Rep. Adam Schiff talks with Ali Velshi about the revelations in John Bolton's new book, Bill Barr's efforts to use threats from the DOJ to protect Donald Trump from embarrassment, and how Bolton's testimony would have aided in the impeachment of Trump. Aired on 6/17/2020.
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Schiff Rips Barr For Using DOJ To Protect Trump From Bolton Book | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
I can hear Donnie whining all the way from the west coast.
@james Only trolls copy and paste like this . You do need some new lines , sonny.
@13bustah He’s not lying trump is on TV daily crying about bs . All his possible “aids” to help Covid 19, so scared he has to hide in the bunker, trying to get books from being sold, using illegal tear gas, bang canisters and rubber coated bullets on peaceful protesters. Telling police it is all okay if they are tougher on criminals by physical force. Take care because you might just reap what you sow and it might not be good.
@Neal Hogg breath buddy ….
As Q says
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Q – NOTHING CAN STOP WHATS COMING
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TRUMP2020
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@Elizabeth notthe queen it’s actually embarrassing how out of touch and unintelligent liberals are.
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@james Another delusional dimwit from the cult of the corrupt clueless con man.
this is nuts he has to go. He is a absolute criminal and danger!!
@Daniel Soden I am not a Democrat.
@Daniel Soden The whole left lies, Get used to my crap 4 more years coming cry baby.
@Jim Brown when did Obama ask other countries for help on his re-election lemming?
you mean schiff i hope. he is the swamp
@jim dee how is he the swamp? 🤦
The Art Of going to jail
He will plead insanity, plenty of incidents on video to confirm. He will die before he ever gets to jail by tying up the courts for years to come.
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Q enjoy the show everyone
Nothing can stop what is coming
james Nutter.
@LadyGlencoe so true
@Genghis Smith lol
Trump: “I do solemnly swear, that I will faithfully desecrate the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, pervert, negate, and offend the Constitution of the United States. So help me Putin…or Jyna….if you’re listening.”
@mkr4922 Impeachment was about Ukraine, maybe you should get out of your troll cubicle and read more. Russia helped Trump get elected and that story is not over yet.
Trump never committed any crime.
@Fernando Castillo ..that was a mighty mouthful son ..but consider this: they are ..mostly..not ‘dunces’ .. they’re complicit..liking this ride ..seeing where it goes..irresponsible ..getting away with..everything
Watching CNN and MSNBC will make you stupid as well as ignorant. Try getting some accurate information.
@Alfred Pasly get the grenade already
The DoD warned several times that continuing to withhold the aid violated the Impoundment Control Act, which stipulates that if the federal funds are not spent on their designated purpose within a certain period, they will be taken, or impounded, by the Treasury Department.
The unredacted emails between Defense Department and Office of Management and Budget officials revealed that between June and September — when the Ukrainian aid was ultimately released following the whistleblower’s complaint — the Defense Department repeatedly asked the OMB why the military aid was being held up.
The timeline of Trump’s impeachable acts, and the DoJ sloppy attempt at a cover-up:
● June 19, OMB aide, Robert Blair, learned that Trump was questioning the delivery of the aid package, at which point Blair told Russell Vought, the acting head of the office, that “we need to hold it up.”
● That day, another OMB official, Michael Duffey, emailed the acting Defense Department comptroller, Elaine McCusker, and copied Mark Sandy, an OMB official on national-security programs, to ask if she had “insight on this funding.”
● After McCusker explained on June 25 which companies were producing the military equipment and said that only $7 million of the Pentagon’s $250 million part of the package had been spent, Blair told Mick Mulvaney on June 27 that they should “expect Congress to become unhinged” by withholding the aid.
● July 25, Sandy officially froze the Ukraine aid. This was also the day Trump spoke with President Zelensky on the phone and asked him to launch a bogus investigation on Joe Biden and his son. Shortly after Trump’s call, Duffey emailed several Pentagon officials and asked them to “please hold off on any additional DOD obligations of these funds.” He requested that the recipients keep the directive “closely held to those who need to know” because of “the sensitive nature of the request.”
● McCusker replied that same day and asked whether the OMB had cleared the hold with the Defense Department’s lawyers. This was the first sign of the Pentagon’s concerns about the legality of withholding the aid.
● July 26, John Rood, the head of policy at the Pentagon, emailed Defense Secretary Mark Esper a readout of a meeting in which top national-security officials voiced their “unanimous support” for sending the security assistance. On August 9, McCusker warned Sandy, Duffey, and other senior OMB officials that if the aid was not released soon, it might affect the “timely execution” of the program. “We hope it won’t and will do all we can to execute once the policy decision is made, but can no longer make that declarative statement,” she wrote. The DOJ redacted this warning from McCusker, which, notably, contradicted the OMB’s talking points.
● August 12, when it became clear that Trump would continue the aid freeze, McCusker emailed Duffey and asked him to include language in a footnote in a budgeting document to reflect the growing risk of withholding funding. The language was not included, and the request was redacted in the initial document release.The DOJ also redacted several emails from McCusker near the end of August raising additional legal questions about withholding the aid and the possibility that Trump’s actions violated the Impoundment Control Act..
● August 28, after Politico publicly revealed the aid freeze, the OMB’s general counsel, Mark Paoletta, sent around talking points including that “no action has been taken by OMB that would preclude the obligation of these funds before the end of the fiscal year.”
● McCusker pushed back, writing: “I don’t agree to the revised TPs — the last one is just not accurate from a financial execution standpoint, something we have been consistently conveying for a few weeks.” Her response was initially redacted.
● As September came around, McCusker raised concerns about whether the Defense Department would be “adequately protected from what may happen as a result of the Ukraine obligation pause.” She added, “I realize we need to continue to give the WH as much decision space as possible, but am concerned we have not officially documented the fact that we can not promise full execution at this point in the fiscal year.”
● September 9, Duffey sent McCusker a misleading email suggesting that if the president greenlighted the aid but the Pentagon was not able to obligate the funding, it would be on the Pentagon and not the OMB..
● McCusker responded: “You can’t be serious. I am speechless.”
● September 11, after Congress became aware of a whistleblower’s complaint accusing Trump of “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country” in the 2020 election, Duffey emailed McCusker and said the president had lifted the hold on Ukraine’s military aid.
● “Glad to have this behind us,” he wrote…
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The whistle blower is a democrat secret cuz there is not one.
David J Excellent summary!
Adam Schiff really tries his best to save American from the rotten orange. He should have been able to save more than 100k america people’s lives if people like Bolton are not so corrputed.
schiff has lied to you folks for years wake up.
@jim dee over half of trump’s statement is false wake up. by the way the other half is nonsense.
Wrong person, @Vigilence, Trump is the one so corrupt. Bolton tried to save America and got fired for it. Trump is a mental unstable mess and taking America down with him, along with the dead of the Covid-19. Truth may hurt, but is the Truth.
Startrek1965 bolton gonna save america😂. hes the one who supported all the illegal wars in the middle east
Startrek1965 TRUMP2020🇺🇸
If not for Bolton, Trump would have been impeached and removed from office…. who am I kidding, Mitch and the compromised Senate would have still acquitted Trump even if blood was dripping from those tiny hands. Drain the swamp!
Elizabeth notthe queen Probably Russian. A North Korean would have phrased it in a nutty way. Like the student’s confession. Otto.
Hannity: Adam Schiff is a proven liar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9eBM2xrLXo
Friedrich Nietzsche Blatant lying is Trump’s legacy. Let’s all be more like Trump- immoral, dishonest, greedy, hateful, and very stupid. Presidents shouldn’t watch tv all day. I hope he chokes on a cheeseburger.
@brian bowes :That would be the House of Representatives.
The stain will forever be attached to an incompetent and dishonest President charged with obstruction of Congress and abuse of power, who refused, ( post bravado ) to be interviewed, blocked witness testimony and documentary evidence, ordered others to refuse to comply with lawful congressional subpoena’s, ordered relevant documentation hidden in a secure server, publicly attacked law abiding public servants who did comply with congressional subpoena’s, and routinely fired anyone who questioned or threatened his credibility by exposing his habitual lying, incompetence and ignorance.
The stain will also forever be attached to McConnell and the whipped Republican Senate majority that heard overwhelming evidence in support of the charges brought by the House, who, in a despicable act of partisan toadyism and self interest voted for a continuance of the criminality of individual number one and this administration.
The simple truth may not suit your preferences, but those are the facts that are being recorded by serious historians and political commentators in between bouts of throwing up at the spectacle we are all witnessing.
Drain the swamp in November and defeat every last Republican.
As a foriegn observer I cannot wait to see GOP rats jump ship once Trump is totally exposed. I don’t like watching rats drown but sometimes it’s for the best.
@Crystal Giddens Please Crys, find real facts to post. Not just another fake story. Mercy
@Tom Price You live on a cloud. Nothing solid to stand on.
@Eric Klaus : BS! I live in a Red State and Our Nurseing homes were hit the hardest! No one anticipated all the elements that were Needed to completely Lockdown these large group home environment! The Staff infecting the Paients or dilevery Personel!
@JJ Strumr what is Crys?
@JJ Strumr what is crys/
When will Congress do it’s job and impeach Barr and impeach tRump a second time. Many Senators would vote for conviction this time, especially if the house were to get an independent council to investigate McConnell and Elaine Chow and their crimes against the American people. I pray every day that there will be a Trump crimes commission starting in February 2021 and that Biden will not pardon him as is tradition now. Trump’s crimes are too many and too serious and if he gets away without penalties, so will any President who is a shameless criminal. He should never been able to run in the first place (imo, an I agree that opinions are like a##holes–everyone has one and most stink, probably including mine,but everyone else’s as well.
As important as it is to hold Trump to account, it is equally important to go after his accomplices. They need to pay a heavy price for following the Orange Buffoon. This goes for the higher up all the way down to the lowly border agents who took those children away from their parent(s) and crammed them into cages. We held the Germans responsible for carrying out inhumane orders, why are we unable to hold Americans to that standard.
Without his “hands” and “feet”, he’d just be an impotent wanna-be dictator.
The Senate will never impeach. They can’t turn away from trump. He’s all they have now. They know for sure that without him they’ll certainly lose the election but with him they still think they have a small chance. That 35% core of Nazi sympathizers who cling to trump’s skirt is the GoP’s hope.
and hillary is innocent,
THAT SHOULD HAPPEN AT THE INAUGURATION!!! WHY WAIT TIL FEBRUARY!!
All true! We just have to go vote! BIDEN 202!!!! ALL BLUE 2020!!!
If Bolton had testified would it really have made any difference to to the Republicans in the Senate? Personally, I have no doubt that regardless of what Bolton may’ve revealed, the GOP controlled Senate still would’ve acquitted Trump on impeachment.
Rand Kocher if you don’t watch the videos that you comment at, why are you commenting at all!! Say hi to Putin Bunker Boy!
Of course. The trial was pro forma, its outcome predetermined. All Republicans except Romney violated their oaths of office, but this country is such scum that no one cares.
@Rand Kocher Pls cite your sources re undocumented children put in cages under Obama.
@Rand Kocher Pls cite your sources re the caravans being arranged and financed by Trump’s adversaries.
Probably not as their minds were made up before the trial. They refused to listen to the truth and should all be soundly defeated.
“Classified” and “Disgraceful” are the same thing over at the DOJ.
It cant be classified , when Donny the bunker baby says they are all lies
Also this is textbook 1st amendment case , government trying to prevent free speech .
DoJ got their copy of the book in January , or some where about that time , so they have had several months to read it … they react when its already delivered to shops .
@Pete Lind They were asleep at the switch.
As usual.
Reaction as opposed to action.
you liberals are brain washed
@jim dee “brain washed”, huh?? The FULL extent of FAT-assed donnie BunkerBaby j. tRUMP (family name dRUMPh) *crimes* now exposed even more. Those of us who were *NOT* fooled by this charlatan, this huckster, this con-man cheater, liar, unethical and loathsome P.O.S. have been saying it for years!
I know people who grew up in NYC and *they* can tell you about the “trump” crime family and just how *corrupt* they are. donnie would go “clubbing” back in the 1980s, snorting cocaine (probably anything else offered too). Notice how much he sniffs today? What else is he using??
Barr & Trump are two heads of the same snake.
and they have wrapped themselves around the dems and are giving them a death squeeze.
@Mcbeezee Ahhh, yes indeed! So, hopefully, you are aware the entire population of the USA has been waiting for, “LOCK HER UP” etc, to come to fruition? Now, 4 L-O-N-G years later … ??? YAAAWN! zzzzzzzzzzzzz …
And just to save you from more pointless embarrassment, I’m not a “liberal” but you, on the other hand, look rather predictable yourself, old buddy.
@Mcbeezee Nobody on the left is even thinking about the Durham report 🙄
@Eric Pratt Nobody on the left has the first clue on what it’s about.😆
Well said. People in positions are authority know and jumping ship because it’s sinking. Good for Chairman Schiff granted mercy by The Almighty.
I’ve been saying this for 2 years: Imagine the stuff criminal Trump has done that we don’t know about yet.
Yea like doing cocaine and screwing teenage girls with Epstein, that’s why he had his fixer Barr order and cover up the murder of Epstein.
Booker was the only dnc candidate that said anything that made since. But he can’t be vice president because the party that thrives on realism and discrimination(DEMOCRATS) decided it has to be a woman. THAT REAL DISCRIMINATION. Or they just need someone more crooked to hide what they been doing to the country. Biden made ove 70. Crimes capital. He thinks he the black man’s candidate because he had so many sent to prison for nonviolent offenses that he thinks he’s there master. If the news didn’t lie they would have told you Wesley Snipes walked out of federal court innocent and was railroaded in state court because they demonize your heros. After Bush Jr. Didn’t do a dam thing to stop the Clinton crime bill from making prison a right of passage for our youths. The country wanted change. Prisons were over crowded with our country men and women mostly possession charges. Our mostly white country voted in a blackish man thinking he might do more than talk about freedom. He gave out free phones and built more prisons far from inmates homes. That’s the dnc’s mode of operation. Free stuff for freedom. I’ve wondered for a long time what would happen if a politician real tried to help what would happen. Now I know. He’s accused of everything they been doing and constantly attacked. When Trump wasn’t a politician he partied with more black people than most black people. Al Sharpton promoting the lie that Trump is a racist is a racist calling the champion of black America what he is. Black gun rights matter. Black opportunity matters. What have DEMOCRATS done for blacks since JFK was shot. Get them addicted to welfare and prison trays. I don’t want to see a race war for many reasons but I hope the tension makes black appreciate the gun rights Trump is fighting for they ain’t just for white people there for AMERICANS ALL AMERICANS TRUMP 2020 THE CHAMPION OF BLACK AMERICANS AND ALL AMERICANS. THOSE that oppose him have been fooled by antifreedom commies or they are antifreedom commies like shift
@13bustah You mean you’re an imbecile.
I HAVD BEEN SAYING THAT FOR 3 YEARS!
@13bustah WAIT TELL MARY TRUMPS BOOK COMES OUT STUPID TRUMPSTER!
This is what happens when a known and obvious criminal is elected president. I’m not surprised at all.
@Eric Echols Sr. Criminality has been vigorously asserted by your team. Let’s leave off with criminal convictions. Got any indictments?
brian dwiggins …He stole the life savings, stole every penny, from MULTIPLE THOUSANDS of regular hard working Americans. This case was adjudicated, Trump found guilty. Was forced to repay multi millions.
Trumps longtime lawyer is sitting in prison as we speak for committing a crime on Trumps behalf AT TRUMPS DIRECTION. This is the stormy Daniels hush money, that Trump illegally tried to conceal. Trump should be prosecuted for this the moment he leaves office.
Trumps charity was found to be a criminal organization. It has been disbanded BY THE COURTS. Trump, Trump jr, Eric and Ivanka are banned for life from ever operating another charity in the state of New York.
Trump illegally gave Florida’s attorney general, Pam Bonnie, multiple thousands of dollars for her reelection if she dropped the Trump University fraud case. He paid. She dropped the case. This was also adjudicated. Trump found guilty.
The only reason this scum bag isn’t in prison is that the elite and well connected have special rules that the rest of us don’t. They don’t go to prison, they just throw some money at the problem and it gets resolved without them spending a day in prison.
Those are just a few examples of Trumps adjudicated criminality.
brian dwiggins …Many people closest to Trump have been indicted. It’s only a matter of time for Trump. He should have went to prison for his University fraud that stole the life savings from thousands of people.
Trumps campaign manager indicted.
Trumps deputy campaign manager indicted
Trumps long time lawyer indicted
Trumps national security advisor indicted
To name a few…
@brian dwiggins – Look Dude……. I’m not “New”. I’ve known Trump was a crook in the 80’s. I live 6 hours from N.Y.C., it’s not difficult to take a drive. Especially since I used to deliver to Hunts Point Market every other week 😅
@Eric Echols Sr. did not know that. I’ll check it out. Thanks.
Hmmm. I can think of a lawyer sitting in jail screamin, “Told you so!”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Cohen told the truth yes Nikki you right…
He’s actually on house arrest writing a book right now 😉
@Lars Jones Hmm, maybe he will finish before Nov and give Trump another myocardial infarction.
The president, his party and now the witness are all self-serving
@jim dee r u 4 real?!
@jim dee your #impotus45 is thé swamp!
@jim dee as someone who lives in a drained swamp, that’s not how you do it.
There is the pot calling the the kettle african american !
And traitors.
It’s not a revelation, it’s what we already new. It’s just confirmed it.
@ Babs… “knew” Babs, it’s “knew”
We know just like he did to Hillary in 2016 elections due to Russia’s Putin aid.
Schiff single-handedly got the Republican party, Trump, and his supporters all triggered up and furious. No one, except maybe Nancy Pelosi and AOC, can do it so well.
Bolton greed is more powerful than being a patriot. Money is the root of all evil. Mr. Mustache reveals is a little 2 late. Maybe hopefully not.
Former Legal Fixer: Michael Cohen. Current Legal Fixer: Bill (Corrupt)Barr.
You’re correct 💯%✓ 😷
Trump says “It’s classified and it’s not true.” How does one get this stupid?
Right Wing propaganda.
Ted cox: Too difficult for you to imagine that a lie regarding a national secret might still remain sensitive? Suppose the lie was that ‘Fat Man” was going to be dropped 4 days BEFORE “Little Boy” instead of a few days after AFTER? Would you then not drop all the warning pamphlets over either Hiroshima or Nagasaki?
Dropped on head at birth!
@2004done Apples and Oranges
Donnie’s a product of his own laziness, arrogance and greed, AND trumpettes arrogance & stupidity. We’re special.