Nadler on Impeachment: America ‘Cannot Rely on an Election’

CNN Ripped for Apparently Skipping Live Coverage of Hearing on FBI Misconduct

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hear from the Department of Justice’s Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, on Wednesday on the findings of his report into the FBI’s tactics on how it surveilled a Trump campaign aid. Reporters and pundits claimed that CNN is not showing the hearing, suggesting the network has a political bias for not doing so. MSNBC was also criticized for appearing to present biased coverage during Wednesday’s coverage of Horowitz’s testimony. Fox News reported that CNN didn’t televise Senate Majority Leader Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) opening statement. “The first thing I want you to know is how the cake is baked here and my goal is to make sure … you look at this as more than a few irregularities, because if this becomes a few irregularities in America, then…

House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said during a committee hearing on Dec. 11 that America can’t wait until 2020 to see if President Donald Trump gets beaten by a Democrat.

“We cannot rely on an election to solve our problems, when the president threatens the very integrity of that election,” Nadler claimed.

He was speaking during a tense markup of articles of impeachment against the president.

Democrats say Trump obstructed the congressional investigation into his alleged use of the presidency to demand a foreign government attack his political rivals.

Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to “look into” corruption allegations surrounding former Vice President Joe Biden and his son. Trump referenced Biden bragging last year about how he in 2016 threatened to withhold $1 billion from Ukraine unless then-President Petro Poroshenko ousted a prosecutor, Viktor Shokin.

Shokin was probing Burisma, the employer of Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.

Joe Biden is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination and Democrat lawmakers say Trump was trying to interfere in the upcoming election.

“He wanted Ukraine to announce two bogus investigations: one into former Vice President Biden, his leading opponent in the 2020 election; and another to advance a conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, attacked our elections in 2016,” Nadler said on Wednesday night.

Nadler on Impeachment: America ‘Cannot Rely on an Election’

Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election in addition to Russia, some Republicans argue.

“These were not legitimate requests. Neither was supported by the evidence. One investigation was designed to help President Trump conceal the truth about the 2016 election. The other was designed to help him gain an advantage in the 2020 campaign. Both were divorced from reality—and from official U.S. policy,” Nadler said.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), speaking during the hearing, defended Trump’s actions and said that the impeachment push was “about one basic fact: The Democrats have never accepted the will of the American people.”

“They can’t stand it. And they’re never going to stop. And it’s not just because they don’t like the president. It’s not just because they don’t like the president. They don’t like us. They don’t like the 63 million people who voted for this president. All of us in flyover country. All of us common folk in Ohio, Wisconsin, Tennessee, and Texas. They don’t like us,” he added, citing remarks by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), law professor Pamela Karlan, and former FBI agent Peter Strzok.

“Liberals tend to cluster. Conservatives spread out because they don’t even want to be around themselves,” Karlan, who was called by House Democrats to testify, told lawmakers last week.

Waters last year said: “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out, and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they are not welcome anymore, anywhere.”

Strzok, who worked on the probe into Trump’s campaign, said in a text message to FBI lawyer Lisa Page: “Went to a Southern Virginia Wal-Mart. I can smell the Trump support.”

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Manchin ‘Torn’ About Whether to Vote to Convict Trump on Articles of Impeachment

A moderate Democratic senator says he’s not sure whether he’ll vote to convict President Donald Trump on two articles of impeachment if the House votes to impeach the president, which would trigger a Senate trial. “I’m very much torn on it. I think it weighs on everybody,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) told reporters in Washington on Dec. 11. “We have a divided country. On the other hand, we have equal branch of governments, responsibilities in the Constitution. There are a lot of things at stake here,” he said. Manchin said he thinks the Senate should hear from witnesses like Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer; acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney; and former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. Manchin in September said he supported an impeachment inquiry…