I can't imagine this hearing moving the needle on impeachment.

Mueller doesn't realize that most people haven't read or understand his report? Doesn't care?

CalvinBall wrote:

momadance wrote:

Rep. Buck: "Could you charge the president with a crime after he left office?"

Mueller: "Yes."

Buck: "You believe that you could charge the president of the United States with obstruction of justice after he left office?"

Mueller: "Yes."

Oops.

brantt what say you

Nothing really.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. If he thought Trump obstructed justice he should have the balls to come out and say so rather than walking the fence and telling both sides "I don't agree with that characterization."

Furthermore, the chances the DOJ would actually pursue charges after a President left office are slim to none.

I sort of kind of was waiting for someone to mention the 11 million Benghazi hearings that got nowhere in comparison to needing the tie up this probe expeditiously.

Brantt wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:

momadance wrote:

Rep. Buck: "Could you charge the president with a crime after he left office?"

Mueller: "Yes."

Buck: "You believe that you could charge the president of the United States with obstruction of justice after he left office?"

Mueller: "Yes."

Oops.

brantt what say you

Nothing really.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. If he thought Trump obstructed justice he should have the balls to come out and say so rather than walking the fence and telling both sides "I don't agree with that characterization."

Furthermore, the chances the DOJ would actually pursue charges after a President left office are slim to none.

Is it about having the balls to do it or about that not being the process to do it? It’s well trodden ground to say that Mueller as special prosecutor couldn’t indict a sitting president and would have needed Congress to do its job with impeachment/prosecution.

The Republicans performed well for Trump and his base while the Dems made some progress, but it was small and incremental.

The question is whether this afternoon or thereafter the Dems can reach an inflection point at which a sufficient number of Republican senators would vote to convict at an impeachment trial.

That’s a heavy lift politically.

Even if Republican senators could be convinced that Trump obstructed justice I could very well see them rationalizing that any such obstruction did not rise to the level of an impeachable offense.

However, that’s not the end of the political calculus for the Dems. The more they can credibly and successfully undermine Trump between now and the election, the greater their chances of defeating him.

Man, Nunes is a piece of shit.

PhillieMooDo wrote:Man, Nunes is a piece of shit.

LOL he's a fucking moron.

Just can't wrap my head around how people find what someone like Nunes says compelling. Or how he can find enough people to hire to be on his staff.

The guy is suing a fictional cow.

i like this line of questioning by schiff. Did he lie? yes Did he lie? yes Did he lie? yes

lolll

Well, uh, I guess that is one way to look at it.

Gimpy wrote:

Brantt wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:

momadance wrote:

Rep. Buck: "Could you charge the president with a crime after he left office?"

Mueller: "Yes."

Buck: "You believe that you could charge the president of the United States with obstruction of justice after he left office?"

Mueller: "Yes."

Oops.

brantt what say you

Nothing really.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. If he thought Trump obstructed justice he should have the balls to come out and say so rather than walking the fence and telling both sides "I don't agree with that characterization."

Furthermore, the chances the DOJ would actually pursue charges after a President left office are slim to none.

Is it about having the balls to do it or about that not being the process to do it? It’s well trodden ground to say that Mueller as special prosecutor couldn’t indict a sitting president and would have needed Congress to do its job with impeachment/prosecution.

You can definitely make that argument. Personally I think it's a cop out, but I do understand politically why he went down that road.

Ooooh ... Turner using props! Maybe he should tell Trump about the laws of exoneration.

This is hilarious. Blaming Mueller for CNN headlines.

The Roger Stone / CNN conspiracy is still a thing?

Conspiracy theories have no shelf life in the GOP.

traderdave wrote:Conspiracy theories have no shelf life in the GOP.

Hillary shot Lincoln.

Will Hurd (R-TX); Let's talk about how we can prevent election interference from happening again.

We could start with the president acknowledging that it actually happened AND who was responsible for it.