 All right, let's talk about Trump so Obviously there are impeachment hearings in the House of Representatives Whoops. I closed something. I didn't want to close once in over this whole Ukraine issue and I Think a lot of people are confused The it looks like he still has a massive number of Supporters among Republicans. It looks like 90% of Republicans opposed impeachment. What is the standard for impeachment? if the president engages in knowing violation of federal law Then that is an impeachable offense. If the president engages in knowing violations of the law It's an impeachable offense now, let's be clear Right for anyone running for office It is illegal Illegal for any person to solicit accept Or receive Anything of value for a foreign national in connection with the US election. Now, this is not a new idea The founders talked about this they did not want foreign intervention in our elections It is not a complicated idea. This is the very definition of what it would mean for high crimes To use your office To go to a foreign government To investigate your opposition and to make it conditional your support for that foreign government now I don't think we should supporting these foreign governments anyway But given that we are and it's the law that we should and Congress passed a law passed a bill Allocating certain money money to Ukraine and then the president saying we won't give you the money Unless you investigate my political rival. I mean It doesn't get much clearer than that in terms of what is an offense that should be impeachable I mean Trump has violated the law and he's violated the law in the crudest most obscene way And he's violated election laws where he is responsible for upholding the Constitution and our election laws in this country as Andrew Napolitano Fox News Andrew Napolitano used to have me on his shows regularly when he had a show on Fox. He writes for heaven's sake Trump was just investigated by Mueller for two and a half tumulus years For allegedly bringing the Russian government into the 2016 election So he knew that this is illegal because somebody was investigating him and Put aside what Mueller found but Napolitano goes on and says and now he has attempted in one phone call To bring the Ukrainian government into the 2020 elections. I mean really that is that is truly insane I Mean think of the judgment of a person who does that Who knows it's against the law who knows that this is an issue because he's just being Investigated around that issue for two and a half years and then does it anyway and doesn't care because not only does he In a phone call clearly tell the Ukrainian leader that he should be investigating Biden and look I'm sure Biden it's corrupt, but so is so a lot of people I mean if the call had said please investigate American corruption in Ukraine Fine, nobody would have made a big deal out of it But it's not just a call. It's all these people now surrounding him All these texts and emails that are reinforcing the idea that clearly and equivocally Not only did Trump urge the Ukrainians to investigate Biden But he actually made Military support, which is supposed to be in America's self-interest. Otherwise, why do it? Contingent on the investigation. I mean it is so Obvious that this is impeachable and unfortunately the only Republican in Senate who seems to think so is Mitt Romney It would be nice if people like sass and some of the other so-called constitutionalists Also stood up for the Constitution for the Constitution. Here's what his Here's what ambassador to the European Union texted. He was texting with the former Ukrainian ambassador Most important is for Zelensky. That's the president of Ukraine to say he will help investigation Heard from White House assuming president Z convinces Trump He will investigate get to the bottom of what happened in 2016 He will nail down date for visit in Washington So he wasn't gonna get a visit unless he agreed to investigate. I think it's crazy This is the key. I think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with the political campaign Everybody knows this is what he was doing Everybody this is his own ambassador. This is a guy he appointed. This is a guy who owes Trump But this is the text he's sending July 21 Bill Taylor from ambassadors writes Gordon one thing could and I talked about yesterday was the point that president Zelensky is Sensitive to Ukraine being taken seriously not melody as an instrument in Washington domestic re-election politics Everybody knew that Donald Trump was using Ukraine as an instrument for his own re-election These texts are not open to interpretation what Trump's own own Chief of Staff said the other day is not open to interpretation. I mean The nuttiness of people trying to excuse Trump for this of all things. I mean you people are really being lobotomized You don't have a brain anymore. You can't think for yourself There's no open to interpretation these texts are clear that the whole chain of command The whole chain of command was instructed by Trump Clearly clearly To link the investigation with the assistance and while on the call There was no quid pro quo. They clearly was more vain He said it just the other day Then he walked it back But he said it because it's true because everybody knows it's true because everybody in the chain of command through Ukraine knows It's true only the only people who don't know it's true because they evade which they've been evading throughout all of Trump's Presidency they ignore all the nonsense. He's done are the people who support Trump blindly who refused to accept the fact that we have in the White House a president who has zero nada no respect for the rule of law No respect for the Constitution no respect for the separation of powers a President that is such a narcissist That he doesn't even care if he gets caught because he believes truly that it doesn't matter what he does His supporters will support him no matter what because he's doing it for good cause and what is the good cause? It's so many of you believe it. It's so many of you think justifies lying cheating stealing anything defeating the left Anything goes if we can defeat Nancy Pelosi or defeat Hillary Clinton or defeat Biden Anything goes the rule of law the Constitution if we have to suspend them for a while as long as we defeat the left anything goes And while you won't even admit it to yourself that is exactly what you have bought into Because this stuff is not up to interpretation This stuff is not. I mean, yes The transcript of the call if you wanted to be generous to Trump could be interpreted otherwise But since then there have been massive amounts of evidence These texts that I read you They clearly indicate a connection, but what the hell we're going to defeat the left. So it doesn't matter Now I've been saying this since he got elected That your emphasis on defeating the left is going to bring out the policies that you supposedly reject Are going to be instituted by the right because there's no difference between them. They hate you They hate the individual They want to impose on you this state and of course Trump admits it Right. He says and he said in public China should start investigating the Bidens. He didn't say China should start investigating corruption by Americans the Bidens and There's an even implied threat. I don't think president Xi Likes being under that kind of scrutiny. What's good me? Scoot me that he's gonna impose on him. I mean, look I've said that the most depressing thing about the Trump presidency is the fact that some of you and Some of you I mean the millions of people out there Will apologize will justify will excuse anything this guy does anything he does No matter how outrageous Why because he's not the left But you don't you can't even say because he's not the left because you won't even Allow anything to enter into your mind and my question whether this guy Should be president Now to me, it's obvious. He should have never been president and now it is so obvious He should not be present. He is such a narcissist and it's so pathological That reality doesn't matter to this man. He has no idea of the rule of law He does not care about the rule of law He doesn't understand the concept of the rule of law his entire career as a businessman and here has been about circumventing the rule of law They've been about Him trying to avoid it Pay it off break it and you hire lawyers then to sort it all out Which is exactly what he's doing right now and of course he's brought into the White House One of the great scumbags of political history woody Giuliani one of the most despicable people Who've been in public life in American public life? ever And of course now woody Giuliani's associates have been caught at the airport arrested in an airport with one-way tickets to Vienna accused of taking money from foreigners to And in and applying it to elections in the United States, but also other Charges associated with corruption in the Ukraine do we really want the Ukrainians to investigate American corruption? Do we really want Ukrainians and Chinese to look into Corruptions by Americans Maybe the Russians can do the same Do you really think this is going to be Democrats falling or do you think it's gonna be Democrats and Republicans Falling like flies. I mean an attempt to get a foreign power Ukraine, China, whatever Russia to intervene in an internal election process Is without question An impeachable offense our funny fathers would be horrified by this Trump doesn't care He doesn't care But the key here and this is what I said Years ago what Trump is doing is making for Republicans. We know this has been true for Democrats He's making the Constitution irrelevant For Republicans. He's making the rule of law irrelevant He is destroying the integrity of this Republic I Mean other presidents have violated the Constitution all the time and Probably be engaged in corruption and so on But they were embarrassed by it They try to hide it You know trying to hide something means that you at least understand that it's wrong Or you at least understand that there's a rule of law that's gonna apply to you But Trump doesn't hide it because he doesn't believe the rule of law applies to him He doesn't believe he should be judged by anybody. He believes he is above the law and That attitude by president of the United States. We have never seen before never seen before By the way, people forget but during the campaign before 2016 Trump in a press conference actually called on the Russians to look into Hillary Clinton's emails So he was urging them even then to intervene in the election In that case the Russians and that should have been enough what he said about Russia During the campaign should have been enough never to have gotten him elected how Republicans in a primaries allowed this guy to be elected is Unbelievable Ken says, how was Obamacare passed if we've never seen it before? well Because they didn't read it, but they don't read any of the laws that they pass Obamacare was not unusual if you ever see the laws that this thick they're massively thick and nobody reads them and Usually they're empty of content Much of what's in there is left for later interpretation and later regulatory the regulators to figure up But this idea that Obamacare was somehow unusual because they didn't read it It's completely out of nonsense. They don't read any of the bills Yeah, I mean Nancy Pelosi at the time said, you know what's gonna be in the law After you pass it you have to pass it then you'll find out what's in the law, but that's every day Republicans Democrats doesn't matter how many people have read Dodd-Frank how many people Under Bush read Saul Banes-Oxley. I Bet you not one senator 98 to 0 that bill passed not one senator read the bill I mean our political process is completely another broke otheredly broken and What Donald Trump is doing is he's putting nails in the coffin? He's destroying this country because he's destroying the soul of this country He's destroying the very idea of the rule of law. He's destroying the idea the one If one cheats what should at least be embarrassed by cheating and I don't know how you overcome that and I don't know How a Republican Party, which I think is I think this is gonna destroy the Republican Party forever I don't see a Republican Party can recover From supporting Donald Trump now if they turn on him If they turn on it, but there's no sign they are Then there's hope for the party But if they support him through this and through everything else he does through what he did in Syria and through everything else through the way He makes decisions Then forget it The party is dead and they basically handed it what Trump and his supporters have done Handed this country on a silver platter to the nutty left To Elizabeth one Elizabeth one is going to be you know, we are risking the possibility of Elizabeth one Being president and and the fault of that will be with you You who support Trump blindly? 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