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  • BURST UP THE JUDICIARY CHAIRMAN

  • LINDSEY GRAHAM.

  • SENATOR, GREAT TO HAVE YOU WITH

  • US.

  • THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE

  • TONIGHT.

  • >> THANK YOU.

  • >> Martha: YOU LISTEN TO THE

  • INTRODUCTION, CHUCK SCHUMER,

  • SENATOR SCHUMER SAYING DON'T

  • STAND IN THE WAY OF JOHN BOLTON

  • TESTIFYING.

  • JERRY NADLER SAYING THIS AND IT

  • IS ALSO ON TRIAL HERE.

  • WHAT DO YOU SAY DO THAT?

  • >> I SAY YOU HAVE A BUNCH OF

  • POLICIES -- POLITICIANS TRYING

  • TO DESTROY TRUMP SINCE THE DAY H

  • TO DESTROY TRUMP SINCE THE DAY E

  • TO DESTROY TRUMP SINCE THE DAY G

  • TO DESTROY TRUMP SINCE THE DAY T

  • ELECTED.

  • CHUCK SCHUMER IS NOT LOOKING FOR

  • THE TRUTH.

  • HE'S TRYING TO BECOME THE

  • MAJORITY LEADER.

  • EYEWITNESS WHETHER DEMOCRATIC

  • COLLEAGUES WOULD DO WHEN IT

  • COMES TO THE TRUMP AGENDA, THEY

  • TRIED TO DESTROY BRETT KAVANAUGH

  • AND THAT BLEW UP IN THEIR FACE

  • AND THIS WILL BLOW UP IN THEIR

  • FACE.

  • JOHN BOLTON IS THE NATIONAL

  • SECURITY ADVISOR TO THE

  • PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

  • THEY DIDN'T EVEN TRY TO CALL HIM

  • IN THE HOUSE.

  • WHAT THEY DID IN THE HOUSE, THEY

  • DENIED THE PRESIDENT THE ABILITY

  • TO CALL WITNESSES ON HIS OWN

  • HALF.

  • THE COUNCIL WAS NOT ALLOWED TO

  • CROSS-EXAMINE WITNESSES.

  • NOW THEY WANT THIS AND IT TOOK

  • ALL THE NATIONAL SECURITY

  • ADVISOR.

  • THE SECRETARY OF STATE, A WIMPY

  • DIRECTOR AND CHIEF OF STAFF OF

  • THE PRESIDENT OF THE

  • UNITED STATES.

  • ANY PRESIDENT WOULD CLAIM

  • EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE.

  • THIS IS NOT ABOUT GETTING TO THE

  • TRUTH BUT TRYING TO MAKE

  • REPUBLICANS TAKE HARD BOATS.

  • LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE DUE

  • EVIDENCE, THE NEW EVIDENCE IS NO

  • DIFFERENT THAN THE OLD EVIDENCE.

  • THIS CAME OUT ON RACHEL MADDOW

  • SHOW, YOU ALREADY NEED TO KNOW,

  • THIS LEV PARNAS KAI IS FACING

  • INDICTMENT.

  • HE HAS BEEN DRIFTING NOW TO THE

  • HOUSE UNTIL COMMITTEE WITH

  • PATCHES OF INFORMATION CHRISTIAN

  • ENDING TO THE WEEK WE START A

  • TRIAL.

  • I SMELL A RAT, THE GUY IS AS

  • CROOKED AS A SNAKE AND WE WILL

  • NOT SLOW DOWN FOR TRIAL.

  • >> Martha: THEY ARE JUST

  • SAYING, WHY NOT DO IT AGAIN?

  • IF THAT IS THE CASE AND ALSO

  • WITH REGARD TO JOHN BOLTON,

  • SINCE THAT TESTIMONY IN THE

  • HOUSE THAT JOHN BOLTON SITE IF

  • HE WAS SUBPOENAED, HE WOULD COME

  • FORWARD AND TALK.

  • >> IT IS A PRIVILEGE OF THE

  • PRESIDENT, NOT JOHN BOLTON.

  • THEY COULD PURSUE JOHN BOLTON IF

  • THEY CHOSE TO.

  • IT HAD TO BE DONE SO QUICKLY WE

  • COULD NOT ALLOW THE PRESIDENT TO

  • INVOKE EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE.

  • NOW THEY WANT JOHN BOLTON TO

  • COME FORWARD AND THE SENATE TO

  • DESTROY EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE.

  • ANY PRESIDENT WOULD CLAIM

  • EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE OVER THE

  • TESTIMONY OF SECURITY ADVISOR.

  • THEY DIDN'T EVEN SUBPOENA

  • JOHN BOLTON AND THEY EXPECT US

  • REPUBLICANS TO DESTROY

  • PRESIDENT TRUMP'S PRIVILEGE.

  • WE ARE NOT GOING TO DO IT.

  • WE WILL BASE OUR FOE ON THE

  • HOUSE RECORDS.

  • >> Martha: I UNDERSTAND WHAT

  • YOU ARE SAYING, THERE WAS A HUGE

  • RUSH TO GET THIS OVER TO THE

  • SENATE, TO WRAP IT UP, NO TIMED

  • WITH THE COURT SYSTEM AND ALL OF

  • THAT.

  • OBVIOUSLY, ALL VALID POINTS BUT

  • SOME OF THE POINT YOUR

  • COLLEAGUES ARE MAKING INCLUDING

  • CHRIS CON, PRESIDENT CLINTON,

  • PRESIDENT NIXON DIRECTED CLOSE

  • ADVISORS AND CABINET TO

  • COOPERATE WITH THE

  • INVESTIGATION.

  • AS I KNOW YOU ARE ON RECORD FROM

  • JANUARY 1999 IN THE CLINTON

  • TRIAL THAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE

  • WITNESSES CALLED.

  • IF YOU TAKE THEM OFF THE TABLE

  • IN THE SENATE, THE NEXT

  • JUDICIARY COMMITTEE AND COUNCIL

  • HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING BECAUSE

  • THEY MAY LOSE THE CHANCE TO

  • PRESENT THEIR CASE.

  • YOU REMEMBER THE REST OF IT.

  • HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO THAT?

  • >> VERY EASILY, THE PRESIDENT

  • COOPERATED WITH MUELLER.

  • HE SENT HIS PERSONAL DON

  • McCANN TESTIFIED IN THE

  • MUELLER INVESTIGATION.

  • I DON'T BLAME THE PRESIDENT NOT

  • PARTICIPATING IN THE HOUSE

  • IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY.

  • I SUPPORTED MUELLER.

  • I GAVE HIM THE SPACE HE NEEDED

  • TO WORK.

  • >> Martha: THIS IS A DIFFERENT

  • CASE.

  • >> THAT DON'T MAKE NO, WHAT I'M

  • TELLING YOU THIS IS A PARTISAN

  • IMPEACHMENT AND IF I WERE THE

  • PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

  • COME I WOULD NOT COOPERATE AT

  • ALL WITH THESE PEOPLE UNTIL THE

  • COURT SAID I HAD TO.

  • SO THEY IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT

  • CAN IMPEACH PRESIDENT TRUMP

  • BECAUSE HE DARED TO GO TO COURT.

  • I NEVER SAID THAT A PRESIDENT

  • HAS TO WAIVE EXECUTIVE

  • PRIVILEGE.

  • THE HOUSE CHOSE NOT TO ALLOW THE

  • PRESIDENT TO GO TO COURT.

  • INSTEAD OF ALLOWING HIM TO GO TO

  • COURT TO LITIGATE THESE ISSUES,

  • THEY IMPEACHED HIM FOR HIS

  • DECISION TO GO TO COURT.

  • I HOPE WE REJECT THIS SOUNDLY

  • BECAUSE IT IS A DANGER TO THE

  • PRESIDENCY AS TO THIS NEW

  • WITNESS.

  • THE GUY IS FACING CRIMINAL

  • CHARGES.

  • WHAT IS HE ALLEGING THAT HE

  • TRIED TO CONTACT UKRAINIAN

  • OFFICIALS TO SET UP A MEETING

  • BETWEEN RUDY GIULIANI AND THE

  • PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE.

  • ANTIPHON FOREIGN MINISTER SAID

  • ABOUT UKRAINE, I NEVER TALK TO

  • HIM AND I DON'T TRUST HIM.

  • THIS WHOLE THING IS A JOKE.

  • I SMELL A RAT.

  • >> Martha: SENATOR, LET ME

  • PLAY THAT SOUND BITE THAT YOU

  • MENTION BECAUSE I WANT TO TALK

  • ABOUT THIS WHOLE THING.

  • >> I NEVER SPOKE WITH RUDY

  • GIULIANI AND FRANKLY, I DON'T

  • TRUST ANY WORK.

  • >> FRANKIE, WE DON'T NEED THIS.