Vance: ‘There Is No Longer Rule Of Law,’ Senate Has Handed Over Their Oversight Ability | MSNBC

MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance discusses what Senate's refusal to hear witnesses means for the rule of law. Aired on 01/30/20.
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Vance: 'There Is No Longer Rule Of Law,' Senate Has Handed Over Their Oversight Ability | MSNBC

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    1. @Crystal Giddens lol… so? Trump has obstructed Congress by dodging subpeonas. Why is that ok but its so scandalous when Hillary does it?

    2. @Sovereign Butterfly many people have been convicted on circumstantial evidence and testimony but Bolton, Mulvaney, Yavonovich, Parnas, Guliani, and Trump are direct witnesses that can clear it all up. Clinton testified… if Trump was innocent he would testify….

    3. Jim Hower is a typical trumpuglyclan cult FOOL… with NOTHING of any importance or relative to any discussion… this low iq low information FOOL represents exactly what’s wrong with the usa today under this gross dotard aka THE CHUMP

  1. Putin Won. Putin installed a dictator in the white house. Putin divided the country even more than it was. Putin has Syria, the middle East, and will orchestrate the fall of our economy.

    1. This is in no way Putin’s fault… The Republicans have been so gullible that they Incorporated every untruth and lie that was told to them by Fox News and the Republican Party… Trump and the Republican party are destroying our country… and it will be too late for us when Republicans finally wake up

    2. @S Earnest WAKE UP??? they are ALL IN…they know what they are doing and they think they will be in power TILL THEY DIE…….you see they have ignored the Constitution so far……..so it will keep on going and they will come up some UNJUSTIFIED reason to suspend the Constitution…..suspend rule law and take over…WE ARE WATCHING IT HAPPEN

    3. @Brian Dunbar Nope, this was an inside job. The Republican Party is by now so corrupt that they’ll do anything for money. Now it feels like you sit on the tarmac – you see smoke coming out of the engine and say, ‘I’m going back to the gate,’ - only by now it’s too late!

  2. In their obsession with greed and their thirst for power,  republicans on Capitol Hill have become fixated on short term gains. They’re so shortsighted that they can’t see past the tip of their own noses. They are of the mindset that burning their house down, just to avoid doing the dishes, is somehow a victory.

    1. They will fight like banshees when they are in the minority in both houses and a democratic president. They have made the bed the country must lay in and out won’t be able to be undone as easily as it’s destroyed.
      We mustn’t forget that most of these old men will never be affected by thier actions.
      Arrogance and ignorance combined with privilege is dangerous.

  3. In 2020, let’s make MORALS and ETHICS great again!!!
    Let’s make FACTS great again!!! 
    Lets make the TRUTH great again!!!
    Vote 💙

    1. @Crimdor no need to read a transcript. We all saw the live video of trump at one of his worst biggoty bigoted moments. Not taken out of context . Just 1 of many examples of trumps bigotry.

    1. How do these Republican Senators look themselves in the mirror? Do they not care about the Constitution or the Country? What do they think is going to happen? It is frightening.

    2. No, those republican senators care only about themselves, and their party. You’re in a civil war, just one without bloodshed.

    3. I recon the Republicans arrived there with no spines to start with – I hope they like protesters outside their homes all night long?!

  4. After this best believe United States of America will never be the same .
    We started wrong we’ll end worse

    1. @wandering spirit democrats arent arguing that the president is immune to law even if he kills a man. Doj lawyers did so in court breifings.

    2. *How to fix our failing democracy*
      1) Abolish the electoral college, 2) Replace plurality, with rank choice voting, 3) Replace Senators with non-partisan scholars.

    3. @wandering spirit just remember “if the president believes it to be in the public’s best interest and can help them win an election it’s not illegal” when the next president has help from China to hack Trump or takes your guns away. You did this to yourself, just because you don’t understand precedent doesn’t mean we didn’t warn you snowflake.😂😂😂

    1. mar·tial law
      /ˈˌmärSHəl ˈlô/
      noun
      military government, involving the suspension of ordinary law.
      “unlike the previous military interventions, the general did not declare martial law”

  5. It’s time for the American people to hit the streets. Let’s see how they react to a million people in the streets of DC.

    1. Join ANTIFA and let’s bear spray old white people and swing our parents broom handles at them! 👍👍👍

    2. I have an even better idea – you will just sit there watching fake news MSNBC, whine & virtue signal to other liberally biased & delusional morons in your echo chamber like the fragile little snowflake you are, and wait for further instructions from large media corporations and the celebrities you live vicariously through to tell you how you should feel! LMAO! No wonder democrats are viewed as losers, because you are.

  6. A leader declaring himself “emperor” is what precipitated the fall of Rome. It seems America is anxious to repeat history.

    1. and at least Julius Caesar could string a coherent sentence together. Instead we’re stuck with Sippy Cup Caligula….. -smh-

    2. Barr already has ! back in 86 for the Bush admin. he did this same thing , lying to congress misrepresenting reports he has with held this was all part of the trump plan. the rep[ort he with held then was released into the public record in 92 if ya wanna see what i’m talking about. these people are seriously sick and drunk with power !

    3. @Kaptain Kmann Did you hear, Bill Barr recently announced that any surveillance-related FBI investigations into Presidential campaigns must be approved by the Attorney General — in this case Bill Barr. If this stands then Bill Barr will determine which Presidential candidates will be investigated.

  7. Fascism is marching towards us in real time. If this bunch is re-elected we can forget our constitution and the rule of law. This will probably come down to a civil war in order to remove them from power.

    1. “He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most necessary for the public good” – Grievance: 1, Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

    2. Even after trump we will still have these cultist #MAGAts in our society waiting for the next facist fuckwad. Might as well be war

  8. This warrants taking a look at the list of grievances made against the king of Great Britain in the Declaration of Independence. Especially the first.

    1. Winners (Trump/Trump supporters), focus on winning. Losers (democrats/MSM), focus on winners (Trump/Trump supporters). How’s that working out for you all? Are you all excited that John Podesta and the Hillary elites are going to chair the DNC again?? LMAO! MAGA! Keeping eating the propaganda your being fed. How does it taste?

    2. I keep a booklet containing the Declaration and the Constitution in my purse. The Declaration of Independence is a powerful document that started our country. The writers and populace had had it with the King. Now tRump thinks he is king? Time to let him know that he is wrong. Although I think the dementia has gone beyond understanding anything but his made-up thinking.

  9. This is heartbreaking, watching all that stnads for what is good, right, and true crumble before our eyes. 💔

  10. I think that a FRENCH REVOLUTION should happen here in the USA. Let the oligarchs know whos running the show

    1. Election first, vote Trump out and if he won’t step down then we march. Though those drones in Colorado haven’t been practicing for nothing…

    1. lol he needs to be ball gagged, duct taped to a chair, put in a basement somewhere and put in front of fox news re-runs to keep him calm

  11. I was afraid this was going to happen. Don’t worry, we’ll get rid of him. There isn’t only human law, there is Universal Law in place. And that law is far worse than Human Law. Just give a little time, don’t despair. Justice will prevail soon.

  12. We’re the worlds currency and biggest economy mostly because we respect the rule of law. The second we dismantle our rule of law the nations prominence is over.

  13. You CANNOT un-ring this bell. Welcome to the beginning of the end of Democracy in the modern age. Congrats, GOP, you’ve ruined the country.

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