IMPEACHMENT: TOO NARROW, TOO THIN, OR JUST RIGHT?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 4 December 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Today, Thom tackles the testimony and cuts through Republican lies, misdirection and bull with his sharp knife of truth. But are the Democrats making a mistake by not including Donald Trump's many other huge and blatant crimes in the impeachment process?
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| 0:00.0 | And the first of those instances was the president's ordering his then White House |
| 0:05.2 | Council, Don McGann, to fire the special council, rather to have the special council fired, |
| 0:12.3 | in order to thwart the investigation of the |
| 0:16.6 | president correct that is correct and the second was the president ordering |
| 0:21.0 | mr mccan to create a false written record the president |
| 0:26.5 | had ordered him to have Mr. McGann to create a false written record. |
| 0:28.5 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:31.1 | And happy impeachment day right now just to bring you up to date. |
| 0:37.7 | The four witnesses who are all law experts and law professors Michael Gerhart, Pamela Carlin, Noah Feldman, and |
| 0:46.3 | Jonathan Turley. They have all testified before the House Judiciary Committee |
| 0:50.9 | about what the founders thought was an impeachable offense. |
| 0:55.0 | Jonathan Turley was the one witness that was requested by the Republicans. |
| 1:01.0 | And he essentially said, it's okay to impeach a president and you know this guy may have committed crimes or may not but you guys need to do a little longer |
| 1:08.9 | Deeper dig and a longer dive into this thing before you come to conclusions. At least that was my |
| 1:14.5 | understanding of the essence of what he said. Right now Norman Eisen, who is the |
| 1:19.3 | attorney for the Democrats, is questioning the law professors. |
| 1:23.2 | He pretty much has not gone to Jonathan Turley. |
| 1:25.9 | And the star of this thing is Pamela Carlin, this woman who just passionately spoke |
| 1:31.1 | out, said Thanksgiving, she ordered a turkey that was pre-cooked so that she can read all the reports, |
| 1:37.0 | you know, all the testimony of the people who testified before the House Intelligence Committee. |
| 1:41.5 | So with that, I'm going to turn it over to the hearings right now where Norman I's and |
| 1:46.8 | the lawyer for the Democrats, he has 45 minutes to question these witnesses and then |
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