and threat to the constitution. so you are right to the masterful way in which speaker pelosi has prepped the battlefield. she is presenting this accurately as a clear and present danger to the security of the next election and our national security. that s something the american people should get their hands around. and i think that what they led to saw today in inspector general s horowitz s hearing. why do i say that? you mentioned psychological ops. we are seeing now the republicans bright, shiny object. we heard very painful testimony today about mistakes over and over again in the carter page fisa process. ite pained me as a career fbi y to hear of those mistakes. but make no other mistake. what they will use this for in the gop is the bright, shiny object to detract from and meddle with the impeachment process. they will say the whole thing is wrong, weg should never even b here. e there is a deep state, and that s going to be the bright,
within those authorities. in the meantime, some liberal, political and legal analysts say democrats should refrain the discussion away from quid pro quo and towards extortion and they found some takers. listen. you have enough evidence for the depositions we have done to warrant bringing this forward. evidence of extortion scheme. the president acted criminally and extorted the way a mob boss would extort somebody. we already do have evidence of the presidents wrongdoing of the extortion. you can call this extortion, bribery, all the same thing. the quid pro quo is a nonissue but extortion, and actual crime is easier to sell to a skeptical public. but the ranking g.o.p. member of the house foreign affairs committee, lee zeldin said not so fast quoting dems have a new forte of the day extortion. the quid pro quo fell apart on them same problem with new shiny
political and legal analysts say democrats should refrain the discussion away from quid pro quo and towards extortion and they found some takers. listen. you have enough evidence for the depositions we have done to warrant bringing this forward. evidence of extortion scheme. the president acted criminally and extorted the way a mob boss would extort somebody. we already do have evidence of the presidents wrongdoing of the extortion. you can call this extortion, bribery, all the same thing. the quid pro quo is a nonissue but extortion, and actual crime is easier to sell to a skeptical public. but the ranking g.o.p. member of the house foreign affairs committee, lee zeldin said not so fast quoting dems have a new forte of the day extortion. the quid pro quo fell apart on them same problem with new shiny object. ukraine didn t know there was a
he was pretty vicious on twitter. he said i pay 29% in income taxes. you pay 25%. i think the biggest insult is that he compared elizabeth warren to donald trump. he said you are basically another politician. you re waving a nice shiny object. neil: bill gates was sayin saying, i pay income taxes. i could pay 20 billion. he s open to paying double, but he sure as hell isn t going to pay hundred billion frankenstein s monster. they have pushed for progressive taxes. they haven t helped to argue that things aren t fair. all of a sudden, everyone has got the torches and they showed up at their mansions. neil: it s alive, it s alive. where is this going? the millionaires and gives billionaires panning. it s resonating with the base.
enthusiastically pointing fingers at others inside the administration. we had the eu ambassador in before the impeachment probe today basically saying that trump and his lawyer were put in charge of u.s.-ukraine policy and that america s diplomats were to take their orders from giuliani in their discussions with ukraine. so there is an aspect to this story now where you are seeing people turn on one another in a very direct way. anita, suzanne glasser has just posted a piece in the new yorker tonight that is a reminder. aside from what happened today and in a way it was a big shiny object. yesterday s dust-up in the cabinet room with the speaker of the house, this slow march of testimony continues on in