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This is some Bakersfield BS, it’s Kevin McCarthy weaponizing his ability to commit this political abuse, because he perceives me, just like Mr. Schiff and Ms. Omar, as an effective political opponent.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Kevin McCarthy kicking Schiff and I off is just too rich because you know he's going to put Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar and George Santos, who today admitted that he defrauded the Federal Elections Commission with all of his campaign finance. But he's going to kick two of us off.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It’s political vengeance, it’s too bad because that committee has always been a bipartisan committee, and he’s taking one of the most precious pieces of glassware in the congressional cabinet and smashing it, and the damage is going to be irreparable.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We must draw the straight lines that connect violent political rhetoric and violent acts, the Pelosi assailant’s Facebook page looks identical to the Facebook pages of Trump, [Georgia Rep. Marjorie] Taylor Greene, and [Colorado Rep. Lauren] Boebert. All three of them have glorified violence and [David] Depape acted on it.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I've prosecuted people for doing less on smaller scale cases.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
There were times where he would laugh at himself, you know, to keep, you know, the act going. That’s what’s so frustrating.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It’s pro wrestling, to be honest, many of my colleagues are better suited to work at the WWE.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I’ve been working on marijuana issues, the rest of those guys, they’re all clowns.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This is about everyday Americans who don't want to see their government weaponize law enforcement against them because of their political beliefs.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I had a mask on as I stepped off the Floor. An aide with @mtgreenee yelled at me to take my mask off, no one should be bullied for wearing a mask. So I told the bully what I thought of his order. Predictably, he went speechless. I regret I was n’t more explicit.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It's not only the people who had knowledge of what the president knew, the American people saw the police officers who were beaten and spit on and stampeded -- 50 of them injured and almost 20 of them hospitalized, one of them killed. The cafeteria workers who ran for their lives as well. There's a lot of witnesses to this crime.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This was not a heated passion crime. This didn't happen spontaneouslywith words just slipping out Donald Trump's mouth at that rally. For months he had propagated this big lie to radicalize these terrorists [and] to call ... thecalvary to Washington, and he called it 'stop the steal,' and if you're not an elected representative, the only way that you can stop the stealis by taking a physical act. He told them, don't show weakness, you will lose your country if you don't fight.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The American people saw the police officers who were beaten and spit on and stampeded -- 50 of them injured and almost 20 of them hospitalized, one of them killed. The cafeteria workers who ran for their lives as well. There's a lot of witnesses to this crime.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Ben Sasse remains the Mitt Romney of Susan Collinses: He talks a good game but generally falls into line with Trump at the drop of a hat.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Senator @JohnCornyn, listen to the Chief. Keeping people safe is his job. Turns out, it’s also yours, too. But the Chief doesn’t have to count on the NRA to keep his.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Boo hoo hoo. You’re a senator who police will protect. A sexual assault victim can’t sleep in her own home tonight because of threats, where are you sleeping? She’s on her own while you and your [Senate GOP] colleagues try to rush her through a hearing.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Usama bin Laden did not enter US soil on Sept. 11, but it was widely acknowledged that he was responsible for inspiring the attack on our country, and the president, with his words — using the word ‘fight,’ with the speakers that he assembled that day, who called for trial by combat and said we have to take names and kick a--, that is hate speech that inspired and radicalized people to storm the Capitol.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Bill Taylor shouldn't be punished for doing the right thing, we're in the position we're in today.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's evidence of more obstruction: intimidating, tampering with the witness's testimony.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
In that (Holmes) statement that was released there was a lot to be concerned about, particularly that more witnesses described the president's obsession with investigating his political opponents.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It's a balance between horning your way in and sharing who you are and what you believe, but not being obnoxious.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Impeachment is the most extraordinary remedy the Constitution affords Congress, as a former prosecutor, I do not take this lightly. But the President continues to put his own interests above America's. He is lawless. His relentless attacks on our rule of law and numerous efforts to obstruct justice and Congress have reached such a point to require extraordinary action. It's time for Congress to open an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Big #happymothersday 2017 to my Mom, Vicky, who still cares for me like she's holding me for the first time.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
To believe that it will be the next generation whose leadership will solve climate chaos, bring cures in our lifetime for health care, address the student loan debt crisis and make sure that we say enough is enough, we don't have to live this way anymore and that we love our children more than we love our guns.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Today ends our presidential campaign, but it is the beginning of an opportunity in Congress, with a new perspective shaped by the lives that have touched mine and our campaign throughout these last three months, to bring that promise of America to all Americans.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Joe Biden was right when he said it was time to pass the torch to a new generation of Americans 32 years ago, he's still right today.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
You can't count on the people who have been in government for the last 30 years.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If the camera wasn't on and that was the policy, you should fire the chief.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
He was right when he said that 32 years ago. He is still right today.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I was 6 years old when a presidential candidate came to the California Democratic convention and said it's time to pass the torch to a new generation of Americans, that candidate was then-Senator Joe Biden.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
That candidate was then-Sen. Joe Biden. Joe Biden was right when Joe Biden said that 32 years ago, joe Biden is still right today. If we are going to solve the issue, pass the torch. If we are going to solve climate chaos, pass the torch. If we want to end gun violence and solve student debt, pass the torch.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
If that's where Elizabeth Warren're headed, I want to be backed into it.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think ingrained in our DNA is choice. People want to have choices, but they also expect that the government should offer an affordable plan if their employer is providing it.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think you have to make an example out of Steven Mnuchin and William Barr first, though, you can't let them off the hook.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
With this lawless administration, I imagine we're also going to see characters like Steve Mnuchin, who's also not following the law when it comes to the president's tax returns.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
You can be the President's defense attorney or America's Attorney General, but you can't be both, he came to this job already biased. Today, he made a show of allegiance to the President over The American people by declaring' no collusion' and excusing the President on the basis of his emotional state. He has proved that he's an embedded Donald Trump ally who puts this President's political future above of the rule of law. That makes him unfit to serve. He must resign.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
You know, keep your pistols, keep your long rifles, keep your shotguns.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's not just the violence that they've caused, it's the fear, the immeasurable fear that our children live in because they are still on our streets, i want to get rid of that fear.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
A year ago, hope died at Parkland, but, in a uniquely American way, owing to the courage and strength of children, hope was reborn at Parkland. Hope has been reborn here in America too. That's why I started my campaign at Parkland. I pledged to that community what I pledge to you -- I will be the first campaign to make ending gun violence the top priority in my campaign.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I've come back here to Dublin, backed by my neighbors who have always been in my corner to declare my candidacy for President of the United States of America, only in a country as generous as ours could a moment like this even be possible.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I don't want to do it half-assed, i would want it to be a serious campaign that could be a winning campaign.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's daunting, but I really believe there has to be a go big, be bold candidate who represents the next generation in the field.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I'm going to consider it, but again, right now, the best way to cut our time in hell in half is to win Congress, and we shouldn't look beyond that.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I think House Judiciary Committee’s premature at this point — we should do all we can to make sure that he’s held accountable, that weconduct the investigations the Republicans have been unwilling to do.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I want to meet the The FBI supervisor who would not open an investigation with the information that they had, the information that started the investigation was alarming, and the evidence that Carter Page was an agent of a foreign power was voluminous.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The court weighed that and still granted the application, there was a bias, but the evidence was so overwhelming, the application was granted anyway.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I don't expect they will (declassify) because I think this is just more obstruction, if he has evidence that she committed a crime, he actually can show us what his evidence is. Right now he has a credibility problem because he's been proved wrong a lot. ... This seems nothing more than buying time and obstructionism.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I think we should hear from him in the public and that we should get to the bottom of just exactly why was he working with Russia Today, as a former Defense Intelligence Agency director, he of all people knows that agency is connected to Russia's intelligence services and so to take money from them and to work with Russian ambassador after sanctions were put on Russia and to lie to the vice president, that's powerful evidence that he knew what was going on and this was converging at the time of Russia's interference campaign.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
This is not anything that I or I believe my colleagues are familiar with. We want to hear from Michael Flynn. We want to hear from Paul Manafort, Carter Page and Roger Stone.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Ideally, we work together as far as witness testimony, this is not anything that I or I believe my colleagues are familiar with. We want to hear from Michael Flynn. We want to hear from Paul Manafort, Carter Page and Roger Stone.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
So yeah, we're fired up. so they have to re-examine how they are going to govern.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
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