'The fact is, he has no respect.': Pelosi blasts Johnson's embrace of 'no basis' impeachment
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🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you at home for joining me tonight. |
| 0:02.4 | This time of year, four years ago, |
| 0:04.6 | Democrats were preparing to impeach |
| 0:06.7 | Donald Trump for withholding aid to Ukraine |
| 0:09.7 | in an attempt to get political dirt on Joe Biden. Republicans were not surprisingly |
| 0:15.0 | outraged. But there was one Republican congressman in particular who had a |
| 0:20.2 | very specific reason for opposing Trump's impeachment, a reason that he repeated |
| 0:25.4 | over and over and over. |
| 0:30.4 | The founding fathers, the founders of this country warned against single party impeachment. |
| 0:34.8 | They said that it would be bitterly divisive, perhaps irreparably divisive for the country. |
| 0:40.2 | The founders of this country warned us against a single party impeachment because they feared it would bitterly and perhaps irreparably divide our nation. |
| 0:49.0 | The founders of this country warned against a single party impeachment. You know why? You guys know why? |
| 0:54.0 | Because they feared it would bitterly and perhaps irreparably divide our nation. |
| 0:58.0 | The founding fathers warned us. I mean they feared a single party impeachment they knew that it would |
| 1:03.8 | bitterly divide the country it might be irreparable damage to the country |
| 1:09.0 | the founding fathers warned us no single party impeachments. |
| 1:15.0 | If an impeachment isn't bipartisan it should not happen. |
| 1:18.0 | So spoke the founding fathers and that was the message from Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson. |
| 1:24.3 | And Congressman Johnson was especially concerned about an impeachment |
| 1:29.5 | happening the December before an election year. |
| 1:32.8 | If you don't like the president, he goes on the ballot again after four years. |
| 1:39.1 | We have an election 11 months, let the people decide this. |
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