Another surprise, republican senator mitt romney voted with democrats. In the end, the president was acquitted on both points. They are speaking out tonight as a group for the First Time Since the president was acquitted. First of all, assuming you all get newspapers, when you woke up today and you saw this, when you saw the headline i just saw it. What did you think . What do i think right now . Yeah. I think hes not been exonerated. What do you mean by that . Well, it is hard to have an acquittal without a fair trial. This was the first impeachment trial in American History where we didnt have witnesses and documents. I think the American People realized that. As we sit here right now there are thousands of americans walking into courthouses across the country that have taken their oath and they will be sitting as jurors in trials and they will hear from witnesses and documents. They are asking themselves why washington and donald trump should be any different. Of course, the answer is it shouldnt. And they understand. So when the president says, this is a victory, that hes been exonerated, youre saying he hasnt. Hes not been exonerated. This is the first impeachment in American History where a senator from his own party voted to convict the president. We also knew going in that given the nature of the Republican Party, which has become a complete follow the leader no matter what, that they were never going to vote no matter what the evidence, they were never going to vote against the president no matter what the evidence showed. You believe that going in . We absolutely believed it going in. And there were discussions that maybe we shouldnt do it given the nature of the Republican Party, they were never going to convict no matter what. But we had to do it because we had to set markers. You had to say that you cant normalize this conduct, the kind of thing this happen has done cant be done. You have to vindicate the constitution. So we did that. And the fact that for the first time in American History, you had senators voting to convict the president of their own party is very important. I actually thought that it was possible to convict because our evidence was so strong and the activity engaged in was so strong. You thought there would be more republicans willing to step up . Well, i had hoped. And i think the interesting thing is so many of the senators said they believed what we did as well. We made our case. They just didnt want to vote to remove them. So some of them hope that hes chastised and will improve his behavior. I hope so. But it doesnt look good. Did this backfire, though . Did the gallop pole taken before the final vote showed a 49 approval rating. He was up five points. Did the impeachment backfire . Back to the acquittal part of this, i would consider that fake news because we did not have a fair trial, and i think back to Robert Muellers words. When he said, if he could exonerate the president , he would. But he cannot exonerate the president. The evidence, again, was overwhelming against him. Many senators said that we proved our case, that the evidence was clear and convincing and overwhelming. The president is not exonerated today. And, you know, in terms of the polls, we were there to present the best case to the senators and to the American People. I believe we did that. The fact that, again, senator romney senator romney was not standing with the democrats or standing against the president. He was standing up for what he believed was right, upholding the rule of law and protecting and defending the constitution. I am profoundly religious. My faith is at the heart of who i am. I take an oath before god as enormously consequential. I knew from the outset that being tasked with judging the president , the leader of my own party, would be the most difficult decision i have ever faced. I was not wrong. Mr. Romney. Mr. Romney, guilty. So i believe while the numbers didnt turn out the way we would have wished, i believe that senator romneys vote sends a clear message to not just the American People but his fellow senators as well. Did it backfire . No. I find myself optimistic coming out of this trial, which may be counter intuitive. But the fact that senators and indeed a small number showed the kind of courage they did, senators like mitt romney, obviously, but also jones, joe manchin and others, i think they lived up to the confidence the founders put in our ability to have selfgovernance, that we could rise to the occasion. And, so, i find myself optimistic about the future. I do think that what mitt romney did in particular demonstrates that one person can change the course of history. I think he will give strength through others who will learn that you can stand up to this president. You can even disagree with the leader of your party and be an example or courage to others. I know i think in the future when we have difficult votes, when we are asked to put country over party that we will look to his example. So, you know, i i find the end of this trial with the surprise that it took, the turn that it took with that courageous vote. You said that standing up against your own party on a vote is harder than getting up against the opposing party. Well, its, i think, an aspect of political courage thats rarely understood by the public, but it is understood by every elected official, and that is when you are asked to disagree with your adversaries, thats easy. It is when you are asked to disagree with your friends that it becomes very difficult. It is not always does mitt romney have any friends in the Republican Party today . I think he has millions of friends throughout the country and friends within the Senate Chamber that respect him and probably look on him with some envy that he had the courage to do what maybe they did not. Do you think other republican senators wished they did what mitt romney did or could have done . I mean, thats speculation. But i think the impeachment trial was never about politics or personality disagreements with President Trump. It is about the precious nature of the constitution. In fact, George Washington observed in his farewell address to the nation that the constitution is sacredly obligatory to all. That means everyone. From the very beginning of this effort led by chairman schiff and speaker pelosi, we have been trying to vindicate the notion that in america no one is above the law, not only the president of the United States of america. Senator romneys vote confirmed that sacred principal. And there are millions of americans shs tens of millions of americans across the country who will be grateful for him in that regard and history will be grateful for the effort that democrats and that one republican and others across the country have undertaken. Is there anything, though, to stop the president from calling up Rudy Giuliani and saying, hey, open up an office a couple blocks from here and then go back to ukraine, get zelensky to announce an investigation into the bidens. Lets go to china. Lets see what they can do. Lets have a tour, just travel around europe and the rest of the world and get investigations going. Is there anything to stop him from doing that . Well, according to his lawyers, he can do that and more and he can do anything he wants to do to get reelected, use our taxpayer dollars as long as he thinks it is in the public interest. I think its a very outlandish lone ranger kind of view. That was essentially the argument. Correct. And if a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in an impeachment. And i think if hes surrounded himself with people like that, that are enabling him to do whatever he wants, he will do whatever he wants, and thats the danger of it. It is about the impact it will be on our right as voters to have our say in the 2020 election. And if hes seeking help from a foreign country or more than one foreign country, any help from any foreign person, that means hes interfering with my free right to have my say. It diminishes my vote. It diminishes my role and it is contrary to the constitution and everything that we believe in. It just sort of puts a dagger into the heart of our way of living and who we are as a country. You were there during the watergate hearings. Is the Republican Party vastly different than it was back then in terms of their willingness . It was republicans in the end who went to nixon and said, look, this is you dont have my vote. Barry goldwater and others. I remember Caldwell Butler, who was a republican from rural virginia, very conservative man. And he was a huge fan of president nixon, and he ended up voting to impeach nixon. But he said something this isnt an exact quote but something to the effect of, this is on us. This is on the republicans to clean up. And we never heard that in certainly in the house. But i think we did hear from senator romney a very principaled statement that his oath counted more than his party, and that was inspiring to me. Now, hes getting a lot of grief from the president about it, but i think when you do the right thing, when you honor your word and you look at the facts in the end, you will never be troubled by doing that. And we didnt see enough of that this time. But i have tremendous faith and confidence in our country. And i know that the voters will be looking to a variety of factors this fall, but one of the things that people care about is our constitution. But isnt our system based on checks and balances and having a coequal branch of government thats willing and able to push back. It is. It is. But there is a consequence that the voters themselves can deliver through this failure of the system itself to work this out. There is a i think there is a fundamental difference between the Republican Party today and that. In 1973 74 during the watergate thing you had courageous individuals like Caldwell Butler and larry hogan who came out for the impeachment of the president when most republicans were supporting the president. But when that remember the the the Supreme Court ordered that the tapes be revealed and the smoking gun tape came out. As soon as the smoking gun tape came out and revealed certain facts, all the republicans said, if i had only known a week ago, i would have voted to convict the president and Barry Goldwater and everyone went to the president and said, youre done. You havent got a single vote. What was revealed on that tape was pidly compared to what is absolutely proven now. And, yet, the bulk of the Republican Party now refused to to act. They were perfectly prepared to to let this kind of unconstitutional theft of intellect attempt of theft at an election go forward. Youre saying what President Trump did is worse than what nixon did. Far worse. You said that im paraphrasing you. That we hold Police Recruits to a higher standard than this president is being held to. Other than the physical requirement, what is the higher standard that a Police Recruit is held to than the president of the United States right now . Well, and let me say this. What has been most shocking to me during this experience as a formal Law Enforcement officer is that, as a Law Enforcement officer, when we present a case with strong evidence, we expect a conviction. There is no save myself or i believe in one person and im going to follow them over the cliff no matter if hes guilty or not. The fact that the senators just ignored the evidence and then when they thought there was an additional witness that might come in and testify or present evidence against the president , they refused to hear that witness. Witnesses and evidence are the strength of a case. And, so, when i think about young Police Recruits, as a police chief when i hired them, one of the things that i wanted to make sure that they clearly understand as a student was that the culture of the agency had to remain above board, that corruption could not reside in this place. And we always expected them to be truthful, honest and treat people with dignity and respect. Think about those qualities. The senators just protected a person who is not truthful, who is not honest, who tried to cheat and makes fun of people who are disabled and people of color and separates families. 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We reached out to john boltons counsel after the senators voted down his testimony to see whether he would be willing to submit an affidavit under oath that would still be valuable during trial. Even if he wasnt coming to testify. Even if he wasnt going to come to testify. Sworn affidavit. And he refused. Now, he will have to explain at some point why he is willing to put this in a book but not in an affidavit under oath. Hes making speeches as well, which he drops sort of comments as well. Yes. You know, it is fairly inexplicable. But frankly it is more inexplicable that when he was able to come forward before the senate that the senators didnt want to hear what he had to say. There have been a few to say we didnt need to hear from john bolton because basically the house proved the president guilty even without him, and we should let the voters decide. They could not explain why they dont want the voters to know the full facts. Did boltons attorneys explain to you why he would not send that affidavit . Not that im aware of, no. Nor why he would dmish testimony in the house versus the senate. Was it a mistake not to subpoena him . He had indicated he would not let me respond to it. Here is the thing. The answer is no. If we subpoenaed john bolton, we would be in the same place with him nine months from now that we are with john mcgahn. The other thing i will say is had we done what the president would have you believe, and its a hard argument to make that the house should have gone to court when there are courts saying the house shouldnt be allowed to come to court, had we taken the year or two years to go to court to force this testimony, the republican senators made it all too clear it wouldnt matter to them. They already believed the president guilty. We had proved already with the evidence we have today. If we proved it a year and a half from now with different evidence, there is no indication that would have made any difference. But we would have had the risk of this election without the country knowing of the president s misconduct, without some effort being made to protect the integrity of our elections. So i feel very comfortable with the decision we have made and the fact that we were able to prove the case even without these additional witnesses because the testimony we already had is overwhelming. So when john boltons book comes out and has whatever details it has in it, do you still want him to testify . Do you want to call him in to testify . Do you want to we havent made any decisions about that. What we wanted to do was get through the trial, which just ended, and then make a decision about next steps. And well have to weigh the need to validate and vindicate congresss oversight power on the one hand with the continuing imperative that has always been our first priority. And that is doing the business of the americanagenda, making s people have access to health care and good jobs. It was interesting to me. Mitt romney asked a question of the attorneys during the trial essentially which was, do you remember what was the day that the president decided to withhold aid and how was that transmitted . The president s attorneys could not answer that question. To me that was it is extraordinary to think just on a historical basis we have no idea really of the daytoday time line. I mean, you all did as best a job as you could of piecing together and you were able to find out a lot of information, but you they the president s own attorneys cannot say, oh, yeah, it was on june 3rd that he decided. They would not say. It is not necessarily they could not say. They would not say. We have to presume that the records we subpoenaed, which would show exactly that, they had possession of it. Sure. They dont want the congress to see it and they dont want the con try country to see. With those documents ever come out . This is part of a larger problem which is actually article two of the impeachment. Not only did they try to hide every piece of evidence on the president s misconduct, the president sent out a general order that nobody from the executive branch should testify to congress. Nobody should answer any subpoena. Nobody should give any information. They called it absolutely immunity, which is nonsense. Now that means besides the fact you are covering up evidence, it means you are trying to make sure that congress has no information about what the administration is doing. Congress cannot function without information. It is our job as a coequal branch of government to oversee what any administration is doing, to find out what theyre doing in child care or Health Policy or whatever, to react to it and propose legislation to deal with it. A refusal to allow Congress Information is basically a declaration that were going to rule out congress and were going to have it were going to have an executive dictatorship. Stone walling has worked, and that is why we had the second article of impeachment, to impeach him for abuse of power by trying to eliminate in effect any congressional role by refusing all information to congress. It wont work forever, though. A couple things are clear. Number one, senator romney was truly interested in getting to the facts. He asked legitimate questions about issues he wanted to learn more about. He wasnt trying to make political statements. The second thing is that the truth will come out. Whether it comes out in boltons books, emails down the road, you know, testimony by other people that were involved in this or some future Administration Releases the record, people will know. The senate decided they didnt want to know the truth when it mattered the most during this trial, but it will eventually come out. Is there a discussion of trying to go after the documents, subpoena the documents and have it go . I mean, it is not something thats in the public view. It doesnt take away from the candidates running for government. They will not be asked about that all the time. It seems to me that it is an ongoing discussion as adam said, but making sure that we in the House Majority continue to do the business of the American People, focus on, you know, lowering Health Care Costs and enacting infrastructure plan, making life better for every day americans as we have been doing from day one. We passed over 400 bills, 275 of them were bipartisan in nature. Maybe the senate will start doing something about the legislation that is sitting over there in a graveyard. At the same time, we have this oversight responsibility as a separate and coequal branch of government to continue to follow the facts, apply the law guided by the constitution and present the truth to the American People. This is all unfolding in the context of a white house that has executed as it relates to the ukrainian shakedown scheme, a coldblooded coverup that was largely exposed but there still is information that theyre withholding and well see what happens in that context. But as has been said repeatedly by the managers, the truth will all eventually come out. Was it a mistake not to charge bribery . Everything your trip needs for everyone you love. Expedia. For everyone you love. If youre 55 and up, tmobile has a plan designed just for you. And, for a limited time only, were making it an even better deal. Now you can get two lines for only 55. That includes unlimited talk, text and data. With no annual service contracts. 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S so victor can keep doing whats in his blood. At bayer, this is why we science. [ fastpaced drumming ] i sent a question to the desk. It is a question from senator collins. Its for the house managers. The House Judiciary Committee report accompanying the articles of impeachment asserted the president committed criminal bribery as defined in 18 us csection 201 and Honest Services fraud as designed in section 1346. But these offenses are not cited in the articles of impeachment. Did the president s actions as alleged in the articles of impeachment constitute violations of these federal criminal laws . And if so, why were they not included in the articles . Was it a mistake not to charge bribery, that there were a number of legal analysts who it is easy to look at someone elses case and say what you should have charged but why not actually choose bribery. That would have been an actual crime that would have satisfied some republicans who said there was no crime. The republicans said there is no crime are in ignorance. Bribery was charged in the facts stated in the charges. Abuse of power, which is what the what the first article of impeachment was, is the prime crime. Not against the criminal code, but is the crime crime for which a president made the impeachment. It is what the framers meant by high crimes and misdemeanors. Obviously, what the republicans are it would not have made a difference. Here is what they would have argued, whether it meets the code section. They would have said, you know, what was in the founders minds. Thats the reason not to cite bribery, youre saying . No. The reason not to cite it is that weve always cited abuse of power. Thats what high crimes and misdemeanors means if you read the notes from the constitutional convention. And then you cite the facts, in this case, it was bribery. Republicans are saying you are trying to have it both ways. Abuse of power and say bribery but not charge bribery. Its no different than nixon and really any of the impeachment proceedings. It is high crime and misdemeanor is abuse of power and then there are elements that may or may not be a crime. In this case there was probably the crime of bribery, but you dont cite that crime. Thats been the pattern. And, anderson, the republicans continue to move the goal posts. My colleagues are absolutely correct. It would not have mattered. Lets look at where we started. The call was perfect. We did nothing wrong. Then we moved from the call was perfect, we did nothing wrong and there was certainly no quid pro quo. Then it was, well, the houses procedure was screwed up, they did not give us due process. And then it was, oh, no, i did it. There was a quid pro quo. And so what . Get over it. It doesnt rise to the level of impeachment. And so while we were trying to present a case that showed all of the facts to the American People, that was not the republicans goal. They came the president s counsel came with smoke and mirrors. They did not come with facts and the truth. They came with smoke and mirrors to make you believe that we were the ones who had done something wrong and pay no attention to the glaring overwhelming evidence of president s wrongdoing. The other key fact here, the key provision is that it is always been understood that crimes, on the one hand, and Impeachable Offenses on the other hand are different. You can have a crime thats not impeachable. You can have Impeachable Offense thats not a crime. And the essence is abuse of power. Impeachment is not the impeachment clause in the constitution is not there to punish crimes. Thats why thats why you cant put someone in prison as a result of impeachment or fine him. Impeachment was put there as a protection against the president who would use power to try to subvert the constitution, subvert the role of congress, subvert protections. And the framers didnt mention specific crimes at all because you couldnt possibly anticipate what a president in the future might do that a president might do what this president did or that the president might decide to conspire with putin to give him back alaska. Those are impeachable, but it is not crime. You all brought up hunter biden and barisma. What was the thinking of bringing up hunter biden and barisma . [sneeze and sniffles] are you ok . Yah, its just a cold. Its not just a cold if you have high blood pressure. Most cold medicines may raise blood pressure. Coricidin hbp is the. 1 brand that gives. Powerful cold relief without raising your blood pressure. So chantix can help you quit slow turkey. Along with support, chantix is proven to help you quit. With chantix you can keep smoking at first and ease into quitting so when the day arrives, youll be more ready to kiss cigarettes goodbye. 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Join us at needtovote. Com because now. We need to vote. Need to impeach is responsible for the content of this advertising. You all brought up hunter biden and barisma. One of the arguments that republicans made was, well, we didnt want to bring this up. We werent going to bring this up. We would prefer not to be talking about this. We would prefer not to be discussing this. But the house managers have placed this squarely at issue, so we must address it. A, do you believe that argument. Thats ridiculous. And, b, what was the thinking of bringing up hunter biden . The president tried to slime joe biden because he was afraid joe biden would beat him in the election, and the president s team used the impeachment trial to try and achieve that same goal. Thats exactly what they did. Whether you brought it up or not. We didnt bring it up. We didnt bring it up. The factual charge on the ukraine was that the president used tried to use state power. He withheld military aid that had been voted by congress to the ukraine in order to get the Ukrainian Government to announce a bogus investigation of the bidens because there was political bonus. He was using state power for his political and personal benefit. Now, that was terrible and impeachable for all the obvious reasons, that youre using state power in order to try to get to get foreign help to interfere and cheat in the next election. Okay. The republicans brought up, well, hunter biden did this with barisma, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, completely irrelevant. What he did or didnt do had nothing to do with the question, which was did the president subvert government power in order to help himself with his election by getting the Ukrainian Government to slime his presumed opponent. It was just another distraction, just like some of the arguments that they brought up. It was another distraction, another distortion. Hunter biden was not on trial. The president of the United States was on trial. Does it damage joe biden as a candidate. I personally dont think so. But, again, he was Vice President biden was not on trial, neither was hunter biden. I think the public sees that it was totally irrelevant, and i dont think its going to longterm, but frankly i have been busy with the trial. I havent really followed politics and looked at it that closely. You mentioned, too, anderson, we never discussed this in how it would affect the 2020 election except that we wanted to protect the country against foreign interference. So i think a lot of people would find that hard to believe that that wasnt at least part of it, the calculus of the discussion. That was not our calculus at all. Our job was to fulfill our constitutional duty, to put forward the strongest case we could, to inform the American People of the president s conduct. We could understand why commentators and others would speculate whats the impact of impeachment going to be, but that wasnt our job and it really shouldnt be a factor in our consideration. So i still dont know what the impact is, and i guess well find out in the course of time. But the more important thing from our point of view was that this is a president who the day after he felt he was exonerated by bob mueller was back on the phone seeking foreign interference again, that he was willing to sacrifice our national security, the integrity of our elections to get help in cheating the next election. We had to stand up to that contact. Joining us, Lamar Alexander and others have indicated they think the president has learned a lesson. Do any of you believe he would not try to do this again . Wing out of clothing, earning cashback from rakuten just makes everything easier. Sometimes its 3 sometimes its 8 but youre always getting cashback. 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He solicited foreign interference from the russians. He solicited foreign interference from the chinese. At the heart of the scandal is that he tried to solicit foreign interference from the ukrainians to pressure an american zcitize as part of an effort to cheat in an upcoming election. Absent any consequences to the extent that he perceives the acquittal as an exoneration, it is a fake exoneration. But to the extent that the president perceives it as indication of his bad behavior, his constitutional crime, his wrongdoi wrongdoing, then there is reason to believe that he will endeavor to do it again. One of our responsibilities, you know, moving forward, is going to be as the as the watch guards of that investigation, but were also going to have to rely on the American People. The best indicator of future performance is to look at past performance. I call donald trump a habitual offender. He was in florida when he said, and then the day after, as has been indicated, the day after the special counsel testified on the hill, the president s on the phone. Inviting another foreign power to interfere in our election. And then when hes caught, he goes to the microphone and doubles down and invites china and reminds ukraine that, yeah, you should investigate the bidens. We have no reason to believe that this president has learned anything. If he had, perhaps he would have began the state of the Union Address the other night by apologizing to the American People. That, you know, what he did was wrong and hes regretful for it. We havent heard that and we shouldnt expect to hear it. Do you think if mick mulvaney, if bolton, if, you know, lev parnas, if there had been witness testimony, do you think it would have made any difference with republicans . Well, im not a mind reader and ive learned that my crystal ball is broken. Not very good at predicting the future. But, you know, amidst all the legal discussion here and the discussion about trial strategy and whether we should have done more of this or less of that, i think its important we dont lose sight of what is actually happening. What actually happened. And why im here. You know, my career in Public Service to the country started as a soldier. And i still remember every day when i wake up, i still remember what it felt like to be the lieutenant on the ground in baghdad and not have the support that me and my men needed. You talked about that on the floor. I did, yeah. About not having enough armored vehicles. Yeah. How lonely that felt and how we felt forgotten. Those thousands of miles, some days, felt like millions of miles. And one of my goals here was to close that gap between the discussions we have in washington and the politics and the legal debates and the political jockeying that happens here. And the realworld consequences down range. And the bottom line is that the president of the United States has shown us time and time again that he will always put his interests above the interests of the people that he serves. And he has sworn an oath to defend. And thats what this is about. You know, we have 68,000 u. S. Soldiers in europe, who stand ready to defend our partner, ukraine. And he was willing to withhold aid from that partner at war to benefit himself. And people cannot forget that. Hes let us down too often. And i have no hope that this time itll get better. And i just its regretful that some senators can use words like it was shameful. It was inappropriate. It was wrong. Because it is and hes done that in so many other times. So hes let us down, and i think while he was acquitted, hes not fully exonerated. And, anderson, this president doesnt understand a soldier like jason. He doesnt understand a person who would leave their home, go and fight in a foreign land for our freedoms. 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There was a moment when, chairman schiff, you were chairman nadler, you were getting up to speak. The president said jerr said jerry. The president said you were fighting big time. No but the president loves to sow division. I think not just in a vain effort. We tried to choreograph our questions so that each of us would have a different subject matter. And each of us would know when we would go up to the mic. You know, couldnt do it we couldnt do it perfectly because some questions were repeats and some were sort of in the midst between two. I dont think jerry knew that was going to be the last question of the evening. And and so we had our signals crossed. But i think, frankly, we were pretty flawless in terms of arranging for members to be able to respond to those questions in realtime. Because that was the belief. That you knew it was the last and you wanted to have the last. Nope. There are a lot of people who look at this and watch this and are dress depressed by the results. There are also a lot of people who are thrilled by the results as well. For the people who are sad and demoralized by what they have seen, what do you say to them . I mean, you have been living and breathing this now for years. But very intensely, the last few months. What do you say to people that say, look, i mean, all the headlines today are the president s been acquitted. Those who believe hes guilty say he got away with it. Well, i would say we have been through far greater difficulty in our history. Were going to get through this chapter. The sooner, the better. And the actions we take today, including impeaching the president and trying him, i think, will have the effect of slowing the momentum away from democracy until we return to our bearings. And once again we have an occupant in the oval office who has integrity. You never really fully realize how important character is in the president until you find you have one without it. But im optimistic by the countrys future. And well get through this. I would just add the impeachments behind us. Now, you know, my late father used to say dont agonize. Organize. We have an election this november. And the people themselves can impeach the president for this behavior. Thank you for your time. Appreciate it. Thank you. That was the First Time Since the trial ended that the house managers got together to discuss their prosecution of the case against President Trump. Thats it for us. Thanks for watching. Hello, everybody. Im chris cuomo. Welcome to primetime. We have breaking news on our watch. Fears are being realized tonight. A modernday friday night massacre by donald trump. Hes taking out his opponents, as promised. Now, youre going to hear from his side. How do they justify what this president is doing . Can they offer a defense . We have two gop impeachment players here. Plus, a warning for republicans who think that they are in the clear. This revenge has just begun. So lets get after it. 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