Crowd erupts laughing as witness HUMILIATES Matt Gaetz at hearing

we're here in part two of lessons from the Muller report and so I'm wondering how we're going to learn those lessons during part 1 of lessons of the Muller report we brought in John Dean to re-examine the Nixon impeachment perhaps during part two we'll get to the impeachment of Andrew Johnston well maybe maybe the folks here could teach us some lessons for the witnesses so that we don't have to individually go through here's the question and raise your hand if you would answer this in the affirmative do any witnesses here have personal knowledge regarding the truth or falsity of a single material fact in the Mulla report if you if you have personal knowledge regarding the truth or falsity of a single material fact just raise your hand so I can figure out who to ask the question - so I the record can reflect no witnesses have raised their hand no witnesses have any personal knowledge about a single fact in the report no witnesses last week had personal the gentleman yield well I'll certainly yield to the Chairman because I mean I would remind the gentleman that there is an ongoing controversy that the White House is asserting the right to prohibit the testimony of any witness with regard to anything that happened I'm gonna reclaim my president will you understand and appreciate that mr. chairman wheeler the gentleman yield to my eye I will not because I want to respond to the Chairman's assertion the the person over whom the White House can assert no privilege is robert muller and you have the power to subpoena robert muller you have used subpoena power extensively in this committee and you won't subpoena the person who wrote the report and so this hearing should not be entitled lessons from the Muller report it should be entitled pot takes from the balla report because what we're getting are people who have no knowledge of the facts no information as to the underlying information they're just reading it and offering their analysis and their hot takes but I think that there's a far more critical issue that our committee should be addressing and that we could address right now in a circumstance where upwards of 5,500 people are arriving every day on our southern border and this committee has the jurisdiction to reform our Asylum laws just to cure the border to make changes to ensure that we have a country that's protected and a rule of law that's maintained fortunately actually one of our witnesses is somewhat of an expert on this subject miss Cordero is not in order miss Cordero you are somewhat of an expert on the activities that go on on our southern border aren't you I do some work related to national security and homeland security and my capacity as a senior fellow yes and in 2013 for Georgetown you wrote an essay entitled breaking the Mexican cartels a key for Homeland Security challenge a chairman at this time I'm going to interrupt and say that this hearing is about you wrote breaking the Mexican cartels is no easy feat but is it necessary one to secure our southern border eliminate the presence of dangerous cartels in our cities reduce Americans contribution to the drug trade and resulting violence and play our role in restoring the Mexican citizenry to a free society from daily terror is it your impression that since you wrote this in 2013 that the circumstances on our southern border have gotten better or worse I will I will excuse the denon will suspend since this does not reflect this has nothing to do with part one or volume one or volume two a tamale report or anything conceived chairman or anything conceivably within the ambit of this of this hearing or the notice of this hearing the witness may or may not reply and his or her discretion I'm happy to respond congressman when I worked that report I thought that it was an issue that needed attention it was not at the beginning of the Obama ministration something that I think did get sufficient attention there clearly is a changed circumstance ignorant now there is clearly a humanitarian problem on the southern border that needs to be addressed what you will not find in that article is any mention of a wall as a response to that challenge nor any encouragement of the use of emergency authorities I understand that but you recognize the crisis you recognize that it's worse and I acknowledge that the wall maybe something that divides us but reforming our Asylum laws ensuring that we've got the supplemental appropriation in place to make sure you are dying on our border and reducing the terror you write about is a lot more under and here in for a minute you know nothing about the repose on it and then restrict it total parson it's no wonder witnesses don't want to come here and testify this committee I yield back I'd be happy to come back and talk about Homeland Security at another time this is a Republican congressman Matt gates on the receiving end of an answer he didn't expect from Georgetown professor national security analyst Kerry Cordero and a hearing about the Muller report gates pulled a tired stunt that he's used in the past which is to divert attention away from the issue at hand and instead bring up a completely unrelated issue to impress the president he tried to rope Cordero into his desperate pandering to trump invoking an old essay she wrote in 2012 in which she discusses the national security risk that Mexican cartels pose and she acknowledges that it still is a risk but that nowhere in her essay was the solution of border wall which is Gates's answer to all of this because clearly he's performing for an audience of one he's doing Trump's bidding throwing his full weight behind Trump's only solution to the border issue which is to divert billions of dollars toward a big slab of concrete but notwithstanding the ineffectiveness of this solution the southern border has nothing to do with the Mullah report although Trump would love nothing more than for his mouthpieces to deflect and throw some red meat to his base every time the issue of accountability was raised but this wasn't the only lapse in judgment by Matt Gaetz he throws a tantrum about the very basis of the hearing that expert witnesses were there to discuss the Muller report instead of someone with direct knowledge of the probe first of all the purpose of having expert witnesses is twofold one is that our judicial system is informed by precedent like for example and I'm just taking a wild swing here the precedent of impeaching presidents for having committed obstruction of justice two expert witnesses are there to inform members of Congress so that decisions aren't made by partisan hacks I don't think a wild swing is necessary to identify who I'm talking about here and gates goes so far as to ask the witnesses if any of them have personal knowledge of the Muller probe but here's the thing it wouldn't matter if they did Muller released a four hundred and forty eight page report and yet Gates is still alleging that there was no obstruction and no collusion regurgitating Trump's talking points what would the point be of bringing someone with intimate knowledge of the investigation forward if Gates is gonna distort its findings anyway here's what we already know the molar investigation found ten instances of obstruction of justice from Trump firing then FBI director James Comey when the FBI began its investigation into the Russia scandal so that in trying to have mala removed on multiple occasions to ordering White House Counsel Don Magan to lie about Trump's order to have him removed to dangling pardons for Flynn and man afford to intimidating Michael Cohen when he began cooperating with prosecutors we know that the Trump campaign cooperated with Russian officials to work toward getting Trump elected from the Trump Tower meeting between Don junior Manafort Kushner and a Kremlin linked lawyer who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton to Trump's national security adviser Mike Flynn discussing sanctions with the Russian ambassador to Paul Manafort sharing polling data with Constantin clinic to trump himself asking Russia on national television to hack into Hillary Clinton's emails Russia if you're listening I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press which they then went ahead and tried to do only hours later the purpose of this hearing is not to figure out what the probe uncovered the report had gates deign to read it already did that in devastating fashion it's to figure out how to move forward because while Republicans have opted to bury their heads in the sand and they're desperate deference to Trump that's not what history tells us we should do that's not what experts tell us we should do and that's not what the law tells us we should do beyond that who else does gates expect Democrats to call the White House is blocked both Don Magan and attorney general bill Barr from testifying even under threat of being held in contempt which they ultimately were and notwithstanding the wonderful optics that come with blocking officials from speaking publicly about the probe those are people directly connected to it those are people with first-hand knowledge of Mahler's investigation and I don't recall Matt gates throwing a fit about the White House forcing them into silence so instead of pounding his fists on the table because every hearing isn't an opportunity to impress his boss Matt Gaetz should think before he tries his next gotcha moment because it'd be a real shame if it were to backfire and leave the crowd laughing at him instead [Music]

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Length: 9min 20sec (560 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 20 2019

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It would be Gaetz too. He's such a fucking joke.....and of course - HE'S FROM FLORIDA!