a very warm welcome to you you re watching r.t. international with mina karen and our top story this hour the u.s. senate voted to acquit president trump ending the 3rd impeachment trial in u.s. history mr trump faced 2 charges from democrats abuse of power and obstruction of congress which stemmed from his dealings with ukraine callup more can has the details. impeachment proceedings have come to their ultimate conclusion donald trump was acquitted on both charges abuse of power and obstruction of congress however even though it was a quick vote with very little unexpected activities there was certainly plenty of debate in the lead up to the ultimate vote and conclusion the proceedings this is some of what we heard in your hatred of the trial of his bloody jew to the obvious this is not about protecting the country this is about destroying the president or an american president to deliberately solicit such a thing to blackmail a foreign country into helping him win an electi
central election headquarters i suppose early exit office and that didn t work out so well any app that s a mobile app it s capable of being hacked into and you know american students go back to the simple paper ballots that are marked by hand and counted in public there s no d opportunity to be rigging electronic software and having some kind of a dark market for watching solves in venice in the end see they did say the app correctly recorded partial voting but i thought you know what that actually meant what i m the one but around the world i mean does it not show the u.s. u.s. democracy in crisis i mean we know the drum didn t get. the popular vote in the united states to become president we know that trump has been impeached your media believes the drum in fact is a kremlin agent i mean around the world how do you think this is being seen. speed question it certainly doesn t reflect well on the state of american democracy i mean much of what you just described is the hyp
suddenly when i say that you re going to actually discuss issues and have any gender their agenda has been to vilify trump and to try to impeach him the entire time that it s a losing strategy well i know next week is the new hampshire primary hopefully it ll go better than the fiasco in iowa but a clinton staffer is reputedly mean in charge of online count to disinform ation reporting on those that use the word rigged on social media i presume that s not a reference to you or your previous suits against the democrats what do you make of that reaction to. i don t know maybe the popularity of bernie sanders. do susa the typical d.n.c. response to anyone who s critical of the way the election system is run in this country i m not afraid of using the word rig i think they ve been rigging elections . when i say we don t know he s know who s doing the rigging that s part of the problem but it s so easy to hack into electronic voting machines or for an insider so to manipulate the
suddenly say that you re going to actually discuss issues and have any gender their gender has been to vilify trump and to try to impeach the entire time that it s a losing strategy well i know next week is the new hampshire primary hopefully it ll go better than the fiasco in iowa but a clinton staffer is reputedly mean in charge of online count to disinform ation reporting on those that use the word rigged on social media i presume that s not a reference to you or your previous suits against the democrats what do you make of that reaction to. i don t know maybe the popularity of bernie sanders you do susa typical d.n.c. response to anyone who s critical of the way the election system is run in this country i m not afraid of using the word rig i think they ve been rigging elections when i say they. we don t know he s know who s doing the rigging that s part of the problem but it s so easy to hack into electronic voting machines or for an insider to manipulate the software of