transcripts. and the word bribery or bribe doesn t appear anywhere in that. ms. williams, you ve never used the word bribery or bribe to explain president trump s conduct, correct? no, sir. colonel vend minuindman, you either? that is correct. the problem is, in an impeachment inquiry that the speaker of the house says is all about bribery, where bribery is the impeachable offense, no witness has used the word bribery to describe president trump s conduct. none of them. these aren t all of the deposition transcripts. these are just the ten that have been released. six weeks of witness interviews in this impeachment inquiry. hundreds of hours of testimony. thousands of questions asked. thousands of answers given.
senate seat. he didn t pull it off. all this talk is it still a crime. no, he was on a wiretap saying this thing is efing valuable, i want something for it. he remains incarcerated for that and other bribery related offenses. while you don t need a formal felony to impeach, the founders were concern canned about trn treason and bribery and that were remove bable and we are blessed on this panel by a former senator who actually handled an impeachment trial of a sitting judge. there were corruption and pay to play issues there. i turn to senator mccaskill about what you thought of this part of today s hearing. first of all, it s so phony. he s basically saying that a fact witness always is. stack of papers. because he was trying to give the impression that this term has just been ginned up out of thin air.
landing on wily s former prosecution office. number one, in a healthy and normal system, a special counsel would have independently already been appointed to deal with the part where the president says the attorney general will be the instrument of the potential criminal conspiracy. number two, i don t know why doj didn t proceed. i do know that historically, it is highly rare to rush out an proceeding at all. that s not done in any potential criminal vest fwainvestigation. third, even as we say this, rudy giuliani remains under investigation. he s the center of this spot and he remains under investigation, civil prosecutor. so there s a reason that our nickname was the sovereign district of new york. because we were an independent office. we had special privileges of
testify? and just to add to the body of bolton s conduct that we know about, i mean there have been 11 witnesses. they re still taking closed door depositions. we know he called rudy giuliani a hand grenade that was going blow up all over everybody in the spring. we know he sent his top deputy, hill, who was vindman s boss for a while, to the same lawyer vindman went to. and i said to you earlier, i wonder if mr. eisenberg is going to become the don mcgahn of the ukraine scandal. the person who was the holder of f all of the information. don mcgahn s deputy had the notes. her in her notes was a question b about whether it was obstruction of justice. it was written in her writing. you ve now got this nsc lawyer in the white house counsel s office who was in receipt of the general counsel from the cia s visit to the white house when she caught wind of a whistleblower in her ranks. you ve got this lawyer, mr.
saw schiff and pelosi start to play up that prospect. meaning this could lead to an article of impeachment based on bri bribery. i want to a key moment on this issue. you ve never used the word bribery or bribe to explain president trump s conduct, correct? no, sir. colonel vindman, you haven t either. that is correct. the problem is in an impeachment inquiry that the speaker of the house says is all about bribery, where bribery is the impeachable offense, no witness has used the word bribery to describe president trump s conduct. none of them. these aren t all of the deposition transcripts. these are just the ten that have been released. six weeks of witness interviews in this impeachment inquiry.