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disseminated, or available for people to see who do not wish us well. >> it raises the question of if it is good or bad for us to go forward with the prosecution of trump. >> people differ on this. i think it shows people of this country that the law really does not favor the rich and powerful but is applied equally to people. >> special counsel jack smith is not done investigating trump. he is looking at his attempt to block the certification of the election. he could face even more charges. we will see you next time on the whole story. thank you, for watching. he doesn't care what people think. [donald] when you're a star, you can do anything.
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when they go low, you go high. cnn can report that hillary clinton called donald trump i am officially to conrunni resident of the united states. >> when they go low, hugo high. >> cnn can report that he has called on trump to concede the race. >> we are building the wall. >> the justice department has announced a special counsel to lead a new investigation into russian influence in the election and if trump was part of that. >> president putin was strong and powerful in his denial today. >> he is becoming the fourth president to face the prospect of impeachment. >> we are in a civil war.
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[donald] when mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists, and some, i assume, are good people. when mexico saddens their people they are not sending their best. they are bringing drugs and crime. their and some, i assume, are good people . >> when trump announced his candidacy for president he was not seen as a serious candidate. he confided to some of his
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advisors that this is a great marketing exercise. >> i will build a great, a great while on the southern border and i will have mexico pay for that. >> i was prepared to just watch it for a couple of minutes and then turn it off but he has got me sucked in. we all got sucked in. >> i am officially running for president of the united states. and, we are going to make our country great again. >> our country is at a crisis point. liberty is under assault. >> the gop has changed pretty dramatically by 2016. we have several generations of republicans who are no longer interested in playing by the traditional rules of politics. >> the washington machine that gobbles up our freedoms and invades every nook and cranny of our lives must be stopped.
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>> there was a close alliance between fox television and conservative social media sites and republicans on capitol hill. the party was very different. >> we have stupid people running the country and people are tired of it. >> we are talking with voters about their deepest fears . >> he has been doing it on talk radio and on fox. >> a lot of people just don't want to take it >> he had a morning call-in spot on fox and friends. >> you are here more than allie and steve combined. >> this was a crucial opportunity for trump to expose himself to the republican primary electorate. >> we need to go strong on isis. we need to be vicious. >> that is what guides his political sense. what are people rewarding him for? what are they applauding for? he is thing with the voters want to hear.
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>> he does not care what people think. he tells the truth. >> he is a threat because he does not fit in the same boxes olives as well as all of the other politicians do. >> they are sending our jobs away and they are letting people in the country that should not be here. >> trump says he is going to make america great and people will believe it. >> here comes trump to say that there is an elite establishment and i will stick up for you. >> for me, a key moment was the fox news debate in summer 2015. trump was rising in the polls but was seen as a blowhard and a buffoon. >> is there anyone on stage that is not willing to pledge support to the eventual nominee of the republican party?
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>> at one point he said he is not a politician and he does not talk like a politician. i did not quite know what that went by this the other candidates started to talk, i realized they did somewhat politicians and he did not. >> i think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. >> we had over 23 million people watching the debate. we had a disruptor but the majority of all people that identified as republicans in this country liked what he was saying. >> donald trump runs the south carolina republican presidential primary. that is an impressive one for him. >> when he started wiping out one republican contender after another, and he did it because of what seem to be the way he spoke in the insults, he was like an insult comic. >> rubio, i call him little marco. >> he assigned them high school
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like nicknames. and people were eating it up. and what they did respond, they went to his level. >> you cannot insult your way to the presidency. >> you know what they say about men with small hands. you can't trust them. >> and then they were gone. >> i humbly accept your nomination for the presidency of the united states. >> not only did the rules change but only for one person. donald trump. he created a new political environment in which only he can thrive. >> everything is a game. it's like he's living on his own celebrity tv program.
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>> what do you have to lose? >> hillary clinton was always seen as they washington establishment figure. >> you could put half of trump supporters in a basket of the portables . >> the racist, islamophobic, you name it. >> there are probably some people that are hateful racist and that is deplorable. is it fair to lump a bunch of people into that though? no. that is terrible politics. >> trump used those comments to label her an elitist. >> welcome to all of you deplorable. >> this general maria shot clock violation election was feeling like test.
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the obama administration lay the blame at the foot of the russian president with a strongly worded statement. the department of homeland security and the director of national intelligence say the attacks are intended to interfere with the u.s. election process and that only the most senior russian officials could authorize these activities . >> the intelligence agency said that the dnc was hacked and that russia was responsible. >> you can do anything. >> on the same day you have this access hollywood tape released and that is the thing that gained attention over the next few days. 72% of voters believe that clinton cares more about the needs and problems of women. >> when the access hollywood tape came out i was ready to cut bait but the fact that this was in his past and is not
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about voting for a pastor but a presidential candidate that represents the views that are important to republicans. >> there was a moment in republican politics when a candidate did and said something absolutely unacceptable. his political party wavered and decided to stick with him. >> there is nobody that has more respect for women than i do.
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who had accused bill clinton there is a news conference with trump and four women . >> he pulls a stone and he invites four women that accused bill clinton of different forms of sexual assault and harassment. >> what they are saying is almost irrelevant. it is the picture that they want to get out there though. >> most candidates would be too ashamed to do that. but he was fine with it. trump wanted to get into her head. >> bill clinton was abusive to women. >> hillary clinton was left in this word position of how do i explain this. >> he was being advised to play it cool. >> when i hear something like that i am reminded of what my friend, michelle obama, advised us all. when they go low, hugo high. >> trump was considered a
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reality star and did all kinds of things to end up in the tabloids. the fact that he took that to the next level, we were shocked. in retrospect though i don't know why we were shot. >> i worked for the children's defense fund and i was taking on discrimination against african-american kids. and he was getting sued by the justice department for racial discrimination in his apartment buildings. >> he was tougher in the debates and he won those three debates by conventional measure, easily. >> the nastiest presidential campaign in our lifetime has come to a head. four out of five said they were disgusted by it. >> people were very excited. >> if pennsylvania goes as it
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has, it is looking increasingly likely that she is on her way. >> the hillary campaign, they were energized. they thought they were were going to win. >> clinton has the edge in virginia and in the state of north carolina. >> but, as the night went on you could feel the temperature drop in the room. >> the state of florida is a must win for trump on the margin his razor thin. >> if you are a clinton supporter you are pumping popping anti-anxiety pills right now. >> you have a more urban republican area like jacksonville. trump is doing horribly but, he is breaking the meter in other places. >> the quantity of votes that were coming from these rural areas, it was a signal that he is doing better than people realize. >> breaking news.
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trump is the winner in florida. >> he is now 48 votes from having the presidency. >> let's look at the electoral college map. >> the campaign understood where they needed to win. they needed to pick off the states that democrats assumed were they hers. >> trump was beginning to color some of those swing states read. >> the deeper it got into the night, the more that it was misjudged what was going to happen. >> in pennsylvania, as a look at it, it is about 2000 votes that's up right them. >> for those of you that said at home thinking that your vote does not count, you are wrong. >> all of this people that showed up, they showed up. >> several states are too close
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to call so we will not have anything more to say tonight. >> i was sitting on set frantically texting sources at getting a text from a source that was with trump saying hillary clinton just called and she conceded. >> cnn can report that hillary clinton has called donald trump to concede the race. >> i just received a call from secretary clinton. she congratulated us. >> trump lost the popular vote but he was able to knock some bricks off of the glue wall by a combined total of 80,000 votes. in a nation of 330 million people, those votes were the difference between president hillary clinton and president donald trump. you go to inauguration to be
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[music] let's begin this morning with president trump's executive order temporarily banning immigration from seven countries and suspending the united states refugee program. one of the first decisions was on a so-called muslim ban, which we felt was the manifestation of our fears of what a trump administration would look like. [kelly] president trump's executive order delivers on his campaign promise to confront what he calls radical islamic terrorism. donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states. the effect was that people who had lawful visas to come into the united states from muslim-majority countries,
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all of sudden, could not get back in. we are people. we are not the government. we are not doing nothing. [juliette] on a friday, he issues the order, and by friday night, our american airports are in chaos. here at jfk, the protests looks to have grown to about 1,000 people while officials try to figure out just what the rules are. [peter] amid the chaos, president trump is defending his actions. "to be clear, this is not a muslim ban, as the media is falsely reporting. this is not about religion. this is about terror and keeping our country safe." [ronald] what trump realized was that the disaffected, often non-college, less affluent constituency that was becoming the core of the republican coalition, what they wanted was a government that would take on all the forces in society that they thought was threatening them. it used to be, when people would immigrate to america, that was becoming the core, they wanted a government that would take on all of the forces of society that they felt were threatening them.
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>> it used to be that they wanted the american dream. did they want to speak english and assimilate. now we have people that are coming here that want to kill us. >> the muslim travel ban was a problem that used to exist. they never sent anybody into the united states to carry out an attack that people were living here and they were being radicalized by propaganda. >> we came to understand the early days of the trump administration and that chaos goes was unacceptable for them and we received that throughout the administration. >> i am calling on congress to save americans from this imploding obamacare disaster. >> trump could not have cared less about obamacare. he knew that it was something that republicans cared about. >> the first order of business is to repeal and replace obamacare. >> he went to republican said,
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i don't know what i am doing so i will let you run the legislative agenda. >> we are united on repeal but divided on replacement. >> there was a bill that was worked on very carefully by a lot of republicans to replace obamacare with a different healthcare system. they voted in the house where they have the majority but in the senate, it was not as easy. >> a lisa murkowski and susan collins were the first to buck their party and that left john mccain. a wildcard. >> it is a shell of a bill. >> it was not well thought out and that offended john mccain. >> he was not inclined to follow party lines. and, he was sick with cancer and came back to vote. >> the question now is whether he is going to take that maverick label and wear it proudly as he potentially takes this down. >> the republican appeal
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failed, 49-51. >> the bill came on the floor in the middle of the night with no time to review it. >> trump had committed the ultimate offense when he made the comment about mccann. >> he is a war hero because he was captured. i like people that were not captured. >> it was like he went out on the senate floor and did this. >> he said it was the right thing to do . >> it was the end of repeal and replace. >> something this profound could not have been done without exquisite presidential leadership. thank you, for getting us over the finish line. >> had he not done that i think
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we would have seen the republican party resist trump more. >> sad news this hour. john mccain has died. he had been fighting an aggressive form of brain cancer for more than one year. >> when john mccain died, a big part of the gop legacy that stood up to donald trump passed away. >> i think there is this extra stomach bunch that some people feel tonight because there is this feeling that john mccain was one of the less people holding up the guard rail. >> the blood was so bad between trump and the mccain family that it was obvious this would not be a normal funeral. >> when i talk with people that are close to the senator, here are two words they don't want to hear. donald trump. >> the political world was there. but they told trump not to come. >> we gather here to mourn the passing of american greatness.
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the real thing. not cheap rather from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly. >> mccain could not have done any better. >> so much of our politics seems small and mean. >> when it came to sending a message about where the country should be, mccain and his family understood that inviting the person who beat you for president, to speak at your funeral, that says it all. >> there was no way to miss the message. mccain was perceived to be this person who -- addict codified this sense of where we were at that point. in a scent-free, g. (psst psst) flonase. all good. i think this is it guys? when the martins booked their vrbo vacation home,
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[music] the fbi is investigating the russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. in the spring of 2017, james comey goes before congress the fbi is investigating the russian government efforts to interfere in the presidential election. >> in the spring of 2017, james comey goes before congress and says that russia had been working to help trump get elected in the 2016 election. >> that includes investigating the nature of links between individuals associated with the trump campaign. >> the white house was furious at this because they wanted to
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say hugh won it fair and square. >> trump has fired james comey as director of the fbi. >> the president has not been pleased with james comey because of this ongoing investigation of the trump campaign and connections with russian operatives. >> he had the power to fire comay but the question is, was it wise? the answer is no. the firing of james comey creates a crisis. >> the justice department has announced a special counsel to lead a new investigation into russian influence in the election and if there was coordination with members of the trump campaign. they named robert mueller as special counsel. >> robert mueller was seen as a g-man. if there was anybody you did not want on your trail, it was him. >> mueller remain silent& work speak for itself.
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>> the mueller investigation was examining two things. one was possible conspiracy between the trump campaign and russian officials and the other was possible obstruction of justice by president donald trump. these ended up as two parallel but intertwined tracks. >> fake news under russian witchhunt. >> there were days when he would not get any work done and his staff would have him hold up in the private dining room ranting and raving about the latest incremental development in the mueller investigation and tweeting about it. watching television. it became the white whale of the trump presidency. >> in just a few minutes, trump and vladimir putin will hold a news conference. >> the president talked about what he wanted to discuss with vladimir putin. he talked about defense and other issues. but it was what he did not
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mention and that was election interference. that will likely be the first question they are asked in this room. >> trump never wanted to admit the russians interfered. he wanted everyone to think he won big. and whenever the issue of russian interference came up, he pushed it away. >> i have great confidence in my intelligence people. i will tell you that president vladimir putin was strong and powerful in his denial today. >> trump chose to believe the vladimir putin denial. it is hard to understand. >> his eagerness to sellout america proves that the russians must have something personally, politically, or financially on trump. >> it did vladimir putin have something on trump?
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we don't know that. did he interfere in the election? that, we do know. and to deny that russia acted in favor of trump, that is foolish. >> have we ever had a president stand next to a dictator and refused to take sides? >> where people got themselves believing there was going to be more information uncovered by mueller is it does not take a conspiracy for people to have the same interests and vladimir putin interest was parallel. >> today i am keeping another promise to the american people. i am nominating judge neil gorsuch of the united states supreme court. >> neil gorsuch was the first supreme court nominee for trump and he was taking a supreme court position that mcconnell had previously held open.
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>> the justices that i am going to appoint will be pro-life and they will have a conservative and. >> trump was married three times and linked to pornography stars. not the first logical choice for southern evangelicals. the most important thing that trump did to some of the allegiance of a cultural conservative vanguard of the republican party was to signal who he would pick for the supreme court. >> in both cases they get what they wanted. trump won the election . >> the president interviewing possible nominees for the supreme court seat that will come open when kennedy retires. >> brett kavanaugh was supposed to replace anthony kennedy and that was a big deal. he had always been the key swing vote so this would change the balance of the court.
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>> i think president trump for the honor of this. >> the hearing was going fine and it did not look like there was any way for the democrats to stop it. >> we are about to hear some high stakes congressional testimony. christine blasi ford is being interviewed . >> we heard there were allegations that he sexually assaulted christine blasi ford. >> trump was watching it and he was shaken by her testimony. thought it was credible and the word went back to the white house and to the people on capitol hill that if you want to save the nomination, you are going to have to fight. >> i was number one in the class. >> let me answer . >> i want to talk about my high
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school record. >> what was striking about it was how quickly the republicans on the committee pivoted from anxiety and concern. could we defend this. two, lindsey graham delivering this, i will not be silenced speech. >> what you want to do is destroy his life and told the seat open and hope you won it in 2020. you said that. >> the way cavanaugh was saved was along the same lines as the way that trump dealt with all of the accusations that came at him. any accusation against me is really intended to impose far left politics. >> is cavanaugh going to be confirmed? >> i think so. >> cavanaugh was narrowly confirmed on saturday and immediately sworn in as the newest supreme court justice. >> it became incredibly revealing, the strategies of the parties at this moment.
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cnn projects that democrats will reclaim control of the us house of representatives, winning new power to take on the president of the united states. at cnn projects that democrats will regain control of the u.s. house of representatives winning the power to take on the president of the united states. >> so much of the midterms was a backlash against trump. >> that is just huge. >> independent voters have completely bailed on the president. >> his positions on gender had energized a new wave of suburban women voters. >> alexandria cortez will be the youngest woman elected to congress. two female democrats were nominated as well. >> republicans were able to hold onto the senate majority
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but his party really ended up being routed by the democrats. >> today is about more than the democrats and republicans. it is about restoring the constitution. >> once democrats have control of the house, speaker nancy pelosi emerges as the chief proponent of the president. >> there is a big difference between the president and me. he has thin skin and i have thick skin . >> he was like donald trump's worst nightmare because he knew so much more about legislating and washington in general. he did not know how to deal with her. >> fireworks erupting between nancy pelosi and chuck schumer as well as trump. a fight over funding the border wall. >> his biggest line during the campaign was building a wall. >> we are building that wall.
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>> he tried to put funding for the wall in all kinds of tools. you tried to put it in the tax bill. by the time he got to that midterm period, he was at a crossroads. if he did not get the money now he would not get it and nancy pelosi was willing to push back publicly. >> the wall is part of border security. >> they were having disagreements in public. because trump never wanted to be seen as losing to nancy pelosi. >> we are approaching 48 hours until a possible government shutdown. there is still no spending deal in place. >> them across the republicans came to a deal that would have funded border security and would have given him a little bit of money for the wall.
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>> negotiators had settled on $1.6 billion for border security next year but, the president wants a $5 billion more for a border wall. >> ultimately, it was not enough for him. so he held the government hostage. >> this is along a shutdown in u.s. history. thousands of federal workers are starting the weekend without a paycheck. >> i just have to put food in my kids mouth. >> you can call of the humor or the pelosi or the trump shutdown. it is just words. >> the president does not appreciate the role of public policy and the lives of people. >> he was put in a curious situation. it was a calculated risk that did not pay off. >> the defeat of his signature campaign promise, trump announces by extension, an end to the longest government shutdown, providing no new
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money for a border wall. >> he made four different offers. the president finally said, this is too much. >> he dragged it out until, at the end of the day, the deal he had to land to end the shutdown was a worse deal than he would have gotten if he would've just caved at the beginning. >> you can't go broke betting on nancy pelosi but there was know for sure thing. you knew who was going to be starting around the ring at the end. >> tonight robert mueller has completed the investigation and submitted his report. >> it cost more than $25 million and led to criminal charges for many people connected to trump as well as 25 russians and three russian companies. >> when mueller released his report he gave it to william bar. >> the question, how much of it will he reveal given the
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interest of the republic? >> there was investigation into if there was collusion between the trump campaign and the russians to interfere to the advantage of trump. >> the special counsel did not find that the trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with the russian government in these efforts. >> the second part of the investigation was if there had been obstruction of justice. whether trump had tried to interfere with the mueller investigation. >> special counsel said that while this does not include that the president committed a crime it does not exonerate him. >> there were more than 10 instances that the mueller prosecutors found of trump actively seeking >> mueller left to it barr and deputy attorney general rod roadn stein to decide the obstruction question.
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[music] i stand before you to officially launch my campaign for a second term... [fiona] in the summer of 2019, president trump was already thinking about his re-election. i stand before you to officially launch my campaign for a second term -- >> in the summer of 2019, president trump was already thinking about his re-election. >> gene is not playing with a full deck. this is not somebody you can have as your president. >> he was latching on to anything he absolutely could to try to use it to get re-elected, and he was trying to hobble the competition. >> word of a whistle-blower inside the trump administration. the issue, a phone call between the president and the foreign leader and what president trump may have promised.
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>> "the washington post" first reporting an intelligence official was so bothered by a promise president trump made to a foreign leader that he filed a formal complaint. >> it became clear that this call involved trump and the recently installed president of ukraine. volodymyr zelenskyy. and that it had to do with american military aid to ukraine, which had been at war with russia. but the pressure was on trump to release the transcript of the call. >> that call was perfect. >> as we all learned, when the decision was taken to release the trump script, it was anything but perfect. in fact, what trump was doing was asking president volodymyr zelenskyy to do him a personal political favor. >> a whistle-blower complaint that according to the "washington post," president trump pressured the ukrainian president to investigate hunter biden. >> hunter biden was indeed on the board of a ukrainian company, for no apparent reason other than he was the son of a politician. >> instead of defending an ally, ukraine, which is in the fight
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of its life, the president was holding back that aid until the ukrainians would investigate the biden family. >> president trump basically wanted to politically blackmail president zelenskyy. it was one of the crassest diplomatic overtures by any president. and of course led to his impeachment. >> the president said, there's a lot of talk about biden's son, that biden stopped the prosecution, and a lot of people want to find out about that. so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. >> having read the trump script, then having taken part in the impeachment hearings -- i realized this wasn't about ukraine, this was about trying to keep donald trump in power. >> he had no intention of going anywhere. >> democrats believe they've made their case, believe they will soon impeach the president of the united states. >> article 1 is adopted. >> the 45th president of the united states becoming only the third leader since the founding of this nation to be formally charged by the full house of representatives, and he now faces trial in the u.s. senate. >> the votes were in the house to impeach president trump.
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this was an effort to make the case that this misconduct was so serious, we have to do what we can. but no one went into that thinking president trump would be removed from office. >> the house decided that this kind of behavior was a threat for our constitutional order, they therefore had constitutional responsibility to do exactly what they did today. it will be up to the senate. >> he's not going to be removed. >> possible violence, not that i'm condoning violence. there will be a lot of mad americans. >> mr. young? >> not guilty. >> the president of the united states will remain in office. >> the republicans didn't support this, other than mitt romney, who is the single republican who said, this is worthy of impeachment. and he was allowed to continue with his presidency. >> it sadly feels like a predictable next step in this escalation of a partisan war to the point at times it feels we're in a cold civil war.
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>> the first impeachment ended up being a preview of the second impeachment. what we should have learned from the first one is that the president is willing to do anything to maintain power. that is his guiding ideology. >> they thought this was a great idea, and at least for the short-term, it has been a colossal political mistake. >> it's the republican party going along with trump that really makes trump such an important phenomenon. even if you didn't like a lot what was trump said and you were a little worried about some of it, the fact that the republicans were getting a lot of what you wanted -- you got your tax cuts and the justices in the supreme court. that is really one of the underestimated parts of 2017 to 2020. it was trump's republican party. >> thank you, more than anything else, for putting up with the never-ending bullshit you have to go through. >> people kept looking for the moment when republicans would break from trump.
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but there were millions of people who voted for him and continued to support him because they thought he cared what happened to them. it may have been a marriage of convenience, but it was a pretty stable marriage all throughout his presidency. >> america is the place where anything can happen. the american adventure has only just begun. our spirit is still young, and my fellow americans, the best is yet to come. thank you, god bless you, and god bless america. thank you very much.

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