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approval from his base and it really has not wavered. roy blount took awhile to get to that answer. he said many times he didn t feel as though this was worthy of impeachment. i agree with him. some of the things that were said on that call were inappropriate, but it did not rise to the level of impeachment. and i talked to many members of the republican members of congress and when they look at what they heard in the house, they see this as not a case of where a crime was proven without a shadow of a doubt. they see no underlying crime. and that s the reason why they are standing in support with the president. and that s why if and when it finally does get to the senate, i see that being acquitted in short order. but it also benefits them. they get to stay in power if they support the president. i mean, we ve seen examples of people who have spoken out against him and faced repercussions for that both at the ballot box and his twitter account. well, it s genuine. certainly if th
in our ability because the white house, the state department, the department of defense have all withheld documents from us. but even with our hands tied behind our backs, we ve been able to present to the american people a compelling argument for moving forward with a review of whether or not we should have articles of impeachment brought to the floor of the house. it would be the risk of fighting this out, so you re trying to make it clear to the american public that the president a vubused his office. shouldn t you fight it and get that clear testimony so there s no shadow of a doubt what the president did? actually, the president helped us out immeasurably by releasing the summary of his telephone call. we have the whistleblower complaint file that was an effort to prevent us from accessing that. he had released a summary of his conversation which establishes the elements of bribery where
are leading in the democratic race, you know, you democrats can tell themselves the story of how each of them could lose to donald trump. now, the polls say that any of them would beat donald trump right now, but of course these are hypothetical matchup polls way too, you know, national polls way before the blectionel but there s a shadow of a doubt about all four of them justified or not, because they re all good politicians and they all know how to run campaigns. but there s enough to of that, i think, just to create an opening for democrats to look around a little bit more. so so there s a possibility there. joe, i want to go back to a ward th word that walter use. to me, bloomberg can go at trump more than any other candidates,
the media mob, trump-ukraine quid pro quo, yet again, one big giant hoax, another lie, another conspiracy theory. three long years. one witch hunt after another. one coup attempt after another. tonight, we have brand-new evidence provingt beyond any shadow of a doubt, the left hysteria is once again built on another bed of lies. an investigative reporter john solomon has acquired documentation showing that a new investigation was opened by the prosecutor general four months before the phone call with our president and the ukrainian president, zelensky, under ukraine s prior president. and that s not all, john solomon reporting also tonight, one focal point of the investigation was whether any of the $3.4 million in proceeds that burismaur holdings paid to huntr biden s firm betweenay 2014 and