in tonight s viewer mail we have an e-mail from oscar winning director and screen writer berry levinson who writes, if this hearing was a fictional piece of material it would be presented in a totally different manner. one of the democratic players would ask this question how is it possible president trump was looking into corruption in ukraine? suddenly he is is a crime-fighter. has the president ever tried to end corruption anywhere at any time in his life over the years he s been found guilty of stealing from his own charity. also the president has been found guilty of running a fake university and stealing money from people who believed in him. the president has paid off women because of his sexual aggressive behavior. now out of the blue he wants to cleanup corruption in ukraine not russia where putin has killed off opposition players, poisoned them in far off
so that this thought that it was ukraine that was the bad actor is absurd. and i was really glad you pointed it out. it s not to say they don t have problems in their country with corruption, but i loved how she explained today for the president corruption was code word for getting dirt on biden. i had a different introduction for this segment tonight until i got this e-mail just minutes before the show. what i thought it captured was the kind of viewer frustration there is out there in watching this. just to clarify, we know in a courtroom that wouldn t be admissible. if donald trump was on trial for x you couldn t bring up all these things you know about his life. but this is different arena. would we hear something like that said, for example, in the judiciary committee when they re considering impeachment? or could that be said, that kind of thing be said in the senate impeachment trial? this is an example of evidence because of the fact that in this case he was allegedly the
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constitution? you saw today dr. hill told the truth when john bolton sold the truth. that s a difference how you view your constitutional obligations. everyone, staffers, as you alluded to earlier, lauren, we ve all taken the oath. the day will come when you have to dot hard thing. what we saw fod was some people who did the hard thing, substantial risk to their careers, substantial risk for their place, continued employment, future employment in republican administration. standing up to the president of the united states. we saw lieutenant colonel vindman testify about the threats he feels and the pressure his family feels. so these witnesses are going on the line to do a very simple thing, which is to be fact witnesses, to explain what they heard, what they saw. and i think the thing that today s hearing added, it was even more direct connection between president trump himself and the scandal and the corruption here. i think be that s going to be a powerful factual element of the
countries. president trump has no real problem with the suddy prince mbs having them chop up a the washington post reporter, not a real problem. are turkey s aggression against kurds not a big problem? but ukraine is corrupt? that needs to change? are we supposed to believe this? donald trump wants to cleanup corruption starting with biden s son in ukraine? the democrats have not yet emphasized this absurdity at the center of the republican defense of donald trump. might that moment come in the house judiciary committee impeachment hearings or in the impeachment trial in the united states senate? we are joined now by one of the jurors in the possible impeachment trial of donald j. trump if he is impeached by the house of representatives, senator amy klobuchar, a democrat from minnesota and also a candidate for candidate for president of the united states. and senator, it s because you re candidate for president of the united states that i believe you