The House is on fire

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

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🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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New Jersey Congressman and former Obama State Department Official Tom Malinowski and Debbie Dingell, Democratic Congresswoman from Michigan join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." Both Malinowski and Dingell weigh in on impeachment, the process, the hearings, what we can expect schedule-wise moving forward, and what the 2020 candidates should be focused on.

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0:00.0	Mr. Welch.
0:03.2	Thank you.
0:04.2	I'd say to my colleague, I'd be glad to have the person who started it all come in and
0:09.7	testify.
0:10.7	President Trump is welcome to take a seat right there.
0:17.3	That was Democratic Congressman Peter Welch of Vermont, offering one of the few humorous
0:21.0	moments in an otherwise sobering day of testimony from U.S. Ambassador Bill Taylor and State
0:26.8	Department official George Kent about President Trump's Ukraine shenanigans.
0:32.2	After Taylor and Kent laid out how military aid to the Ukrainian government was being held
0:36.8	up because of Trump's demands for an investigation into his political rivals, Republicans tried
0:42.5	to poke holes in their stories.
0:45.0	It's hearsay they argued.
0:46.6	Taylor and Kent had never even met or spoken to the president.
0:50.4	A reasonable argument, perhaps, say for the fact that Trump's White House had blocked
0:54.9	all those who did have firsthand knowledge, acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, former
0:59.8	National Security Advisor John Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, from testifying at all.
1:06.2	Not to mention, of course, the man who started it all, President Trump himself.
1:11.6	But as compelling as Taylor and Kent were, and with a half dozen more witnesses slated
1:16.5	to testify over the next week, the big question remains.
1:20.6	Is it enough to move a clear majority of the American public to support the removal of
1:25.2	the president from office?
1:27.2	We'll discuss with two key House Democrats in the middle of the battle, New Jersey Congressman
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