like foreign policy being run this way, but i don t see enough here to remove an elected president from office. it s an argument republicans may have made from the beginning, may have been more compelling, but they couldn t do it because the president was denying everything. is that a winning argument, something that can carry the day? yes. bad stuff but not impeachable? it s the only argument. to your point they should have done it from the beginning. hey, look because what we ve learned about this president is not only will people accept playing outside the lines, that part of it is part of his brand. it s like, yeah, this is a president that pushes hard, made a mistake, certainly should not be removed. i don t want to betray the voters who voted for him. you want him out of office, vote him. and it s actually a if you re not an absolutist about the constitution, if you re not, like i said, what we do for a living and follow this, if you re an average joe voter out there, y
quietly by. you re not going to be able to do this without people noticing. as a head of the armed services committee, ukraine was right there and we ve been talking about it, but there s a lot of other things you oversee. you think? and your relationship with the white house is critical in addressing those things. what is the relationship now with the white house? are you able to move things? are there things that you are concerned about today other than ukraine that are not happening and we should, as the public, be aware of? here s the odd thing. i get along quite well with the white house, which may sound odd given my current position. but there are quite a few people at the white house who are very much trying to do their job. and we have kind of agreed that whatever else is going on over here, we have got to find a way to keep functioning as a country. right now we are just this close to passing the national defense authorizing act, the defense bill. and i ve worked very
and and how it felt to them to see foreign policy diverted by a president in this way. the consequences of that for ukraine, the consequences of that for her sense and the sense of others of what was what was right, what was acceptable, what was proper, what was the way the white house is supposed to work. and, you know, you mentioned the american people. ultimately if the needle is going to move from where it is now, which is that the president will be impeached, i believe he will be. i believe, you know, impeachment is almost analogous to an indictment and i think there s plenty of evidence for an indictment by now. but he is unlikely to be removed from office unless, number one, public sentiment moves in that
i don t want to overstate it, but it just seems to be that everything is known at this point. everything is known over and over again. we heard the same narrative, the same quid pro quo narrative. and, you know, the only the only good thing in this whole process, to me, is that the american people have been allowed to see some great public servants who ordinarily don t get any attention for the good work that they do on behalf of the american people. jonathan, one of the things dr. hill did right out of the box, we got a preview of it when we saw her opening statement about 24 hours ago was to go right at republicans on the committee and say, you re pedali peddling a fiction. i study these things, i know she s things better than you sitting up there, she didn t say it that way, but it was russian that meddled and by meddling these fictions of ukraine, you re helping russia with their
the taxpayers spent $100 million for him to play golf. you know, it s part of his sociopathic behavior. he does not look at voters or people as people. they are just pawns like his father taught him. there are killers and there are losers and he treats the rest of the world as if they don t exist they re losers. you don t exist as people and you can give me money, you can give me $50 to fight for firemen and i will take it and i will put it in my pocket. he shakes down his staff too. bill barr is having his holiday party at a trump property. you show loyalty by giving him money. willie, i ll just know that mar-a-lago season begins next week for thanksgiving so the president will make trips there again. and eric trump is tweeting out at the end of a long week you know what you could use? some trump wine. selling the wine. why are you all speaking this way of the dearly coming up, 12 witnesses over five days of public testimony in the impeachment hearings. we will discuss wha