right? xenophobia, racism, nativism, isolationism, reflexive partisanship. these have been with us from the beginning, and they ll be with us to the end. our greatest moments have been those in which we have made those forces ebb as opposed to flow. right now they re flowing. and one thing we can see in the impeachment drama and one thing that would make me feel slightly more confident about the future of things is it s perfectly fine, it s within their constitutional duty for united states senators to say, this is not an offense for which these two articles do not rise in their opinion to removing a president from office. they re elected. they took the oath. that s their job. that s their call. and if the voters don t like it, we can throw the senators out. but let s at least get to a point where we can agree about the common sense, the actual, discernible reality of the facts
have been trying to push in order to kind of try to counter act this idea that the president was trying to damage one of his political rivals. it s really interesting, the president s twitter feed sort of always provides this really interesting in time version of conta exactly what he was looking at. again and again it s the president s offhand comments, things he says off the cuff on the south lawn, for instance, asking china to investigate the bidens that wind up really coming back as evidence the democrats can use against him. things for instance in the mueller report where his words are being used to build that case against him. john, mark short, the chief of staff for vice president pence in addition to giving kind of glancing approval of the russian talking points on ukraine also found a way to kind of defend the president hinting that john dingell might be in hell. what do you make of these times we re living in, john?
it s really interesting, the president s twitter feed sort of always provides this really interesting in time version of exactly what he was looking at. again and again it s the president s offhand comments, things he says off the cuff on the south lawn, for instance, asking china to investigate the bidens that wind up really coming back as evidence the democrats can use against him. things for instance in the mueller report where his words are being used to build that case against him. john, mark short, the chief of staff for vice president pence in addition to giving kind of glancing approval of the russian talking points on ukraine also found a way to kind of defend the president hinting that john dingell might be in hell. what do you make of these times we re living in, john? well, let s hope they pass. what we re seeing is an exaggerated version of a lot of perennial american forces, zen
well, let s hope they pass. what we re seeing is an exaggerated version of a lot of perennial american forces, zen phobia, reflexive partisanship. these have been with us from the beginning, and they ll be with us to the end. our greatest moments have been those in which we have made those forces ebb as opposed to flow. right now they re flowing, and one thing we can see in the impeachment drama and one thing that would make me feel slightly more confident about the future of things is it s perfectly fine. it s within their constitutional duty for united states senators to say this is not an offense for which these two articles do not rise in their opinion, to removing a president from office. that s they re elected. they took the oath. that s their job. that s their call. if the voters don t like it, we
phobia, reflexive partisanship. these have been with us from the beginning, and they ll be with us to the end. our greatest moments have been those in which we have made those forces ebb as opposed to flow. right now they re flowing, and one thing we can see in the impeachment drama and one thing that would make me feel slightly more confident about the future of things is it s perfectly fine. it s within their constitutional duty for united states senators to say this is not an offense for which these two articles do not rise in their opinion, to removing a president from office. that s they re elected. they took the oath. that s their job. that s their call. if the voters don t like it, we can throw the senators out. but let s at least get to a point where we can agree about the common sense, the actual discernible reality of the facts in front of us because this