keeps our democracy in place. and thanks to you at home for joining me this evening. in february of 2021 joe biden had been president for less than a month. the united states senate was still in the middle of impeaching the previous president for stoking insurrection. the house impeachment managers, all of them democrats, were making the case that even though trump was no longer president, he had to be impeached because otherwise future presidents would be free to commit any crime or misdemeanor as long as they did so right before leaving office. to rebut that trump s lawyers offered this counter argument. if my colleague on this side of the chamber actually think that president trump committed a criminal offense and let s understand a high crime is a felony and a misdemeanor is a misdemeanor. the words haven t changed that much over time. after he s out of office you go and arrest him. so there is no opportunity where the president of the united states can run rampant in
Explanation for this meeting was adoption policy under u. S. Sanctions. One american investors who worked on that policy told Business Insider this when he found out who was also in the room. And we quote. In the world of russian intelligence there is no such thing as a former Intelligence Officer. So in my opinion you had a member of putins secret police directly meeting with the son of the future next president of the United States asking to change u. S. Sanctions policy, crucial to putin. And in light of todays headlines it is worth remembering that the president and his aides this week applauded donald trump jr. For his transparency. And on tuesday after release his emails about this meeting don jr. Said, not once but twice, this is everything. I have a quick statement that ill read from the president. My son is a high quality person. And i applaud his transparency. More than happy to cooperate with everyone. I just want the truth out there thats part of why i released the all stuf
You if youll recall a politico reported that said quote top west wing aides are exasperated by the risk that more damaging news has yet to emerge. And about that more damaging news that had yet not i merged it came out this morning prior to the president s return from france. Nbc news was the first to report that also in that meeting with don jr. And the russian lawyer in trump tower last june, a man who was formerlily a member of a soviet counterintelligence unit we now know his name rinat akmetshin, a russian american who now works as a lobbyist. Some u. S. Officials believe he still has ongoing ties with russian intelligence. Something we should point out he has denied. Discussing the meeting with the associated press, akmetshin said i never thought this would be such a big deal to be honest. Youll remember the original explanation for this meeting was adoption policy under u. S. Sanctions. One american investors who worked on that policy told Business Insider this when he found out
Reported that said quote top west wing aides are exasperated by the risk that more damaging news has yet to emerge. And about that more damaging news that had yet not i merged it came out this morning prior to the president s return from france. Nbc news was the first to report that also in that meeting with don jr. And the russian lawyer in trump tower last june, a man who was formerlily a member of a soviet counterintelligence unit we now know his name rinat akmetshin, a russian american who now works as a lobbyist. Some u. S. Officials believe he still has ongoing ties with russian intelligence. Something we should point out he has denied. Discussing the meeting with the associated press, akmetshin said i never thought this would be such a big deal to be honest. Youll remember the original explanation for this meeting was adoption policy under u. S. Sanctions. One american investors who worked on that policy told Business Insider this when he found out who was also in the room. And
there is no person in the united states should at this moment be more familiar with the 14th amendment than donald trump given it is currently being used potentially ineligible for the presidency, given he partook in an insurrection. this is what he does. we saw him do it not only with barack obama, but in 2016 he tried to go after kenneth cruz. he should no in fact nikki haley is born in the united states and she s automatically a citizen, doesn t mean he s afraid, doesn t mean his ego is bruised. they are still both both she and desantis so far behind him in the polls beyond the sort of blasant xenophobia, his hatefulness, his laziness to go back to this attack, i don t really understand the rationale. i ve got a possible rationale for it. internal polling is the internal polling, what their internal polling is probably showing him in new hampshire is