president thinks this is fertile political ground. sandra: he tweeted. that bring it on. faster the better. you can t avoid inconvenient facts. the first one being she is doing exactly what she has said in the past should not be done. a purely partisan impeachment. jerry nadler has the famous 1998 clip in which he was saying the same during the clinton impeachment and she opened it with a huge whopper. among other things what she said yesterday was the facts of the president s guilt are uncontested. uncontested? there are 197 republicans, every single one of them in the house saying that it is contested. the facts are contested. they re very contested. jonathan turley who was the only nonpartisan legal scholar at that table t. three scholars brought up by the democrats. each one have a long history of dislikeing trump. some saying he shouldn t be in. jonathan turley didn t vote for donald trump. he was nonpartisan when it came to the issue of donald trump
he said he reserves public judgment on that until he has a chance to consult with his colleagues. it was an interesting response from someone who said the president s misconduct is so clear and uncontested in all of this. adam schiff has been saying for several years there were reasons to impeach president trump. he said he had hard evidence that there was collusion between the trump campaign and russians. that fell through. and now he has pursued this line which goes to the ukrainian phone call with president zelensky and president trump. this is a big moment for adam schiff in his career, a big moment for jerry nadler of new york as well who is the chair of this judiciary committee. one of the things that we need to watch for here, the whole purpose of this is to move people s opinion. to sway people. so who are those potential people who might be swayed? perhaps a few republicans. we ve already heard from will hurd who said after all the hearings he went through he didn t believe
saying. but we need to just get used to the idea of a corrupt president and get over it. and so we will have to decide given that the evidence, this misconduct is so clear and uncontested, are we prepared to just get over it? are we prepared to say that henceforth we must expect from this president and those who follow that there will be a certain amount of corruption in which the national security of the country will be compromised, in which the oath of the office will mean that much less, in which the belief in the rule of law in the united states will be that much less? is that what we re simply to get over or get used to? well, i for one don t think we should get over this. i don t think we should get used to this. i don t think that s what the founders of this country had in mind. indeed i think when they prescribed a remedy, this kind of conduct by a president of the united states putting his own
said publicly what others have been denying. although i will point out the president, and it s in this report, on october 3rd, the president was asked what he d hoped zelensky would do following their july 25th phone call and the president said, well, i would think if they were honest about it they d start a major investigation into the bidens. it s a very simple answer. so even though the president is reportedly upset at mulvaney, he said very much the same thing. right. and keeps repeating it and repeating it and repeating it publicly. another thing that the summary of the report says, it says, most of the facts presented in the pages that follow are uncontested. that gets to the heart of what we discussed earlier. that most of the facts that are important to the central issue whether or not the president abused his authority were in the summary of the july 25th phone call that was released, were in
that we need to just get used to the idea of a corrupt president and get over it. so we will have to decide given that the evidence of this conduct is so clear and uncontested, are we prepared to just get over it? are we prepared to say that we must expect from this president and those that follow that there will be a certain amount of corruption, the national security of the country will be compromised, the oath of the office will mean that much less and in which the belief in the rule of law and the united states will be that much less. is that what we re simply to get over or get used to. i for one don t think we should get over this. i don t think we should get used to this. i don t think that s what the founding fathers had in mind. when they prescribed a remedy, this kind of conduct by a president of the united states