The ukrainians when they learned that the aid had been held, they said dont worry about it, and thats exactly what happened. It got worked out without any promise, start of any type of investigations. This is a very good day for the truth, and for the president of the united states. A very good day for the country, but the sad thing, as i said in the hearing, these two individuals are no longer working in our government, because they are the kind of Public Servants that he would appreciate. Some of the important facts to recap, ambassador volker says that president zelensky doesnt know theres a hold on aid. He gets a readout from both the u. S. Side and the ukraine side, and theres no witnesses to a quid pro quo, extortion or bribery. On july 26 he meets with sondland and volker, and there is no reference to a quid pro quo, bribery, extortion a hold on aid and over the course of the next several weeks, ambassador volker is in frequent contact with the ukrainians. There is no reference
Across talking impeachment im joined by my guest r. C. Maxwell in phoenix hes a republican strategist and the state director of the black conservative federation in washington we have Christopher Barron he is a conservative strategist as well as the president of right turn strategies and in st paul we cross to David Schultz he is the Hamelin University professor of Political Science all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means he can jump in and out in time any time you want right christiane let me go to you 1st in washington d. C. I watched some of the hearings theyre very boring frankly i dont really know what theyre talking about i dont see the purpose of it here but one thing that i find really disturbing during all of it is because i know a lot about ukraine i live in this part of the world i follow it very very carefully the people testifying about ukraine their ukraine firster is they dont know much about the country that make that thats a double whammy for me not on
Below and welcome to cross talk where all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle efforts to impeach and remove donald j. Trump from the presidency have clearly divided the country this should not surprise anyone trump is probably the most divisive public figure of our time however all this division over a Single Person is changing in even damaging institutions is impeachment being normalized. Across talking impeachment im joined by my guest r. C. Maxwell in phoenix hes a republican strategist and the state director of the black conservative better race. And in washington we have Christopher Barron he is a conservative strategist as well as the president of right turn strategies and in st paul we cross to David Schultz he is a Hamelin University professor of Political Science sorry gentlemen crosslike rules in effect that means he can jump in and out in time any time you want by christopher let me go to you 1st in washington d. C. I watched some of the hearings theyre very boring frankly i
Carefully the people testifying about ukraine their ukraine firster is they dont know much about the country that thats a double whammy for me not only is that useless what theyre saying is useless but the outcome of all of this i think is a much bigger more worrisome picture here as the last line in my introduction impeachment is becoming normalized if you look at the founders you look at the. The federalist papers this was supposed to be an extreme remedy it looks like thats a longer the case and i really fear for the republic if this is good the way its going to be done theres no crime this is an investigation in search of a crime crisper go ahead. Absolutely look look were causing weve costly her during the 3 years of the term presidency this isnt normal weve heard here this refrain over and over again from the Mainstream Media of and from the left and quite frankly thats what they should be saying right now this is not a normal impeachment is an extraordinary constitutional proces
During the 3 years of the term presidency this isnt normal weve heard here this refrain over and over again from the Mainstream Media of and from the left and quite frankly thats what they should be saying right now this is not a normal impeachment is an extraordinary constitutional process that was put in place not to hash out policy differences but actually to hold the president accountable for high crimes and misdemeanors even if we assume everything the democrats are saying is truthful which it isnt there is no high crime and misdemeanor here this is a policy difference and it is absolutely shameful that democrats are using this extraordinary constitutional process abusing this constitutional process to hash out a policy difference with this administration in r. C. In phoenix here i sometimes get the impression this isnt pietschmann for impeachment sake is this too is to damage the president i mean if we look at the the the membership of the u. S. Senate the Republican Caucus there