Correct. You found in your investigation july 27th, candidate trump called on russia to hack Hillary Clintons email for the first time they did about five hours later, correct . Thats correct. You found august 2 that mr. Manafort met with a person tied to russian intelligence, mr. Kilimnik, gave him internal Campaign Strategy where russia was intending to do a misinformation campaign. Im not certain of the tie. The fact of the meeting yes, that is accurate. Your investigation as i understand it also found that in late summer of 2016, the Trump Campaign in fact devised its strategy and messaging around Wikileaks Releases of materials that were stolen from the Democratic National committee, correct . Is that from the report . Yes. According to mr. Gates. Yes. Thank you. You also talked earlier about the finding in your investigation in september and october of 2016, donald trump jr. Had email communications with wikileaks now indicted about releasing information damaging to the clinton c
Former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman is co-author of Cheating Justice: How Bush and Cheney Attacked the Rule of Law, Plotted to Avoid Prosecution—and What We Can Do about It. She served on the House Judiciary Committee during Watergate.
first of all, bear in mind that donald trump is slowly coming unhinged. look at that outrageous letter that he sent. look at the performance that he did in michigan this week. clearly, this is festering with him. but we are under no obligation to move, unless and until there are clear signals. and it s interesting that the public, even those who don t favor impeachment, overwhelmingly, support having a fair process. i guess the question is, congressman, what does the word fair mean? obviously, it s a subjective term. but what does fair mean? does fair mean you get witnesses for sure and those include john bolton and mick mulvaney? for starters. i mean, bear in mind one of the arguments that the republicans have no argument defending trump on the merits. they they they have no defense for his outrageous behavior. but they talk about process.
implications of the end of trump, and it never came close to true. many see a president who will push the limits to win, but apparently almost as many and i m talking about the half of independents who don t favor impeachment, not just left and right. they see this as just more of the same in a dirty game. dems go low to get trump. he goes low to get them. so why should one side use the rules they seem to abuse to get the other side for abuse? now, i hear you. you re screaming false equivalency, and maybe you re right. but if that opposite feeling is so baseless, why are the polls so split? so the question becomes how do you convince people that they should want to see politics cleaned up, especially when the people trying to convince them of that, the democrats, are seen as part of the problem? now, the right may not want to admit it, but the facts are clear. and the left needs to be clear
sadly. look at the last three years. promises, expectations of smoking guns and gotchas as implications of the end of trump, and it never came close to true. many see a president who will push the limits to win, but apparently almost as many and i m talking about the half of independents who don t favor impeachment, not just left and right. they see this as just more of the same in a dirty game. dems go low to get trump. he goes low to get them. so why should one side use the rules they seem to abuse to get the other side for abuse? now, i hear you. you re screaming false equivalency, and maybe you re right. but if that opposite feeling is so baseless, why are the polls so split? so the question becomes how do you convince people that they should want to see politics cleaned up, especially when the people trying to convince them of that, the democrats, are seen as part of the problem? now, the right may not want to