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As things deteriorate for the president of the United States and the GOP comes up empty with a defense for any of this, you know, corruption that he has not only engaged in, but encourages, I mean, how many people are going to go to

jail for this guy? It's amazing. And, you know, here, I'm going to play the live testimony,

but I just want you to keep in mind as you're watching it, that everybody around Richard Nixon

went to jail except for Richard Nixon, okay? And this is what Trump is counting on, that everybody

will go to jail for him,

except for him. It's a very sick scenario that's playing out in this man's mind. But let's listen

to the live testimony. This is part two of Maria Yovanovitch's day in front of the House

Intelligence Committee. Of course, Adam Schiff right now is asking her some questions.

We'll listen in and see how long this goes.

...blown the whistle we wouldn't be here. And I think it is appalling that my colleagues

continue to want to out this whistleblower so that he or she can be punished by this president.

But let's underscore once again, while you are the beginning of this story,

you're not the end of it, but nonetheless the beginning is important

because the beginning of the story is an effort to get you out of the way,

an effort by Rudy Giuliani and Fruman and Parnas

and corrupt Ukrainians like Lutsenko,

to get you out of the way

because they felt you were an impediment to these political investigations

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