Now that impeachment has passed the House, it may not go immediately to the Senate. Barbara McQuade explains how and why Speaker Nancy Pelosi might do that. Aired on 12/18/19.
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How And Why Pelosi May Not Send Impeachment To The Senate Just Yet | The 11th Hour | MSNBC
This impeachment should drag out as long as possible. The longer it lasts the worst it looks for tRump & I’d say “Impeach him again & again until he’s removed from office & imprisoned.”
your right lets drag it out another 320 days and we can have another election. Great move.
Reagan Cognata you mean like democracy? I don’t think democrats are into that
good point
@M Murph Never say never. They said he’d never get elected & he did, then they flipped a sh*t. Don’t make the same mistake.
Wparker6804 This is a 💯 partisan fight. Any republicans that would vote for it are finished. It was the same way for democrats in the House. Romney is done anyway so he could do something stupid. I don’t believe it will be a fair trial in the first place
Brilliant move by Pelosi if she delays for those witnesses.
@Thumb Print you make no sense you say call all witnesses but this whistle blower isn’t needed. Just like a Democrat allways trying to be shady. I bet you this I bet Trump remains president! Lol😂😂😂😂😂😂♥️😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😁
@Daniel Perez First off there was never a bribe the money was sent. Now if your upset about this call u must be out raged that Hillary sold Russians a percentage of our uranium but that’s no big deal right even though it’s used in nuclear BOMBS for God’s sake! Democrats have become the world’s sore losers!
The Clintons sold Uranium to Ukraine. End of story. Trumps innocent.
@Robin Weathers debunked b.s. you’re spewing still trying to pass that off as real HA HAHA HAHA HAHA
@Robin Weathers dude look it up stop spreading disinformation it’s been debunked for quite a while now HA HAHA but you already knew that I bet HA HAHA HAHA HAHA HAHA HAHA HAHA
Thank you, Madame Speaker Pelosi, for assuring all people are held accountable for their actions…
Claudy TheArtist
Great move by Pelosi… Trump remains in power.. w/o the republican senators lifting a finger
She’s as corrupt as they come, as are most politicians in both parties. Getting rid of the annoying orange is nowhere NEAR progress to cleaning up the filth–of which she is a part of!!!
Makes sense. I wonder about Pense. He was quite clearly in on this very early on. Perhaps the key is right there…
The key is right where, stupid? You don’t have 20 Republican votes. None of the so-called witnesses had any proof, let alone evidence, and over half the country knows this.
Tom Biship Roger that
@bax 60 Do we have clearance, Clarence?
@Richard Berriman You must be one of those dreamers demorats QUIT talking about!
@Robin Weathers 🤣 my fave prez is Teddy Roosevelt. I especially liked his quote: If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow. 😆
Nice clap-back, nice impeachment move, nice grandma prayers…and stilettos.
M M
Great move by Pelosi… Trump remains in power.. w/o the republican senators lifting a finger
@Alpha 119 Nice move by Pelosi- trump remains impeached without the benefit of a Republican Senate acquiring him !
@Alpha 119 Trump was probably going to remain in power anyways because the senate is so stacked against the democrats. They need to find ways to force key witnesses to testify, so that they have access to as much damning evidence as possible before the trial starts. Support for impeachment, in general, has risen over the past few months, although recently it has been waning. They need to sway the trump loyalists with something blatant, otherwise, republicans will have no real incentive to support impeachment. It was a very smart move, and probably their only shot at winning.
Eating my popcorn and watching from Canada
Begin impeaching Pence, and get some more court rulings to reveal documents showing the corruption and bribery evidence.
Tom Biship false. Get your facts straight
@Gregarious HelleatiousStart with Putin and Russia!!!!
You would just love to get rid of trumps entire administration and put pelosi in the whitehouse wouldn’t you? Screw the election right?
IMPEACH DEMON RAT PARTY FOR TREASON PUTIN LED DEMON RATS DOING WHAT RUSSIA WANTED DISRUPTION WAKE UP STOP HELPING OUR ENEMY
Pointless though as Moscow Mitch won’t allow witnesses or evidence in his trial
Then let the articles sit on Nancy’s desk. That’ll be enough o get Trump to self immolate
@Graham Wade #indeed
ever seen scared snowflakes? lol TRUMP 2020
Graham Wade bingo
great move to stall and make Donnie sweat it out now
@Wparker6804 strategy. Lol so is this a strategic impeachment based on party lines or is the impeachment for the betterment of the country and the Constitution? Which one?
@dennis wolff asthma quid pro china joe and cowboy pervert slick willy
Joseph Kasten DRAFT DODGER DONALD JOHN TRUMP IMPEACHED SHITSTAIN
Tom B .………….. You know what happens to Fascists ? Inglourious ends . Keep wearing that red hat .
@Wparker6804 she needs 67 Senate votes Einstein. That won’t happen, and it definitely won’t happen when the House turns red and she’s out of a job.
According to the Republicans the following would be ok.
Biden goes to Angela Merkel and says: ” Hey, Angela, investigate Deutsche Bank and publish Trump’s tax returns and all the money laundering. You dont need to punish the bank just bring up the infos. Best time for publishing would be August 2020.”
Angela answers: “No, I wont interfere in the American election!”
Joe: ” If you dont do that, we let Trump win a second term.”
Angela: ” Oh no, please, dont. ……..”
Democrats will let Trump get a second term now that’s funny. He’s already gonna win BIGLY! Lol😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😁
Democrats should make a list of all the things that they were denied in the House (witnesses, documents, etc) and insist that in the senate all these things will be produced and all facts will be revealed and discussed in length and that no distractions are allowed from the topic. This is the most severe and serious moment in a democracy when a sitting president is impeached, the trial should be thorough and complete and focused on the facts.
THEY WERE DENIED BE CAUSE TRUMP LIKE MOST TRUE AMERICANS WE SEEN THROUGH THIS PUTIN LED CIRCUS AND WANTED NO PART OF IT AND WERE GLAD HE DIDNT
And add all that to the list Schitt denied the Republicans and then look at the law. Trump has executive privilege. Congress does not.
Trump released the phone conversation……
That’s direct evidence from the source…..
They voted pure partisan….
Demorats are going to loose a lot of seats in the Congress now….
Facts where are they? It’s all hearsay! Waste of money is what all this is! Just plain sore LOSERS!
@Robin Weathers CORRUPT sore losers.
Well… hopefully this puts some teeth back on this monster. Seems like a huge flaw in the Constitution that Senators can conduct a show trial in direct cahoots with POTUS lawyers, having publicly admitted that they won’t consider any evidence brought forward.
exactly.
Pelosi (Congress) will not allow the Senate to conduct a show trial. Their intentions are honorable and its hard to fight integrity when truth is on your side! I believe they will continue to take our Democracy seriously!!! Each one of these members has taken the same oath and are on board with the speaker in getting the truth to the American public.
RUSSIA VERY HAPPY WITH DISRUPTION FROM DEMON RATS AND WITCH HUNT #13 WAKE UP STOP BEING USED FOOLED BY COMMIE NEWS NUTS
Janine Grey Pelosi house was a show trial……
100% demorat
Wait for the taxes
Bull’s Eye!! With the Impeachment now in their pocket the House can put more pressure on the legal urgency to get the requested documents, hear more prominent witnesses, push investigations.
Moscow Mitch and his gang cannot serve their master. The courts will take Trump’s impeached status into account. I think that probably 2 months could help uncover, depose and publish. Way to go!!
hill billy the partial transcript, the patriot testimonies, and most of all the presidents own mouth is more than enough evidence for those with common sense. The release of blocked documents and the testimonies from the blocked witnesses would be for the benefit of the idiots that can’t or don’t want to know the truth.
hill billy, I think you are well aware that what Trump released was NOT the literal transcript, but a cleaned up version.
@Sally Vega did you not watch the video? The halfwit woman just admitted Trump isn’t guilty of anything ‘tied to laws’. In other words, Trump didn’t break the law. In other words, all of this rhetoric that Trump is acting as though he’s ‘above the law’ is complete b.s
@Peter Schotanus, ha Ha, legal urgency. If it was so urgent why didn’t Pelosi go to the courts and demand these documents and witnesses herself?
You fools don’t even realize Pelosi is flailing. She was bullied into pushing this nonsense ‘bribery’, ‘extortion’… urrhhh.. urrhhh.. ‘abuse of power’ impeachment by left wing extremists, and now she’s watching her entire decades long political career get smashed to pieces. It’s over.
Hold those Articles like [they] held off the Supreme Court justice vote.
Let [them] go ahead and re-elect an impeached President unto a potentially Democratic majority Senate.
Do it, Nancy—do it!
YOUR COUPLE CANS SHORT OF A SIX PACK
@eric campbell ||Please tell the class about my couple cans short of a six pack.
Key word is potentially! Or I pray God potentially 😇
I will tell you about a couple of cans short of a six-pack. How could you think Nancy pelosi has you or us in our best interest what has this woman done besides get richer. Tell me what has she done for you for you to sing her praises. Go ahead I will wait?
Pelosi and the representatives in Congress are on a mission – to seek the truth! Perhaps these compromised Senators will be relieved to have their shackles unchained – or NOT.
RNC raises over $20.5 million dollars in November.
Plus thousands of new donors
YES THANKS PUTIN LED DEMON RATS IMPEACHMENT JUST GOT TRUMP 2020 DEMON RATS SO STUPID TO HELP PUTIN WITH DISRUPTION
Here, here and Dilly, dilly
Warren wanted to be VP of sanders..go for it..but DNC will do the trick for Biden
@Ling li Another brilliant post from a Demonrat. You’re so stupid, I’m not even curious what you really meant.
He who hides evidence and gets witnesses to not testify is hiding something. innocent people don’t hide
I love her. God, protect her and make her our President!
Amen!
She knows what she’s doing.
It’s Pelosi vs Grimm Reaper-Mitch. The clash of the titans. Let’s see how this one ends.