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Except in this case no one got fired. and i'm so glad your lead up started with the republican report because i think that was truly a disgrace. i mean as a lawyer i've seen a lot of bad arguments in my lifetime. but here's the actual argument in the report. grassly argues that donald trump couldn't do that bad because he didn't go through with firing attorney general rosen and installing jeff clark. but the only reason that happened was because there was a, quote, murder-suicide pact of everyone at the justice department to mass resign if trump tried to pull that stunt. and you don't get cred...

Chuck grassly, is gone. senate committee staff who work on reports like this are people in their 20s and 30s. usually the oldest among them are in their 40s. they are all much younger than the people we saw in the photographs of the coup attempt in the oval office on january 3rd. and those young lawyers working on the republican staff of the senate judiciary committee actually wrote a report based on the same evidence saying donald trump did nothing wrong. they say that because donald trump did not actually fire the acting attorney general and install jeff clark as acting attorney general, tha...

To subpoena him along with sessions and other officials to compel their testimony before the senate judiciary committee. now the two top republicans in congress kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell have not weighed in on this but one other senior republican has, chuck grassly, the lead republican on the senate judiciary committee saying in part investigations into members of congress and staff are nothing new, especially for classified leaks, and that position is important because they need bipartisan support in the senate judiciary committee to issue a subpoena. on the house side though, jake, ...

Has it wrong. and he's speaking out two sides of his mouth because he can't believe on the one hand that the commission bill needs to go forward, and then on the other hand, side with the very arcane rules that keeps us from dealing with an issue that touches on our democracy. you just can't have it both ways, and that's what joe manchin is trying to do. >> grassly -- chuck grassly had this to say back on may 4th. he was just at a local event in iowa. and he tells constituents he's confident manchin will hold out against supporting dems sweeping voting rights ethics reform. in some ways that d...

There to do the senate's business of the day, a whole whopping 38 seconds of senate business. >> senate will come to order. the clerk will read the communication to the senate. >> washington, d.c., december 26, 2019, to the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3 of the standing rules of the senate i hereby appoint the honorable john kennedy a senator from the state of the louisiana to perform the duties of the chair signed chuck grassly, president protemporary. >> under the previous order the senate stands adjourned until 2:00 p.m. on monday, december 30th, 2019. >> boom, and that ...