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00:00:00.000 House Democrats launch a formal impeachment inquiry of President Trump,

00:00:05.020 charging him with betraying his oath of office and national security by colluding with a foreign

00:00:11.220 power. This sounds familiar. I don't, this worked very well for Democrats last time. So I'm sure

00:00:16.660 this will work just as well again. But as President Trump comes under fire for asking

00:00:21.500 Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, another letter comes out from last year. Senate Democrats wrote

00:00:27.820 it, asking Ukraine to investigate President Trump. Huh. But that's two years after then

00:00:34.180 Vice President Joe Biden pressured Ukraine to fire a prosecutor investigating his son for corruption,

00:00:41.240 all of which leaves Democrats with a tough political case to make. They want to impeach

00:00:46.780 President Trump for acting like a Democrat. We will examine the fallout. Then with clowns to the

00:00:53.940 left of Trump, we take a look at the jokers on the right, one of whom has called for the president

00:00:58.760 to be executed on national television. All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael

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00:03:03.580 The House Democrats are opening an official, super duper, official formal impeachment inquiry.

00:03:11.320 Doesn't mean they're voting on impeachment, but they're using the word official and the word formal

00:03:15.860 and they're using the word impeachment. From Nancy Pelosi's lips for the first time, she's been

00:03:21.660 holding off on impeachment. She's been pushing back on impeachment. Now she says they're taking

00:03:25.580 steps toward it. Now they're trying to make it sound bigger than it is because it's not like they're

00:03:29.660 actually voting on impeachment right now, but they are taking steps in that direction and that

00:03:33.480 is a big change. Here is Nancy Pelosi's announcement. They asked Benjamin Franklin,

00:03:39.320 what do we have, a republic or a monarchy? Franklin replied, a republic if you can keep it.

00:03:47.160 Stop it there. Before we get to what she's actually saying, I have to just point out

00:03:51.820 that Benjamin Franklin said, we have a republic if you can keep it. And Nancy Pelosi pretty much

00:03:57.440 replied that we can't keep it. So we're going to try for the third time to remove the sitting

00:04:01.000 president who was duly elected by the American people. I love, I love when Democrats invoke the

00:04:06.860 founding fathers. This is the, they despise the founding fathers. They hate everything they stand

00:04:11.120 for. They call them white, racist men, sexist, bigoted idiots, awful, terrible people, except when

00:04:19.820 they want to use one or two quotes. And the best part is they use the quotes about how we need to

00:04:24.440 protect our republic while at the same time they are completely undermining our republican form of

00:04:29.520 government. But Pelosi, she doesn't just stop there with quotes of Benjamin Franklin. She goes

00:04:35.000 on to invoke the constitution. You know, that document she loves so much. Our responsibility

00:04:40.480 is to keep it. Our republican door is because of the wisdom of our constitution enshrined in three

00:04:48.160 co-equal branches of government serving as checks and balances on each other. Our wonderful constitution

00:04:55.440 that we love so much, our wonderful checks and balances, which is why we've outsourced

00:04:59.960 all legislative power to the federal administrative state and to the Supreme Court and why we love the

00:05:05.560 constitution so much. That's why we have repeatedly infringed on your second amendment rights. We

00:05:10.620 basically don't even acknowledge your second amendment rights. It's why we're infringing on your

00:05:13.800 first amendment rights. It's why we constantly infringe on your ninth and 10th amendment rights. And it's

00:05:18.660 why we've invented a completely fictitious constitutional right to redefine marriage at the federal level

00:05:23.720 and to kill babies in the womb because we love the constitution so much. That's why we ignore all

00:05:28.980 of the rights and structures of the constitution and why we completely rewrite it without going through

00:05:33.620 the formal process of rewriting it and invent rights that don't exist because we love the constitution

00:05:37.700 so much because we're the left, because we're the democratic party. Great job, Nancy. Bring up the

00:05:42.720 founding fathers and the constitution. Two things that you hold in such high esteem and that I'm sure

00:05:48.600 would hold you in such high esteem. She then finally gets to the meat of the announcement and she gets to

00:05:53.640 the horrible, terrible, nefarious actions undertaken by the president

00:05:58.900 that call for impeachment. The actions taken to date by the president have seriously violated the

00:06:06.480 constitution, especially when the president says, article two says I can do whatever I want.

00:06:14.160 For the past several months, we have been investigating in our committees and litigating in the courts

00:06:20.060 so the house can gather all the relevant facts and consider whether to exercise its full article one

00:06:26.860 powers, including a constitutional power of the utmost gravity approval of articles of impeachment.

00:06:34.640 It is a constitutional power of the utmost gravity, which is why we have been clamoring to use it since

00:06:41.120 before Donald Trump even got elected or once he was elected, but wasn't sworn into office. And we've been

00:06:46.060 doing it for the past three years. That's what it's so we take it with such seriousness and such

00:06:50.960 gravity that we already clamored to impeach him for a scandal that didn't really exist, which is

00:06:57.240 colluding with Russia that we found out wasn't true because of the Bob Mueller investigation for two

00:07:00.980 years. And then we talked about doing it because he slept with a porn star and paid her off. And they

00:07:05.140 said it was a campaign finance violation. And even though Barack Obama committed egregious campaign

00:07:09.060 finance violations, we were going to impeach Trump for it. And then we're going to do it because of a phone

00:07:12.720 call that President Trump allegedly had with the Ukraine. Well, actually, he did have the phone

00:07:17.300 call, but because of the allegations from the phone call, we'll get to that in just a second. And so

00:07:20.940 we're taking it really super duper seriously. So we're going to then, with such gravity, we're going

00:07:26.920 to exercise our impeachment powers. By the way, the phone call happened in late July. This came out in

00:07:33.220 August, late August, there was some trouble. September, there was some trouble. So it isn't that they've been

00:07:38.920 following these very formal, serious grave processes for years and years. You just got a

00:07:44.420 phone call that you think you can use to impeach him two months ago. That's the gravity. But then

00:07:50.260 she gets even more specific. It's not just that he makes a comment here and there, not just that he

00:07:54.880 had a phone call with Ukraine. She gets really specific. What did Trump do to justify impeachment?

00:08:00.260 And this week, the president has admitted to asking the president of Ukraine to take actions which

00:08:07.460 would benefit him politically. The actions of the Trump presidency revealed dishonorable fact of the

00:08:15.720 president's betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of our national security, and betrayal of the

00:08:21.920 integrity of our elections. Therefore, today, I'm announcing the House of Representatives moving

00:08:27.940 forward with an official impeachment inquiry. All right, it's official. It's official because

00:08:34.580 President Trump was using the government to try to benefit himself politically. Well, we'll get into

00:08:41.160 the actual allegations here. We'll get into the phone call. We'll get into some other unfortunate news for

00:08:47.040 Democrats that have come up after the transcript of that phone call came out. But I just want to address

00:08:51.720 impeachment generally before we get into it. Generally speaking, I'm against impeachment.

00:08:57.940 I mean, I support impeachment as a provision of the Constitution. I like that there is the

00:09:02.420 possibility of impeachment to hold the president accountable. But I think impeachment should be

00:09:07.280 reserved for the rarest and rarest of circumstances. And it should entail crimes committed by the

00:09:13.500 president that rise to a very, very, very high level. And in recent times, it has been incredibly

00:09:18.940 overused. I don't think it should have been used against President Johnson in the 19th century.

00:09:24.280 I don't think it should have been used against Richard Nixon or threatened against Richard Nixon

00:09:28.240 in the 1970s. It was used against Bill Clinton, actually largely because of Democrat overreach

00:09:34.460 on the Nixon impeachment threats. President Nixon was elected and then he was reelected with an

00:09:39.800 overwhelming majority of Americans. Democrats never got over it. So they found that he didn't tape a

00:09:44.760 door correctly and they went after him for that. Other presidents, past presidents, past Democrat

00:09:49.140 presidents had done many, many worse things, but they didn't invoke impeachment. They went after

00:09:53.760 Nixon for impeachment because they couldn't bear the thought that he was reelected. Because of

00:09:58.760 that overreach, you started this really ugly process of, of hyper partisanship and hyper

00:10:05.220 politicization. You saw this then in the Bork confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court under

00:10:10.580 President Trump. That was run by Democrats. You saw that in what they did to Clarence Thomas.

00:10:14.600 That assault was run by Democrats. And so after these repeated abuses of power by Democrats in the

00:10:20.320 government, you had the Clinton impeachment, which basically said, we're not going to unilaterally

00:10:24.520 surrender and, and let you guys run roughshod over our Republic. Even then, I see the argument for the

00:10:31.540 Clinton impeachment and the guy did commit a crime. Even then it was politically disastrous for Democrats

00:10:37.960 and it should not be used against President Trump for any of the alleged misdeeds that they're,

00:10:46.360 they're bringing up. Now, the trouble is in Washington DC, you could indict a ham sandwich.

00:10:52.660 This is true in DC. There's true in New York. There's true in Los Angeles. You can always find

00:10:56.080 some little infraction, especially because our federal code is so convoluted now, especially

00:10:59.840 because, you know, half of us are committing crimes on a weekly basis that we probably, we don't even know

00:11:04.880 are crimes. The question is, does what the president has done rise to the level of impeachment?

00:11:10.660 We will analyze it. I don't think there's a very good case for that whatsoever. Impeachment should

00:11:16.680 be reserved for moments of genuine national crisis, for truly high crimes and misdemeanors. So

00:11:22.380 do Trump's actions rise to that level? We will see. He released a transcript of the phone call that

00:11:28.380 Democrats want to impeach him over. It's five pages long. I've read the whole phone call. I was against

00:11:34.880 the release of that phone call from the start because I think it's bad for statecraft. I think it's bad

00:11:38.620 to, for the office of the presidency, regardless of what party holds that office. I think foreign

00:11:43.560 leaders should feel as though they have some, at least relative degree of privacy and, and

00:11:49.220 discretion when they're on that phone call. And unfortunately that has now been obliterated. I

00:11:55.140 think it was a bad move to release it. Politically, I think it's good for Trump to release it. So it's

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00:13:22.700 So what's the transcript say? 30,000 foot view. The phone call is nothing.

00:13:27.600 It's nothing. I'm not saying it's not interesting. I'm not saying there isn't some President Trump

00:13:34.320 wants something and Ukraine wants something, but that's politics. I mean, that's the whole point of

00:13:38.460 these phone calls is one country wants something. Another country wants another thing. Countries are

00:13:42.960 led by politicians. Politicians have interests. There is a difference between using statecraft to

00:13:50.320 advance your personal interests and using statecraft to advance legal interest or even political

00:13:56.400 interest or certainly national interest. We'll get into that distinction too. But I'm, I'm just

00:14:01.400 saying not from the perspective of the nitty gritty of this law and this code and this action and this

00:14:06.160 regulation. I'm just saying politically speaking, this transcript is nothing, but it gets even better

00:14:13.360 than that because it highlights actions taken by Democrats, multiple actions over the last three

00:14:18.660 years that are not merely the same, not merely just as bad, but actually significantly worse. So let's get

00:14:25.440 into it. Broadly speaking, you can read the letter you said or the transcript yourself rather. It's

00:14:30.200 about five pages long. I think it opens with the two presidents flattering each other. So Trump says,

00:14:34.920 oh, congratulations on your election. That's so great. And then the Ukrainian leader says, oh yeah,

00:14:39.480 we learned a lot from you. You're, we used your tactics. We love talking to you. So it's nice,

00:14:44.440 friend, friendly, friendly. President Trump then brings up election interference in 2016.

00:14:48.800 He brings up the firing of the prosecutor in 2016, the prosecutor who was looking into corruption by

00:14:55.880 Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's son. And he mentions the relationship of the Obama White House and Joe

00:15:02.440 Biden to that. And then he brings up the Mueller investigation. All perfectly reasonable aspects of

00:15:09.240 statecraft. It's reasonable because the 2016 angle relates to the American election. It relates not just

00:15:18.000 to the Obama White House, but it relates to Joe Biden, who's a prospective candidate, major leading

00:15:22.120 politician. So the reason this is important is because it now appears there was some election

00:15:28.940 interference from both Ukraine and Russia. Obviously, Ukraine and Russia are at war with one another.

00:15:34.720 Russia's invading and annexing parts of Ukraine. So this is a hotly contested political situation.

00:15:40.940 The American election is the most important election in the world. Everybody's involved.

00:15:44.200 Everybody's trying to push it in the interest of their own nation. So it stands to reason and it

00:15:49.520 makes perfect sense that while Russia is trying to push the election one way, Ukraine might be trying

00:15:53.400 to push the election another way. That's for another day. That's for, you could talk about that for

00:15:58.520 hours. Then on the phone call, Ukraine brings up Rudy Giuliani. This is very, very important because

00:16:04.480 what we were told in all of the media, early media reports that I told you were going to be BS is that

00:16:09.540 Trump mentioned that Ukraine should talk to Rudy Giuliani. Rudy Giuliani is the president's

00:16:14.560 personal lawyer. He's not the White House counsel. So this was the smoking gun that the media were

00:16:19.060 looking for. If Trump instructed the Ukraine, brings up Rudy Giuliani and says, you got to talk

00:16:23.780 to him, then this looks like a campaign matter. This looks like a personal matter. This does not look

00:16:28.460 like a matter of statecraft. And so it looks corrupt. But what we see from the transcript is it's

00:16:33.740 Ukraine that brings up Rudy Giuliani. They say, we love Rudy Giuliani. We want to talk to him.

00:16:37.960 We want to meet him. That is key. Then you, and by the way, when they bring up Giuliani,

00:16:45.100 Trump says, oh yeah, he's a nice guy. He's a really great guy. So most of what he's talking

00:16:48.060 about with Giuliani is just the kind of absent-minded flattery that the president heaps

00:16:53.300 on a lot of people. Then Ukraine says they will look into the prosecutor issue, which they should.

00:16:59.340 I mean, the Ukrainian leader more or less implies that the prosecutor who was involved in letting Joe

00:17:05.020 Joe Biden's son off the hook was politically motivated, might've had a little more going on,

00:17:09.800 which anybody with two brain cells to rub together knows that this is true. Why else would Joe Biden

00:17:14.300 go in and threaten to withhold a billion dollars in USA to Ukraine as they're fighting a war with

00:17:19.980 Russia if there wasn't something serious on the line there for Joe Biden? He even bragged about it

00:17:24.740 at the Council on Foreign Relations. So the Ukraine leader says, okay, we're going to look into this.

00:17:32.360 He even says that the new prosecutor is better and he'll make sure that the prosecutor under,

00:17:36.960 under his watch will be, will be much better. Then Trump says he'll have Rudy Giuliani and

00:17:42.320 Attorney General William Barr call. It was requested that Giuliani call by the Ukrainian leader. So

00:17:47.940 checks out. Importantly here though, if Trump is saying, good, I'll have Bill Barr call, then you're

00:17:54.160 involving the DOJ in this whole event, in this whole phone call, in this whole investigation.

00:17:59.820 Importantly, Attorney General Barr did not call and there's no evidence he was directed to call.

00:18:06.840 So it does seem like you get a lot, this kind of idle chatter from President Trump. Yeah, yeah,

00:18:12.380 we'll do that. We'll do that. Don't worry. It'll happen. Fine. Kimberly Strassel, who is an excellent

00:18:17.520 journalist and writes for the Wall Street Journal, she summed it up well on Twitter. She pointed out

00:18:22.580 the only ask that actually occurred in this phone call from Trump to Ukraine is that Ukraine look into

00:18:28.300 the interference in American affairs, the relationship between Ukraine and the United States

00:18:33.480 in 2016. Perfectly legitimate ask. Then what people are not getting from this transcript because it's

00:18:40.800 not included in the transcript is the phone call that we're talking about was on July 25th. At this

00:18:46.440 point, the Inspector General was, uh, uh, refer, referred this to, uh, the DOJ, referred this ask on

00:18:54.480 looking into Joe Biden's son to the DOJ as a possible campaign finance violation. Trump using

00:19:02.380 the government to advance his own campaign. The DOJ already looked into this. It's not like this

00:19:08.620 is a totally new issue. This happened two months ago. The DOJ looked into it and what the DOJ

00:19:12.660 concluded, quote, all relevant components of the department agreed with this legal conclusion

00:19:19.320 that there was no violation. Already been looked into. IG already sent it over.

00:19:26.860 You're good. Worse yet, speaking of the Inspector General, the Inspector General who referred this

00:19:35.720 matter over to the DOJ found that the so-called whistleblower who leaked information about this phone

00:19:41.940 call in the first place had, quote, some indicia, some sign of an arguable political bias on the part

00:19:51.000 of the complainant in favor of a rival political candidate. Hmm. This is pretty interesting.

00:20:00.080 So the whistleblower, code word for leaker, the leaker here, had a bias in favor of a political

00:20:09.460 rival of President Trump. Is it Hillary Clinton or is it Joe Biden perhaps? That's pretty interesting.

00:20:17.520 If he had that bias, then what you're really looking at is not President Trump colluding

00:20:20.900 with the Ukraine. It's the DOJ colluding with the Democrats again, or not the DOJ,

00:20:24.820 the intelligence community colluding with the Democrats again, which they already were doing

00:20:28.580 in 2016. So the more things change, the more things stay the same. So then the story of Trump's

00:20:35.000 alleged corruption, again, you'll look a little more deeply. They're using it and trying to turn

00:20:39.440 it into a Trump scandal when really it is a left-wing scandal. But it gets so much worse than this.

00:20:45.080 So much worse for the left, so much better for us. What this means is that the Democrats are

00:20:51.080 impeaching President Trump for something brought up by a partisan Trump opponent that has already been

00:20:56.580 cleared by the DOJ. Here is President Trump's reaction to the whole thing.

00:21:01.720 There's no pressure whatsoever. And if you take a look at the Democrats, they went down to see the

00:21:08.100 President of Ukraine and they asked him for all sorts of things and don't go with the Republicans

00:21:13.320 and stay with us. And like it's a political war, they shouldn't have done that. That should be an

00:21:18.240 impeachable event, I guess, based on what you're saying. The Democrats just came out, they went down

00:21:23.180 there, a group of people, some of whom I was dealing with on the gun issue, and they went down, put

00:21:28.140 tremendous pressure on Ukraine. The President himself just came out with a statement saying

00:21:33.460 there was absolutely no pressure put on him and there wasn't. What I do want to see is I want to

00:21:38.760 see other countries helping Ukraine also, not just us. As usual, the United States helps and nobody else

00:21:44.620 is there. So I want to see other countries help. Just so you understand, it's the single greatest

00:21:51.000 witch hunt in American history, probably in history, but in American history. It's a disgraceful

00:21:57.120 thing. The letter was a great letter, meaning the letter revealing the call. That was done at the

00:22:03.880 insistence of myself and other people that read it. It was a friendly letter. There was no pressure.

00:22:09.900 The way you had that built up, that call, it was going to be the call from hell. It turned out to be a

00:22:14.580 nothing call. All right. I love this response. There's a lot to get into in this response. I would like

00:22:20.580 to correct the President on one bit though. He did say one thing in this reaction that is untrue.

00:22:26.280 He said that what he is experiencing is the greatest witch hunt in history. And that is not true.

00:22:34.320 Actual witch hunts are the greatest witch hunts in history. The Salem witch hunts and witch trials are

00:22:39.140 probably, I just say they're greater because they involve actual witches or at least, I guess at least

00:22:46.800 allegations of witchcraft. So anyway, that's just sort of a technicality. I would say

00:22:50.140 the Salem witch hunts, greater witch hunts than this one. This one's pretty close though. And

00:22:56.440 everything else the guy said was completely correct. What you heard in the very beginning

00:23:02.800 of that clip is he said, Democrats were making demands of Ukraine. They shouldn't have done it

00:23:07.660 by the premises of the left on my impeachment inquiry. The Senate Democrats also committed an

00:23:15.820 impeachable offense. And it's funny because he mentions that right off the bat. He comes out

00:23:20.540 there with it and then he kind of lets it trail off and talks about all these other things and said

00:23:23.780 that the left bought into the media's idea that this was a call from hell and then it was a big

00:23:27.720 disappointment and the Democrats shouldn't have overplayed their hand and now it's going to work

00:23:31.120 to my political benefit. The most interesting thing in the whole statement is he said the Democrats

00:23:36.020 made demands of Ukraine that by the very logic of the impeachment inquiry against me are impeachable

00:23:43.340 offenses against them. So what did they do? We just learned. This is how much better it gets.

00:23:48.780 We learned that Senate Democrats asked Ukraine to investigate President Trump. They made the same ask

00:24:01.260 of Ukraine for their political opponent that they are alleging President Trump made of his political

00:24:08.760 opponent, except their political opponent is the president of the United States. So their,

00:24:15.820 their matter was strictly political or rather President Trump's matter is strictly political.

00:24:23.900 What President Trump is alleging of Joe Biden, for instance, is that the matter was both political

00:24:29.720 and nepotistic. It involved his own son. And then the Senate Democrats come and make the same political

00:24:35.720 charge against Trump. I have the letter. Printed out the letter. It's a beautiful letter. Huge, great,

00:24:42.000 lovely letter. Gosh, I'm just getting so excited. Even Trump's vocabulary is seeping in because Christmas

00:24:47.920 came early for President Trump today. May 4th, 2018 is when the letter is dated. This is a letter from

00:24:53.720 Senate Democrats to the general prosecutor of Ukraine, Yuri Lutsenko. Dear Mr. Prosecutor General, we are writing

00:25:03.260 to express great concern about reports that your office has taken steps to impede cooperation with the

00:25:08.720 investigation of the United States Special Counsel Robert Mueller. So you remember this was about the Mueller

00:25:13.840 investigation, which turned out to be, boop, absolutely nothing. But at the time, Ukraine was important because

00:25:19.720 Ukraine did have a role in the 2016 election and because Ukraine had a long history with

00:25:24.960 Paul Manafort, who was President Trump's campaign chief for a short bit of time.

00:25:31.900 Okay, the letter goes on and they're all worried about the Mueller investigation. If they had known

00:25:35.920 it would come to nothing, they probably wouldn't have even sent the letter because the letter's kind

00:25:38.620 of incriminating for them. Here's the key to the letter. We respectfully request that you reply to this

00:25:44.200 letter answering the following questions. Has your office taken any steps to restrict

00:25:49.320 cooperation with the investigation by Special Counsel? If so, why? Did any individual from the

00:25:54.280 Trump administration or anyone acting on its behalf encourage Ukrainian government or law enforcement

00:26:00.160 officials not to cooperate with the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller? Was the Mueller

00:26:05.520 probe raised in any way during discussions between your government and U.S. officials, including around

00:26:11.660 the meetings of President Trump and Poroshenko in New York in 2017? Signed, Bob Menendez,

00:26:18.200 who federal prosecutors think paid underage prostitutes repeatedly. Pat Leahy, U.S. Senator,

00:26:26.580 and Dick Durbin, U.S. Senator, all major Democrats. The key here is not number one is interesting,

00:26:35.840 but number two and three. Because in number two and three, what the Senate Democrats are asking

00:26:39.760 is that the Ukraine government investigate their political opponents. Exactly the same thing that

00:26:49.160 they are now trying to impeach President Trump over. I don't really understand the logic of

00:26:54.480 impeachment. I have a few thoughts on it, which we'll get to in a little bit. But maybe I'm just

00:26:59.740 trying to put logic on people who do not have a great capacity for logic. They apparently don't realize

00:27:05.700 that by issuing this impeachment inquiry, they are implicating themselves in a crime. If what Trump

00:27:14.040 did is a crime, then what they did is a crime. And it's not like they can hide the crime. They put it

00:27:18.320 on paper. They put it in a letter that I managed to get that was sent over a year ago. Absolutely

00:27:24.960 mind-boggling stupidity and incompetence. Now, look, the impeachment inquiry is being launched by the

00:27:31.680 House. I bet if it were to be launched by, I bet if the Senate had the ability to launch it, they

00:27:35.560 probably wouldn't have launched it because it looks pretty bad. Now, the left is trying to downplay

00:27:40.040 all this stuff, all the Biden investigation, all of the equivalents, all the pointing out the

00:27:45.300 parallels between the Democrats and the Republicans here. It isn't working. We'll get to that in a

00:27:49.340 second. Then we'll get to a whole lot more. We'll get to President Trump's reaction to all this.

00:27:53.500 And we'll get most importantly to what this means for 2020 plus a poem that I just discovered

00:27:59.020 that I think is going to be perfect. Christmas came early for President Trump with this impeachment

00:28:04.460 inquiry. And I think I've got the perfect Christmas card that he can send out. We'll get to all that

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00:28:42.980 The best part of this whole thing is that what Trump and the Senate Democrats did, both of them,

00:28:58.380 because what they did is about the same, Trump and the Senate Democrats, but it's not nearly as bad

00:29:02.300 as what Biden did. What Biden did for his own son and for his own perspective presidential campaign

00:29:07.980 while Biden was the sitting VP. You know what he did. He already admitted it. He went in,

00:29:13.720 threatened to withhold USAID from Ukraine at a crucial time for Ukraine. If they didn't fire

00:29:18.340 the prosecutor who was looking into his crook, drug, drug addled, degenerate son, Hunter Biden,

00:29:23.980 and he pushed the issue. He got the prosecutor fired and then it completely unprecedented. He insisted on

00:29:32.560 approving the new prosecutor in a foreign country, in the Ukraine. Here's Biden in classic

00:29:37.780 Biden fashion, accidentally admitting to all of it. I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to

00:29:44.640 Kyiv and I was supposed to announce that there was another billion dollar loan guarantee.

00:29:50.980 And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action

00:29:57.800 against the state prosecutor and they didn't. So they said they had, they were walking out to

00:30:02.200 press conference and said, no, I said, I'm not going to, we're not going to give you the billion

00:30:05.860 dollars. They said, you have no authority. You're not the president. The president said,

00:30:10.220 I said, call him. I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting a billion dollars. I said,

00:30:15.540 you're not getting a billion. I'm going to be leaving here. And I think it was what, six hours.

00:30:18.840 I looked at him leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor's not fired, you're not getting the

00:30:22.960 money. Oh, son of a got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid. Someone who was really

00:30:31.460 solid, who was going to excuse the actions of my degenerate, crooked, drug addled son. So the left

00:30:37.320 is trying to downplay all this Biden stuff right now because Biden is still arguably the democratic

00:30:42.440 front runner, but it isn't working. Watch this exchange. This is such a beautiful exchange

00:30:46.860 to highlight democratic leftist media bias on NBC and how they're, they're doing the classic

00:30:54.940 Democrat strategy of saying, this is old news. This has been investigated. Don't worry about it.

00:30:58.600 Stop bringing it up. And a Republican Senator Joe Kennedy ain't having any of it. Here is the

00:31:04.660 exchange. You do realize Senator that a lot of people have attempted to look into this and they

00:31:09.540 haven't found a there there to look into it. Who, who has? And that's the point here. You brought up

00:31:15.480 the FBI. Who's, who's looked into it, Chuck? Apparently the Ukrainian government, apparently

00:31:21.460 every, every mainstream Ukrainian journalist, plenty of people here. We've all looked into it.

00:31:26.480 I'm sorry. Wait, has MSNBC looked into it? Yes, sir. You do realize you're looking for an outcome,

00:31:34.000 not the facts. That's what you keep telling me. No, no. There have been four or five different

00:31:37.780 entities that have found nothing here. Who? I just told you. And they're not good enough to you.

00:31:43.760 They're not good enough for you. Wait, you said Ukraine. I said Ukrainian journalists have,

00:31:48.480 the Ukrainian government has. Apparently if the FBI has been contacted, the FBI can't seem to open

00:31:55.180 an investigation either because they haven't found enough. Do you know that they haven't opened an

00:32:00.220 investigation? Myself, we've looked into it. The New York Times has looked into it. I'm look,

00:32:03.700 maybe you're right. Maybe there's magical missing information here, but at some point,

00:32:08.940 do you not accept all of these entities looking into it to have found the answer?

00:32:14.660 So this is what they do. This is what they do. They say,

00:32:18.320 we have, we have on tape Joe Biden admitting to this crooked deal and we have a lot of other

00:32:24.040 documents to show it. Then what the left wing media says is there's no, no, people looked into

00:32:29.220 it. That was a while ago. People looked into it and it's cool. Who looked into it? That's what

00:32:34.400 Senator Kennedy's asking. Who looked into it? You, you guys are total crooks. You're totally in the

00:32:39.080 tank for the left and for, for Joe Biden. Yeah. Yeah. No, we looked into it. We look, we looked

00:32:44.020 into it. It's no big deal. Well, who else looked into it? Oh, like, I don't know, like five or six

00:32:47.900 entities or something. It's probably like a hundred entities. I don't know. Can you name them? Yeah.

00:32:53.440 And you know, Chuck Todd can't name them. So he uses the word apparently because he doesn't want

00:32:57.500 to get caught in the lies. He goes, apparently Ukraine looked into it. Oh, the handpicked prosecutor,

00:33:02.880 that Joe Biden threatened to withhold a billion dollars in aid from Ukraine. If they didn't

00:33:07.160 pick that person looked into it and they cleared Joe Biden. Okay. It's great. Beautiful. That's

00:33:12.040 terrific. Well, who else looked into it? I don't know. The FBI probably. And then Kennedy asks,

00:33:17.320 did the FBI look into it? And Chuck Todd can't see. He's like, I don't know. I was just, I was just

00:33:21.940 talking. I'm just a guy who talks on TV. I don't, what do I, I don't know any facts. And who else,

00:33:27.040 who else looked at it? Yeah, we, we like looked or something. I don't know. So they got nothing.

00:33:30.040 They haven't looked into it at all. It was totally brushed under the rug. They thought

00:33:33.420 they were going to get away with it. And now they can't. You know how, you know, by the way,

00:33:36.520 that they know this, Joe Biden can't answer any questions for it. Here's Biden.

00:33:43.380 We know who Donald Trump is. It's time to let the world know who we are. Thank you very much.

00:33:51.200 All the reporters, do you have any Ukraine? Are you going to talk about Ukraine? Nope. You just

00:33:58.580 walk in right past them. This shows us an important lesson about the left and how to handle them.

00:34:02.800 The left does bad things, sometimes heinous things. They abuse government power. They try to overturn

00:34:10.280 elections. They have a national policy of killing babies and they exploit children.

00:34:15.960 Then when you call them out for it, they conflate calling them out for the crime itself. So they

00:34:24.400 conflate when they do something bad and then you call them out for it. They say that's the same

00:34:30.200 thing. It's morally equivalent, but they're not. So when you call them out for abusing their power

00:34:34.400 with a foreign country for political advantage, they accuse you of doing that by the very fact

00:34:41.040 of calling them out for it. But there's no moral equivalence. There's no equivalence between what Biden

00:34:45.800 did and what Trump did trying to bring Biden to justice for what Biden did. Those are not the same

00:34:52.780 thing. Those are the opposite, actually. When you call out the left for exploiting little children,

00:34:58.320 especially vulnerable children, for political advantage, they accuse you of exploiting vulnerable

00:35:04.660 children. There is no moral equivalence between those two things, between what the left does to

00:35:10.620 children and calling out the left for what they do to children. Trump owes the left no apology at all

00:35:18.820 for calling out their disgusting behavior, which they have undertaken on a whole slew of issues all

00:35:30.600 around the globe recently and for a long time. The lesson of the Trump era is to stand firm and the

00:35:37.520 left will shatter. And the serious conservatives have learned that lesson. It's a good lesson to learn.

00:35:43.340 You can watch them shatter. Joe Biden walks away. He just, they say, hey, what about Ukraine? Just one

00:35:48.060 simple question. What about Ukraine? He walks away. He's walking, he's walking away from his

00:35:52.860 campaign is what he's doing. You ask them that one, you just stand a little firm. They, they fall

00:35:57.520 apart. So what's Trump's reaction? Trump is celebrating this. Trump released an ad based on

00:36:04.440 this impeachment inquiry. The ad begins. This is Democrats have one goal. They've always had one

00:36:09.500 goal. The one goal is impeachment. Here's the ad. We begin impeachment proceedings now. And that we've

00:36:15.920 got to impeach him and get rid of him. My sole focus right now is to make sure that he's not

00:36:20.980 the president next term. I'm so focused. We're going to go in there. We're going to impeach the

00:36:26.140 mother. We're going to launch an article three impeachment. In the question of impeachment,

00:36:31.860 it's about time. Nadler is, I hope he's not following the rules. Congress should take the

00:36:36.340 steps towards impeachment. We're going to have to prosecute this. We're going to have to do it.

00:36:40.680 We're going to have to impeach. The impeachment is still on the table.

00:36:43.620 Absolutely. It's always on the table. We cannot accept a second term for Donald Trump.

00:36:52.340 If we don't impeach this president, he will get reelected. It's time to stop this nonsense.

00:36:59.580 They think they're going to win. Did you see the one man? He said, it's the only way we're going to

00:37:04.760 beat him in 2020. They have to do this. The only way that, well, that's a compliment, I guess.

00:37:09.720 But think of what he said. It's the only way they're going to beat me. And actually,

00:37:14.680 it's working the other way because now we have our best poll numbers that we've ever had.

00:37:18.740 It's crazy.

00:37:20.900 Nobody is happier than Trump about this impeachment inquiry. This is Christmas come early for

00:37:26.920 President Trump. And nobody is less happy than Joe Biden. I mean, this is really bad for Joe Biden.

00:37:32.160 That's why he's not answering a lot of questions on it. I assume it's going to be pretty bad for Senate

00:37:36.700 Democrats too, which is why they're pretty quiet on it. It's really just the House Democrats who

00:37:40.260 are very happy about this. And the House Democrats are happy about it because they don't really have

00:37:45.240 that much to lose. And their careers are ahead of them. They're not really in this fight right now

00:37:51.060 anyway. It's a bad look. How's Joe Biden taking it? Big winner is Elizabeth Warren. Biden is tanking

00:37:57.320 in the early state polls. He's now down in Iowa. He's down in New Hampshire. He's even down 18 points

00:38:04.680 in South Carolina since May. 18 points. Very bad news. Very bad news because Biden's whole argument

00:38:12.360 is electability. So the minute you lose Iowa, first caucus state, that electability argument

00:38:20.480 pretty much falls apart. Maybe you could try to drag it along until New Hampshire. Maybe different

00:38:25.920 candidates win Iowa and New Hampshire. He's falling down in New Hampshire too. Now what Biden is going

00:38:32.020 to try to do if he loses Iowa and New Hampshire is he's going to try to say, look, that doesn't

00:38:36.780 matter. What matters is I'm the only candidate with black support who's a serious candidate.

00:38:41.900 Bernie Sanders doesn't have any. Elizabeth Warren doesn't have any. So if they win Iowa and New

00:38:46.940 Hampshire, it doesn't matter because the Democratic candidate simply cannot win. It is not mathematically

00:38:51.220 possible for the Democratic candidate to win if they don't do very, very well among black voters.

00:38:55.920 And so Biden is going to say, forget about it until we get to South Carolina. South Carolina is the

00:38:59.180 first state that really has a sizable number of black voters, especially in the Democratic primaries.

00:39:03.860 So that's where I'm going to win. Except he's down there too. He had such overwhelming support that

00:39:10.360 he's dropping and he's still doing okay, but down 18 points since May. Very bad. South Carolina is

00:39:15.400 the firewall. If he keeps dropping there, the electability argument is completely dead and the

00:39:20.900 Biden campaign is completely dead if it isn't already. Because turning away from those Biden polls and

00:39:26.240 those early primary state polls, looking at the national polls, which again, it's too early to

00:39:31.040 look at national polls, but they do tell you a little bit about momentum. Warren is up for the

00:39:36.560 first time in a national poll, in the Quinnipiac poll. She's up on Joe Biden. She's at like 27. He's at

00:39:44.320 like 25. She's also tied with Joe Biden in another poll, the YouGov poll. I don't think these are

00:39:51.180 outliers. I mean, first of all, you don't really have two outliers like this on, on the heels of each

00:39:54.960 other. And they're both reputable polls, QPAC and YouGov. So the momentum appears to be in Warren's

00:40:03.600 direction and Biden's hurt has not even really begun. I mean, we're just starting to talk now

00:40:11.780 about this Ukraine Biden issue. We're just starting to talk now about Hunter Biden, which left-wing

00:40:15.720 magazines have worried is going to tank Biden's campaign since the very beginning, months and

00:40:20.620 months ago. How about when people start to find out about the Ukraine scandal? How about

00:40:25.200 when the impeachment inquiry, if it does go anywhere, starts bringing up all of Biden's

00:40:30.060 past issues? I wondered why they're bringing this up now, because they'll get like two news

00:40:36.440 cycles out of this, two weeks of news cycles probably out of this impeachment thing, but

00:40:40.740 it's going to fall apart. What Trump said in that phone call is not an impeachable offense.

00:40:44.820 It's not even close. So why wouldn't they wait until closer to the general election to bring

00:40:49.140 up impeachment? And then you just get all the negative news and maybe it pushes the election

00:40:53.340 one way or another, but it doesn't, you don't get to the punchline, which is Democrats don't have

00:40:57.920 anything. I think the reason for it is more about Joe Biden. I think they've given up on Joe Biden.

00:41:05.900 The only person who really stands to lose here is Joe Biden. House Democrats have already shot

00:41:10.020 their credibility. That's done. So if they lose again, you know what, they are the boy that cried

00:41:14.320 Wolf again and again and again. Joe Biden though, this, nothing is certain in politics, but this

00:41:20.120 almost certainly destroys his campaign. I think they've given up on him. And this is one easy way

00:41:26.320 to take him out. And you don't have to worry about holding off on impeachment because of Joe Biden,

00:41:30.400 because they don't have faith in him in the first place. Turning from the people on the left of Donald

00:41:36.240 Trump to another person on the left of Donald Trump, but who is ostensibly on the right.

00:41:39.680 Just take a look. The anti-Trump Republican candidates for president, the primary opponents

00:41:45.740 appeared on MSNBC, of course, to discuss their campaigns. We are told by the benevolent

00:41:55.700 betters of the erstwhile conservative movement that Donald Trump is not a real conservative.

00:42:00.620 We hear this from a small group of people. They say Trump's not a real conservative. Sure,

00:42:05.440 he's had more conservative policy than any president pretty much in history. And sure,

00:42:08.640 he's advanced our agenda much better than any of our past presidents in recent history,

00:42:12.860 but he's not a real conservative. And so that's why we need to vote for someone else. And the

00:42:17.320 candidates they've put up are pretty weak candidates. Joe Walsh, who I actually like,

00:42:21.340 but one term congressman and a radio host who is Trumpier than Trump. If the whole argument is don't

00:42:27.240 vote for Trump, you know, Joe Walsh has said some pretty incendiary things and he's admitted to

00:42:31.320 saying racist things on Twitter. His words, not mine. You've got Bill Weld, who's a liberal

00:42:35.620 Republican. I think he was governor in the early nineties of Massachusetts.

00:42:39.840 That was the last time anybody ever thought of him. And you've got Mark Sanford who abandoned his

00:42:44.620 office as governor of South Carolina to flee to Argentina with his mistress and then lied about

00:42:49.120 it for a couple of weeks. And then, uh, then finally came back, left office and actually got

00:42:55.260 reelected to Congress. These are the guys, these are the jokers. These are the guys that we're told

00:43:01.260 they're the true conservatives, capital T, capital C trademark over the S true conservatives. Well,

00:43:06.580 here's one of the true conservatives who's going to restore the rule of law and dignity and integrity

00:43:10.280 or politics. Bill Weld calling on national television for the execution of the sitting

00:43:16.360 president. Talk about pressuring a foreign country to interfere with and control a U S election.

00:43:23.160 It couldn't be clearer. And that's not just undermining democratic institutions. Uh,

00:43:27.980 that is treason. It's treason, pure and simple. And the penalty for treason under the U S code is

00:43:34.500 death. That's the only penalty. The penalty under the constitution is removal from office.

00:43:39.860 And that might look like a pretty good alternative to the president. If he could work out a plea deal.

00:43:44.660 Those are the serious guys. What we're coming to realize is

00:43:50.980 everybody criticizes Donald Trump because he speaks loud and he says things that are sometimes

00:43:59.220 hyperbolic and he's not polite and he's kind of a bore. And so they don't like him because of that.

00:44:05.760 He's not mature. He's degrading the office of the president.

00:44:08.760 Any of the people running against him would degrade the office of the president far more than he does.

00:44:18.700 Any of them. Joe Biden is a crook who doesn't believe in anything. Who's a cynic

00:44:24.360 who used state power to threaten to withhold military aid to help his crook degenerate son in Ukraine.

00:44:32.280 That guy is, that's supposed to be the integrity guy. Bill Weld calling for the president to be executed.

00:44:39.680 Mark Sanford. You know, I got, I actually have to put in a word for Joe Walsh here. I don't think Joe,

00:44:44.460 I'm not endorsing Joe Walsh. I don't think Joe Walsh should be president. I don't think he's going to win.

00:44:48.580 But in Joe Walsh's defense, whatever you think about him, at least he didn't abandon his office

00:44:52.620 to flee to Argentina with his mistress or call for the president to be executed. It's like a pretty good,

00:44:57.360 Joe Walsh is by far the most mature guy of all the people challenging Trump

00:45:01.080 for the presidency. But of all of them, all of them taken together, President Trump

00:45:06.300 appears to be the most mature, appears to have the most dignity. Now you might say that's a sad

00:45:11.440 thing. Maybe it is a sad thing for the country, but it's a reflection of the country. And as H.L.

00:45:16.220 Mencken said, democracy is the theory that the people know what they want and they deserve to

00:45:20.300 get it good and hard. And some, someone once asked, what do you, asked, what do you think of

00:45:26.240 President Trump? Compared to whom? Compared to whom? Elections are about choices. President Trump

00:45:31.240 is looking pretty good right now. He got this early Christmas present from House Democrats on

00:45:36.020 impeachment. And it reminded me, I just want to close on this, this poem because it reminded me of,

00:45:42.340 of Hilaire Belloc, who's one of the great Catholic writers. Hilaire Belloc would write,

00:45:49.160 wrote this little poem in his Christmas cards. And because Christmas came early to President Trump,

00:45:52.940 I think that he should have these Christmas cards printed up and he should mail them out. I think

00:45:57.960 I might borrow this Christmas card and mail it out when Christmas comes around as well. The poem goes

00:46:04.000 like this. Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel. A Catholic tale have I to tell, and a Christian song have I to sing

00:46:11.960 while all the bells in a rundle ring. I pray good beef and I pray good beer this holy night of all the

00:46:17.780 year. But I pay detestable drink for them that give no honor in Bethlehem to Bethlehem. May all

00:46:25.300 good fellows that here agree drink audit ale in heaven with me. And may all my enemies go to hell.

00:46:32.680 Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel. May all my enemies go to hell. Noel, Noel. I think that's a pretty good lesson

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Ep. 421 - Democrats Impeach Trump For Acting Like A Democrat

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