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to get it done before christmas because we wanted it done and ready to go for the election. done.d to get it the entire process needed to be completed before the election. they didn t have time for the process. they didn t have time for due process. for the n t have time president to call his own witnesses. or cross-examine their witnesses. the great irony is, they did exactly what the accused the president of. they used the government and the government s process to go after their political opponent. what is the evidence that is partisan? they didn t convince one republican, not one elected republican decided that any of their arguments were valid. or that the president should be impeached. they made it into a sham. they made it into a political process because they didn t like the results of the id election. when did this start? did the impeachment start with a phone call to the ukrainian president? no, the impeachment and the attacks on the president started six mont ....
you probably were sleeping. we ll give you the highlights. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is early start. it s monday, march 15th. 5:00 a.m. here in new york. we re so close we can taste freedom and yet so far. one in five americans have received at least one dose of a covid vaccine. since friday, the u.s. has hit three of the largest single day jumps in vaccinations. scenes like this can set us back. this is miami beach. a lot of people out there but few masks. spring break could trigger a surge in cases and saint patrick s day is also worrying. we ve got too many people coming. we ve got too many people coming who are just acting out and we have covid at the same time. and people are flying again. air travel hit a new pandemic era record. new tsa figures show more than 1.3 million people were screened on friday. the highest number in a year. duke university under grads are in a stay in place orders. more than 80 students a ....
elements of a fair trial. oleksander hamilton, years ago warned us of what he called the greatest danger of impeachment. the decision would be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt, and of quote. in my view, that the danger has met us. as o a boy, i often sing a hymn with the stands of death to every man and nation comes a moment to decide in the strife of the truth with falsehood for the good or evil side. the senate chose the wrong side. we are obviously going to disagree about a lot here so let me focus on two thoughts that perhaps we can o agree on. one is what we have done here should carry little weight as precedent. politics casts long shadows over this proceeding. this wasn t our finest hour by any stretch, and much of what was said and done there should not be repeated, let alone treat it as precedent. i hope history treats this episode as an aberration, not a precedent. too many s th that ar ....
thinking that an president. and with the impeachment trial that the democrats accuse the president of using the governmental office to go after political opponents. the irony is a that they use the impeachment p process to go after their political opponent and the way that it unfolded admitted as much as the unfolded that we had to get it done before christmas because we wanted it done we had to get it done the entire process needss to be completed they didn t have time for due process and for the president to call witnesses or cross-examine their witnesses. the great irony is they did exactly what they accuse the president of. they use the government and the government process to go after e their political opponent. where is the evidence that is partisan they did convince oneed republican. not one republican decided maybe the arguments were valid. or that the president should be impeached. they made into a sham, a political process, because they didn t like the resul ....
settled as it was from day one. in my view the facts are clear. the conduct impeachable and the obstruction unprecedented. in my view this impeachment process ran into a partisan wa wall. and the senate s part was to deny the american people the most basic elements of a fair trial, witnesses and evidence. alexander hamilton years ago warned us of what he called the greatest danger in impeachments. quote, that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt. end quote. in my view that danger has met us. as a boy i often sang a hymn with the stanza that to every man at nation comes a moment to decide, in the strife of truth with falsehood for the good or evil side. in my view the senate chose the wrong side. we are obviously going to disagree about a lot here so let me focus on two thoughts that perhaps we can agree on. one is that what we have done here should carry little weight as preceden ....