In this “The Beat Breakdown: Trump on Trial”, MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber reports on the final day of Senate jurors posing their questions to both sides. Melber breaks down the key exchanges – including one with Sen. Collins, why Rep. Adam Schiff got heated, how the Trump defense is distracting from the real question and what happens if the pivotal witness vote is tied. (MSNBC Digital Exclusive.) Aired on 1/30/2020.
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‘Constitutional Madness’: Backlash To ‘King Trump’ Claims At Senate Trial | MSNBC
Rudy was racking up millions in several countries around the globe, posing as Trump’s bag man.
@Barbara Roberts
Contrary to her opening statement, former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch later admitted under questioning that Obama-Biden officials *PREPARED her to answer questions about Hunter Biden’s role on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma during her 2016 confirmation hearing.* They were clearly doing damage control about Joe in 2016 and the NYTimes published an article about it in 2015! https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/europe/corruption-ukraine-joe-biden-son-hunter-biden-ties.html *Don’t Let your hatred of Trump blind you to corruption in the Democrat party*
@Cool Breeze You are wrong about that. I read it and know what you are talking about. Again like most supporters you are twisting facts and trying to distort them..it never fails..no matter what it is always okay whatever God trump does..sigh..sick of defending a sick mentally warped man yet? Of course not..evil versus evil. one excuse after another.. it becomes habit forming doesn’t it? Like an addiction. Nothing but corruption and threats and intimidation. trump threatening to get his revenge on Schiff (via a tweet) for doing the right thing? BAD move! Mafia style presidency!
@Cliff Medina trump’s approval rating has NEVER gone over 47%…no other president in our lifetime ever that bad..
@Cliff Medina <<--- troll/bot. #fyi #ignore
Prove it
Since the Magna Carta, western nations have sought to put restraints on tyrants.
Now 45* and the GOP are trying to end this essential component of democracy.
And We the People are letting it happen. That’s how democracy dies.
Shows us what a mistake it was to place states before people with the electrical college.
*How to fix our broken democracy*
1) Abolish the electoral college. https://youtu.be/7wC42HgLA4k
2) Replace Plurality voting with Rank choice, or Approval voting: https://youtu.be/7mYPACssLbI
3) Replace Senators with non-partisan, impartial scholars.
Trump suggested sending our people to Moscow for Putin to be interogated by russians! King Trump should be hungL
King Trump? Hyperbole much?
Scarier than people realize…even a rat like Mike Flynn is flipping the system in his favor.
Yet its amazing how millions of American’ still support this lunatic.
MAGA JOINS THE KGB…
It’s almost as if the Founding Fathers were clairvoyant when they placed articles of impeachment into the Constitution. They clearly had envisioned someone like Trump in America’s future. Someone who would say that as president, he can do whatever he wants. The articles of impeachment were tailor made for a wannabe dictator like Trump..
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
With great power, comes great responsibility.
“If you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
— Abraham Lincoln
The abuse of power is the basis for the impeachment of any president. Any crime or violation of the Constitution, committed by a president, is by definition, an abuse of power.
AMEN !!! I agree 100%
Funny u bring up the constitution, then trample it when it suits u libturds…
@Joseph Campise Comrade trollski??
Thanks for this – well said!
So we’ll just vote them out right? That assumes many entirely dubious things:
That we’ll even have an election.
That it will at all be free and fair.*
That even if both of the above are true, those who lost will abide by it and actually leave power.
Yea, goooood luck America!
*Remember that even in the 2018 historic blue sweep that dems got over 12 million more votes for the Senate and yet LOST seats and that we haven’t even had a legitimate repub potus since Bush Sr. This is due to decades of open GOP mass voter suppression via many forms.
Progressive Humanist I agree the reason the republicans keep trying to make it a “let the 2020 election decide”
Thing is because they already know it has been rigged and they are secured a gop victory sweep (presidency senate house governorships, + Supreme Court in 2021 when Ginsberg is forced to retire). This explains why the entire gop are in trump’s pocket. 2020 is the birth of a one party autocratic state. A klepto-plutocracy rum and controlled by the 1% in exchange the gop get to operate everything
They are already attempting to rig the next election. The are drawing new gerrymandering maps were people’s votes will not be counted.
Oh, I think there will be an election. But if the Republicans get back in, and Trump remains president, in 2024, there will be no election.
Pandora’s box has been opened….it’s bad on so many levels
Six different ways to Christmas, nine different ways to New Years.
MSNBC fights hard to stay on the wrong side of U.S. History?
You know who decides what’s in the public’s interest? The public!
Not Trump! Not politicians! Only the public!
Someone should tell Trump that!
Trump math: Article 2 + executive privilege + Senate = King of USA (above the law)
White Centaur,
Inaugurate Pence asap. He will follow the law and he will not have Pence Tower or business conflict problem anywhere. Then….secure election 2020.
missusri – Agreed! 👍 Not sure if TrumpPence is the better replacement choice however.
It is time for justice Roberts to step up and do his part to protect our democracy.
@Seanie The Commie Especially when they try to tell Roberts CONGRESS GIVES the President the RIGHT OF EXECUTIVE PRIVILIGE. ☕🐸
@Scott Frazier Your wettest dream is all liberals falling over, dead.
@jrc3 = Doesn’t know how to read.
@Seanie The Commie I have and he stammered. You people only care about hurting liberals. Your LDS is too obvious not to see.
only the GUILTY fear and dont want witnesses and only the CORRUPT want to block witnesses
@long nose way to stay brain washed my dude. “I don’t care if he did anything wrong, I voted for him and I am scared that it’s true. So I don’t want to hear it.”
@Clint Braden They invited all relevant witnesses to come before the committee, trump blocked them, ordered them not to comply with subpoenas. So outrageous the democrats did not want to clog up the courts for years to compel testimony, so noble of republicans to continue obstructing all evidence possible. You do know Don McGhan’s subpoena has been taken up to the high court right? That’s how desperate the lying con man is to obstruct. Sorry, but the vast majority of citizens are not as profoundly stupid and smitten by trump’s puerile intellect, more evidence and testimony will continue flowing out, right up until November, when the trump train will fly off the bend and into the ravine.
At this point, anyone who is backing Trump is either stupid or ignorant.
@Meme God The House tried to call the witnesses. Trump ordered the critical witnesses to refuse to respond to subpoenas. The only option to skipping the witnesses was to drag out the House proceedings for months going to court. (They did go to court on people like McGahn; they are still in court.) So the Republicans sabotaged the House proceedings and now blame the Democrats for not having full proceedings — Give me a break.
‘You can’t make this up …’ the Molesting Mangolini DID and his lawyers trying to set precedent with a victory here. He WILL use that acquittal to retroactively declare the articles of impeachment invalid. Senate has affirmed he is above investigation, unimpeachable, and unindictable. Also, he can override Congress and seek info on rivals from foreign entities.
The reporter that Trump sexually assaulted in New York years ago wants his DNA to prove it.Maybe she can get access to Jeffrey Epstein’s apt.I’m sure Trump left DNA there all over the place as he was there,even though he says he never met Epstein.
Get enough reeeee in? Hyperbole much?
A Russian agent for Putin…bought and paid for!
Adam Schiff is in a league of his own here, all the lawyers defending Trump are out of theirs.
@CynAnne1 illegally
*STILL waiting* on your ‘credible corroboration’, Campise…we’ve *all* asked you to post it. 🤨
@singerliljermz yeah I’m a nut job for wanting people to follow the law and come here legally. If they can’t even do that then they have no respect for our country and don’t deserve to be here
@Firecat Crone you people love to cry racism. Nobody is going out and preventing minorities from voting. They just choose not to
@CynAnne1 I’m still waiting on yours
If it is power he wants? move to the kremlin!
They would get rid of him for incompetence or for just being dense !
won’t do that, Putin doesn’t want to share
For forty years republicans have been using what abouts! It’s old and a tired con job on there part! The entire gop are traitors!
Their part
@Herb Liptow Herb, Herb, Herb, get back in the spaghetti sauce.
Execute the right wing spooges on the radio and tv…evil propagandists worse than Joseph Paul Goebbels!
” What about the Biden’s?” Is the “What about Hillary’s emails?” of 2020.
And Moscow Mitch’s….puppets.
Yep…. couldn’t of said it better
Vince Baleto Im NOT. That’s kind of the point of the comment…
What we are Witnessing is the end of the rule of law and America. It’s all over for America.
That what our enemies want from us. We dig our heels in deeper and fight
Parnas dinner video at 40 minutes 45 seconds, after being told ukraine had most oil in Europe, trump asked how long they would last without aide, he was told not very long. That’s motive and intent
Exactly! And putting the conversation into a secret server proves Mens Rea, guilty mind.
Trump is a king of sorts….The Lyin’ King. 🤷🏼♀️
sofa king we todd ed
@Arkhamkey I get that. Good one. 😎
@Kathleen Mitchell aye 😎
Biden, while not at the same level, comes pretty close https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTgPbLkh3F0
I’ll never bend my knee for DT, thats what these spineless senators and his base are for. Stand up America.
@DosyPrat mind your foreign business.
I see a revolution from the public erupting if they vote against witnesses.
@MOKO OH its just a waiting game now
@MOKO OH google centrist or moderate..they have the ability to see the right and wrong within EVERY party…its a world view beyond politics and when you get there you can see economics cleaner.
third eye: Yes, so is life, what I believe is important is while we wait we peoples of honor and try TRY to do right.. No matter what the dems said this is wrong. They are right. No matter what the world sees some honor…..THAT is paramount
@MOKO OH True. I’m not on any party side, I just see one side coming off as more underhanded and afraid of exposing the truth. I felt that Trump was an embarrassing president from day one, but I never felt that was enough to get rid of him. Now he’s showing how inept he is in the face of opposition. Taking a roll in leadership should involve defending your position, but he’s not capable of doing that himself. His defense knows he’d be an embarrassing mess, and they’re making excuses. Twitter is not an acceptable substitute for his absence in the trial.
Hannibal of….: your words are words of truth/ God help America
Dershowitz looks at the Constitution the same way he looks at teenage girls.
But he kept his underwear on!!!!!!
S.L. May biggest embarrassment in Harvard University history!
@T B , that would be obama. the guy who was president when putin invaded ukraine and took crimea and didnt wanna sell lethal aid to ukraine but somehow trump is the russian agent who just got impeached while obama got a nobel peace prize despite him droning to death an american born teenager while spying on american citizens and america’s own allies.
yuck! but its true