And i thought the threat to our nation was well articulated earlier today by Professor Feldman when you said, if we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office for personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy, we live in a monarchy or we live under a districtatorship. My view is if people cannot depend on the fairness of our elections, then what people are calling divisive today will be absolutely nothing compared to the shredding of our democracy. After the events of ukraine unfolded, the president claimed that the reason he requested an investigation into his political opponents and withheld desperately needed military aid for ukraine was supposedly because he was worried about corruption. However, contrary to president s statements, various witnesses, including Vice President pences special adviser jennifer williams, testified that the president s request was political. Take a listen. I found the july 25th phone call unusual because in contrast to other president ial ca
deal, but i digress. anthony: oh yeah. here comes the good part. oh yeah. that s a rush, right? eric: it s like, uh anthony: the road to enlightenment, right there. eric: ah, now the massage. anthony: oh, and you might as well straighten out eric s neck while you re at it. eric: whoa! don t do that. ah! anthony: oops. that didn t sound good. so, you ready for the ass cleaner? he s coming, he ll be right over. same tools as the ear cleaner, by the way. as i explained to eric, a true artist must never stop learning. the japanese have a name for this principle and the intended pursuit of knowledge and enlightenment kaizen. [ teacher speaking chinese ] woman: today we will learn fish-flavored dish, ready the pork. anthony: so it was with this in mind, as well as the classic work of mr. rodney dangerfield,
going on here. as the slide shows, on his july 25th call, president trump said former ambassador yovanovitch would, and i quote, go through some things. ambassador yovanovitch testified about how learning about the president s statements made her feel. what did you think when president trump told president zelensky you were going to go through some things? i didn t know what you think but i was very concerned. what were you concerned about? she s going to go through some things didn t sound good. it sounded like a threat. did you feel threatened? i did. and as we all witnessed in
appalled. devastated. that the president of the united states would take any ambassador like that to a foreign head of state. and it was me. i couldn t believe it. what did you think when president trump told president zelensky and you read that you were going to go some things? i didn t know what to think. i was very concerned. what were you concerned about? she s going to go through some things it didn t sound good. it sounded like a threat. did you feel threatened? i did. yovanovitch told the committee about the lack of support she saw from secretary of state pompeo. in the face of the smear campaign did colleagues try to get statement of support for you from pompeo? yes. were they successful?
about? she is going to go through some things, it didn t sound good, it sounded like a threat. did you feel threatened? > i did. so you were watching that, it was a riveting moment, and you writed a piece in the daily beast, so you re taking this more broadly beyond this moment, you see it as symbolic of a pattern. whatever she going off, nasty, physical of describing people, why do you think this was a telling moment? number one, one of the biggest take aways from yesterday in this who process for me, as a lifelong moderate