Those new members, richie torres, in a few minutes. This is democracy as its supposed to work. Those, who the people elected, replacing those who were voted out n three days well see an exercise in how democracy is not supposed to work. A group of 12 republican senators will join 100 of their house colleagues to object to duly certified electors in several states that donald trump lost, losses that cost him the election. Those Republican Voters of congress will sign on to the president s false claims of Election Fraud in a move that is once again shattering norms in this country. I think we, in congress, have an obligation to do something about that. We have an obligation to protect the integrity of the democratic system. What youre seeing is a bunch of senators vying to see who is going to be the biggest suckup to the trump voters. This was started when the Mainstream Media stopped, dropped any pretense of being unbiased and chose sides during this election. This fight was started whe
Telling a top zelensky aid that ukraine wouldnt get its military assistance until it committed to the investigations that donald trump wanted. Were also seeing the transcripts from former special envoy to ukraine, kirk volker, who had a different take. He testified that the allegations that the administration had been pressuring ukraine to investigate were, quote, simply not credible. The committees the leading the inquiry are not fazed by the white house continuing to block subpoenas. They requested that acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, appear for a deposition later this week. Nbc news asked whether he will comply. So far we have not gotten a direct answer but a white house official did use it to slam the entire proceeding, telling nbc news, quote, the process is completely poisoned. Mulvaney is one of several crucial figures whose actions could support the one big case house investigators are trying to make to the American People about the president s alleged Impeachable Offense