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Realities. Democrats are dealing with the evidence provided by witnesses under oath while republicans are spouting conspiracy theories and using their playbook, which includes throwing mud on the process, the evidence, and the witnesses. The huge contrast was on full display this past wednesday and friday as diplomats collided with congressional members over the dueling narratives each side was trying to prove. Last week next week, i should say, should prove to be even more dramatic as the proce...

Of hong kong. Antigovernment protesters holding a rally following President Trumps signing of a human rights bill that was passed nearly unanimously by congress. The bill could lead to sanctions on chinese officials who cracked down on protesters. China is pushing back calling it bullying behavior by the u. S. And publicly supporting violent criminals. Joining us from hong kong is will ripley. What are people there saying about the u. S. President finally weighing in . Well, it depends on which ...

Of staff orchestrated the quid pro quo, according to two white house officials whose closed door depositions were released today. Fiona hill, President Trumps former adviser on russia and the top ukraine expert on the National Security council both testified under oath in the impeachment inquiry, and both said it all came back to Mick Mulvaney. The president s righthand man. A man you would be hard pressed to imagine was acting on his own. According to hill and vinman that testified separately b...

Also it was an especially violent week in hong kong. Fires set, universities being blockaded, protesters being fired upon. What is the end game for the protesters . I will talk to the prominent hong kong activist nathan wong. But first here is my take. The phrase quid pro quo is usually translated as something for something. In the case of president Trumps Communications with ukrainian president voladmir zelensky it was to be his commitment to undertake investigations into the 2016 election as w...

At a restaurant, ambassador sondland called President Trump and told him of his meetings in kiev. A member of a staff could hear prdz on the phone asking ambassador sondeland about the investigations. Mr. Sondland told President Trump that the ukranians were ready to move forward. Taylor then revealing what took place immediately after ambassador sondland, that, of course, is Gordon Sondland and ambassador to the eu right after he hung up with President Trump. And i think you said that after the...

His florida resort. The president was only seen today out playing golf, but he clearly had a lot more on his mind calling House Democrats in tweet, hypocrites over impeachment and then calling the House Speaker crazy, and once again trying to label impeachment a scam. In total, tweeting 15 times today mostly on impeachment and sending more than 30 tweets since Christmas Eve. These attacks coming from the same president who said this in his Christmas Day message. While the challenges that face ou...

Out, fired. This is according to the New York Times this hour which is reporting the president is targeting his Intelligence Community Inspector General, Michael Atkinson. Atkinson is the one who deemed that whistleblower complaint urgent and credible. Both urgent and credible, and because of that, according to the times, trump is accusing atkinson of being disloyal and of trying to sabotage his presidency. Keep in mind atkinson is known as a serious professional and a career nonpartisan. Susan ...

Information about his other calls with the ukrainian leaders and this is the second call that we know of that he had with the ukrainian president , zelensky, took place in chronological order. It was the first call that happened, it was zelensky had a landslide election victory. Theres very little known about this call. There has not been the kind of hubbub around the first call, it did not promise the same kind of concerns amongst National Security officials, as the second call in july did. Cer...

The center for Public Integrity provide us with a new timeline as to when the Trump Administration moved to suspend military assistance to ukraine. This is important. They include, one, that White House Budget Office official Michael Duffy said to a top pentagon official on july 25th, just 90 minutes after President Trump finished his call with ukraines president. Duffy wrote in that email, based on the guidance i have received and in light of the administrations plans to review assistance to uk...

Though. Trump even has his own version of the if i did it of if i did it. The memo that he keeps calling a transcript which proves he did it and his own chief of staff and his Million Dollar donor turned Eu Ambassador gordon sonde larpd both saying he did it, so he will be impeached and he will carry that shame of being indicted by the house for defying. Bill clinton was impeached by partisan republicans after hed already been reelected and probably because of it. Richard nixon had the selfrespe...