Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, talks about the peril to democracy in the United States if Donald Trump is allowed to get away with his executive privilege claims. Aired on 01/22/20.
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It’s dictatorship or bust now for the Republican Party.
@Tim Countis good Now STAY OUT MIND YOUR OWN COUNTRY
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no, that’s what Schiff wants. He said voters should not decide who becomes President
Why does everybody think that Republicans are ever going to be consistent, logical or have any respect whatsoever for law or process? They impeached Bill Clinton for boinking an intern. This guy dismantles the very United States and hand s the ashes over to our adversaries and they can’t be bothered much.
None of their shenanigans here will ever apply to a Democrat.
@shane3214 Why should anyone have to spoon feed you? Walk away from Fox network. The facts are readily available in the real world so you can do it yourself.
the opposite is true
https://www.tierneyrealnewsnetwork.com/post/romney-kerry-biden-mccain-pelosi-schiff-mueller-clinton-are-tied-to-sketchy-ukraine-deals
well said
@Rene Curry Well there’s class and courage. And then there’s crassness and paranoia.
Wanted to hear more from Ms Ifill, her perspective on this subject needs to be explored further.
Siya Gobingca I am Watching I am The Holy Father In Jesus Christ Name Jesus Christ Jesus amen 🙏 ✌️
YOU GUYS ARE SO LOST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMMrUDX8k6g
The USA will become one big banana republic if Trump stays for another 4 years.
@John Lemond My, your rapier like wit is so impressive, but only to you. I fully understand that you are your own biggest fan, but to the rest of us outside your delusion, you are something else entirely. Your bigotry is showing, and the tinfoil in your red hat must be a little too tight. I am not a liberal. Sorry. Unlike you, I am a patriot. You know, one of the majority, who is tired of your crap?
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What do you think his orders are from PUTIN? He is doing a GREAT JOB destroying our country. Now he is fighting with Great Britain our closest ally.
@Thragon68 Your anti-American propaganda is a transparent ruse and further makes the point that the GOP will go to any ends to hide behind the flag while attempting to suppress the rule of law, not support it as they outrageously claim. The American people DEMAND a fair trial in the light of day. Any who attempt to suppress this legal process are traitors to the Constitution and the USA.
@Ryan Anderson That is correct, if the mission was to support the destruction of our country, Trump could be commended for doing a fine job. Trump is furthering the agenda of Putin who desires to resurrect the soviet union. Trump is doing all he can to further this agenda and betray our democracy.
How do Majority Senate allow executive branch to remain unchecked and criminal?
If not removed soon, he will do WHATEVER crimes he wants next few months!!
@thomas Hooper Yes he is! Abuse of power directly comes into it when the IMPOTUS does things out of proper channels to bring pressure on a political rival.
When he breaks our rules to pressure another country
to do what he wants to the detriment of our people.
When those actions place our ambassadors and other government agents in danger. And Obstruction-well, he’s STILL doing that. As for “sending who he wants”, if that were true-why is the FBI and SDNY investigating Rudy G. for acting as a government agent without registering? Feel free to check out the attorney generals web page. I’ve given you plenty of evidence on our commander-in-thief, come back with proof of his innocence or even an argument based on more logic than “he’s POTUS and can do what he wants”. The really sad thing about all of this is that he could have done all of this on the up and up-he just didn’t want to try that hard or was too stupid to think that far ahead.
@Tonya Sweeney “When he breaks our rules to pressure another country” Ukraine has stated not being aware of thee hold on AID… are you calling them liars? All witnesses have testified to AID not being used as a pressure tool….
“When those actions place our ambassadors and other government agents in danger” clear to explain that fantasy?
“Rudy G. for acting as a government agent without registering” why did they investigate the Trump campaign illegally? who knows what the FBI does. But that sounds like a Rudy G problem not a Trump problem!
you mean these guys? “State AGs Object to Impeachment’s ‘Dangerous Historical Precedent’ ” : https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2020/01/22/state-ags-object-to-impeachments-dangerous-historical-precedent/?slreturn=20200023162418
“come back with proof of his innocence ” the burden of proof is on you, you are the accuser.
I think maybe you should vary you news sources, you sound incredibly partisan!
@thomas Hooper oh the “i went to rob a bank but i didn’t take any money, officer” excuse for fake potus.
@Lily Jade , asking for investigation into corruption = robbing a bank….. logic Fail
This is why American Bar associations should make a statement regarding the immoral and despicable behavior of the GOP Senators who, after all are mostly lawyers that know the law and toke an oath.
@shane3214 Biden’s not on trial here.This is about 45, who as any other president should be above reproach.45 clearly isn’t.This is not about Dem’s or GOP, it’s about country first.These Senators seem to have forgotten that.
@Denyze of course,but I guess they need to grow a pair first.Barr’s actions are diminishing the separations between powers,which our Constitution prides itself on.
#VoteBlueNoMatterWho
Republicans want dictatorship.
Vote them out.
Tonya Sweeney 👉🏻Your talking stuff that the Clinton klan are good at. Note: flight records show 26, or so trips to Epstein island that may make U happy.🐀.
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Power corrupts , very true , democrats have obviously abused their power , for impeaching a president , when no crime was committed , and for political retribution
@Saynoto Socialists EXACTLY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMMrUDX8k6g
This lady needs to be on all the stations with this message!! Fantastic!
You’re totally right about that she needs to be heard in all aspects.
@David Hale Not every President has violated theses articles, especially Washington I don’t think you can compare President Washington with fake Bone spur trump. one was a war hero and the other is a coward. You like trump are the kind of person that thinks it’s OK to commit a crime, no morals and I also think you are seriously lacking in basic intelligence and common sense and you have an evil spirit just like trump.
Are you the same David Hale who is Secretary of State?
He is abusing privilege in the same way as abusing his power. We have to Remove him from office . If not If he loses the election he can be indicted and jailed for these actions .Vote 20/20 don’t let this corruption destroy our democracy.
Sophia Lewis lol Quit buying into the fear mongering of MSNBC! After 3 years I’d think you would have learned by now. 🙄
Massive corruption being covered up https://www.tierneyrealnewsnetwork.com/post/romney-kerry-biden-mccain-pelosi-schiff-mueller-clinton-are-tied-to-sketchy-ukraine-deals
Alicia, the way you wrote 20/20 was great. 20/20 makes me think of perfect vision. We, as a country, are BLIND if we allow this corruption to go unchecked. The Senate voting in block 53-47 proves they choose to be BLIND. Right on!
She’s correct Executive privlege is not a blanket privlege , Executive privlege can not be used to conceal a crime.
@Allen C. NO CHANCE
SHE’S A SHILL FOR THE GLOBALISTS
@Thragon68 Ah, yes, the *TRUTH* : the great secret Truth that “They” don’t want you to know. I’m familiar with it, by reputation. It’s about how Trump is an Angel, the Earth is 6,000 years old, crop circles cause autism and vaccinations are space aliens’ attempts to contact us (or is that the other way around?).
Don’t you ever find it odd that so many people who have no expertise in the relevant fields have inexplicably come upon the TRUTH which all the professionals have overlooked?
One example, since you raise it: the “no crime” TRUTH. This Truth that Impeachment requires a statutory crime has been, and is being debunked by legal scholars from one coast to the other. It’s just not true. You can believe it still, but that’s not the same thing.
@George Dunn Wow…what filter have you been smoking through.? ohhh let me guess, the extreme intellectual one that omits everything that doesn’t fit in that very tiny bubble so well crafted by the knuckleheads that still lead you all around like pets. OPEN YOUR EYES and do some real research and stop relying on your fake media globalists which have continuously lied to you…oh wait till the next news cycle and conveniently forget the previous lie…start a new.. SOMEDAY YOU’LL GEOW UP. SOON,,,YOU’LL HAVE NO CHOICE. NOTHING I CAN SHOW YOU OR TELL YOU WILL BREAK THAT MIND CONTROL…..ENJOY IT WHILE IT LASTS
@Thragon68 C’mon, Thrag, even a Trumpite should be able to tell there’s no substance to your writing. You’re moderately good with invective, but shamefully weak on reasoning.
Tell you what: I’ll provide you a framework; all you have to do is fill it in. Let’s see, something easy, do you don’t get discouraged… Ah, got it!
Like all Trumplings, you believe Fat T when you says he’d be glad to turn over records (taxes, academic records, requested documents) as all other modern candidates have done. What do you believe are his reasons for not doing so, and why doesn’t his failure make him a liar?
They are trying to steal the 2020 election again like they did in 2016.
Michael Hagan 👉🏻Yea, Dems are “trying to steal the 2020 election” as they, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, & other 🤮haters tried.👌.
that was the DNC
It was only Florida and Alabama that have been proven as hacked. Then covered up .
Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell were in on the Russian interference of the 2016 election. Just as Moscow Mitch McConnell is trying to protect Putins agent in the W.H. Trump the Treasonous Traitor. He is doing so so they can orchestrate the theft of more Treasonous Republicans across the country at all levels. Their goal is to take total control to take our Democracy away from us and to install a Theocratic or Autocratic Dictator in the place of Democracy where there is No Equal Justice for All.
If you think there is equal justice for all, you have never seen a poor man and a rich man being charged with the same crime. Say O.J. Simpson or Epstein…..
Anonymous, if you’re listening 👂🏻 I hope you will find the all the e-mails of the GOPsters and Trumpsters to expose them in the light of day and destroy them for good…. Vampires 🧛🏻♂️ in the sun light ☀️ style.
“A democracy if we can keep it”
#VoteBlueNoMatterWho
Boy she hit the nail right on the head when she talks about what this country is going to be in 10 years that is for sure it’s already scary and it’s yet more to come
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*The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board*
-Grover Cleveland
#VoteBlueNoMatterWho
massive corruption being covered up https://www.tierneyrealnewsnetwork.com/post/romney-kerry-biden-mccain-pelosi-schiff-mueller-clinton-are-tied-to-sketchy-ukraine-deals
Vote Republicans out of office in 2020!!!
#VoteBlueNoMatterWho
It’s now time for Americans to recognise the fact that their much-admired judicial and political systems are malfunctioning. Big time.
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Trump is now talking about messing with entitlements. Social Security.
Only entitlements here are the tax dollars being paid to these welfare recipients called Republican and Democrats who are behind that orange welfare Queen
Social security and Medicare are not entitlement programs. We pay into that program with every paycheck. An entitlement programs is Medicaid which is not funnded individuals but by taxes
Carolyn Foster the programs need to be updated. They are causing the national debt to skyrocket. There aren’t enough people paying into them anymore. This isn’t the 1950’s.
@Dan M that may be but they aren’t entitlement programs.
@Carolyn Foster ok fine. is that your point? whatever you want to call them – they need restructuring or they will go bankrupt. Either that, or the check you get wont buy a cup of coffee.
trump says regularly that “he’s got a world to run”. He thinks hes more than a king. He’s a actual super villan