reality, a phrase you may have heard this is what democracy looks like. that can be an appeal, an argument, or a kind of protest, and lament to how democracy is going, which is how many view what is going on tonight, as we keep track of some of the first hearing of this new republican congress and some of the floor speeches defining the new agenda. alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. in western colorado, we call that a fun weekend. bottom line, socialism bad, capitalism good. sounds like you re prepared to go over the cliff if you have to. over the cliff. shut it down. drag queen story time, where men dress up as women and read confusing books to children. first i thought you said dry clean. confusing indeed. now, in all fairness, selected rhetoric or a few sound bites need tot define an entire party. take other eras in history, a few sound bites and that would not be the whole story. but the spats we re seeing, the often bizarre and downright hateful speeches tha
Are the calls for his resignation . I will speak live with congresswoman some lee. Then the gops broken priorities, instead of focusing on the looming Government Shutdown, the erosion of our democracy, talking about John Fetterman in shorts, seriously. And two of the worlds most influential men are pushing the world on this good evening, im mehdi hasan. One of the main reasons americans are so fed up with washington d. C. , so distrustful about, government so angry about the state of our public life, is because so many of our politicians on both sides of the political divide seek to be bought and paid for by billionaires, and by big corporations, and by dark money groups. This winter Robert Menendez democrat of new jersey was accused of being bought and paid for by the Egyptian Government who was indicted by the doj on friday, on corruption and bribery charges that he denies. Now lets be clear, corruption is a huge issue for the voters. It is a cancer in our system of government. What
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least so far, who spoke directly to the president. americans are skeptical about testimony, especially an aide who overheard this phone conversation? of course, there s a number of witnesses who are going to be coming to testify before us this week and next week. many of whom spoke with the president. on top of that we have mick mulvaney, who basically blurted out a very candid admission the other day, in his opinion it s normal practice to have these types of quid pro quos, in this case, conditioning military aid to ukraine based on a political investigation happening by ukrainians on americans. this type of stuff, i think, will be scrutinized, as it should be, but there are a lot of data points now piling up point ing the same direction, which are the underlying allegations of a pressure scheme
your republican colleagues? i m not sure. i think this is chapter one in a process. i do think it went really well from the standpoint of some very compelling witness testimony. i thought the decorum was very good. it was handle in a dignified manner. credit goes to chairman schiff. we learned new information you probably already talked about, namely the president may have been more deeply involved in this pressure scheme involving ukraine and his political rivals. what about that phone call overheard by one of the ambassador s aides where the president seemed to be more interested in getting information from the bidens than cared about ukraine itself. that was very enlightening. we re planning to depose this individual later this week. we re hoping to learn more.