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
“I believed that I needed Yovanovitch out of the way. She was going to make the investigations difficult for everybody.”
– Rudy
that’s proof of corruption.
Lanny Davis – Registered agent for Dimitri Firtash
https://efile.fara.gov/docs/6230-Exhibit-AB-20140624-1.pdf . Bigggus how do you explain Lanny Davis getting $80,000 per month from Dmytro Firtash?
*“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
Prove the Democrats wrong then, let’s see a defense because I haven’t seen one yet.
@Eco Geek you can’t answer my question?
He’s innocent until proven guilty. And he’s about to be found innocent. Cheers from Toronto
No GOP defense just BS distractions. History will NOT remember these cowardly enablers well.
“We must act immediately”
I agree with the Articles!
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.
Funny how the gop says impeachment will divide the country. Trump is already doing that
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.
He was showing putin hommage.
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.
Da vid J: Their evidence will be under oath and probably be more damning than the Democrats version.
He’s got plenty of cult members willing to lie or take poison for him!
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
@Rainingツ Interesting theory.
I want the bear from ‘Annihilation’ to rip this guys face off. 😎
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.
They don’t have direct evidence??? He admitted to it himself!
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.
Democrats support LGBTQ…end of story.
Free market capitalism is starting to overtake the crony capitalism..company politics are dieing, power to the consumers/people is being enlightened
@thirdeyeshine I am confused. What makes us empowered as consumers?
This guy just sit there and spews the same exact lies him gram trump And mcconnell
It’s funny trump has all the power he needs to investigate yet he is uses Rudy Giuliani ..right
Don mcgahn, Mulvaney, and John Bolton must testify on Senate trail
How is Trump going to feel when he finds he can’t get residuals from his TV time in office?
I think he gets off on being on tv every day! good or bad he loves himself since no one else does.
Trump has no intention of ever leaving the office.
Trump would never use a Latin term. He can barely use English!!!!!!
Speak only facts
Not true trump pig Latin ! 😃
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.
He “sat through 14 hours”. Apparently, he didn’t pay attention to any of it.
Like a good republican puppet. Good boy!
Ari, I cannot watch these GOP’s anymore
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.
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.
Johnson’s performance during the hearings was obscene and now he comes on and lies shamelessly
The R’s will lie under oath ,nothing is below these crooks!
Why keep inviting people who ignore facts and tell lies. No fact, no speak.
Agreed. Giving these people a platform to spew propaganda is not being “fair”, it’s being used.
So we can hear the other side. It’s important to hear how they plan on defending trump. So we can fight their lies.
@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.
Congressman, with all due respect, you’re full of crap.
No respect is due. He certainly has none for the people who elected him, unless he told them he would be a crawling liar.