 Well, it's official Democrats in the House officially unveiled two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump I will let Representative Jerry Nadler explain what those two articles of impeachment are. Let's watch Over the last several months The investigative committees of the House have been engaged in an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump's efforts To solicit foreign interference in the 2020 elections Efforts that compromised our national security and threatened the integrity of our elections Throughout this inquiry. He has attempted to conceal the evidence from Congress and from the American people Our president holds the ultimate public trust When he betrays that trust and puts himself before country He endangers the Constitution He endangers our democracy and he endangers our national security The framers of the Constitution Prescribed a clear remedy for presidents who so violate their oath of office That is the power of impeachment Today in service to our duty to the Constitution and to our country The House Committee on the judiciary is introducing two articles of impeachment Charging the president of the United States Donald J. Trump with committing high crimes and misdemeanors The first article is for abuse of power It is an impeachable offense for the president to exercise The powers of his public office to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring or In injuring the national interest That is exactly what President Trump did when he solicited and pressured Ukraine to interfere in our 2020 presidential election Thus damaging our national security Undermining the integrity of the next election and violating his oath to the American people These actions moreover are consistent with President Trump's previous invitations of foreign interference in our 2016 presidential election and when he was caught When the house investigated and opened an impeachment inquiry President Trump engaged in unprecedented Categorical and indiscriminate defiance of the impeachment inquiry This gives rise to the second article of impeachment for obstruction of Congress Here, too, we see a familiar pattern in President Trump's misconduct a President who declares himself above accountability Above the American people and above Congress's power of impeachment Which is meant to protect against threats to our democratic institutions is a president who sees himself as Above the law We must be clear No one not even the president is above the law So abuse of power and obstruction of Congress now I'm gonna give you my take on this but before I do that I kind of want to walk you through what we can expect Let me remind you that the House of Representatives has the sole authority to impeach and this will most likely pass in the house Meaning he will have officially been impeached once that vote takes place Which will most likely happen before the end of the year But then it would go on to the Senate where they would hold a trial and vote to convict and remove President Donald Trump now you need a two-thirds majority to convict an impeached president and Assuming we get every single Democrat on board, which is highly unlikely We need 20 Republicans to vote to actually convict and remove Donald Trump So most likely that isn't actually going to be the case Donald Trump will probably be impeached and then unless some drastic thing happens where Republicans feel as if they can get away with Impeaching Donald Trump and not protecting him and still be politically viable in 2020 He most likely will get away with this now the question is will this hurt him in 2020 or will this help him in 2020? Or will there kind of just be no effect? I don't necessarily know and I think that people who are speculating also don't know There's a number of ways how this can play out But what we do know is that Donald Trump will be impeached most likely and then in the Senate That is where this story will end now What's interesting is how this will take place in the Senate because you you're kind of seeing this divide between Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell when it comes to the way that they both want this to play out So Mitch McConnell Expectedly wants this to be a really quick endeavor. He just wants to hurry up have the trial vote on it and then move on So that way they can get back to doing nothing I guess and that will most likely take place before February In early January is what I'm assuming although Donald Trump surprisingly he actually wants this To drag on like he wants to make a spectacle of this because he believes that politically that will benefit him Now as CNN reports President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are both looking ahead to the Senate impeachment trial But there is a growing divide between the two over what that trial should look like CNN has learned in Conversation with the White House the Kentucky Republican has made clear He hopes to end the trial as soon as he can an effort to both get impeachment off his lap and protect his conference From potentially damaging votes should the process break out into partisan warfare That will include a continuous whip count until McConnell feels he has the votes to acquit the president and end the show He has even floated a 10-day minimum during these talks one person said but the show is exactly what Trump wants He's made clear to advisors privately that rather than end the trial as quickly as possible He's hoping for a dramatic event according to two people familiar with his thinking he wants Hunter Biden Representative Adam Schiff and the whistleblower to testify He wants the witnesses to be live not clips of taped depositions And he's hoping to turn it into a spectacle which he thinks is his best chance to hurt Democrats in the election Now what I think is interesting is that for how much the right accuses? Democrats of pursuing impeachment specifically for purposes of political expediency here We have Donald Trump basically saying pretty explicitly I want to drag out this trial because I think this will help me politically in 2020 Isn't that interesting? Now it kind of shows like that reaction from Donald Trump demonstrates how juvenile and idiotic he is quite frankly because Why does it matter if the whistleblower testifies the whistleblower is irrelevant at this point? Why would we need hunter biden to testify in your impeachment trial To confirm what that there is nepotism and that's a problem problem in politics Yeah, no shit Sherlock. You have your daughter serving in your fucking administration Duh nepotism is an issue, right? But what's that supposed to prove? You are the individual who's on defense This is your trial hunter biden isn't on trial The whistleblower isn't on trial So the fact that he thinks he can turn this around and make it about other people when he is the one on trial Shows that he doesn't really understand how the process works and it also shows how cocky and arrogant he is He thinks that this is going to help him. He has no doubt about that and maybe it will help him But the fact of the matter is that this is a serious issue. You broke the law. You violated the constitution But in his mind he did nothing wrong or maybe he thinks he did nothing wrong But according to his tweets he believes that if you are doing a good job Based on his own assessment as president then why should you impeach the president? Because you violated the constitution and abused power Now getting to my opinion on this the two articles of impeachment. I think that that alone. Yes, that is something that warrants impeachment although limiting the scope To just two articles. I think is a huge huge mistake because it kind of undercuts the democratic party's argument because they say That they're pursuing impeachment. Nancy Pelosi does at least because this is their duty, you know They have a constitutional obligation To hold the president accountable But he also obstructed justice 10 times according to the Mueller report He was in violation of the emoluments clause on day one when he was sworn in He's doing favors for the Saudis who are buttering him up by staying at his hotels He made hush money payments to stormy daniels using campaign funds So while the Ukraine call in and of itself is an abuse of power and his attempts to meddle with that process Constitutes obstruction of congress, you know, you undercut your own argument and saying this is our duty to pursue impeachment If you're letting him, you know, get a pass for all of these other issues Now I get strategically, you know, it makes sense to narrow the scope So that way the American people can kind of know what to focus on and not get lost But duty is duty. You have a constant constitutional obligation to hold the president accountable And you are essentially Not doing what is required of you under the constitution by giving him a pass on all of these other crimes I mean the American people need to know that he is guilty of all of these other charges of corruption And conflicts of interests and abuse of power, but you're choosing to give him a pass Most likely probably due to purposes of political expediency So it's incredibly frustrating and another issue with this is Nancy Pelosi is only pursuing impeachment Be grudgingly so we all know that she would have never pursued impeachment Had progressives not forced her to do that because it was evident that when he was sworn in as I stated He was in violation of the emoluments clause Nancy Pelosi wanted to give him a pass Well, then Michael Cohen brought a check that confirmed he made hush money payments to stormy daniels Well, Nancy Pelosi still didn't want to pursue impeachment Robert Mueller released his report that showed he obstructed justice 10 times Nancy Pelosi still Didn't want to pursue impeachment So the Ukraine call was the straw that broke the camel's back because she would look like an utter fraud And incompetent if she didn't finally pursue impeachment time after time after time And Donald Trump was essentially getting this message that he's untouchable He can do whatever he wants break the law brazenly violate the constitution and Nancy Pelosi will give him a pass So it's clear that she never really wanted to pursue impeachment And I don't think that she actually believes in it But in a scene in town hall, she basically said something That undercuts the entire impeachment argument and it's incredibly frustrating She claimed that George W. Bush Did not do something that rise to the level of impeachment And what is that action? Well, he lied us into the iraq war But she claims even though he lied us into the iraq war That did not warrant impeachment. This is what she said specifically and then when we come back I'll tell you why that's problematic. So uh, Speaker Pelosi, uh, you resisted calls for the impeachment of president bush in 2006 and president trump following the Mueller report earlier this year This time is different. Uh, why did you impose it? Why did you oppose impeachment in the past? And what is your obligation to protect our democracy from the actions of our president now? Thank you. I thank you for bringing up the question about because when I became speaker the first time it was overwhelming Call for me to impeach president bush on the strength of the war in iraq Which I vehemently opposed and again, I again I say again, I said said it other places. I that was my wheelhouse. I was intelligence I was a ranking member on the intelligence committee Even before I became part of the leadership of gang of four So I knew there were no nuclear weapons in iraq. It just wasn't there They had to show us they had to show the gang of four all the intelligence They had the intelligence did not show that that that was the case So I knew it was a a misrepresentation to the public but having said that it was a In my view, uh, not a grounds for impeachment That was they won the election. They made a representation and to this day people think People think that um that it was the right thing to do the people think that iraq had something to do with 9 11 I mean, it's appalling what they did But I did and I said if somebody wants to make a case you bring it forward, but I they had impeached Bill clinton for personal indiscretion and misrepresenting about it Impeached him some of these same people are saying oh, this doesn't rise to impeachment We're right there impeaching bill clinton, uh for for being stupid in terms of Something like that I mean, I love him. I think it was a great president But being stupid in terms of that and and and what would somebody do not to embarrass their family, but in any event Um, and that's so they did bill clinton now. They want me to do george But this I just didn't want it to be a way of life in our country as far as the mother report There was a good deal of the academics said and a thousand A thousand legal experts Wrote a statement that said the mother report Isn't impeach what's in there is an impeachable offense. It wasn't So much of what's in the mother report will be more clear once some of the court cases are resolved But it wasn't so clear to the public the ukraine Just removed all doubt It was self-evident that the president Miss undermined our national security jeopardize The integrity of our elections as he violated his oath of office. There's just You that's something that cannot be ignored. She literally gave george w bush a pass When he lied us into a war That killed hundreds of thousands of people mostly civilians So now people who are skeptical of impeachment are going to point at that and say well, you didn't impeach george w bush for Doing something worse and now you're impeaching donald trump because of an abuse of power Isn't what george w bush did the ultimate abuse of power? Now my response to that is This is why You can never let your foot off the gas and you have to have One standard that you apply universally, right? The fact that democrats gave george w bush a pass Makes the impeachment of future rogue presidents that much more difficult So by her admitting that she gave bush a pass and i'm glad that she told the truth there That's going to delegitimize this effort now to impeach donald trump Now should we still pursue impeachment against donald trump? Absolutely because he broke the law and if you know a normal american did what donald trump did They would have already been locked up in jail. We locked people up for smoking weed in certain states So of course we need to hold elites accountable But this is what happens right the more that you give elites a pass the more difficult it becomes the more That you know, they'll use this against you when you finally do want to hold people accountable Now what I also hear that undercuts the argument against donald trump is You know the impeachment against bill clinton was bad because it helped him Although when I hear about, you know, oh, well nobody clinton lied, but nobody died That's kind of a shitty argument because clinton committed perjury. Yes He wasn't impeached over the blow job. He was impeached over perjury and while that probably isn't as bad As what even, you know, andrew johnson and certainly not as bad as donald trump or george w bush did or richard nixon did That's still perjury. Like if a normal american committed perjury that individual would undoubtedly be prosecuted So we need to stop giving elites a pass And we need to acknowledge that if we are going to live In a system with fair justice, then we can't allow for a two tiered justice system where elites get a pass And oh, well, you know, it's okay. I know that they broke the law But nobody died or you know, it's not as big of a deal as this other president who broke the law But we didn't convict No It's time that we stop being cowards and we actually hold elites accountable And yes, that means basically impeaching every single president Because um, most of them break the law But do you want to know why most presidents are violating the constitution and being openly corrupt and doing war crimes? It's because we never fucking hold them accountable. So we're finally doing that with donald trump And I get being skeptical about, you know, potentially bad ramifications. This could help donald trump But here's the thing political considerations aside We have to do the right thing and the right thing, of course, is to impeach donald trump and going forward We impeach every single president who breaks the law or violates the constitution. None of them should get a pass republican or democrat Because again, if poor people did what bill clinton or donald trump Or um, any president george w bush did they would be imprisoned. So why are we giving elites a pass? The answer is we shouldn't so here's what I say about the impeachment of donald trump I agree with these articles of impeachment I think that the ukraine call of course demonstrated an abuse of power And that warrants his impeachment and removal probably not going to happen He's not going to be removed regardless. We take it as far as we possibly can go And anyone who votes against this any republican or democrat who does this for purposes of political expediency Let history judge them But what we do is we pressure democrats to do the right thing and as someone who has been urging democrats And lambasting them for not being strong enough against republicans Even if they've failed to hold rogue presidents in the past accountable That doesn't mean that we shouldn't hold them accountable now So let's agree going forward. We stop giving people in power a pass And yes, I believe that the scope of this impeachment inquiry should have been broadened There should be more articles of impeachment filed against donald trump regardless This still warrants impeachment and we need to take this as far as we can go Which will most likely be the senate but regardless will at least be satisfied knowing that we did the correct thing We held these rogue tyrants Who think that they can get in power and do whatever the fuck they want Accountable and i'll leave that there. This is about principle to me The humanist report is fake news Mike only cares about crazy bernie and his wacky socialist ideas sad very sad. I'm unsubscribing