This is the Tom Hartman program.

Greetings my friends, Patriots,

Loers of Democracy, Truth and Justice,

believers in Peace, Freedom in the American Way.

Okay, so today there's another hearing in front of the Judiciary Committee.

So this is what Mr. Burke said, the attorney for the Democrats.

He points out that the Republicans are saying,

this is unfair, we can't go ahead, we can't take a vote, we can't decide on this because

we haven't heard from the actual fact witnesses,

the people who are right there at the middle of things,

we haven't seen the

documents, so how can we go ahead? So this is Burke's response. He says the

reason we've not heard from all witnesses or documents is because

President Trump himself has obstructed this investigation.

He's directed his most senior aides who are involved in some of these events not to come testify,

to defy subpoenas.

He has told every one of his agencies with records that could be relevant

not to produce those records to us to try to obstruct our investigation. Now this is evidence that President Trump is replaying the

playbook used in the prior Department of Justice investigation. That would be

the Mueller investigation. In that investigation he directed his White House

counsel to create a false, phony record,

and document and lie, denying that President Trump had told him to fire the Special Counsel.

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