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Trumpland with Alex Wagner

'It's insane!': Buttigieg blasts 'upside down' House GOP's damaging shutdown, dithering impeachment

Trumpland with Alex Wagner

MS NOW, Alex Wagner

Society & Culture, News

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

...Plus, 'Ass-backward imeachment': Schiff derides House GOP's empty impeachment stunt

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0:00.0

Today was the first hearing in the House Republican impeachment inquiry into President Biden.

0:05.8

And when I tell you there was not a lot of there there that this inquiry is so far based on paranoid vibes and conspiracy hunches.

0:15.8

Well, don't just take my word for it.

0:19.2

Here are the three witnesses that House Republicans called today to make their case.

0:23.2

Let me say that again.

0:24.3

These are the witnesses that House Republicans called.

0:28.1

I am not here today to even suggest that there was corruption, fraud, or any wrongdoing.

0:34.4

In fact, I do not believe that the current evidence would support articles of impeachment.

0:40.6

You mentioned in your oral testimony that you had written a commentary

0:44.8

entitled you'd go to prison for what Biden did. That was you'd go to prison for what Hunter Biden did.

0:54.4

Isn't that?

0:55.0

That's exactly right.

0:55.8

I was cutting down words to stay within my five minutes.

0:58.6

But you realize, you realize, yeah, yeah.

1:01.1

That's an important word though that you left out though, right?

1:05.0

Sure is an important word.

1:08.0

Now, far right, Republican members of Congress spend a lot, maybe all, of their time on political stunts.

1:15.0

But this hearing today was on a completely different level.

1:19.0

In the words of Congressman Jamie Raskin,

1:21.0

if Republicans had a smoking gun or even a dripping water pistol, they would be presenting

1:26.0

it today.

1:27.4

But they didn't.

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