very, very strong statement to be seen from a federal court tonight. this is on page 49, max. you know, it basically says the decision totally validates the impeachment process. no house impeachment inquiry resolution is required. so there you go. they re saying, oh, you need a resolution. undercuts the house republicans argument and just basically republicans argument, and i guess what do you call them? trump apologists that there needs to be some sort of vote. right. i mean it s a small victory for the anti-trump side. it s not a huge deal one way or the other, i would say, because, you know, all these process arguments that the republicans are making have a short shelf life anyway, right? because they re saying this is all behind closed doors. you need a vote. well, guess what? in a few weeks time you re going to have public hearings and there will be a vote, so hlp yourself guys. there are also 47 republicans the process arguments are so lame, so disingenuous does
argument and just basically republicans argument, and i guess what do you call them? trump apologists that there needs to be some sort of vote. right. i mean it s a small victory for the anti-trump side. it s not a huge deal one way or the other, i would say, because, you know, all these process arguments that the republicans are making have a short shelf life anyway, right? because they re saying this is all behind closed doors. you need a vote. well, guess what? in a few weeks time you re going to have public hearings and there will be a vote, so help yourself guys. there are also 47 republicans the process arguments are so lame, so disingenuous does it work for the public, you think? no. i think it works for republican partisans basically to have this sense of grievance with the real kool-aid drinkers to tell them that somehow trump is being treated unfairly and you can t believe the facts. you have to focus on something else. so it s really a base argument. it s not
the works with giuliani and associates and the president and others for quite sometime and that is the setup that we are digging through and learning more. and then we re also learning more about the coverup. the coverup an attempt to stop the information as to what happened coming to the american people. you know, the republicans and the trump apologists are concerned saying this is being handled behind closed doors and secrecy and we want to be involved, this should be public. what do you say? i sat in the hearing today with 25 members of the republican caucus and their staffers. so to suggest they are not in the room and participating is flatout false. second, the way this process is working is that the majority has an hour to question the witness followed by an hour by the minority, followed by 45-minute blocks for each side. so there is no possibility for the republicans to honestly
that s critical, not about prosecutions. the fact that the president of the united states became a target of a counterintelligence operation is really something that at this point is not surprising but that we should still be stunned by. jeffrey goldberg, i want to read you something else from tom s column because i m sure you ll agree with it. finally, it s exhausting but nonetheless necessary to point out again the titanic hypocrisy of the republican party and of trump apologists in the conservative media. tom and i both former republicans and tom and i like so many americans aghast at the fact that you do appear have have a president doing vladimir putin s bidding and yet these people are lining up on the side
if he finds that they falsified evidence, he can throw out the guilty plea. can throw out this guilty plea. and set him free. i think it will be fascinating judge sullivan what he s going to do the first part of the week here. you push all your chips to the middle of the table, you better be sure you have a good hand. that was rough. way off. that one came up snake eyes. joyce. you know, it s one thing if you re bobby knight and you re working the roughs all day and maybe you throw you don t do this to federal judges. i mean, you know, i learned as a lawyer, when a federal judge walked by, you can kept my head down and kept walking. i did that to ap reporters in congress. the trump apologists and that