Watch Stephanie Ruhle and Ali Velshi break down the latest testimony by a former White House official before the impeachment inquiry as former National Security Advisor John Bolton prepares for a subpoena. Weighing in: Washington Post National Investigative Reporter Carol Leonnig. Aired on 10/31/19.
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Lawyer Says John Bolton ‘Not Willing To Appear Voluntarily’ | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC
Soon, there will be no more excuses. Either history will record Republicans as being for country or party (with that party being the party of Trump).
@The Blade None of it was ever true. In a way, we can thank Trump for pulling the hoods off of their heads and exposing them for who they’ve always been.
@Hazzycakes Looks like @darm couldn’t stand the truth and left the chat.
Every Republican I grew up with, that I rallied against for decades, are finally, tonight, for the first time in our lives, admitting they were wrong for being Republican. Admitting they were wrong for standing with Trump.
Thank you Trump, for making every single Republican in my History, my life, and likely my future, admitting they were wrong for being Conservative, for standing against American. You have done what I could not. You turned Republicans into Americans.
I see Trump supporter and anti-American @darm Marm has deleted her posts………
Bannon told you 4 years ago that he wanted Americas institutions dismantled. You knew this was the plan right from the outset.
All these elected Republicans who are defending Trump are the clearest sign yet of the total collapse of any integrity the US may have laid claim to. No honor, no values, no sense of decency.
I would require a subpoena if it were me, and I am no trump fan. This gives Bolton cover to speak under oath.
Perhaps Mr. Bolton’s “not willing to appear voluntarily” means he would like Congress to subpoena him so that he can appear when asked, do his duty, testify and get Barr and the rest of them in line for THEIR appearances. Here’s a link from Robert Reich & his opinion on Impeachment just in case you haven’t seen it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQTq6e6qtHw
Bolton has the same attourney as Charles Kupperman, the President’s Deputy National Security Adviser, who is seeking a court ruling on whether he should obey the congressional subpoena or the whitehouse directive not to testify. I don’t believe Bolton is a party in the case, but any ruling would likely be applicable to him as well. Both Congress and the Whitehouse are trying to get it dismissed. The case is being expidited with oral arguments scheduled for December 10. I rather suspect Bolton wants to be subpoenaed, perhaps as a CYA move. I cannot imagine John Bolton resigning to do the right thing.
Exactly.
Correct.
Yup
You know the president is full of crap when you look forward to Bolton talking.
In a den of corruption, the least corrupt is Bolton? WTF.
@Kevin O’Brien You’re assuming a choice has to be made. The enemy of my enemy is a useful asset.
The whole country of the people need to leave the Republican party. Just vote and show this Republican administration that their corruptness is not serving our country. We don’t approve of them still standing up for Trump when they should be serving what is best for our country. Vote them all out, they are unacceptable. Show them the American people are smarter than that and deserve better. Vote Blue, 2020, and help us get out of this horror of a mess that Trump has caused us all.
Coldwynn Frost
Show them we are not Germany in 1938 and we do not support Treasonous Trump’s fascism.
@Kevin O’Brien I agree strongly with all your comments 👍
Bolton needs a subpoena. Otherwise, the dimwits will just claim he’s part of the “deep state”.
give trump some time and he’ll run out of people and all he’ll have left to blame, Melania and Barron.
You know she has more dirt on Trumpty Dumpty then anyone.
I don’t mean politics, i mean “dirty dealing”. He can’t keep his mouth shut.
A subpoena will override a non-disclosure agreement which he probably has.
@Jack Boot good thought!
i wonder if Malanya has a “non-disclosure agreement’
Attached to her prenup?
Tubruton, your comment doesn’t make any sense.
Any president is replaceable. It’s not the person in the Oval Office that’s important, it’s the office that he or she holds that matters. The integrity of the presidency is all that matters.
Trump vs the Constitution
Trump vs democracy
Trump vs America
Whose side are you on?
Make a decision.
Bravo
@Real M to inbred to see the truth…. one brain cell between them all..and today is Daddy/Brother/Cousin Cletus’s turn …tomorrow is Sister/Mother /Aunt Claudines turn….
@Real M As you point out, Trump is the most corrupt and criminal POTUS in American. History. To support Trump, is to stand against America.
I named my middle finger after CHUMP !
@Feng L I’ve named my phallus after Trump. It’s much bigger and stronger than Trump, but yet ‘F’s’ Republicans in much the same way, since most Republican wives are sexually unsatisfied and frustrated.
We might not be able to appeal to Republicans through logic, because they are uneducated heathens, but once they realize we are pleasuring their wives, surely they will appeal to us?
Subpoena time.
Tim Morrison is pursuing other opportunities. *Like the opportunity to stay out of prison.*
A Florida Son 🤣🤣
And another one bites, and another one bites, another one bites the dust! Booooooooooo, Lock him up! Lock him up!
A Florida Son 😜👍
Any chance Netansayahoo will take the Donald and the Pence under the law of return?
If there was a war monger’s Mount Rushmore Bolton would have to be in it. Who would be the others?
My first thoughts are : Bolton, Winston Churchill, Teddy Roosevelt (yea, him again), and Gen Curtis LeMay.
THE LAST THING DRUMP AND THE GOP WANTS!
He’s going to ruin everything.. house of cards NOOO
The ink should still be wet on Bolton’s subpoena. And to be on the safe side, they should issue a subpoena for his mustache too.
LOL!! 😂
good thinking!
The moustache is the intelligent life form here, the body is the parasite.
Pinocchio has jiminy cricket… Bolton has the moustache 😂😂😂
Of course. He’s got a career to consider. He will have to be compelled.
P V M not only that but he’s planning to release a tell all book which will lose value if he comes to testify
Bolton has contempt for the idiocrisy of Trump and Rudy. The subponea is an fu to their corruption.
He’s old enough to retire
I never thought in 100 years, I’d be anxious to hear J. Bolton speak on behalf of the U.S.
I’ve got to go Google Bolton and fox to see what they’re saying.
I’m waiting to hear what Fox has to say, when i watch the late night shows.
always like to hear the truth spoken with some humor!.
it keeps me from tossing the remote at the screen haha
@Wendy Pastore you’re 100% right. I found out, they threw him under the bus when he and individual 1 split.
@jude jackson lol…. I did, smh.
Disgusting as usual
Bolton loyalty should be to America first, he could be the key to all of this.
A important key…but we already have a lot of keys that would open the door to impeachment, in a normal world
Let’s go Bolton… bait them into trying to block your subpoena then go in there and unleash
Ohnoitsthatguy OOOUUNNNLEEEEASH !!!! I was gonna say release the kraken but Bolton looks like the kraken in a kinda sort of way..
i think, that once he “unleashes” the people he donated to will vote to impeach trumpty dumpty.
@Tf2knight Bolton has a pet kraken in his backyard
“John Bolton ‘Not Willing To Appear As If He’s Appearing Voluntarily'” #FIFY
he doesn’t want to appear anxious.
i think he’s chomping at the bit and ready to run, Run his mouth that is.
Can’t claim “never trumper” on this one Conald. But only idiots believe that it should matter.
“Another brick”. They’re getting their wall, just not the one they thought.
@blob darkass GOOD ONE!
blob darkass 🔥
Tf2knight, yet they are
All in all its just another brick in the Wall We don’t need no Trump nation, We don’t need No Trump Control No dark Lies in the White house ,,, Trump leave those kids Alone ,!!!
Obama fired the whistleblower in the “Fast and Furious” scandal
LOCK THEM ALL UP AMERICA 🇺🇸
Trump can be bunk mates in prison with his lawyers.
He’s always talking tough and being a patriot, but when his country needs him to step up , he fails.
CYOA, in that shark tank you have to do it.
“I will have my say in due time.”
– Bolton
Trump will surely get his Brick Wall Jail cell.