In this “The Beat Breakdown: Trump on Trial”, MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber reports on Trump's first full day presenting the President’s defense against allegations of “high crimes” for the Ukraine plot. Melber breaks down the key moments, including why defense attorney Ken Starr was a “disaster” on his “abuse of power argument, what happened when Rudy Giuliani was name-checked and the high stakes over John Bolton possibly being called to testify. (MSNBC Digital Exclusive.). Aired on 1/27/20.
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Trump Trial 'Disaster': See Ken Starr 'Punch Himself In The Face' On Senate Floor | MSNBC
Call your senators. Ask for witnesses.
@Fred Feldt This trial has ZERO to do with either of them lol. This is a senate trial to decide on action regarding Trump’s abuse of power & obstruction lolol. Stop embarassing yourself by repeating total nonsense lololol.
@elc Really????? I didn’t know that. Huh. Are you sure?.?
The hoax you mean? The Sham?
@Fred Feldt The republicans can call Hunter Biden or ANY WITNESS they desire right now! They don’t need any dem to agree! Ask yourself why they are not calling any & pushing this bs scenario smh. #MUTE
Jason Ball, not gonna happen.
The Republicans are such hypocrites. They should change their mascot from an elephant to a hippo.
Democrats are not hypocrites, really? How about duplicitous? You call Trump a liar, and yet your point man Adam Schitt has been awarded four Pinocchios for his lies. The Russia Collusion, Adam Schitt said there was ample evidence, yeah, where is it? Schitt gave a phony rendition of the conversation between Trump and Ukraine leader; but Adam Schitt calls his lies, parodies, what?
We need to stop using animals to represent humans we are our own diverse insanity
I actually pay money to see Ken Starr punch himself in the face.
@Inevitable Crafts Lab 🤘😁😈
I would pay good money to watch Democrat Party hang themselves
.all yaa they all ready did fake impeachment…
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👉TRUMP 2020👈🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@Mike Smith Lay off the smoke .
@Ganiscol he can keep his underwear on. That way it doesn’t count and has to do it again and again till it counts.
I would pay money for the chance to punch Ken Starr in the face.
Ken Starr looking like a fool just to get paid.
Too bad t’rump is probably gonna stiff him on the checks like he does all of his employees. 😆🤣
Don’t forget to watch the Trump rally in New Jersey going on now. You have to love how Trump is stealing all of the Democrats issues and voters.
@Randy Sanders – I love how delusional Trump’s sycophants are. Still spouting nonsense hours later, eh?!
Swamp Watch: The Bidens and Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkKP0w0MD8w&list=PL4coKAtQeVHsvgIQkNRwGb11DSQyzZ99n&index=35
😃😄😁😂😂😂 You got that right!
The GOP have made their choice.
They have chosen ”party before constitution.”
Check your voter registration, make sure it is up to date and valid.
*VOTE*
@Colin Mahoney i guess that’d b their “get outta jail free” card.
@Lelynn Miller I agree !!!!!!
@Mike Smith Please develop your argument
The real reasons for Trump’s trial
https://youtu.be/ThZ2RqFTNhE
wel1968, the Republican Party are the only constitutionalists.
I feel like ANYONE (Republican or Democrat) who makes hypocritical statements, should be IMMEDIATELY DISCREDITED!!!
FacheChanteDeux I’ll bet you never even watched it! Fox told their ignoramus viewers that it was “boring” & they didn’t want to watch it anyway! And those morons said ZERO! Way to give your brain away to Sean Hannity? What shameless Americans who have the nerve to spew Patriot every chance they get & it means nothing unless the GOPs in the WH. I’ve never heard any of them call out their Patriotism when Obama was POTUS!
That’s not something that fluctuates with your party!
Q Wins innocent until proven guilty like Hillary?
😂
Desecrated you mean?
Your Orange Pus-Bag president is hilarious. Pee-Wee Herman for president next please!
Oh my goodness, that cracked me up.
Pee-Wee Herman wouldn’t be bad when you look at your current line up
Lmhao!
Hey My Patriots be wise to The Republican Senetor Lamar Alexander,He needs Trump to help pass a few bills before he retires.So don’t be fooled about him.He lies also.
Blanca Hutchinson and sadly he’s my senator. He’s ruining his legacy. I hope he fully understands that!
A Senator lie? No, say it ain’t so 😂
😆😀😅🙃
Blanca Hutchinson ,
If they are n the gop, they lie.
Impeached Trump has earned no respect and deserves no defense.
@dan112020 enjoy
https://youtu.be/tFR1S3wzPTM
Saw your post bro and figured I would throw in MOSCOW MITCH
@Mike Smith <------ no substance. ....typical.
Make Racists Afraid Again
Deserves a defense but can’t find one because there is literally no defense possible!
nor has he earned a defense and he deserves No respect.
Incredible how dotard’s defense team continually harken back to events that have little or no parallels to trump’s level of corruption and crimes.
that’s cuz they’re “RepubliCANTS!” there’s just so much they just CAN’T do!! they can’t stay on topic. they can’t answer questions. they can’t state THEIR OWN opinions. they can’t follow rules. they can’t work with other. they can’t read between the lines. they can’t hear ALL of EVERYTHING. they can’t get over themselves & their willful ignorance & selective hearing. THEY CAN’T APOLOGIZE! they can’t b honest. they can’t admit when they’re wrong. they can’t own up to their mistakes. they can’t see what’s right in fronta them. & they just CAN’T let sh!t go!!
– they say “an elephant never forgets,” but it seems like THESE GUYS can’t ever REMEMBER.
@Pierre Bibeau there’s also a difference between being a businessman & being a hustler.. too bad THEIR VOTERS can’t seem to figure that out tho… 🙄
@Pierre Bibeau That’s not true but let the media keep lying to you. Obama’s State Dept was even worried about Biden in Ukraine and China. Do you people just get your news from these media hacks? Thats right CBS did a special about Bidens corruption in Ukraine.
@Clair Duffy So when do you run out of air in your little Bubble?
@Pierre Bibeau Yes look at “your” law democrat Trump can be impeached but Biden is off limits? Was it because he was the Former Vice President who was known before 2016 was dirty? Is it because he is running for president? Or is it because you are a Hypocrite and Trumps #’s are at an all time high and the odds are you will lose again in 2020? Or maybe because Democrats in the House and Senate called for Trump to be Impeached 30 min after he won? Pull your head out of your a$$
Scarborough said it best when he called the Trump Defense Team: “A Confederacy of Dunces”.
a confederacy of dunces that is fantastically correct and funny
@Chard O’Mania
I read that novel decades ago. I’m sure Scarborough likely did too.
Great book.
@Chard O’Mania Surprize! You can’t copyright book titles.
Yea pity those ‘ dunces ‘ will help acquit the President !!
Ralph Boyd, you demoKKKrats are the confederacy.
The Republican Party name should be officially changed to the Hypocrite Party.
Pathetic GOP. Slaves to this orange clown.
mitch103178 oh gosh that is just perfect! Absolutely perfect!!!
That, plus the other comment about changing their symbol to: “Hippopotamus” fits perfectly – “Hippo the Hypocrite” ha ha ha.
The Corporate-Fascist Party of Autocracy.
@twin atoms Sorry your party is the party of the rich corporate donors. Look it up! But things like facts hurt your outlook
Ken Starr is just like Alan Dershowitz who claimed in an interview about 11 years ago that abuse of power WAS enough to impeach and remove a president, now they are both claiming that abuse of power is not enough for removal. Just proof that they will say anything if you pay them enough.
most of the Republican pundits operate this way. They’re all salespeople, not experts. And they sell B.S.
so those folk are officers of the court, even though this is the senate. look up their bar associations and ask them to be disciplined for lying and or conduct unbecoming an officer of the court
Alan Dershowitz is a freaking jerk that actually thinks he is smart. When he says something, you need to think the opposite.
@Laurie Osullivan TRULY!
Starr sounds like a doddering fool, a dullard and spineless hypocritical confused turncoat on the truth.
@davematt2002 nope
triggerfish66 no one can say it better than you just did. Bravo.
Remember, the man baby orange sphincter supporters are your neighbors. That should alarm you and sicken you. America is becoming a despicable cesspool filled with corruption. Never mind Ukraine and it’s corruption. America is hopelessly corrupt.
👏👏👏 well said, triggerfish66.
triggerfish66 lol.Dam
Who could imagine that in only 3 years, America would have lost all of our allies, lost respect worldwide and become a laughingstock. Amazing…..Trump is good at one thing….ALIENATING
@Sperup AD you do know different forms exist. So 50% based on popular vote and the other 50% determines regional representatives.
@Jodie daubenmire havent read it! Is that fiction or non fiction 😉
@Sperup AD so at the moment far right racial supremacist groups do not have a voice in congress/senate as in local areas they may get 5, 10 , 20%(but their votes are discounted as don’t pass the threshold) in certain areas but virtually zero in others but if a pure PR ballot was revealed then depending on the number of seats available a 0-5 % national vote instead would gain them leverage.
@Sperup AD oh wait you are saying PR which is proportional representation and not PV which is popular vote??
@Jodie daubenmire Genesis is the first book? Revelation is last book????????
The way this sham of a Republican trial is going we may actually see Ken Star punching himself in the face as a distraction.
America wants witnesses! America wants documents! America can see the Everest-size mountain of damning evidence against Trump.
@Mark wow, your stupid is incredible.
@Lelynn Miller sad state of affairs for America when politicians in power are so publicly willing to stoop so low, so shamelessly show their greed and so blatantly abandon their duties to their people. And sadly too that the world is not surprised though. After all world leaders do not bother even to hide the laughter in front of cameras at world summits.
@Ken Warner
The republican party can call whoever they want right now lolol. Ask yourself why they are pretending they can’t ugh.
@KsEF5
STFU & stop embarassing yourself lolol Republicans can call ANYONE they want as a witness today moron! Perhaps ask yourself why they are pretending they can’t ffs!
@Andrew Walton Because that is what the trial in the senate is for moron smh. Senators are the jury in the senate trial phase & that is who must hear witness testimony & see documents in order to come to a verdict! Stop embalrassing yourself by repeating nonsense lol
Ken Starr’s whole LIFE has been a DISASTER for us ALL!! He is a waste of oxygen and space at best.
A waste of Carbon Based matter.
J&A Burchfield….👏🏻👏🏻 😉
Ken starr so interested in other people’s BJs. What a legacy.
BJ by proxy
Except it wasn’t about a BJ. Monica Lewinsky wasn’t even the subject of the investigation…she was an accident.
Yes, he was so incensed that Clinton got one, but is now giving one to Trump.
Well Clinton was impeached for lying under oath about raping a woman…..
Ken Starr: “When Republican Presidents do it, it’s not illegal”
Joseph Putin but Maddow, Mathews, Cuomo, Lemon, Cooper, Mica and Joe, …. Are all legitimate news people you can trust. Right
Joseph Patin, yet Republicans are smarter than all you demoKKKrats.
Amen Knowtech, President Trump, a poor actor. But he is the greatest President.
I am so ashamed of my country now. This is not the same country I grew up loving and defending
Republicans are all worried about what will happen to Trump.
Nobody even cares about what is happening to Americans..
Shame on Trump, shame on Republicans, Shame on Americans who voted this disaster of a man to become President.
@Basil Bruce him abusing that emoluments clause REALLY gets under my skin.. that’s really his only interest. (enriching himself & keeping his other businesses afloat) he aint even supposed to still b collecting $ from those other places either! i bet if some1 was threatening to take out either the WhiteHouse, or 1 of his dumb towers or resorts, he’d tell them to take out the WhiteHouse.. it’s pretty fukin clear that he doesn’t care about anything other than himself. he OBVIOUSLY don’t give 2 sh!ts about who’s gonna suffer his consequences.
@Dane Mart What’s the relevance of being properly elected?
@Big E Dismissing 63 million votes might not be a good idea; it has great relevance. This does not have bipartisan support; it looks like a hack job. You might want to make sure you have impartial, unbiased support for impeachment. Without compelling, overwhelmingly clear and unambiguous proof that a high crime was committed, the Democrats might want to curb their enthusiasm. Maybe stop handing out pens and providing parody in a House hearing, if they want Americans to take it serious.
@Basil Bruce Got it…This sounds so informed. And why is Hunter Biden walking around free….Is it because of his excellent character…Don’t talk out of both sides of your mouth…Please don’t give me a moral politician take…The Democrats are full of rotten living with a pass from the press.