representatives is now such a disorganized gang of rebel rousers that the number two member, steve scalise, was one of the followers of the very junior member matt gates. they shouldered their way into the room. they had no right to be there. when republicans controlled the house trey gowdy politely explained that to congressman issa. trey gowdy told darrell issa then, quote, those are the rules. everyone in the house knows that. matt gates and his group violated the security of the room by bringing in their cell phones, which are not allowed i that room. as a committee staffer, she will
rick wilson can to donald trump accusing him and never trump republicans today of being, these are donald trump s words here, these two words, human scum. the rest of this hour s discussion will take place on a decidedly higher plain, with president obama s ambassador to the united nations samantha power, to consider nancy pelosi s line that all roads lead to putin with donald trump on a day when donald trump once again gave vladimir putin everything he wants in syria. matt gates is one of the relatively few members of congress who has a mug shot. there it is. that picture was taken by florida police on the night matt gates was pulled over while driving his father s bmw. he was a recent law school graduate then and so he had the presence of mind to refuse the breathalyzer test and for everyone else who refuses a breathalyzer test in florida and most other states they automatically get their license
suspended for one year. but not if you re matt gates and you re very white and very rich, thanks to your very rich father, who was a very powerful state senator at the time. arrested for drunk driving. refuses the breathalyzer test. gets his case dismissed and doesn t lose his license. now matt gates is one of donald trump s favorite members of the house of representatives and he seems to think he can still get away with anything. what matt gates did today is the congressional equivalent of drunk driving in the hall owed hallways of the house of representatives. matt gates is still a junior member of the house of representatives, but he was the leader today of a group of about two dozen republican members of the house who violated house rules and pushed their way into the secure room where the house impeachment investigating committees were scheduled to take the deposition of laura cooper. the republican house of
the house rules today and violated security procedures of that room. and he was capable of human feeling, donald trump would actually be grateful to them, all 24 of them, but the names he should pay much more attention to are the 173 republican members of the house of representatives today who did not storm the barricades for donald trump, did not violate the rules of the house of representatives today in a hopeless attempt to block the collection of more damning evidence against donald trump. 173 didn t do it. they knew donald trump was watching and taking attendance at matt gates version of drunk driving in the halls of the house. and they wanted nothing to do with donald trump and matt gates stunt. how many republicans in the house might eventually vote for impeachment? every day it becomes more likely that impeachment will have at least some republican votes in the house of representatives,
explain to us the danger of cell phones in that room, the intrusion managed to delay the deposition for a few hours but it did not do what donald trump and matt gates hoped it would do when they reportedly discussed this stunt at the white house earlier this week. the stunt did not take the heat off donald trump. the stunt did not produce any helpful evidence for donald trump whose day began with a tweet that donald trump apparently did not realize was his confession. congressman john ratcliffe is a member of the house intelligence committee and is one of the many republicans who has a right to be in the secure room and participate in all of the closed door depositions. congressman ratcliffe was on fox & friends this morning and donald trump took what congressman ratcliffe said and turned it into a trump tweet quoting ratcliffe saying no witness has provided testimony that the ukrainians were aware that military aid was being when would. there s donald trump confessing that military ai