if you want to know how the president feels about that, well, he sent an absolutely unhinged, deranged six-page tweet-like letter to nancy pelosi today in which he said, among a variety of other things, quote, you have cheapened the importance of the very ugly word impeachment, and, quote, more due process was afforded to those accused in the salem witch trials. fact check, not true. republicans have been trying a variety of tactics throughout this entire progression towards impeachment, primarily arguing about the process and making lots of loud noises rather than engaging on the substance, basically the president s fundamentally corrupt abuse of power to interfere in an american election to benefit him. and republicans have also throughout this entire thing trying a political conga game which they project confidence
because angry partisans rushed sloppily through it. it s not the senate s job to leap into the breach and search desperately for ways to get to guilty. that would hardly be impartial justice. interesting that mcconnell would bring up impartial justice, considering that mcconnell also responded today to criticism that by already announcing on trump tv he is coordinating with the white house in the impeachment trial, he has already abdicated his constitutional role which requires him to literally take an oath of, quote, impartial justice. i m not an impartial juror. this is a political process. there is not anything judicial about it. impeachment is a political decision. the house made a partisan political decision to impeach. i would anticipate we will have a largely partisan outcome in the senate. i m not impartial about this at all. joining me now to respond to all of this, senate minority leader chuck schumer who is the democrat from new york. first i want to get your response
trump. there was this the inspector general s report that came out about the origins of the investigation into the president, the counterintelligence investigation started in 2016. you were still in the obama administration at that point. and two aspects of that. one, sort of knocking down the most farfetched conspiracy theories about essentially a partisan whuitch hunt inside th deep state to get the president of the united states. but the other expressing real critiques, concrete ones of the fisa process. and i m wondering what your reaction to that was. well, clearly there were mistakes made based on the inspector general s report. and i know a lot of people attribute it to either incompetence or politicization. i might attribute it to these are fbi agents who were doing their level best to try to prevent russian interference in the election. they were probably overly aggressive. they didn t pay careful enough attention to some of the details. they may have ignored some aspect
there were numerous warnings he had not to use this information and subsequent renewals submitted by comey omitted that steele s primary sub source, the sub source, the only source not even a source, he described his own evidence as the rumors, hearsay, speculation a crude bar joke. and admitted the sub source even questions steele s credibility. wow. and he omitted steele doubted the credibility of the sub. get this, comey s fisa renewal straight up light about carter page and his connection to the cia. one of comey s lawyers fraudulently change the document to remove the fact that page, well, was a source for the cia, but instead said he was not a source. remember, comey told us all that any claims of fisa abuse were just utter nonsense. this is a lie, what we are about to show you. look. total confidence that the fisa process was followed and
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