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Speaker 1: Let's talk this morning about abuses of power. Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: has abused his power to rake in billions of dollars,

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Speaker 1: but compared to locking somebody up an innocent person, that's

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Speaker 1: a small abuse of power. Yesterday we saw profound abuses

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Speaker 1: of power on full display before the United States Senate.

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Speaker 1: People who are morally intellectually unfit for high government service. Well,

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Speaker 1: we saw yesterday were sickophans and insurrectionists.

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Speaker 2: The most corrupt lawyer in American.

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Speaker 1: History, and somebody who has as equally unfit as Tulci Gabbard,

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Speaker 1: who was a member of a cult. Let's talk about it.

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Speaker 1: It's Thursday, July sixteenth. I'm Steve Schmid. This is the

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Speaker 1: morning there are no workarounds in the United States for

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Speaker 1: our elections. It is how where our civilization is structured.

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Speaker 1: It is the beating heart, the cornerstone. This is very

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Speaker 1: simple to understand. If I shot you in the knee,

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Speaker 1: you might not be able to walk, but you live.

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Speaker 1: Trump has shot the country in the knee over and

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Speaker 1: over and over again. But when he aims at our elections,

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Speaker 1: that's a shot to the heart. And a bullet to

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Speaker 1: the heart is always fatal, and the beating heart of

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Speaker 1: a republic is the concept that it is the people

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Speaker 1: who are sovereign. We are a government of the people,

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Speaker 1: by the people, for the people. What I'm about to

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Speaker 1: show you is the most important and most dramatic testimony

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Speaker 1: that has yet taken place before a Congressional committee hearing

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Speaker 1: during the Trump administration. And in this case, something I

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Speaker 1: have lambasted turned out okay. The Democrats this time functioned

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Speaker 1: like a team. Let's start with John.

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Speaker 3: You're here asking for the support of senators to lead

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Speaker 3: America's intelligence community. We've established that you have an obligation

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Speaker 3: to be honest and forthright with this committee and with

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Speaker 3: the American public. But you refuse to answer a simple

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Speaker 3: matter of fact about the twenty twenty election. Is that right?

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Speaker 4: No, that's not right.

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Speaker 3: Then answer the question who won the twenty twenty election?

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Speaker 3: Answer it? What is your answer?

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Speaker 5: I've given you my answer.

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Speaker 3: What is your answer? You refuse to answer a basic

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Speaker 3: question about who won a presidential election, but you asked

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Speaker 3: to lead America's intelligence community. Isn't it humiliating to be

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Speaker 3: unable to answer this question, to have to indulge the

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Speaker 3: president's delusions?

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Speaker 1: This is an incredible exchange and it is very, very important.

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Speaker 1: The question is well overdue. Who won the election in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty. The answer to that question is Joseph robin

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Speaker 1: At Biden of Delaware. Trump won in sixteen and he

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Speaker 1: won in twenty four. But why can't these people answer

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Speaker 1: the question? Let's go to Angus King.

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Speaker 6: Who won the twenty twenty election.

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Speaker 4: I've answered that question. I'm not gonna get into that.

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Speaker 4: You have not answered that question.

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Speaker 2: Could you answer the question?

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Speaker 6: Who won the twenty twenty election?

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Speaker 2: Pretty simple question?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I said, I'm I answer my answer. I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: give you the same answer. The answer to the chairman

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Speaker 4: was im. He asked me if I was an election denier.

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Speaker 4: I am not an election denier. Joe Biden was certified

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Speaker 4: as the president. He went, he went through, went through

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Speaker 4: his process. We went through our electoral process, and I

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Speaker 4: can tell you that I was. I was in my

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Speaker 4: seat at the SEC, and I'm just less for so

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Speaker 4: question who won the twenty twenty election? As I said

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Speaker 4: to you, went through our processes and Joe Biden became

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Speaker 4: the President of the United States.

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Speaker 2: It was also Todd Blanche's day. He answer questions.

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Speaker 1: This man utterly lawless, totally corrupt is nominated to be

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Speaker 1: the Attorney General of the United States. These are the

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Speaker 1: words eged and granted outside the Justice Department. Todd Blanche

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Speaker 1: gave it away. He thinks he's Donald Trump's lawyer. Doesn't

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Speaker 1: serve the American people?

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Speaker 2: Are you in President Trump?

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Speaker 5: Friends, I'm his lawyer, was his lawyer, and now I'm

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Speaker 5: the Deputy Attorney general. So I met him as his

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Speaker 5: criminal defense attorney. I'm not sure there's very many people

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Speaker 5: who have ever had a criminal defense attorney who calls

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Speaker 5: that person their friend.

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Speaker 2: I now have a Well, let me look this. Why

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Speaker 2: are you enemies?

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Speaker 6: No, we're not enemies at all.

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Speaker 1: No, this man who over and over again has been

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Speaker 1: part of an agency that has leveled false charges. And

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Speaker 1: more importantly, the position of the Justice Department is that

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Speaker 1: Trump has a right to kill you.

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Speaker 2: His agents have a.

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Speaker 1: Right to point a weapon at you whenever they please,

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Speaker 1: and if they choose to pull the trigger, know this

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Speaker 1: in advance, it will be because you try to run

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Speaker 1: them over in your car, regardless if you were in

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Speaker 1: one or not. The lies are falling faster and harder, now,

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Speaker 1: aren't they watch this ridiculousness with Todd Blanche.

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Speaker 6: As far as I can tell, those officers were not fired,

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Speaker 6: they have not faced any charges.

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Speaker 2: So it does.

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Speaker 6: Undermine any confidence anybody should have in the Department of

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Speaker 6: Homeland Security ability through the Inspector General or otherwise to

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Speaker 6: investigate its own So I come back to the question,

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Speaker 6: what should the role of the Department Justice be when

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Speaker 6: there's federally officer involved shootings.

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Speaker 5: Well, I very much disagree with the statement you just made.

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Speaker 5: The mere passage of time between January and today, it

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Speaker 5: doesn't mean there's no justice. It doesn't mean that these

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Speaker 5: investigations do take time. And as Senator Klobatar talked about,

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Speaker 5: and it's her state, we are we meaning the federal government,

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Speaker 5: have worked with the statement that case.

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Speaker 6: Well to other issues. But here's what I see. No justice,

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Speaker 6: clear justice and a get investigations take time, and no

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Speaker 6: justice in those two cases, what we have seen is

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Speaker 6: people continuing to die, not just in detention facilities, but

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Speaker 6: on the streets of American In here.

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Speaker 5: Is the Department of Justice that you are running independent

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Speaker 5: from the White House. The Department of Justice, like every

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Speaker 5: single department in the executive is part of the Executive.

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Speaker 5: I mean Article two of the Constitution gives the power

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Speaker 5: of the executive to President Trump. So we certainly operate

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Speaker 5: with integrity. We certainly operate in the single mindset to

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Speaker 5: serve the American people and do the right thing. But

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Speaker 5: I am a member. If confirmed, i will be a

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Speaker 5: member of the cabinet. I'm serving in the acting. I

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Speaker 5: see that way now, just like the cabin members at

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Speaker 5: President Trump confess me whenever he wants.

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Speaker 1: All of it is a travesty. All of it is

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Speaker 1: a threat to our liberty. And every bit of it

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Speaker 1: was captured a live television before the vote was taken.

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Speaker 1: I'll say that again before the vote was taken. These

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Speaker 1: people are unfit, and so is most of the US Senate.

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Speaker 1: We're losing the Republic. And this is the warning. I'm

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Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I

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