comments suggesting covid may be, quote, an ethically targeted bioweapon designed to spare jews and the chinese. kennedy responded by saying he s never uttered a phrase racist or anti-semitic in his entire life, but democrats at the hearing responded fiercely calling him a menace to society who did not deserve the platform republicans had given him. democratic congressman jerry conally of virginia gave a passionate rebuke of republicans and of kennedy. i ve been in this congress 15 years, and i never thought we d descend to this level of orwellian dystopia. suddenly the tools of the trade are not to get at the truth but to distract, distort, deflect,
and dissemble. to disagree is censorship. to try to correct the facts is to infringe on my right of free speech. and no matter what you may think, mr. kennedy and i revere your name, you re not here to prepond the case of censorship. you re here for political reasons to embarrass the current president of the united states, and you re an enabler in that effort today. and it brings shame on a storied name that i revere. the hearing incapsulated kennedy s unusual presidential campaign, which has been promoted by conservatives and condemned by democrats as conally said a cynical bid to derail biden s re-election and
should say jerry conally has just told cnn this, that george kent testifying before this committee today told lawmakers that he was told by his supervisor to lay low after he raised complaints about rudy giuliani s efforts in ukraine undermining u.s. foreign policy. is that what you heard? i m not going to characterize testimony until we are done. but what i will say is nothing has contradicted what the underlying act is, what the president has confessed to and the fact there is an active cover-up right now as we speak by the administration to prevent us from understanding what the shakedown scheme exactly is. elise, the fact of george kent s testimony today, told pie the state department don t show up, he showed up. sondland last week was saying he wasn t going to cooperate. now he says he is.
of even pursuing it? well, katie, i didn t say it s just a political process. i said it s also a political process. for example, when ronald reagan was in the white house i can remember tom foley, then speaker of the house saying point-blank we weren t going to impeach ronald reagan. even though certainly reagan s knowledge of involvement in iran contra absolutely was an impeachable offense. so political decisions get made on whether you drop the hammer or not, whether it s politically sustainable, what the costs are to the country at the time, and you can get through a trial in the senate that unlike the house requires two thirds votes. how difficult is this for democrats, this question of where the line is for this president, politically speaking? i think it s a very difficult question if you re being diligent about your obligations constitutionally as a member of the house. and frankly, for most of us
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