Rachel Maddow looks at how the Trump impeachment inquiry, with its narrow focus on Donald Trump's quid pro quo with Ukraine, is exposing other scandals, including Rick Perry using the opportunity of the Ukrainian inauguration to advocate energy deals for his political donors. Aired on 11/18/19.
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Impeachment Spawns New Scandals Despite Democrats' Narrow Focus | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
This is getting to be such a mess its sad
@Daniel Jr Actually a mess since that fool left his wife in the car and walked into the white house.
Trump Derangement Syndrome level is OFF THE CHARTS!! Hahahahahahahahahahaaaa LOOOOOSERS!!
Kathleen Lackman Very said indeed. This is the great nation in the world, even the healthiest person can get flu, it’s just the cure isn’t willing to do its job.
No Name seems some of the government positions are for sale. In ancient China lower rank post can be bought, thousands years later the great nation on earth rolled back all the way to monarchy China.
A swamp perhaps???
Thank god the dems finally found their balls
@U OL Yeah, Dems never learn. It’s frustrating to say the least.
@Turkay Johnson Because not all Congress Personnel are male.
I think it was worth the wait .They gave him enough time to use all the rope needed to hang himself. Grandma Nancy knows what she is doing.
No kidding, right?
Now if the Congressional Republicans can find theirs (they are in Trump’s nightstand) and stand up to this corrupt president we could see justice served.
I’m still wondering how on earth Trump expected all of this to turn out…just explaining it is like Trump blatantly two-timed Russia and Ukraine at once.
Let me see . PRESIDENT IN 2020, REPUBICAN SENATE, CONGRESS. DEMOCRATS DISGRACED OUT OF VWASHINGTON..MORON LMAO
He’s been blocking and covering up for almost 3 years now!
@Clayton Gunter I know ADAM SCFIFF IS A SNAKE .. DOJ REPORT SOON NOT LOOKING GOOD FOR THE RESISTANCE.
Why do you think trump is pointing the finger at the Bidens? It’s to distract you from their own corruption.
@Jacob Craven..trump, kept 35 million, of the money that he was suppose to send to ukraine… so where is that 35 million.?
Why did’nt that crook send Ukraine All of the money.? Any answers, DUMPSTERS.???
@Rod Allen heard that crap from Hannity…. He even says “buckle up” heaps….
Old Rupert has done a good job on you
( R. Murdoch…. Aussie owner of Fox)
That and to cost Joe political support.
Because deep down, this dumb nut, and his corrupt flunkies, still has President Obama on their see through brains.
Trump and the repubnuts are going after the bidens , thinking if they find something on the bidens, they will get something on PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA.
When will these Fools let it go.
The turds are rising from the swamp! Rick Perry = 🤡👟🤡👟🤡👟👈😲👉💦💩💨🥂💥🔥
Blatant corruption! You make us sick Trump!
Rod Allen you’re just sad
@Rod Allen A good comedian you are not.
And why is that? No investigation has found any wrongdoing by the Bidens…….other than Faux news! On the other hand 6 of Trumps closest associates are in jail, he has alienated all your one time allies, he’s attacked American heroes on a daily basis, the list is endless. Best of all, lets not forget Individual #1……you, my friend, are a shill and a sucker, but don’t worry because theres one born every minute!
“Rick Perry resigned to spend more time with his … lawyers?”
Oh Rachel, never change!
@Sean D Rest… seriously 🤔 All he does is rest. He rants on Twitter, shovels fast food down his gullet, and watches FOX News. Wish I could be that “busy”.
Called it out! LOL
@Sean D Doesn’t look like the clown’s “resting”. I hope he never sleeps again.
@Carl A I’m not so sure. Out there are close to 50% of the American population who, having seen exactly what Trump was, said yes he’s our man. Do you see any sea change? Because a second term Trump with four years of Senate stonewalling is going to make bin Salman, Bolsinaro, Duterte look like Mary Poppins.
@Dave Box Hi Dave, I have hope in the essential good of most people and during the intervening time that true patriotism will win out and enough Senators will look to the long term. If not we are, as a nation, doomed for very hard times and our country will be forever altered for the worse as evil will outweigh goodness.
So while Trump, Perry and Rudy were busy running our American Ambassador out of Ukraine, and trying to get Mr. Zelensky to fabricate a false conspiracy on the Bidens, they were busy making secret deals in Ukraine worth billions for themselves and their friends. This is typical of Trump and his goons. They constantly accuse others of doing exactly what they themselves are doing. In fact, if you ever want to know what they’re up to, just pay attention to what they’re accusing others of doing. TREACHERY!!!
Yep… That about sums it up
You’ve called it! totally right! In psychology they call this projection. I don’t know why more people aren’t aware of this common occurrence
Republicans have been doing this for years
Don’t forget to add Nunes to that also.
Now we need to hear more about Mike Flynn’s side dealings with the Saudi’s about building nuclear power plants for one of Trump’s buddies. 100% true, by the way.
History will show that the entire Republikkkan Party betrayed their oath of office, and sold us out to Russia.
@Jeremy Backup very interesting hypothesis….
A nescessary evil… ?
I’m gunna think about that.
@somastic69
There’s no one that just watches Dr. Rachael Maddow, Rhodes scholar and magna Stanford graduate. Some watch dropout Hannity, who is so” fair and balanced ” he goes to Trump rallies with him and hugs him onstage.
@Evelyn Brown Dr Maddow, who misled you about Russia for 3 years. Hannity who was right about trump Russia from day 1. Tell me who is smarter.
From what I see by talking to Maddow watchers, she kept going on about Russia like a maniac, and her fans bought it. To this day all her fans still believe that Trump is Putin’s agent, or at the very least he colluded. What’s funny is that all Maddow fans have different ideas on why Trump is still guilty despite Mueller releasing his report.
and i thought China was corrupt
@Roudter just execute the GOP problem solved.
I thought African leaders are after hearing from the mouth of Presi. D T.
It is. It’s possible for more than one country to be corrupt.
😂😂😂 Shane you poor soul. America has always been corrupt. How do you think they’ve managed to become the richest nation on earth? Through honest pure hard work? 😂😂😂😂 They’ve been even more corrupt than China, Russia, Africa. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. They’ve just been very good at hiding it.
We arent there yet. I think.
The Rep’s want the world to think that all this corruption is a lot of “coincidences”…corruption is busting through the seams!!
Don’t throw the blame on just the “Rep’s. There is really no such thing as an honest politician. Unfortunately our entire government has become a world wide joke. The only reason any other country pretends to be our allies is to get money from us. Unfortunately the FAKE NEWS media feeds the problem. President Trump is trying to make this country great again. Unfortunately he is up against a world where corruption is now the norm. Case in point, the “Homey (Schiff) the clown” show. Wow, the FAKE media are playing this one in a big way for all the world to see a one sided view
No that’s Clinton s trail of Dead that crossed their path
@Truth while I agree with your first point, the Republicans are the problem in this situation. They aren’t performing their Congressional duty to search for the truth behind all of this. Instead, they are defending the president, which is not their place. There is a difference between finding the truth and defending the president in this case. Their argument revolves around discrediting the credentials of witnesses and confusing the issues rather than asking questions about the calls or getting witnesses that were directly involved.
@Truth you are obviously too stupid & brainwashed, to even come in out of the rain.
Trump HIMSELF is so much more corrupt than ANY PRIOR US POLITICIAN EVER !!!
Trump makes Nixon look like a Saint. the only FAKE MEDIA, is Trump’s Twitter feed,
Barr’s public statements, & FOX Noise broadcasts.
USA exporting corruption to the world…
@Iain Herridge yes. Talk to Rudy to apply.
@Bev Sputler Yes, but it will take DECADES to undo what the republicans have done for our foreign policy with other countries. No one is gonna trust us anymore. Democrat or republican administration. Definitley not syria and the kurds.
Nah bro! Just a president and his corruptors. The US, your country, keeps the world afloat. Yup we know it costs you so so so much the loss of your precious loved ones, $ going to a defense-machine… home misses out. Humbly… i say thank you!… love you Rachel, thank you for your analysis, scholarship, Truth.
Seems like it is time for a new show/channel: The Daily Scandal ….
As long as they YELL ORANGE MAN BAD THEY WILL ALWAYS HAVE THOSE VIEWERS. ALL 6:OF THEM.
@Trumpian MAGA 2020 Dear MAGA-hatter. Just count the number of individual positive commenters on any of these Trump-negative channels and even You will come to a result which is greater than 6 (that would be handful for MAGA-hatters, the fingers and thumbs on both hands added up is usually an even dozen).
A more optimistic result could be gotten by assuming that only 5% of Hillarys voters (who won the popular vote in 2016 by the way), i.e. 65,853,514 would come to 3,292,675 viewers. Agent Orange, or Captain Bonespurs got 62,984,828 votes in 2016 but due to the obsolete election system he managed to win a majority of the electors votes. In Good Old England they used the term Rotten Boroughs which came into use in the 18th century; it meant a parliamentary borough with a tiny electorate, so small that voters were susceptible to control in a variety of ways, as it had declined in population and importance since its early days. A small group of voters could get a representative into the parliament while a bigger town got none at all.
@Robin Nilsson THIS SYSTEM WAS SET UP TO ENSURE ALL 50 STATES HAVE REPRESENTATIVS IN WASHINGTON FOR EVERY STATE. SET UP TO PREVENT RUN AWAY GOVERMENTS. BE NOTHING MORE THEN A AUTHORITARIAN COUNTRY. THE ELECTROAL COLLEGE BENEFITS DEMOCRATS. HILLARY DIDN’T CAMPAIGN IN SWING STATES, SHE BARELY CAMPAIGN AT ALL. SHE CALLED HALF THE COUNTRY BASKET OF DEPLORABLES,DID NOTHING TO HELP THE FOUR DEAD AMERICANS IN BENGAZI AMONG SOME. ,. THE PROCESS IS WHAT IT IS,DONALD TRUMP WON . ACCEPT THE ELECTION. THE SYSTEM ISHEAVILY IN DEMOCRATS FAVOR. DEMOCRATS ONLY HAVE TO WIN KEY BATTLE GROUND STATES. AGAIN SHE DIDNT CAMPAIGN IN SOME OF THESE STATES. A SYSTEM THAT ONCE BENEFITS THEM .SO DEMOCRATS WANT TO CHANGE IT. BUT YOU BUY INTO NARRATIVE IS OLD, OUTDATED AND ON AND ON. IF CONSTITUTION FALLS WE WILL BE ANOTHER FAILED SOCIETY AND THIRD WORLD COUNTRY. MEDIA ISN’T PUSHING OBJECTIVE JOURNALISM ANYMORE..ITS ALL PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISTS. GOD BLESS
@Trumpian MAGA 2020 If you look really carefully at your keyboard there should be a ket labeled ‘Caps Lock’. It is a toggle switch which means that it flips between two states, Caps locked vs Caps not locked, when you press it. When the keyboard is in Caps Lock mode there is usually a little light on the keyboard to indicate this.
Another sure sign of Caps Lock mode is that all letters you type show up as upper case (BIG LETTERS). Typing with all upper case is generally interpreted as “screaming with text” and it normally results in readers not taking you seriously, most readers just get bored or irritated and stop reading. Typing with all upper case usually, right or wrong, means that the typist has a low intelligence or severe lack of education. Please consider this in your further typing if you want people to take you seriously, which I assume you do. Remember to disengage Caps Lock, the equivalent when driving your car would be to forget the handbrake and choke when driving away ….
Rick Perry: Not The Sharpest Tool In The Shed!
But certainly a tool.
This is the most, Criminally infested Administration ever in the U.S.A ! 😰
@Billy Bob blow me
I don’t think that the voters for Trump envisioned this when Trump said that he was going to “drain the swamp”. Those of us who did not vote for Trump knew what was coming though.
I am still astounded by Barr claiming this administration was hard done by. Really ?
@lance hokanson omg go back and listen to the whole Muller testimony there was no collusion there was no obstruction because there was no crime there can be no crime if there was no colussion
@Antony Stringfellow that’s because the Obama administration wasn’t full of corrupt, traitorous, lying, deplorable, monsters set on destroying the Constitution.
@Isabelle Mavendorf O the days when wearing a tan suit was a big scandal!
@Andrew Borsh Stone trial says there was collusion, bright light of truth.
Crack Perry is up to his neck in this. The hypocrisy and corruption of repubs knows no bounds.
The house should send someone with top secret clearance to check the secret server what else Trump has to hide.
@Bernadette Smith sadly, most MSM lies by omission, but FAUX opinion people are just fawning liars for their ‘dear leader’. Why don’t they see this is headed towards fascism?
It has a code word lock.
Republican Congressman James Comer said Congress should investigate the secret server where Donald Trump’s call with Ukrainian president was stored
‘I think that is a question that the Trump administration needs to answer^
Do we think the CIA or nsa has not already done so. It’s their server, that is why the security services are so certain trump is bad news.
Trump deciding that Pence must not attend the inauguration made it clear to Zelensky that Trump is dead serious when it comes to extortion.
Trumpian MAGA 2020
As you don’t say in your lovely, compassionate post who you mean with “Braindead rotted piece of a HUMAN WASTE”, I guess that you mean either Trump or yourself.
I admire your honesty. But you really need to work on your grammar.
LoL… right ?!?!
This administration has been in a feeding frenzy for billionaires.