that it s incumbent upon the house to bring the public up to speed on what this evidence is. i mean, it is really important that after they do all these depositions that they put together a very powerful presentation of all of these different witnesses live on television so they can put this all together. it is so important to get the public involved in this, because the key here is putting together a solid case. and it s pretty good right now, from what we can see. but this case is not just about one phone call. why don t they talk more about bribery, in your view? i think they will. but they haven t. they haven t but there s no reason why they won t. the evidence is coming out that way, at least what we got from taylor yesterday. even that transcript that we got pretty much shows that what we have here is classic bribery. that s how the mob bosses, you know, carry out bribery. you don t come over and say i m going to give you a bribe. you do exactly what trump did on
accountable. at its core, we just don t think donald trump can be held responsible for anything. he did sort of mention later on, you can collect information for a long-term investigation. but at the end of the day, justice delayed is justice denied. these people seem to believe that if they can stall long enough and donald trump can get re-elected, no one will be able to pursue these cases five, six, seven years from now. and on one hand can be an extreme thing that s thrown out and on the other hand we talk about not letting things become normalized. submitted as a campaign ad or political rhetoric and jokes, this is in court. it tracks donald trump s view. sure. you came out here with a jay-z quote about the law. i m reminded of a more fity cent song where he says i don t want to talk about it, and lists off a bunch of things while saying i don t want to talk about it. maybe that s the only thing he and trump have in common at a
that particular conversation. when you ve got other people filling in the blanks like taylor, which clearly show this is a bribe. and when you go back prior to april before the first phone call and what else they were doing in the ukraine, i think you re going to find that the evidence here is going to be overwhelming. that s what they need. that s why these two men could be very important, parves and fruman. they spent a lot of time with giuliani and current and former ewe rain crayon officials. they likely know what was said in these meetings and what the message was that giuliani was sending. nick ackerman, shelby holiday, thanks to both of you. republican lawmakers storming that hearing room to stop the proceedings. trump s lawyers making a distinct and astonishing legal claim about shooting someone. we ll explain. ooting someone we ll explain.
unethical, no-good scheme that should have been stopped, the argument is that congress should not set a precedence that the president could be removed for what his defenders say is verbal hard ball in foreign policy and that the u.s. has an interest in supporting a strong president not worrying that a single phone call might become impeachable. but you know what? you might be thinking about this already. there is a problem with those defenses. that they, even as defenses, admit the actions at the heart of trump s ukraine scandal and then they argue impeachment is too strong a punishment, which isn t a good defense. there aren t many other options in a white house where you have scenes like this. mick mulvaney walks out, basically admits what could be crimes on live tv before trying to take it all back. did he also mention to me that the corruption lated to the dnc server? absolutely. no question about that. but that s it.
demanded a bribe from ukraine in exchange for trump releasing money to ukraine or for a meeting with the president of ukraine. that would be the action in return. so here is the simple case. trump wants the biden probe, the favor. that s the valuable bribe, corruptly demanded by the official. and as that definition of bribery says, that s directly demanding something of value. and unlike some harder cases, here, trump has already admitted his goal. i would think that if they were honest about it, they would start a major investigation into the bidens. it s a very simple answer. very simple. and now trump s own ukraine ambassador, mr. taylor, testifying about that same action sought in return, releasing money to ukraine contingent on the biden probe. not only that, remember, an official can actually be guilty of bribery by merely agreeing to do something. that is enough. they don t have to actually do it. if you pledge a quid pro quo and