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bureaucracy and to protect that we ll overturn a democratically elected president. let me be categorical here, this is preposterous. what trump is calling a deep state in the united states is in fact patriots who recognize that they, a, work for the american people, and b, their sworn allegiance is to the constitution. they do not work for a president. james comey, of course, a pillar of the so-called deep state told me he thought in that sense, yes, there is a deep state in this country because it is protecting us and preserving the rule of law when we have elected officials trying to rub shot over it. and the idea of a deep state intersects with ukraine. we talk about was the president trying to get ukraine to dig up dirt on joe biden, his potential 2020 opponent? but the other aspect of it is ukorean is central in a lot of ways or a key player in terms of
and i would imagine it may have strong bipartisan support. i don t know if they ll pursue it to the point they ll overcome a pezdential veto if the president decides to stick to this policy position, but who can really say what he ll do. but i agree with congressman that damage is being done here every time we fail to live up to our commitments our strengthen globally depends on our relationships and i think the damage is being done here, and i think we re looking at years of work to repair not only this relationship with the kurds but other relationships with our allies abroad. susan rice president trump s president obama, excuse me she slammed president trump s decision to pull back turkish troops from syria. she called the president s decision crazy. take a look. it seems like six days a week i just put my head in my hands.
the report adds this, quote, while many republicans especially in the house are anxious to defend the president, they could be in political danger when i say these aspects are familiar, this seems to be one of them, a sort of go it alone improvisational and here are house republicans saying, gee, we wish we d known about this. and he decided to withdraw military from northern syria and abandon without consulting anybody. you know, when trump accuses the deep state of being involved here, the real difference of what s happening in the ukraine egent and what happened in the mueller investigation is trump set this in motion, nobody else did. the mueller event began when people got intelligence and began looking at the implications of it. the ukraine debacle began a day trump picked up the telephone and did exactly the same thing
house the opportunity to produce documents if he has those documents and show that there s no need to impeach him for what is obvious to us an abuse of his power, a threat to national security and a betrayal of the constitution based upon his actions. so absent that that, then what choice do we have but what i do say, susan, i am talking about all three. obstruction becomes one of the counts that would be included therein with the same thing we talked about as far as betrayal, abuse of power and national security interests. those would all be compiled therein. that s what we have to do. it s a serious time and we re not going to allow the president to act as if he is one of those authoritarians who he seems to embrace. okay, your argument is trump says you don t want to just let trump dictate the terms. it was done, though, with nixon. it was done with clinton. is there a compelling argument to put it on the record that,