american people to ask themselves the question of what kind of drug deal is mitch mcconnell and lindsey gram trying to cook up. i think we have to keep the pressure on just for fairness. fairness to trump, but fairness to the american people, too. also hope that we see a legitimate trial that we can all have confidence in. you tweeted that lindsey graham and mitch mcconnell are mocking the oath that they took there in the senate trials. thank you, guys. happy holidays to both of you. amid the impeachment impasse he took the chance to air some of his grievances. now in a question and answer session with reporters, reriffed on topics from home alone 2. to china trade, and he drilled down and blasted speaker
foreign federal prosecutor, and michael ray, a former independent white water prosecutor. thank you for being with me. nice to be with you. michael, i will start with you, what we just heard, that development with senator lindsey gram s graham saying he doesn t want to hear from any evidence and let the house evidence speak for itself. they took the deposition testimony, and it is presented in the house and they didn t really call live witnesses, so the president is doing a presentation in the senate as long as it is fully vetted the evidence that gave rise to the impeachment to the evidence, and it is not really just a rubber stamp of emotion to dismess and no real trial. let me get your legal spn on
pain for them in 2020. t is appalling, the united states lead the effort to make it clear that we will not be indifferent about war criminals. we have had the high road that is the best in the world, and now we have a president that has poe lit sized this, and including the courts, and the military, and this is horrific to our statute as the world s greatest democracy, this president understands nothing, and i think it is time for some of his supporters to whether it is lindsey gram or others, there
republicans like tim morrison, that could change minds, and senate republicans have been much quieter than house republicans in terms of rushing to judgments other than lindsey gram, of cour graham, of course. democrats i talked to feel very good about the credibility question. they have no doubt that the people they re going to put on will make themselves incredibly believable, but back to my original point, how do they take this out of the white noise of here is more talk of impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, i don t know if you have to make it the shared historic moment, but you to make people listen, understand, and judge fairly. i m not sure, but we know that the data is clear, there is a percentage of folks for impeachment but not for removal.
affirm what they believe. that is funny you mention nixon. i spoke to some people this week and they said you have the public until you don t. i think the departments have a high bar here, i think they do need to make a connection to the public itself. and we have seen them twist themselves into knots. according to lindsey gram they re not smart enough to come up with a quid pro quo. when you have decades long career officials that you trot out there to answer questions that have been hard line