CNN's John Berman and Michael Smerconish react to Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) and Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) repeating the debunked 2016 conspiracy theory that Ukraine was involved in the 2016 election hacking.
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Republicans buying into Trump conspiracies to blunt impeachment
Kennedy should be arrested for obstruction of justice.
@apple pie yup keep believing in that right wing propagandist bullshit fucktard.
You should be arrested for being such a pathetic moron libtard demonicrat scum of the earth.
Does that he Republican Party have no shame
@The Memo democrats are the fascists banning guns and free speech.
There’s nothing bad about being white and loving your country. Trump: “I’m a proud nationalist.”🇺🇸
Repubs are no longer conservatives or christian. They are just like the dems. Vote them all out. Now.
No shame in exposing Democrats trying to stop us from getting answers. That’s for sure. You have no knowledge of what was checked into before – nobody does. Just a bunch of Democrats that say they did in 2016. And I believe most of those heads were fired and disgraced for bias actions. So let it unravel.
Obama was and is a putz.
“Who hacked into the Democrats servers?’
Kennedy: “I don’t know no one knows….”
Yes we do, it was the Russians!
Reagan would be turning in his grave!
The Tangerine Toilet Toad is a Russian agent!
Republicanism is the larval stage of FASCISM
@olobar5 you’re an idiot. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/fact-check-trump-s-false-claims-about-ukraine-dnc-server-n1089596
basher basher that is gold! I’ll be using that one!!!😁
Paul Romano so you have several Western intelligence agencies in the US and abroad, as well as the Steel Report which was initiated first by the GOP, who have all confirmed that Russia interfered with not only the US election and other elections in the West (Poland, Hungary, Brexit etc. etc) and you pick one Republican Ex-NSA tRump sympathiser who has a conspiracy theory about what happened, and you believe him. Is that called rigorous intellectual analysis in the GOP fairyland you inhabit? It’s like Climate Change, 11,000 scientists attest to it existing, but the Tangerines Toilet Toad says it doesn’t exist, and you believe him??!
All this republicans know wtf is going on the whole administration needs to be imprisonment also there leader point blank….
@1967 kID move to China you commie traitor.
@Team Colby is the way to go
They’ve been exposed from the very beginning and it hasn’t slowed them down.
All the republicans and trump the big dump baby are upset because they been exposed who needs a criminal in the white house all this individual should be held accountable for their dirty work….
Too low of an IQ to participate in Russian trolls chaos attempts on me. Nice try.
Ha ha. 17 intelligence dept said it was Russia “yea, but it could be Ukraine”. Trump is a danger to our democracy. He, GOP and his base want us to NOT believe anything but what Trump says.
@Let’s Talk yup keep pushing that right wing propagandist bullshit and projecting because that’s the Republicans or did you forget the new election in Carolina because Republicans got caught cheating.
Lay off the kool-aid its showing signs of leftardism in the things you say
dont believe Trump, instead believe the intelligence agencies setup by the status quo that have used their corruption and lies to control the masses for decades…. same intelligence agencies that told you about Saddam’s WMD’s, same agencies and media that told you Iraq and the ME was worth invading after 9/11, same agencies that lied about the Gulf of Tonkin , same agencies that failed to spot 9/11 even though they were warned even internally, same agencies that lose over a trillion at the Pentagon they cant account for… shall I go on?
The same web of swamp creatures that have passed incredibly anti-Constitutional laws like the Patriot Act and the Federal Reserve Act…
Trust THEM over Trump? lol… you are either completely insane or just oblivious to what these “intelligence” agencies do and who they actually work for… hint, is not you or your loved ones.
It was not Russia that hacked the DNC, it was Seth Rich.
@R W lefttardism? Weak..so weak. 🤦😆
@Erik Sarmiento dude 😂 you are such a dumbass.
John Kennedy is disgrace and I hope the Louisiana people to vote him out.
Drop him off at Shady Pines
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@David Moore How about you leave the library computer and head back to your trailer, you inbred racist clown? Your pet pigs need their daily loving.
These idiots are out of their minds. Rick Perry called Benedict Donald ‘the Chosen One’!
“Fascism will arrive draped in flag and carrying a cross” Sinclair Lewis
Trump was “Chosen” alright. Chosen by Putin. The best “Useless idiot” on earth.
Tony Tone then they can all drink Jim Jones’s kool aid. Laced with lots of cyanide. BASTARDS.
@Mr. Joshua Why is impeachment Bull Shale .Trump said with his own mouth (after he changed his story)I held up the check …………
@Sam Schocket because it’s all a big staged sham, and we are being played by both sides, here.
I love when this guy tries to make it both sides. 17 US intelligence agencies said it was Russia, this guy has the audacity to say it could be Ukraine.
Ukraine did try to influence the election. Its right in Robert Mueller’s Report in black and white and they did it for a very understandable reason. Trump doesn’t care about Ukraine. He said during the campaign that Obama was right not to send military aid to Ukraine. Hillary said she definitely would send military aid to Ukraine so Ukraine gave the Clinton campaign dirt on Paul Manafort who was Trump’s campaign manager to help Clinton win so they would get the military aid. Turned out Trump caved on the aid anyway because he was getting a lot of heat about Russia but if one thing was made crystal clear by the impeachment inquiry it is that Trump didn’t much care whether Ukraine got the military aid or not which is why he used it as a bargaining chip in the quid pro quo. There are plenty of award winning independent investigative journalists who have looked into this but they never get invited onto MSNBC or CNN. As for Senator John Kennedy even a broken clock is right twice a day.
@Paul Romano Not true. 17 US intelligence agencies said it was Russia. Anything else is propaganda and Russian conspiracy theories.
US intelligence agencies are a bunch of lazy kids like Hunter Biden.
History MUST be unkind to these people. Intellectual dishonesty at it’s most spineless. Utterly ridiculous.
Dey Tuk R Jarbs!
Frankie Says Love it. 👍.
“The eyes are useless when the mind is blind”
apple pie : Mike Flynn. And Micheal Cohen. And Rick Gates. And George Popadopolous. And Roger Stone. And Paul Manifort. And the two Russians, Igor and Lav, both just got indicted. And here you are scratching your crouch wondering what all these people have in common. DUH! You Stupid mother fucker.
“No amount of evidence will persuade a complete idiot” Mark Twain
History will be unkind. Period. The Republican Party will soon be politcally and ideologically dead. The only way the GOP can survive is to abandon Trunp, rebrand and distance themselves from their current rhetoric and discorse. But they’ll realize it far too late when their grandchildren and great grandchildren shame them for what they did to their country.
Yeah, it’s called being a traitor when people like Kennedy knowingly lie on matters of national security for personal gain, pure and simple.
@Jody Sims Nobody cares about YOUR “racism” either……
“Non chocolate” sweetie…..
Zzzzzzzzzz….😴
@Jody Sims Ya got to learn to laugh, SJW….
You’re gonna have a heart attack…..
And that’s just science….
Not some “evil thoughts zapped at ya by concentrated psychic pulses”….
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This is really dangerous. The Republicans are now defending the country that attacked us!! This is incredible and criminal!
Marie Wheeler he’s yours to! See wanna talk about sad ppl, your Justine of them that thinks he’s not your president to
fake news kiddo.
Attacked us? So they used trolls to create chaos in our country in 2016. That’s what the Russians did. Why? To make them vote for Hillary or Trump? Neither. How’s that a threat to you. Are you gullible enough to be hypnotized into a person of chaos?
Libtards are completely deluded by CNN fake news
Why does The Reptilian party want to protect Russia so bad?
@Robert I read the transcript but I never read none of that . What page was it on so I can take a look.
We also saw the hearing which witness said that again!
Kevin Barwell …nobody is fooled by y’all Russian trolls….so you can go back to fvcking your mother & daughter.
Kevin Barwell – Wrong. Another lie put out there by the right. Obama got Ukraine $175 million in miltary aid. And what the hell is your point, anyway? Oh yeah, “What about Obama?” SMH.
– Trump is trying to discredit US intelligence conclusions that Russia meddled in the 2016 election so he can lift sanctions put on Russia over that meddling.
– Trump blocked the release of a State Department statement condemning Russia for seizing Ukrainian ships.
– Trump is pushing Ukraine to make a deal with Russia in order to lift sanctions imposed on them over their invasion of Ukraine.
– The debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine hacked the DNC in 2016 was originated by Russian military intelligence.
– Trump has repeatedly insisted that Russia should be re-admitted to the G7, without any change in their behavior.
– Trump took funds from the Pentagon budget to fund his wall that came from programs to safeguard Ukraine from Russian aggression.
– Trump repeated Russian propaganda many times. He said the USSR occupied Afghanistan in ’79 because of terrorists, and was “right to do it”. (The US was instrumental in driving out the Soviets).
– While Putin was running a disinformation campaign against Montenegro, Trump said he thought Montenegro might start WWIII. (Of all countries, he chose one with a multisyllabic name to use as an example?)
– Against advisor’s advice, Trump congratulated Putin for “winning” a rigged election.
– Trump said Crimea was part of Russia.
– At a NATO summit, Trump refused to reaffirm Article 5, (The ‘all for one’ article only evoked once, by the US, after 9/11).
– At the Helsinki Summit, Trump said he didn’t see why Russia would meddle in our election.
– “Russia, if you’re listening…”
– Trump ordered a troop withdrawal from Syria a day before Putin’s annual press conference. Russia is in Syria to protect the Assad regime. Under Obama, the official US position on Syria was that Assad should go. Trump changed that to allow Assad to stay for now.
– Trump security advisor, Carter Page, went to Moscow to make a speech disparaging US/Russia policy. (Page got caught-up in a Russian spy ring in 2013).
– The Trump campaign requested one change to the RNC platform – To remove language that said the US should help the Ukrainian resistance of Russian aggression.
– 80% of the communication requests on a server in Trump Tower came from a Russian bank. (19% from Sec. of Education, Betsy DeVos, and her brother, former Blackwater chief, Eric Prince. The remaining 1% comprised all others).
– Trump campaign self described “dirty trickster”, Roger Stone, said he had contacts with Guccifer 2.0 and Julian Assange, the very hackers who hacked the DNC and the guy who weaponized the information.
– Jarred Kushner met with the head of a SANCTIONED Russian bank to discuss setting-up a back-channel to the Kremlin to get around US intelligence.
– Russian born gangster, felon, and Trump business partner, Felix Sater, is reputed to have been working to get Trump elected. He worked with Trump on the Trump Tower Moscow project. Trump said he didn’t know Sater well, and “probably wouldn’t recognize him if I saw him”. Sater was at Trump’s election victory party.
– Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was at the Trump Tower meeting. He offered polling data to a known Russian intelligence officer. 21 states’ voter rolls were hacked. Manafort had been a lobbyist for Putin. He helped install a crooked, pro-Russian dictator in Ukraine.
– During the campaign, Michael Flynn went to Moscow for an RT event. (RT – Russia Today, aka, Russian propaganda), and made a speech disparaging US/Russia policy. He lied about his compensation, and failed to register as a foreign agent.
– Trump chose Rex Tillerson, former CEO of Exxon, as his first Sec. of State. Tillerson had received Russia’s highest award for a foreigner. Exxon lost a $500 billion oil deal with a Russian, state-run, oil company when the US sanctioned Russia for its illegal invasion of Ukraine. Trump fired Tillerson the day after he publicly criticized Putin.
– The FBI had asked the Trump campaign to call if they saw anything suspicious, but nobody did. Later, Trump would say, (about the Trump Tower meeting), “I think anyone would have taken that meeting”. (No. that is not a normal part of a Presidential campaign).
– In a private meeting with Putin, Trump took possession of the notes of his own interpreter, and instructed the linguist not to discuss what transpired in the meeting with administration officials.
– Trump CONTINUES to engage in suspicious behavior with Russia. He never has, and still doesn’t include US/Russia relations in his policy rhetoric besides repeating, “Getting along with Russia is a good thing”. That’s ludicrous. Of course we want to get along with everyone. Chamberlain wanted to get along with Hitler.
@Syyner <---- says "tho" on the internet while I founded a technology business and wonders why others wouldn't follow 98% of his TV's programming that suddenly all had a new agenda... because they are bringing truth and justice and stuff and totally aren't politically connected! umm power to the people right? Keep fighting the good fight!
Jeez John Kennedy is the result of sleeping with your sister.
The TDS is strong in this one………you lost the election, crybaby. Grow up…..
I am sure a loser like you knows this from first hand experience, felcher.
John Kennedy is the reason the deep South gets such a bad rap. This is a freakin’ United States Freakin’ Senator! You people in Louisiana can’t find a better example of your “best” down there?
Hey, leave my sister out of this!!
You must of sleep with you MOTHER
It is “stunning” no other words.
@soylentdean “they all” who are they? Mention 3 people that called it so
Its all a scam folks. Thge conspiracy theories are there to distract us from the graft of the grifter polititions on both sides. The dems are as rotten and vile as the repubs folks. Get a damned clue. We are being scammed by the crooks of the lowest order. They love to manipulate us all while stealing from the tax payers. Liars all f yrump and f hilaryu.
Stunning and scary. If these spineless, dishonorable, traitors, will defend the enemy of the United States to serve their own personal agenda then we are truly fucked. What you idiots who support kennedy don’t understand is that russia is not your fellow republican buddies, they don’t give a damn about you. They are only trying to overthrow this country by creating turmoil and divisiveness to cause a civil war. And they are succeeding.
Should they buy into CNN conspiracies?
As terrible as Donny is, his supporters are far worse.
BLT4LIFE Hillary was right, more than half of trump supporters is deplorables
We’re the deplorables. Yes we’re here to stay. Be afraid for your communist agenda. Because it will never be
Dawn Oceanside ..
@Dave S – Grow up and try to handle your personal, newfound politics with some maturity and people might take you more seriously in real life and on here.
“We are in serious trouble” are some words that come to mind
He said it. He would like Americans to act like Rocket Man’s people.
The only thing missing is for republicans to declare that they would like Putin to be their president.
According to CNN, Putin already is our president, no?
Senator said: “It could also be Ukraine”, sure it could also be Martians, dear senator
They’re not buying into the conspiracy. They are part of the conspiracy.