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The process is marred by corruption, exhibited in bribery, nepotism, tribalism and political patronage
Day. barbara, let's go to you. in your mind, we have seen the evidence. what articles of impeachment do they support, if any? >> i think you could very easily support articles of impeachment for three crimes, bribery, obstruction of justice and abuse of power. on bribery, it's demanding a thing of value in exchange for the performance of an official act. demanding the investigations in exchange for releasing military aid and a white house meeting qualify and there's sufficient evidence of that. trump supporters are complaining they need more evidence. they need look no further than trump himse...
Televised spectacle gaffe. watch as mulvaney retracts that and goes back over, migrating into the no bribery camp because he reversed himself. however absurd you find that retraction, that was the white house had several people standing by trump. mulvaney may be damaged but there were multiple people linking arms in the no bribery defense. the testimony is re-shaping those defense alliances. so take a look at our chart. you have the army officer testifying on bribery, a top national security counsel official and then, this is the most important shift to date and it just happened as taylor and ...
Have to refresh my testimony, i remember now there was actually a quid pro quo and bribery are the fact that we're talking about bribery has shown we are shifting into a new era in this proceeding. we're going into a new part of the inquiry. as senator baucus said, it is sure there are going to be articles of impeachment and the democrats have made a strategic choice to focus them on things that are actually explicit in the text of the constitution. treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors, as opposed to the sort of amorphous category of high crimes and misdemeanors that hasn't been id...
Someone who has tried very hard to work across the aisle in a bipartisan way. you were even criticized for that. you are also from a red state. you are not speaking from the bright blue resistance. you are speaking from that vantage point. take a look at the questioning this week, including what we are seeing as increasingly the bribery case. this was daniel goldman leading the question. >> whether it is a quid pro quo, bribery, extortion, abuse of power of the office of the presidency, the fact of the matter, as you understood it, is that security assistance and the white house meeting were n...