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Senator Ed Markey discusses Rudy Giuliani's associate and representative Lev Parnas with CNN's Anderson Cooper. Lev Parnas's testimony will be critical in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.

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He made the case for why the Senate needed a fair trial, including hearing directly from witnesses like John Bolton, Mick Mulvaney, and Rudy Giuliani’s associate Lev Parnas. He’s fighting to stop Senator Mitch McConnell’s attempt to cover up the truth and protect Donald Trump.

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FOCUS: Donald Trump to Block John Bolton Impeachment Testimony

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After Sondland Admits Guilt, Why Hasn't He Been Let Go? | MSNBC

MSNBC chief legal analyst Ari Melber asks why, after Sondland admitted to doing a "bad thing," he has not been fired. Mebler also surmises the Trump administration are afraid he has even more damaging information to disclose. Aired on 11/21/19.

'Fiona Hill Is President Donald Trump's Worst Nightmare' | Morning Joe | MSNBC

The panel discusses Fiona Hill's testimony Thursday before the before the House Intelligence Committee. Aired on 11/22/19.

Committee Member Appears To Issue Strong Warning To Pompeo And Bolton: “Your Day Is Coming — Ask Manafort And Michael Cohen”

The entire Democratic portion of the House Intelligence Committee has taken a no-holds-barred approach to these public formal impeachment hearings that are currently underway. They know that Donald Trump is a hateful, corrupt, and shady individual and they intend to prove that while simultaneously keeping the whistleblower who started it all as safe as humanly possible.

But very few of the Democratic Reps. that are partaking in the impeachment hearing process have had quite the spunk, charisma, and take-no-shit attitude that we’ve seen out of Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney.

And Maloney has set out to make it very clear that his attitude and stance regarding his fight for the truth is certainly not limited to those who actually showed for their testimony.

The New York Democrat issued a statement today on MSNBC’s Morning Joe aimed at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Former National Security Advisor John Bolton — pony up and come clean or expect to meet the same fate as Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen.

“There is a judge about to decide the McGahn case, that’s going to be a very important precedent, and I’m going to predict the White House isn’t going to like it,” Maloney stated. “That’s going to arm us with additional legal arguments.”

“Given the overwhelming evidence that we have that the president used taxpayer-funded military assistance to help him in his re-election campaign needs to be further demonstrated by the people who have even more evidence of it,” he continued. “There’s a value to that, you bet.”

Maloney then went on to point out that there have been previous members of the Trump administration to attempt to skirt the law and refuse to cooperate with investigations, and they’ve since been charged with crimes and jailed.

“I think the day is coming for all these people,” the Dem Rep. stated. “I mean, ask Roger Stone, ask Paul Manafort, ask Rick Gates, ask Michael Cohen. There’s others who have thought they could run from accountability, but it tends to catch up with you.”

“I think the day is coming when John Bolton stops making money off book deals and has to give his evidence like three of his deputies did, at risk to their own professional careers, while he was out trying to make a buck on it,” Maloney continued. “I think the day is coming when Mike Pompeo is going to have to answer for why he let Marie Yovanovitch be thrown under the bus — and clearly knew all of these things in real time. We heard that directly from Ambassador Sondland yesterday, and the day is sure coming for Mick Mulvaney, who came out and told us all why the president did this, said there was a quid pro quo and told us to get over it.”

“Well, we’re not over it,” Maloney concluded, “and he’ll be held to account in the fullness of time. But the real issue is whether we can hold the president accountable given the facts and evidence that we have.”

If I were them, I think I’d take his advice. Before I was stuck finding out whether or not I look good in orange.

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Revealed: Trump Aide's Leaked Emails Show Alleged Bribery Plot | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

The Wall Street Journals has obtained secret White House emails showing Trump’s Ukraine call was orchestrated to launch the investigation into the Bidens. The new revelation comes as Congress prepares to hold new public testimonies from key witnesses, and while Trump and Republicans struggle to defend mounting bribery evidence. Former Ambassador Nancy Soderberg, John Flannery and Timothy Edgar join MSNBC’s Ari Melber. Aired on 11/18/19.

What Mick Mulvaney's Latest Legal Woes Mean For Trump's Impeachment | The 11th Hour | MSNBC

As Trump's Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney becomes more embroiled in the president's impeachment inquiry, we explain what his latest legal concerns mean for the president. Aired on 11/11/19.

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Cut revenue and double spending and somehow ended up out of money and massively in debt?
Crazy!

I totally thought it would be different from the last ten times Republicans did this and got exactly the same results.

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"This is what the goddamn president is telling us he does. He tweets something and then watches the numbers on them. It's like the Nielsens of the damned for him. Trump needs those RTs and Likes to keep rolling up. He craves that validation, and he fears not having it, like an oxy freak getting to the bottom of the scrip bottle."

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At His Nutzoid Summit, Trump Admits He Stares at Twitter Instead of Working

At His Nutzoid Summit, Trump Admits He Stares at Twitter Instead of Working

Yesterday, Donald Trump, who I occasionally feel nauseated remembering is still the president of the United States, hosted what was billed as a Social Media Summit at the White House. What really happened is that Trump invited a range of conservative idiots, inveterate assholes, festering fucknuts, conspiracy crazies, and Charlie Kirk to sit around and tell Trump how awesome he is while he reciprocated and then whined about them being censored. It was like when you go visit your grandpa and he's invited all his old racist friends over. Actually, it wasn't "like that." It pretty much was that, with the added bonus of villainous walrus Sebastian Gorka going apeshit on reporters.

Honestly, if intelligence could create energy, the vortex from the absence of it would have swallowed the Rose Garden.

In his completely insane remarks after the summit, where, one presumes, Trump walked around with his dick out and asked each of them to yank, telling them, "One of you is getting a special surprise" as circus music played and a shirtless Mick Mulvaney cackled in the corner as he pinched his nipples bloody, Trump completely missed the point of the "free" part of "free speech," saying, "Free speech is not when you see something good, and then you purposely write bad. To me, that’s very dangerous speech, and you become angry at it. But that’s not free speech." Freedom, to Trump, means free to agree with him.

But the main focus of his wayward ire was what he believes is censorship on Twitter and other social media platforms. See, sometimes he doesn't get as many likes and retweets as he thinks he should get. Trump said, no, really, "We got a lot of people. Way, way over 100 million, but I used to pick them up… And when I say 'used to,' I’m talking about a few months ago. I was picking them up, a hundred thousand people every, very short period of time. Now, it’s, I would say, ten times as long. And I notice things happening when I put out something—a good one, that people like, right? Good tweet. It goes up. It used to go up, it would say 7,000, 7,008, 7,000, 7,017, 7,024, 7,032, 7,044. Right? Now it goes, 7,000, 7,008, 6,998. Then they go, 7,009, 6,074." The audience of lepers and whores and leper whores booed the injustice of people undoing their "like."

Because we live in an odd version of Hell, he continued, "I never had that before. I used to watch it. It’d be like a rocket ship when I put out a beauty. Like when I said, remember I said somebody was spying on me? That thing was like a rocket. "

You got that, right? This is what the goddamn president is telling us he does. He tweets something and then watches the numbers on them. It's like the Nielsens of the damned for him. Trump needs those RTs and Likes to keep rolling up. He craves that validation, and he fears not having it, like an oxy freak getting to the bottom of the scrip bottle.

Then he revealed that he tweets just because he likes to see his shit on TV.  Trump slurred, "I said watch, I’m going to do this. And I said, 'We recognize the Golan Heights as being part of Israel.' It was a big thing. I go, watch this: boom! I press it, and within two seconds: 'We have breaking news.' John Roberts of Fox was over. He said, 'We have breaking news. Please, break it up.' Doesn’t matter what they’re talking about, John does it. He breaks it up." Beyond obviously not understanding what the word "breaking" means in "breaking news," that's some scary shit right there. It's some fin de siecle megalomaniacal fuckery, like a cruel, inbred king executing a servant because he can.

So Trump, again, ostensibly the leader of the free world, says that he wastes his days thinking of tweets to fuck with the flow of the news cycle and watches to see how much people love him. Add to that his daily viewing of Fox and Friends and whatever fucking nonsense One America has on, and, really, except when he's in front of the cameras telling us shit like "You know, there’s a word called 'communism,'" except when he's glad-handing dictators and right-wing crazies and congressional fellaters, he's not doing a goddamn thing at his job.

It's pathetic. It's pathetic that he cares so much about his shitty tweets. And it's pathetic that I'm fucking relieved that he's so lazy and incompetent.

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