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Stoo stephen breyer. he s taken this big role here and getting all these other people onboard. really important to close the door on the three different challenges. 2012, 2015, and now. and the dissenters said, it s as if it s being rewritten by the court. it s not. saying this is an unrealistic challenge. shouldn t have been brought in the first place. good-bye maybe forever now. we have some of the opinion that i d like to read. again, this was written by breyer, which is interesting because of growing liberal calls from some for him to retire after this term. he writes in this majority opinion, quote, for these reasons, we believe the plaintiffs failed to show concrete injury traceable to the defendant s conduct in the ....
What or who do prosecutors have to work with here? that s an open question. the first thing, of course, and the reason i mentioned documents is because that s evidence. we can always cross-examine people about what they saw, what they didn t see, what their statements are, do they have credibility? you either signed a document, john, or you did not. you either gave an indication under penalty of perjury on a document or you did not. you either released tax returns that were appropriate not released them, but filed them, that were appropriate or not. but in addition to that, there are witnesses. there are people who apparently worked within the organization that may have some knowledge as to how it functioned. s too who did what. as to what filings were made. who permitted those to be made. those become credibility determinations. when you have a person who gives you the indication of the underpinnings of an organization, who is doing what, who authorized what, how things work and y ....
Dyed they did they react to each other at all? you called it formal debate, that sma a good word for it. you had democrats trying to elevate the conversation, make this about the constitution, historical moment, something they didn t want to do but felt they had to,o there are a lot biographical speeches from some of these members trying to describe how they got to this point where they re ready to impeach a sitting president and the republican strategy was interesting, stoo, aside from couple of members, which you heard by and large was not a debate aboutas the specific fac of the ukraine case, but them trying to make a case this was inevitable the moment democrats regained control of the house after the 2018 midterms. that democrats, they said, were trying to keep a promise to their base that they made starting back in late 2016ei, tt they would impeach this president. but this was not a lot of the procedural high jinks, not as nalsty as what we will probably see tomorrow whenat th ....
Donald trump. were you kind of as thrown by that in that moment when you heard it? i truly was, lawrence. and it was a very quick thing, and i felt like someone had to respond. and that s why i did it because you have a situation where no matter what folies america is involved in, been involved in in the past, obviously there have been mistakes made around the world, you still cannot make an argument that we have been shooting down planes of innocent people of funding people who would do that like russia did recently over ukraine. or that we have been poisoning political opponents like vladimir putin has done. or the whole-scale invasion of elections. not just in the united states but in our partners, the baltic states. one of the last trips john mccain took, i got to go with him and he went to those states includie ining ukraine and stoo ....