Laurence Tribe tells Lawrence O’Donnell that during the Clinton impeachment trial, even the people who opposed Bill Clinton’s impeachment “thought that the country was important, the Constitution was important” and thought it was important to take the oath to be an impartial juror seriously. “No one in those days would have said, I’m not going to be impartial.” Aired on 12/19/19.
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Laurence Tribe On McConnell’s Vow Not To Be Impartial In Impeachment Trial | The Last Word | MSNBC
The GOP AND TRUMP’S SERVITUDE TO PUTIN AND RUSSIA WHAT THAT MEANS
FROM 2011
“the KGB mentality still thrives. Russian is run by former KGB officials and Kremlin-friendly oligarchs. They control industry, commerce, media, and banking, conduct covert operations at home and abroad, and operate their own prisons. They order telephone justice (tell judges their verdicts) and gather compromising material to intimidate opponents. If they do not directly order assassinations, they make sure that those who do are not caught. Outsiders do not know how the KGB state works. Insiders may be confused as well.
https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2011/Gregorykgbstate.html
“Russian is run by” – huh?
I agree. Just because the KGB name doesnt exist doesnt mean its KGB agents quit hating America. They Will forever hold a grudge against U.S.A because their beloved Soviet Union collapsed. They have never stopped scheming ways to destroy our democracy. But we won’t let them.
Trump knows and all is. Sr ate followers are played off by Russia. For America to become a russian state. Only a stupid person does not see that
Not good in the US !
The trial process will show how destroyed the democracy is at this moment
Ellen Salomonsen Thanks to the State media – CNN and MSNBC
@Sma 556 thanks to apathy by the Republicans. They’re going to cause a constitutional crisis.
@Scott Becker Brennan, Clapper and
Comey already did and they’re just waiting for the indictments.
Hey democunt. Trump will finally be exonerated. Your liberal tears will fall again. Hahaha haha
Doesn’t a statement that they will not be impartial constitute obstruction of justice. McConnell is a modern day Jesse Helms.
Chuck Pelosi’s Clear and Present Witch-hunt; not Trump Clear and Present Danger.
Is this 3 minute soundbite all the MSNBC youtube team wants to show us of this distinguished guest? Are the days numbered we get the full context of an interview or a discussion on MSNBC shows because the MSNBC youtube team thinks these bits and pieces are what people want? 😡
@Sma 556 so you’re a hypocrite?
It’s Trumps fault! He got Putin to hack into the MSNBC computers!
@Sma 556 Pelosi’s Clear and Present Impeachment of Trump Clear and Present Danger
@Warren Ash Hail to tRump – Putin’s chosen one! LOL
@Artemis Fowl NO – Привет из России.
America is over. What you realise about history when you’ve been around for a while is that everything is happening for the first and only time. Now we have arrived at a time when the elected officials of the oldest democracy are completely without principle, will support an obvious criminal about of base and simple political motives. That’s it. It’s over. America is over. Hundreds of thousands of Americans died less than 100 years ago, in living memory, to confront this kind of evil. Well, oops! They died in vain.
@Sma 556 Trumpism is the coup. Trump is defying the Constitution and McConnell is supporting the executive raping Congress of its power of oversight. You are so full of Kool aid your eyes are orange. If the FBI wanted to bring down Trump all they needed to do was make the announcement that he was also under investigation. You don’t sit back and watch your enemy take a hill then go to battle. Republicans killed congressional oversight of the executive. He can do whatever he wants and you think that there was a coup against him because fox said so. They lied.
A LOT OF US ARE GETTING OUR NEWS FROM YOUTUBE. MSNBC SHOULD PUT THE ENTIRE SHOW ON YOUTUBE. ALSO THEY SHOULD BE AWARE THAT THE MADDOW SHOW IS BEING SABOTAGE WHERE THE AUDIO IS OUT OF SYNC AND THERE ARE TRUMP TWEETS INSERTED DURING RACHEL’S SHOW. IT’S LIKE WE’RE LIVING IN RUSSIA TODAY
John Edward Pelosi’s Clear and Present Witch-hunt; not Trump Clear and Present Danger.
Welcome, comrade.
@Sma 556 OK Trumpist! Lets continue lock-step with orange pussygrabber bonespur mafia leader.
@Warren Ash Hail to tRump – Putin’s chosen one! LOL
John. Please get help for your condition.
The at best tenuous and guarded relationship between DjT and his “Rupublican” party is that between a predator and parasite that will end when one eats the other.
DjT only cares about maintaining his predation on individuals within our society and the “Rupublican” party only in preserving its parasitic policies against society.
@PackRat tRump inherited a good economy from Obama. He gets no credit for our booming economy. I’ll give him credit for not derailing it.
Remember when ,in an interview ,Trump was asked which Political party he would run as and he said ” Republican . Because they’re stupid !! ” 😀
Dear Trumpets:
No innocent person ever blocked evidence to prove his innocence.
Just sayin’
@Power corrupts – I never said “above the law” I have consistently said equal. The president is not a King, but neither are our elected officials in Congress collectively. The last time Congress arrested and detained a witness was in 1935. Since then, it has instead referred cases to the United States Department of Justice. In fact, the Senate acts as a checks and balance to the House, which is exactly why the impeachment articles need to now go to the Senate. Pelosi knows this is a weak case, which is why this impeachment went from “urgent” to her stalling.
@Joe Gionti Moscow Mitch and Leningrad Lindsey have bragged that they were going to be impartial – that their minds are already made up! Moscow Mitch wants no witnesses for the American public to witness. Pelosi knows what she’s doing, impeachment articles will head over to the Senate.
MCCONNELL, SHOULD NOT, I repeat, SHOULD NOT be allowed in any decision to impeach the chosen one. HE is corrupt, has dealings with Russian oligarchs, received money from them, his wife works for trump and also corrupt.He MUST RECUSED himself, CONGRESS must demand his recusal.He is a traitor, compromised corrupt.
Myriam Gapella Clapper, Brennan, and Comey spewing propaganda on CNN as innocent player in the Soft Coup of an duly elected president. Time to pay the Barr bill.
@Joe Gionti OK Trumpist!
@Sma 556 Toady Barr??!! The guy who jumped ahead to falsely proclaim tRump’s innocence before the Mueller Report came out? Toady Barr who most likely severed that friendship with Mueller for Putin’s chosen one?!?!! I don’t think so.
@Artemis Fowl Привет из России.
HMMMM…is it possible that everyone has forgotten that Clinton was a democrat? OF COURSE the republicans were happy to comply then! Durrrr….
Spoken like a true democunt.
What a choice to make. Loyalty to Christianity Today or loyalty to their cult leader.
@BreakTheWheel Now Привет из России.
…”And in the last days, there shall be a great falling away.” – God
@Artemis Fowl Привет из России.
@Artemis Fowl Biggest morons will be Clapper, Brennan, and Comey colluding with CNN to take down a duly elected president. you mus love banana republics.
@Artemis Fowl Nothing wrong with Hillary and the DNC using foreign sources to interfere with the election?
why hasn’t ALL the money been sent ???
These people are like wild goats without any restraint
Thank you Professor Tribe!!!
All of those that voted NO for impeachment MUST GO, GO GO!!!!!
They all should go. Reason: they are the people who ignored the truth.
PELOSI OUTWITS TRUMP’S CONGRESS WHORES! In the House, they stood up one by one spewing venomous absurdities, including comparing Trump to Jesus Christ and impeachment to Pearl Harbor! All in vain. In the Senate, they are gleefully preparing to declare the mock-trial a “case open, case closed, case dismissed”, all in one day perhaps. But no! They now have to wait, and whinge. Trump’s “unmatchable wisdom” bites the dust!
Trump impeached
Not until Articles of Impeachment have been delivered to the Senate.
And acquitted. Hahaha
If a Democratic president had done what Trump did — withhold military aid to a country at war with Russia in order to dig up dirt on a political rival — Republicans in Congress would have impeached in a New York minute.
Allan Burns so true.Just goes to show how corrupt and complicit the GOP is. I just wonder what Putin, Trumpanzee ‚s master, has on them…
How does one impeach a Mitch McConnell? He demonstrates obstruction of: legislation, governance, honesty, integrity, truth, justice… and it goes on and on.
https://youtu.be/LN7Z0H-12GY
Nancy witholding the Impeachment Articles is a stroke of Genius, let the pressure build on the immoral GOP and the lies of the Republican’s come home to roost. Impeachment can wait until the GOP wakes up to their constitutional duties and the fact that they are making themselves an unelectable minority!
Yeah, Pelosi should wait until the supreme court making decision on Congress subpoenas….