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So i think that speaker pelosi quite rightly realizes there's a messaging issue here and it needs to be explained in straightforward terms without any latin involved so that people can understand the alleged wrong doing on the part of the president. the only other thing i would say is i think she's probably mistaken in referring to this as bribery if, in fact, it occurred as they are presenting. it was probably extortion. hey, i have something you need. i'm not giving it to you unless you give me something that i need. not by the way for my country, but for my personal plal objective. that's m...

Misdemeanors. >> whether it's one or whether it's the other, i think we're in agreement that what they're trying to do is convey something that can be readily understood by the american people as having crossed an impeachment line. >> but what you do hear, michael, are the president's dechkders saying basically it can't be a crime if the victim didn't know that a crime was happening. and so they keep saying zelensky didn't know the aid was being held up. i don't know if zelensky did or didn't. because the diplomats all around zelensky sure knew that something was up. and they were worried abou...

President acted criminally and extorted in the way a mob boss would extort somebody, a vulnerable foreign country, it's probably best not to use latin words to explain it. the other thing i object to is this is where the republicans went. extortion doesn't require a you give me this and i'll give you that kind of quid pro quo. it simply requires using your muscle to get something that you don't have a right to. so look, and by the way, of course, the crowning absurdity here is they're all pretty much admitting because ambassador sondland has refreshed his recollection, they're all basically ad...