they could understand that. but there were other things like the president allowing missile technology to go to china, to be sold to china when the defense department said, no, the say the department said, no. the national security agencies all said no, but bill clinton pushed it through because one of the top donors to the democratic party wanted that missile technology transferred to china. but americans didn t care. i talked about that in town hall meetings and they would yawn. but then, it was about perjury and sexual harassment lawsuit, then they narrowly focused on that. it s not always it s not always what s most damning, it s what people can get and focus on. and this ukraine story seems pretty simple and straightforward. and speaker pelosi boiled it down to one sentence. she did it talking to you guys on friday outside the capital where she said this is the president of the united states using taxpayer non shakedown a foreign leader for his own political gain. that s one s
and the party writes this. if the house decides against filing articles of impeachment or the senate fails to convict, senate republicans will have to decide whether given what we now know about the president s actions and behavior to support his re-election obviously the answer is no. my fellow republicans, it is time risk your careers in favor of your principles. whether you believe the president deserves impeachment, you know he does not did serve re-election. our country will have more presidents, but principles, well, we just get one crack at those. for those who put america first it is critically important in this moment of our life of our country that we all hear all right. i know, it s hard for me. seriously? gene robinson why didn t he stay in there and fight or maybe fight when he was there? it s so easy to say when you ve left. please. well, it is easier to say once you re gone.
because he knows aught order he should be attacking it. he said i was sent there by the state department when he went to ukraine. well that makes sense because you have the head of the state department on the call helping president trump direct this back and forth, with quid pro quo with ukraine. what we see here is the problem that we locate principally with trump is not simply trump, trump s problem. that lying with impunity is, in fact, the culture of the white house. that truth, that old colbert word has become the order of the day. it seems to me when you combine this culture of lying with this deep distrust of government that runs throughout the country, right, it seems that we re in a moment of intense crisis. not just simply with them and all the president s men, but this crisis in terms our democracy as such. because you ve got to have trust as the basis, as the foundation for democratic deliberation.
instead of retiring, because they don t want to lose in 2020, are p or put up with donald trump anymore, what when do they say, hey, wait a second, we need to get rid of these guys that are lightning lying on national tv every day, damaging our reputation and we can get nikki haley or marco rubio or, you know, john thune or, you know, you name it. we could find other people who are not, you know, mitt romney, other people who don t make lying their m.o. every day. i mean, when do they do that? because you ve worked with brands that have faced crises and they had to get rid of their ceo and bring in new ceos and clean things up. at what point do republicans just say, hey, it is time? you know, remember that movie mayor than man where is it safe? is it safe?
that fook took it well over a y this has happened in a week. what s interesting it s not as much of the scattered public polls recognizing what somebody s feeling in a moment. what lincoln used to talk about is what you need is public sentiment that develops over time and it becomes a settled feeling in people that something has to be done. i think surely that s what happened with nixon after a period of time. theres with a settled feeling of consensus that republicans as well as democrats saw that he to be impeached and resign in face of imimpeachmepeachment. and the question with clinton, even though people lost their feelings, they didn t feel good about him as a person because of what happened with monthia lieu wince decid monica lewinsky. they were never able to shake the feel that they wanted him as their president considering what he did. and now with the president he s not able to keep with his job