House GOP Leader Open To More Witnesses In Impeachment Trial | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

As the House prepares for a historic Trump impeachment vote, the Chairman of House GOP Study Committee and member of the Judiciary Committee, Rep. Mike Johnson joins “The Beat.” MSNBC Chief Correspondent Ari Melber presses the Congressman about potentially illegal requests to investigate U.S. candidates and fact-checks claims that Ukraine received all the money Trump froze. Aired on 12/16/19.
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House GOP Leader Open To More Witnesses In Impeachment Trial | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

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  1. “I believed that I needed Yovanovitch out of the way. She was going to make the investigations difficult for everybody.”

    – Rudy

    1. *“They are free to say that’s not an impeachable offense, but they are not free to say it didn’t happen, because the evidence that it happened is overwhelming,”* – Andrew Napolitano, on Trumps crimes of bribery and asking for campaign aide from a foreign national

    1. History wont remember this much at all. If articles are passed, the Senate will acquit on arrival. It just lowers what impeachment means is all.

  2. Trump does not care about corruption in Ukraine. He just wanted Zelinsky to announce he was doing an investigation into the Bidens and air it on his favorite fake news channel, CNN. This Republican is lying.

  3. If Trump did nothing wrong as he claims, then why is he blocking people from testifying, like Mulvaney, Bolton, and his White House counsel? If he did nothing wrong, then these people should be able to testify and prove that he did nothing wrong. The only logical conclusion is that he is guilty, and he knows that if these witnesses ever testified under oath, it would be his undoing. Trump knows that after seeing what happened to Manafort, Cohen and Stone, that no one else is going to risk going to prison for his crimes.

    1. Gheyre taking all this time to get all their stories matching so when the go lie under oath their stories will match so they might get away with it

  4. Such complete Bullsh!t from another corrupt GOP member. There is NO WAY any sane person can listen to 12 people testify under oath that Trump committed this crime, and claim “there is nothing there!”. No wonder so many people hate the congressional GOP. They are helping to destroy our country by supporting a blatant criminal in the WH.

  5. GOP knows that they can only hold on to power by turning this country into a banana Republican, authoritarian state. Demographics will be the end of them if they are not successful.

    1. Free market capitalism is starting to overtake the crony capitalism..company politics are dieing, power to the consumers/people is being enlightened

    1. But he told on himself. Why bring up a quid pro quo if that wasn’t what you’re doing? That’s like if you ask your kid who ate it?, And they say I didn’t eat the cookies. Who said anything about cookies? A quid pro quo shouldn’t even have been brought up, lest there was a cover up and spin story afoot.

    1. He gave Hunter a raise to $80,000 per month now? It was $50,000 per month quoted by GOP previously. Take the FULL Sondland you moron.

  6. This guy is SUCH a F*&^ing liar. He must be very good at yoga because he has twisted himself into one helluva pretzel. Can’t keep listening to his condescending tone.

    1. So we can hear the other side. It’s important to hear how they plan on defending trump. So we can fight their lies.

    2. @Mike Reseigh You can report on it while refuting it. Instead, they are allowed to go fairly unchallenged for the sake of getting them to come back in the future. Chuck Todd on Meet the Press, in particular, is doing a great deal of damage by trying to appear “neutral” and platforming people who have zero interest in engaging in good faith. Every day the media tries to pretend the current situation is run of the mill partisanship, is a day the public fails to recognize the fact that one of the two major political parties has decided that they would rather destroy the pillars of democracy than lose power in the face of changing demographics. This is no longer conservativism vs. liberalism, it is the GOP vs. legitimate democracy. I get that such a dire crisis may seem bad for business in the eyes of the mainstream media, but that is dangerously short-sighted. They will be exploited and used to spread misinformation and propaganda until they catch on.

    1. No respect is due. He certainly has none for the people who elected him, unless he told them he would be a crawling liar.

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