Democrats are demanding answers after reports that Rudy Giuliani is directly providing Trump's Justice Department, headed by AG Bill Barr, with information on Ukraine. Andrea Mitchell reacts. Aired on 02/10/20.
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Giuliani Is Giving Trump DOJ Ukraine Info And Dems Demand Answers | The 11th Hour | MSNBC
Barr must be removed! He does not work for America, or American’s interests, he works for the baby dictator Trump. Remove Barr!
White Centaur : Seriously? It is a fact that, should Trump lose his seat, and thereby his protected presidential status, he will be indicted on countless crimes, as will the rest of his family, and they will in turn, save themselves (or shorten their sentences) by, “ratting out,” everyone from Bill Barr down to Devin Nunes, resulting in half of the GOP and the entire administration being under indictment, and probably all of them going to jail. Think about that? And then think about just how easy it is to rig elections from the inside? With Russia’s help?
The plain fact is, there is no constitutional, lawful or system-based remedy for a Dictatorship. There is only Revolution. I can understand people not wanting to risk that. And, I get why it’s comforting to imagine that an, “election,” could, in some way, change all of that. But, it’s simply NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. The very least people can do now, is stop with the denial. At least stop pretending that we will even be allowed to, “vote,” out our dictatorship? At least, by being real, we can drop the pretence which is only buying the government time to consolidate?
After all, the Ukrainians unseated their Dictatorship, without any weapons or force. They simply filled the streets and stopped the country, until he fled back to Moscow. So we know that Revolution works, and can be done? . . .
@Ash Roskell I completely agree with you Ash Roskell !
Thomas L : The Ukrainians removed their Dictatorship, by filling the streets and halting the country, until he fled back to Moscow. They had no weapons and conditions were freezing, but it worked, because Dictators are cowards. Whether you guys join the Revolution, or learn to love your Monarchy, you need to be HONEST with yourselves, and STOP acting like the Republic has not already fallen? They simply CANNOT AND WILL NOT ALLOW, “free and fair elections,” this year. They KNOW it would result in Trump’s unseating, multiple indictments, he and his family going to jail, them, “ratting out,” everyone and everything, resulting in everyone from Bill Barr down to Devin Nunes, being indicted and then JAILED. Even the GOP ADMITTED that Russia has HACKED our Florida Election Computers! Since then, they have threatened anyone who speaks about it with instant jailing, under terror legislation. And, then Trump launched his, “campaign,” from there, a month or so later??? Russia must be inside all the key States by now, if not ALL of the US election tech? Love the Dictatorship or hate it, but just DON’T HELP them to consolidate, by pretending that our elections are not ALREADY RIGGED? The Republic has FALLEN! Will YOU do anything about that? . . .
Valelacerte : The report was never released, “unredacted,” son. Flat out lies are all you have? Pretty lame . . . Smh
Corruption corruption it will never stop. That’s what the republicans did by acquitting trump.the GOP is a f$$king joke please people wake up and vote king trump out
He was/is never a King
Richard Benoit best President ever !
The GOP have made their choice. Party before constitution.
*VOTE*
We are *Wide Awake* .
And we don’t listen to the KNOWN LIARS on this video.
We are waiting for you all to catch up.
It isn’t Trump who is Corrupt.
We have Facts and Documents and Witnesses … these clowns have P R O P A G A N D A.
You will see.
DOJ Ukraine investigation, the new Benghazi.
Agree!!!
Interesting that trump attacks everybody except Putin. Republican senators are the biggest suckers in history
We put missiles in Ukraine and killed 300 or so Russian soldiers in Syria.
Impeach again!
Only a matter of time my friend. Only a matter of time…
I’m afraid the resolve of the people is the only remaining means for a remedy. Will we allow 42% of Americans to impose their will on this nation in November, or will we make a stand? The only way out of this is if we see the biggest voter turnout in history, and then maybe…
While there is a majority of cowards and sycophants in the Senate, impeachment is worthless.
@KesselRunner606 it would be good if they had an Annonimos, Voting just to see what the real deal with the Repubs would have been since there going into a new Election year
Steve Bannon, Trump’s ex chief political strategist, once said proudly: “I am a Leninist.” Bannon said that Lenin wanted to destroy the Russian state (which was true) and that he had the same goals for Amerca. “I want to bring everything crashing down and destroy all of today’s establishment” Bannon said.
From the look of Trump’s time in White House, Bannon installed a bevy of Leninist political tactics that could have come straight from the Bolshevik leader’s playbook.
Two days after Lenin seized power in Russia a century ago, he began an assault on the free press – and his successors in the USSR did not let up for the next 70 years. Putin is literally following in Lenin’s footsteps.
Three days after Trump’s inauguration Bannon told the NYT: “The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen … I want you to quote this. “The media here is the opposition party.” This was the beginning of Trump’s war on the free press, which is a must for any demagogue.
Since information from the press can undermine a dictator’s spell over his cultists, they will often attack and demonized the free press. They will usually claim that the media can’t be trusted. They have even called out for violence against news outlets that oppose them, claiming that the press is part of a deep state conspiracy against them, or claiming that leading newspapers were simply personally out to get him. No dictator can survive in a country that has a free press. This fact was no lost on Lenin, and neither is that fact lost on Trump. The truth has been, and will always be, Trump’s nemesis
Bannon helped to creat the hate-filled language of alt-right politics, which is decidedly Leninist in tone. Above all, Lenin needed to invent enemies he had to be seen to defeat. In post- revolutionary Russia it was the kulaks – richer farmers who were “sucking the blood” of poorer peasants, bankers who were war profiteering, the “elite” (a word Lenin used frequently) who treated the majority with contempt. He despised so-called “experts” who claimed a monopoly of knowledge. He often said that a worker with five days’ training could run a government department. He scapegoated opponents and labelled them “enemies of the people”.
Lenin abolished the existing legal system and started afresh. Within a few weeks his regime closed down the first freely elected parliament in Russia’s history – and the Soviets never allowed another one. It would be wrong to assume that the next step for Trump is the abolition of Congress, or the construction of labour camps. But the unprecedented war by tweet between the administration and the judiciary over the president’s executive order on immigration has real echoes of Bannon’s revolutionary hero…
Lenin would very likely have identified 2017 as a revolutionary moment. He matters today not because of his flawed and bloody answers, but because he was asking questions similar to those we are asking today. In his quest for power, Lenin promised people anything and everything. He offered simple solutions to complex issues. He lied unashamedly. He justified himself on the basis that winning meant everything; the ends justified the means. Lenin was the godfather of post-truth politics. Powerful people have learned depressing lessons from him.
David J : It’s time to look at the big picture now. Not that you’re, “wrong,” in any way. Not that any of that was, “not,” well said and eloquently put. Quite the opposite. You demonstrate a detailed grasp of the background of these events, which lead us into the fall of the Republic. However, the issue at hand is no longer any individual, or their role in this soft coup. We have stop assisting the Dictatorship, by pretending that we don’t already know that the coming, “elections,” are already rigged. We are buying them precious time, to consolidate this Monarchy, instead of at least owning the facts. Facts like, the Florida election computers being hacked, the GOP admitting that this was true, and complete radio silence on that, ever since. Facts like, anyone who even wanted to discuss any aspect of that story were threatened with instant jailing, under terror legislation. Facts like, Trump announcing his, “campaign,” from Florida, about a month later. Facts like, people lose their government jobs for even bringing up Russia in Trump’s presence. By now, Russia is probably inside all of the key states voting tech, if not all of America’s?
It is a fact that, should Trump lose his seat, and thereby his protected presidential status, he will be indicted on countless crimes, as will the rest of his family, and they will in turn, save themselves (or shorten their sentences) by, “ratting out,” everyone from Bill Barr down to Devin Nunes, resulting in half of the GOP and the entire administration being under indictment, and probably all of them going to jail. Think about that? And then think about just how easy it is to rig elections from the inside? With Russia’s help?
The plain fact is, there is no constitutional, lawful or system-based remedy for a Dictatorship. There is only Revolution. I can understand people not wanting to risk that. And, I get why it’s comforting to imagine that an, “election,” could, in some way, change all of that. But, it’s simply NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. The very least people can do now, is stop with the denial. At least stop pretending that we will even be allowed to, “vote,” out our dictatorship? At least, by being real, we can drop the pretence which is only buying the government time to consolidate?
After all, the Ukrainians unseated their Dictatorship, without any weapons or force. They simply filled the streets and stopped the country, until he fled back to Moscow. So we know that Revolution works, and can be done? . . .
The good thing is the MSM have destroyed their own reputation & folks have alternatives to MSDNC and the like. The ones who want to silence the press are the libs that want any conservative views silenced.
Barr, let’s do a Ukrainian investigation based on Giuliani’s info. Ya know the guy Trump no longer seems to know.
David V : Let’s do a Ukrainian Style Revolution instead? They forced their Putin Puppet to flee back to Moscow, simply by halting the country and filling the streets. And they had no weapons. That was only a decade or so ago? We have to stop acting like the coming, “elections,” are not ALREADY RIGGED. Not just because Trump’s unseating would lead to him and his whole family being indicted on multiple offences, going to jail, and ratting out everyone from Bill Barr down to Devin Nunes, who would also, ALL go to jail. But, because the GOP even ADMITTED that Russia got inside Florida’s election computers, and have threatened everyone with instant jailing if they even MENTION that fact again, under anti-terror legislation. And, that was not long before Trump announced his election campaign, from, you guessed it, that, “must win,” 12 electoral college votes carrying seat of Florida. How many other KEY States must Russia be inside, by now? Your government has just SHOWN you that they will fix a trial, ffs??? Whether you come to love your monarchy or hate them, we have to be real, instead of buying them time to consolidate their Dictatorship, by pretending that these FAKE elections will be anything more than a data gathering exercise, helping them to choose their next targets . . . The Republic was on life support, since 2016. The unplugged it at the Impeachment sham. It’s dead, over, finished. The GOP have decided, since Trump’s survival and theirs mean the same thing, that they are NOT going to go to jail, and suffer history’s hate. We should not be, “surprised,” but we DON’T have to HELP them either. If no one rises up, Trump will, “win,” the 2020 elections, because he ALREADY HAS . . . ✌️👍
Its better than dems paying Russian disinformation via a british agent. That crap helped Russia so much, but maybe thats dems plan. Running Putins scare campaign a long Putin, screaming Russia Russia Russia. Its just pathetic. So why not from Rudi? If dems could do it with Russian information?
CORRUPTION!
This is just the whatabout ‘hillary emails’ distraction, now it’s just Biden.
Where’s ethical and principled former Republican FBI Director James Comey? We need him now…
I agree,Barr is not working for Americans,and needs to go as well.Im not even sure he knows American Laws !
Oh, he knows the law alright. But, like Trump and the Republican Party, he just doesn’t care.
The answer is democracy is dead and the USA is now a Fascist country. Enjoy.
Barr is simply one of Trump’s henchmen. I can’t wait to see them all face their own personal “Nuremberg”
Crooked anti Americans, the whole of the Trump administration. Putin runs ’em all.
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@James Dunn
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2019 Year of the boomerang 2020 justice is coming -wwg1wga
Call me crazy but didn’t Nixon face impeachment for wanting the DOJ to go after his political enemies?.
They couldn’t get Hillary locked up so on to the next waste of time.
Now they want evidence?
How convenient……..
First rule of tyranny: Make the illegal legal.
Corruption corruption next your arrested !be careful your all living in a dictatorship !vote for peace and love and stop living in fear!remove the evil.
Barr has turned the DOJ into the Department of Fake News.