and then we slid off the cliff. i m not saying we ll have that now. the banks are very well capitalized. you you re not likely going to have that sort of crisis but there is a lack of liquidity. the volker roll took money out of the trading market. the balance sheet for commercial banks has been removed to protect those banks. you know way too much about this in a good way. i m trying to talk very simply about it. there is a big issue. what i get from you is maybe the president shouldn t be necessarily banking on the economy to keep him afloat when it comes to re-election. let me just turn to the impeachment discussion. i don t want to make this all about the economy. i want your take on a few other things. you know, nancy pelosi still has not sent those articles of impeachment over to the senate. he s been impeached but here we sit. it is on hold. do you think there is some strategy there? do you think she is, you know,
banner for 30 years. he was a senator, mayor, representative and all. he got democratic money including democratic campaign political money. to turn and be a republican is strange. i ve heard rats jumping off a sinking ship but very few of them jump on to a shrinking ship. he may not be the only person who votes no on impeachment. there were two who voted against impeachment discussion. if two are against it, are you prepared for that? i m prepared for that. i think what that says is how bad the republicans have come that they can t recognize simple facts that the president admitted to asking a foreign power to get involved in our elections. that s wrong. he sacrificed our national security for his personal
immense amount of money to wealthy people, i feel strang strongly we ve got to keep policy out of this impeachment discussion. they tried it under nixon to put forward articles that were about his conduct of the vietnam war. we can t let the country go to a place where impeachment is anything other than going after a president because he violates his owniath to the constitution it can t be a tooul tol. but your broader points are right. a lot of those are abstract. how do you bat tcombat the f against the truth? we were watching ted cruz spouting off of this russian conspiracy theory about ukraine defending it hole hog with juwhe hog with no cham shame. it s one thing to deny climate change and theyfie don
i think this is a sham process. i think the substance is not worthy of an impeachment discussion. read the phone call for yourself. i don t care what anybody else says about the phone call. the phone call, i made up my own mind, is fine. harry, that s the chairman of the senate judiciary committee. he s also a potential juror in the impeachment trial saying, la, la, don t tell me anything. in fact, that s actually been the latest excuse that republicans have proffered to keep their head in the sand and avoid saying anything about trump. they re not jurors. it s not a criminal trial. it s a political proceeding, and they have to make a political decision. and graham here is of a piece, nothing wrong here, keep moving along as this ten-car pileup wreck is, you know, carnage all
so, now, stripped of having any defense on the merits, all there is is noise. all there is is sloganeering and we have a situation where because they know all the evidence is going to be bad and against the president now they ve been committing more acts of obstruction of justice, more articles of impeachment by directing people like mulvaney and bolton not to come when their testimony is obviously relevant to the inquiry. and this seems to be for the republicans obviously. here s the trump loyalist senator lindsey graham. he s taking the similar approach of just ignoring these latest revelations. here he is. listen to this. i ve written the whole process. i ve written him off. i think this is a bunch of b.s. i think this is a sham process. i think the substance is not worthy of an impeachment discussion. read the phone call for yourself. i don t care what anybody else says about the phone call.