House Democrats are zeroing in on a framework for their impeachment case against President Trump that will center on a simple “abuse of power” narrative involving the president's actions regarding Ukraine, multiple people familiar with the deliberations tell NBC News. Aired on 10/21/19.
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House Democrats Zero In On 'Abuse Of Power' Impeachment Focus | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC
Most corrupt President in history plus a traitor and owned by Russia.
Chris H Go troll somewhere else.
Trump is not a “president” please leave that title out.
Annie Yes… all he is… is the occupier of the White House.
what treaty (that trumps never heard of) will the U.S. cancel after a phone call with a hostile foreign leader this week?
GreensOplenty,
That is quite the chilling thought, friend.
Perhaps it’s time to remove the phones from the Oval Office.
Replace them with a pinball machine, a popcorn maker, an ice cream/ soda fountain & a big screen TV, with episodes of, “The Apprentice,” running endlessly.
These would distract UnoWho better than a room of butterflies, all toward saving Democracy in the USA and preserving Mother Earth.
will putin Get More Out Of trump Before Trump Is Dragged Out Of Office ? :/
That’s what he’s working on and Trump is delivering.
There’s always a Plan B.
Yes why can’t they get him out
Pertinent question.
Mark my words…he will run to Putin afterwards to put up properties, but Putin will be done using him so….
they need to send up three Articles of Impeachment
Honestly it more than three. They have emoluments, obstruction, abuse of power the 25th amendment and treason
not true
@Annie ,
You are on the right track, friend.
The emoluments violations, the obstructions of Justice/Congress & the abuse of power are enough.
The Treason part is sketchy, so it is best not to be pursued.
I believe that you will find that the 25th Amendment, is not (yet) part of this Impeachment. If it were applied, there would be no need for a formal Impeachment or perhaps to proceed further.
Here is Section Four, of the 25th Amendment.
I hope that you find it helpful:
“Section 4.
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“Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.
Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session.
If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.”
@D Yet Piglousi won’t kick it to the floor for a vote?
Could it be that all the testimony gathered so far by lying Schitff contradicts their narrative?
Or maybe they know that the vote will fail and then they would have nothing to keep you watching MSNBC…
God knows big pharmacy would quickly cut the pay of these partisan hacks if that happened.
One article, done right, will do the job.
brian woodward This is a troll…..
@McKittrick Hyatt yes, he is. Clinton, whose indiscretion was so much less than donnie’s flagrant lawlessness, was impeached on the lies he told to save face. donnie only tells the truth purely by accident.
Angry Bushnell Well… the trolls are getting desperate, They are blabbering nonsense…. the same stuff all the time now…..making the same noise and yelling the same names, falling back on the tired old accusations.
Oh the Russian bots will be out in force to post good things about comrade Donnie .. LMAO !
@Vance Watley That would be all the deranged liberals 😉
@Chris H Facts? A trumpturd knows not of these things.
@Jonathan Hiatt Neither do liberals apparently. Rather both see the same facts but interpret them completely differently.
Trump tied his own noose .
Indeed. It’s that absurdly long, red tie he wears all the time, and he has never been clever enough to realize it.
@Scion of Madnessugh I know he is so sloppy and badly dressed its embarrassing. Like a used car salesman; big red tie, big penguinesque suit, big fantastic wig.
Not really though
I LOVE TO SEE Donald Trump remove from the White House within the impeachment.
If republicans weren’t ALL as corrupt as trump that might happen. Moscow Mitch won’t let his fellow russian agent get removed.
@Jamie H Russia pays the Democrats. Read Steve Hilton for proof, you liar.
@brian woodward Steve Hilton. Conspiracy Theorist. HAHAHAHAHA!!!
He should have been impeached a longtime ago. The most unfit for office president ever. This is the best the Republicans can do?
I actually forgot what i wanted to say bout this president bcause of your pic.he wasnt important anyways.
@Kay Luv
You seem to forget. It was what the *DEMOCRATS* were offering that got Trump into office.
Don’t blame this garbage on republicans…
Is it just a simple matter of projection and a lack of responsibility that has you blaming republicans?
@Pha Q it was racism that got him in office that I did not forget. Try again.
@Kay Luv I’m new to the racism angle. Could you please tell me how racism got him into office?
I hope we can chat sometime?
Just lock him up and through away the key already.
@brian woodward Trump lies. Everyday.
Shlisa, it would work better to THROW the key away, or better yet, flush it down a toilet.
@Bull Durham Too bad _HE_ wouldn’t fit down the toilet.
Well can only hope for the children’s sake that he is removed before he gets the country covered in radioactive dust. because he is just that braindead!
brian woodward Just you and your family.
brian woodward …. This troll is all over the place tonight. He’s running scared
Trump is the greatest president we’ve ever had. Let’s stop being masochistic. Instead we should help him to rid our country of the globalist deep sate and the warmongers like Clinton. MAGA – KAG – CSIC
Please, everyone, stop calling him president, because he isn’t.
@Lily Zavala: The voting machine was only one of 36 patents she was awarded by China.
He is our President until his term expires in January 2O25 🙂
Ro Ni but he is…
@Ro Ni winning the popular vote won’t even get you a venti latte at Starbucks… we know Hillary Loser Clinton ran up the score in shithole California and New York City 🙂
Media has the responsibility to post how the House and Senate votes on impeachment. We want to know their conscience. Show me.
We already know how GOP Senate is going to vote.
@Annie NO, they will agree to impeachment when the facts of his crimes are outlined for the public to voew!
They hv to vote him out as they swore to uphold the constitution n they work fr the people of United States of America… that’s why. There’s a lot in Senate that don’t like him.
@Kathleen Dunlap Have you bothered to think about who will step into his place ” *if* ” the impeachment was successful?
He’s not the president.
He’s a criminal.
Why choose? – Donald Trump
Alonzo you are high on MSNBC garbage. I just dropped in to see what the amoebas are being fed here at MSNBC. Alonzo – obviously you are an amoeba. I highly suggest that you listen to Dan Bongino right here on YouTube. In other words take the red pill.
@David Rodgers regardless of what you spout out of your pie hole your president is a criminal who will be impeached.
GET OVER IT.
This feels like it’s taking an eternity. I can’t take it anymore.
We’ve waited 3 years, this initial inquiry will only take a few months before more public hearings take place. Hang in there.
D W Patience! Is the key Nancy, is letting trump and his cronies, hang themselves.
D.W. hang in there. We don’t give up…we don’t give in.
Us real Americans will stand with you!
🇺🇸🌼👍🌼🇺🇸
Princess Moyer not gonna happen. Too much division, senate won’t do it.
The best part is he won’t have a phone while he’s in prison for the rest of his life…..
OH YES, THEY WOULD PROB. SEND HIM TO THE COUNTRY CLUB OF PRISONS WHERE HIGH RANKING MOFIA MEMBERS GO, EVERY PRISON HAS SPECIAL QUARTERS, HE WILL FIND OTHERS WHO BELIEVERS LIKE THE IDIOTS WHO THINK IS THE CHOSEN ONE.
@carolyn boyd NO, that won’t happen. But he will lose everything he’s stolen and his name will go down as a pile of 💩 , the trump as in a big dump!
@Kathleen Dunlap Obummer 💩 supports blackface Trudeau … And you think Trump is garbage? 😂🤣👌
Is this the best Republicans can do? Hey fat Nixon, respect our constitution!
😂
Don’t blame this mess on republicans. Trump is in office because of what the *DEMOCRATS* had to offer!
That’s like shooting yourself in the foot, then blaming the gun!
Oh wait. That is exactly what you socialist lefties do…..
@Pha Q – Huh? You seriously blaming Democrats for the low quality of GOP candidates and the fact that half the country are extremely gullible, uneducated, racist, immoral, or all of those things? Seems a bit unreasonable.
@Jonny Sevent You know Trump *was* a democrat not to long ago too… Need I say more? Of course I do.
Hillary attacking the one democratic candidate that threatens her influence over her party, does that seem reasonable?
How about Schitff telling us he has irrefutable evidence that Trump colluded with the Russian, is on tape attempting to find nudes of Trump, tells us bold faced lies in the highest court of the land, and you think I’m being unreasonable when Pelosi kicks this charade of an impeachment inquiry over to Schitff?
If you want to remain blind to the farce being played out in our government, that’s fine. But you have no leg to stand on saying I’m a bit, unreasonable.
after being impeached and removed, he should be prosecuted for treason
How?
When Trump is out of office, SDNY will be charging him and his company with tax evasion.
He and his henchmen need to be detained and kept from Russian contact for national security reasons, seriously…
@McKittrick Hyatt Most don’t understand that we haven’t been in an official war since 1942. Every conflict since has been labeled as “authorization of military force”.
Hope Constance I know…. and people here in the comments tend to get a little hot when they hear that……
Please give the public more credit: Trump needs to be held accountable for all his crimes while in office
randie vietti which ones?
He is not a president like Hillary said he is Putin puppet.
Mitchelli Williams how so?
@Ohtha_ Irony He got it twisted.
He is a president, not like Hillary the Putin puppet.
@Pha Q you’re a puppet!
He is doing everything Putin has been trying to get done. NATO Syria getting back into the g7