“Rick Perry Made Me Do It.”….We Are In Unprecedented Time….
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On September 26, 2019, the Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on the controversial phone conversation between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in the video “Special Report: Acting DNI Testifies Before Congress On Trump Ukraine Phone Call, NBC News“, below:
In the first week of October, 2019, facing a second whistleblower with “firsthand” information on Trump’s Ukraine plot, Trump is shifting his claims on the scandal. Axios reports Trump told Republicans he ‘did not want to’ call Ukraine, but did it because ‘Rick [Perry] asked him to.’ Legal expert Maya Wiley argues there is “deep concern” for Trump, because he is using his “public statements” to cast “blame on someone else.” in the video “Trump’s New Ukraine Scandal Defense: Rick Perry Made Me Do It, The Beat With Ari Melber, MSNBC“, below:
President Trump’s newest defense to the Ukraine plot blames his own employee Rick Perry, claiming he ‘made him’ look into the Bidens. Mother Jones’ David Corn argues the Rick Perry defense is Trump’s latest attempt at throwing ‘the ball of confusion,’ adding there is ‘not a complete through-line’ in Trump’s defenses because he is attempting to make the situation ‘incomprehensible.’ in the video “President Donald Trump’s ‘Milli Vanilli; Defense: Blame It On Rick Perry;Perry Don’t Mind“, below:
President Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow joins The Beat with Ari Melber in a wide ranging and newsworthy interview. Melber pressed Sekulow on evidence showing Trump asked Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden. They also covered the whistleblowers, Trump’s shifting defense, federal law on foreign campaign help and Sekulow revealed how and when he found out about the Ukraine scandal, in the video “Trump Lawyer Reveals Impeachment Defense In Fiery MSNBC Interview, The Beat With Ari Melber, MSNBC“, below:
Neal Katyal, former acting solicitor general, joins MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber to discuss the mounting evidence against President Trump in the impeachment probe. Katyal argues Trump ‘going to a foreign government’ and asking for ‘dirt’ on his ‘political rival,’ is the ‘dictionary definition’ of ‘an impeachable offense.’ Katyal previews some of the ‘hot button’ court cases coming before the Supreme Court, including restrictions on abortions, sex discrimination and the Dreamers Act, in the video “Obama Lawyer:Dictionary Defines Trump Ukraine Scandal As ‘Impeachable Offense‘”, below:
Former Giuliani aide, Ken Frydman, who worked on his campaign for mayor in 1993, joins The Beat with Ari Melber to discuss Rudy Giuliani’s unusual defense in the Ukraine scandal. Frydman says Giuliani’s behavior ‘pains him,’ adding he was once ‘good at message discipline and control,’ but argues he is now a ‘right-wing conspiracy nut.’ Berit Berger, former federal prosecutor, compares Trump’s backtracking defense to one of ‘criminal defendants,’ as he argues he was ‘joking’ when he asked a ‘foreign government to interfere’ in the election. Former Republican Governor of New Jersey Christine Todd Whitman argues she is ‘concerned’ with Congress attempting to leak the whistleblower’s identity, adding the ‘basic norms’ of government have been ‘blown away’ under the Trump presidency, in the video “Former Rudy Giuliani Aide: He’s Now ‘A Right-Wing Conspiracy Nut’, The Beat With Ari Melber, MSNBC“, below:
President Trump lashed out at Senator Mitt Romney after he criticized the president for appearing to push the investigation into Joe Biden on a call with Ukraine’s leader. Washington Post national political reporter Isaac Stanley-Becker joined CBSN to discuss Trump’s attacks on Republican critics and the impact on the impeachment inquiry, in the video “Trump goes after Senator Mitt Romney after he criticized Trump’s Ukraine call“, below:
CNN’s Dana Bash discusses the split response from Republicans on Trump’s request for China and Ukraine to investigate the Bidens and explains why other conservative lawmakers are staying silent, in the video “How GOP is reacting to Trump’s call to investigate Biden“, below:
CNN’s Anderson Cooper breaks down the members of the Republican Party’s argument that President Trump was joking when he asked China to investigate Joe Biden, in the video “Was Trump really joking about investigating Biden? Anderson Cooper isn’t laughing“, below:
A second whistleblower has emerged with ‘firsthand’ intel on Trump’s Ukraine plot, with Trump aides arguing there is no consistent plan to combat the Ukraine scandal because it’s ‘whatever the President’s whim is.’ Historian Jon Meacham argues President Trump’s Ukraine scandal ‘ranks right above Watergate,’ adding ‘abuse of power’ is ‘what impeachment was created for.’ Meacham adds the founders fought to protect the integrity of the Republic from a ‘President colluding with a foreign power in some way to achieve their own authority, in the video “Meacham Says Trump Ukraine Scandal Ranks ‘Above Watergate’, The Beat With Ari Melber, MSNBC“, below:
Axios’ Mike Allen joins First Look for Monday’s 1 Big Thing, in the video “1 Big Thing: Trump’s real impeachment worry“, below:
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