stop calling it a transcript. It is not a transcript. The transcript is HIDDEN on a super secret server. I’m so sick of this snow job.
@Cynthia Ridgeway This is a redacted summary memo. It is not the full transcript of the entire phone call.
THE G O P ARE GREAT TURD POLISHER.
@george pope GOP = Greed Over Party
would that be the same server Hillary used?
“They didn’t know about the pause in the aid at the time of the call.” Say whaaaaaat?
Of course they knew! But it’s the only plausible deniability the trump dumpsters can muster!
It’s taken less than a decade to drive a wedge into the heart of the nation. Are you happy now GOP with what you have achieved?
That’s what sickens me too
Hey Stephen Castor, you believe in the crap that comes out of tRump’s pie-hole?
He eats it!
I still need to know why every conversation he have with Putin he stores in a secret vault… very suspect
Because he’s given away our secrets, in exchange for putin teaching him how to be a dictator.
They have no defense for trump, the GOP are as corrupt as trump.
@Rual The evidence is overwhelming, just because you choose to ignore it and instead listen to made up fiction by trump and the republicans, does NOT mean it doesn’t exist!
Mr.D ……………….. That weasely shyster that’s the Republican counsel reminds me of the stuttering incompetent lawyer in “My Cousin Vinnie” .
Corrupt and as stupid as Trump!
yeah, they’re not like Lawrence O’Donnell who has to apologize for fake reporting every few weeks.
George W ………………. The Founders considered Abuse of Power to be the Highest crime along with Treason . You are a DOPE !
“That is not exculpatory.”
Concise. To the point. I like it.
Yeah, just another exoneration exaggeration by Trump.
Devin Alexander Fairrow VOTE Blue!!
John O WHATEVER YOU DO!!!
@Devin Alexander Fairrow nope, never.
Republicans Defense: Deny reality. 🤦♂️