Page 15 - Process Argument News Today

How do you defend the fact that gordon sondland, the point man on ukraine, the shadow ukraine policy is stating according to vindman, there needs to me a quid pro quo. >> whenever faced with that question or asked, look, there is evidence piling up that is showing there were quid pro quos, multiple ones, that is what taylor testified to and then republicans say that is not a quid pro quo. i dont see a quid pro quo in that. or they just continue to attack the democratic process, the process that ...

Legitimacy around this process by saying theyre going to bring it to a vote on the floor. they cant fix it. the process is broken. >> a due process starts at the beginning. it doesnt affirm a sham investigation all the way through. if you were in the legal term, it would be the fruit from the poisonous tree. it would be a mistrial. >> thats the process argument. democrats are giving them some of what they have long been demanding in this resolution tomorrow. the intelligence committee will hold ...

Johnson, "the washington post" piece he is quoted saying i think this was improper behavior, however, i dont believe its impeachable. the simple fact the presidents defenders have lost the process argument. what they have tried to say is that the process is flawed. >> that the democrats have proceeded by in a manner that violates the constitution, whatever, which is nonsense, foolish, illegally, we know that now that theyre losing that argument and we are going to see public hearings. what theyr...

About anything going on, our members talking about what is going on. how bad it has gotten today, i went to view the transcripts and things im entitled to view under the terms of the house and told i could not do that. i will argue the substance and talk about bill taylor having fore hand information he takes as first-hand information and the fact ive seen the transcript and there is no quid quo pro. well talk about the fact that the ukrainians didnt know any of the discussions were taking place...

Its so shocking. >> what can you tell us about the process argument that erupted in the deposition today, congressman swalwell apparently in a clash with republican mark meadows that apparently forced chairman schiff to adjust the way the proceeding was going on? >> all i can tell you is i cant discuss the questions that were asked or the answers that were provided by the witness, but there has been a pattern of disruption by the republicans throughout the proceedings. first they claimed they we...

Is now thinking get away with something in those transactions with foreign leaders desperate to save -- theyre being patriotic. theyre saving their country from the russian tanks. whats he doing? whats our guy doing? >> chris, you use the word shakedown. thats what was going on here. and let me try to break it down in laymans terms for people because we hear contingent foreign aid and quid pro quo, and people tend to get lost in that kind of verbiage, so now i think the republicans are pivoting....

Betraying the national security interests of the united states and undermining the rule of law, and instead theyre talking about these process arguments just because theyre desperate not to focus on the facts because they have no argument. its so shocking. >> what can you tell us about the process argument that erupted in the deposition today, congressman swalwell apparently in a clash with republican mark meadows that apparently forced chairman schiff to adjust the way the proceeding was going ...

Concerned about the vote itself. it isnt particularly high, but the white house is concerned about something that i think ned was just alluding to there which was the degree of strength and vociferousness of republican defense of the president. i think there will be zero republican votes for this tomorrow, there might be potentially one or two, but we think probably zero, the president wants to see a little more than that from his republican defenders in congress, and he really feels like republ...

And the worst of these arguments is, well, you see, theres no problem here because, after all, the aid was delivered, which is a classic coming from this administration, which is, we tried to break the law, but somehow, we failed, we were obstructed in our design -- >> so that means its okay. >> so thats okay. its like trumps meeting in the trump tower in 2016 or the failure to fire don mcgahn at the beginning of the mueller investigation, or now the fact that they sort of got caught trying to h...

Fact this is not secondhand information. he was on the call. now we know firsthand the information that we all guessed for a while that trump admitted out loud as did the chief of staff. we have somebody on the call testifying about it. it will be a difficult witness to try to impeach. theyll call an partisan or radical. like bill taylor. that dog aint going to hunt. >> they run out of gas on this one. president trump continues to say his call was perfect. now he says he wants republicans to foc...