What the first public impeachment hearing tells us about the path forward

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'The underlying allegations of a pressure scheme against the Ukrainians to investigate Donald Trump's political rivals appears to be possibly true,' Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi says of testimony in the public impeachment inquiry hearing

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The senior US diplomat in Ukraine, Bill Taylor, and a senior State Department official overseeing Ukraine policy, George Kent, testified before the House Intelligence Committee for hours in front of cameras. They repeated many of the same points they had made during private depositions last month. The hearing was the first public display of allegations against President Donald Trump that he abused his powers to seek political favors from the Ukrainian government.

Split verdict on staff lawyers' questioningHigh-profile congressional hearings have been something of a subplot to Trump's presidency: former FBI Director James Comey, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, special counsel Robert Mueller. Most have been marked by theatrics from lawmakers eager to make a splash during their questioning, rather than suss out information from their witnesses. Wednesday, at least initially, was different.

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andersoncooper The opposite is true.Just keep lying but at the end of the day you’ll have your Karma& you won’t be able to run/hide.Regardless of $$$

andersoncooper Fake news and Anderson Cooper will go to jail right along with the rest of you!

andersoncooper Fake News! Did no such thing. Biggest story was Schiff’s denial that he knows whistleblower identity or him or his staff meeting and advising whistleblower

andersoncooper Bill Taylor’s opening remarks should be aired without interruption over and over again

andersoncooper Lmao😂😂😂😂 and even more evidence that Anderson can is blind and deaf!!!!

andersoncooper There are so many people in these comments who either don’t know, or don’t care, that the firsthand witnesses are being ordered not to appear by the White House. Perhaps their testimony would be more enlightening.

andersoncooper Your opinion Cooper.

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andersoncooper Did we watch the same thing? 😐

andersoncooper Bullshit. Fake news!

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andersoncooper Stop lying, you know it was an absolutely horrible day for Democrats.

andersoncooper CNN, what hearing were you at?

andersoncooper I don’t see it

andersoncooper Lies...

andersoncooper False news. Today only showed the Democrats have 2nd and 3rs hand witnesses. They looked incompetent. They better do more or it's game over!

andersoncooper More CNN lies and bullshit. Schiff and the DNC were embarrassing!

andersoncooper Where’s that rambling mess of an interview with AOC?

andersoncooper No it doesn’t. Apparently Liberal Anderson was watching a different hearing.

andersoncooper Clown Network News, I must ask did you kids watch the same hearing that the rest of the country did ?, someone told someone who might of heard it second hand on a phone call & you kids run with this?, AT Least you kids dont call yourselves a unbiased news outlet,house of cards

andersoncooper As always you can bet on to put a spin on this, again underestimating the viewers/voters IQ AdvocacyJournalism FakeNews

andersoncooper When the investigation started originally it was about Trump colluding with the Russians for the 2016 election. What happened to that investigation? Did you forget that or did he not do it as the Democrats spent tens of millions of our money on it

andersoncooper Fake News

andersoncooper Wrong.

andersoncooper Did Cooper watch the same hearings the rest of us did? It was an awful 1st day for the Dems case. Main highlights; hearsay, bureaucratic policy differences and Trump Ukraine policy significantly better than Obama’s...and Burisma front and center.ImpeachmentInquiry

andersoncooper I watched every second of Wednesday’s hearing. This hearsay testimony was a democrat clown show, another nothing burger. WalkAway SchiffsShamHearings DemocratsAreCorrupt DemocratsAreDestroyingAmerica

andersoncooper I guess what andersoncooper is trying to say here is that he missed the Democrat dumpster fire that occurred today!

andersoncooper Nice try Anderson but the impeachment ship is taking on water and will be sinking by the end of the week.

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andersoncooper listen to this idiot still pedalling corrupt fake news here fact check this

andersoncooper We all watched! Who are you trying to fool!!!!

andersoncooper corrupt fake news 3 years lying about Russian collusion, now more fake news about what everybody heard today about 4th hand knowledge

andersoncooper Bologne! Lies! No witness saw or heard anything, they 'heard from a guy from a guy'. Give me a break! Watch!!!

andersoncooper CORRUPT NEWS NETWORK even more fake news lying crap

andersoncooper Do people just not listen and hear the truth

andersoncooper They obviously didn't watch what the rest of us watched because all I saw was the Democrats getting their dreams of impeachment crushed.

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andersoncooper Not. At. All.

andersoncooper “Potentially more personally tied”. Last week it was an impeachable offence / Quid Pro Quo / Bribery ..... Gotta love CNN, if anyone can stuff up a story, it is CNN

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andersoncooper And to think that this anchor and this network were both respected at one time long ago... LiberalismIsAMentalDisease

andersoncooper BS. The two witnesses they questioned had only 2nd and 3rd hand knowledge of the the phone call. Plus they have never even meet with or know Trump. Lolol

andersoncooper What do y’all smoke? Kenny Cheney would refer to it as “The Good Stuff”

andersoncooper Pooper watched a different hearing than the rest of us not it’s impeach 24/7 cnn

andersoncooper I don’t think Anderson watched the same impeachment hearings that I did 😳 😂😂 Their star witness had NO INFORMATION 🙄

andersoncooper 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 fools

andersoncooper CNN's fake news

andersoncooper That’s not what happen at all !

andersoncooper Today showed nothing but an embarrassment to the democrats. They desecrated the halls of Congress by using an impeachment hearing to play a game of telephone.

andersoncooper Fake News

andersoncooper Oh, maybe, potentially.... Just out of imagination.

andersoncooper 😂😂😂 right

andersoncooper Why if Trump doesn't have anything to hide he isn't permiting all the transcripts and people of interest be allowed to participate on the inquiry impeachment? He already did many constitutionally illegal things & belive he can get away with it Republican Party protection immunity

andersoncooper Oh andersoncooper cnn did you cut to commercial when Jim_Jordan pointed out his brothers cousins nephews uncle heard the call

andersoncooper I can’t believe what Adam Schiff was saying at press conference, this inquisition (as I call it) uncovers nothing. Nothing is jumping out for impeachment of a President, Schiff is making mockery of US , Your story Anderson is tainted and it’s mistrustful and twisted information.

andersoncooper Got any direct evidence?

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andersoncooper Hahahahahahahaha

andersoncooper Bullshit. Watch Jim in attack mode asking the star witness questions

andersoncooper No it doesn’t

andersoncooper Efforts to squeeze, yet nobody was squeezed per testimony. I set the bar low, but I generally thought dems had more than this. I can’t image they are going to vote on articles if it’s more of this.

andersoncooper $GS Phone logs could be subpoenaed--to find out all the Unknown people on those calls - make Gym Jordan, who blind-eyed OSU boys being abused and JeffreyEpstein girls being abused for years, along with serial emoluments & varsityblues hos running rackets blessed by DC lifers $LB

andersoncooper No one squeezed Ukraine. What the heck. Did you not listen to the actual testimony. But explain exactly HOW he is personally 'potentially' tied...with his own foreign policy. What I heard was a the testimony of 'no quid pro quo' plus a lot of differing foreign policy opinions.

andersoncooper CNN is part of this fake sham going on!

andersoncooper You know what needs? More inane GIFs of Cooper making stupid faces and rolling his eyes. FACTS FIRST!!! LOL... what a journalist.

andersoncooper My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with a girl who saw Ferris pass-out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it’s pretty serious.

andersoncooper Possibly.

andersoncooper CNN aka FNN: your narrative got destroyed today. Sorry Libtards

andersoncooper Desperation has a tone, just listen to

andersoncooper Here are the facts: Schiff is trying to protect Biden who strong-armed the Ukrainian govt to fire it’s top prosecutor to thwart investigation of company tied to Hunter Biden! Who is the real criminal here? It’s definitely not Trump!

andersoncooper It ended with disappointing results after the news outlets hyped up explosive forthcoming bombshell testimony.

andersoncooper 'CNN, We Lie, You Laugh'

andersoncooper Hahahaha

andersoncooper fakenews

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andersoncooper Facts: Impeachment hearings are just another dud for Democrats in their desperation attempt to regain power by overthrowing the POTUS! Same playbook we saw with the Russian collusion hoax, so pathetic!

andersoncooper I think CNN is competing with politicians to see who’s more useless.

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andersoncooper It ends with dimwit Democrats getting their asses handed to them. LibtartDELUSION

andersoncooper Bullshit

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andersoncooper do you people at CNN actually believe the crap you report? wow and I thought ive seen stupid.

christoq But why, WHY is Rick Santorum on? Why, CNN?

I had to turn this off. And will continue to turn it off when CNN has Rick Santorum on. Horrible to listen to someone that is rude and yell over everyone else. Why? What is the point to have this fool on. It would be ok if his arguments were legit, but they are not. Ridiculous!

😂😂😂😂😂

Lol. Liar. Insane gossip

He has dementia or maybe he was watching reruns of the Watergate hearings cause those 2 dorks today had nothing but here say and personal opinions that they didn't approve of the President setting his own foreign policy. I hope they get shipped to Greenland.

What evidence?!? It’s all hearsay with not concrete facts. It was a garbage hearing.

Bernstein has lost it. Rumors and gossip constitute truth? Fools gold.

Soooo, what about actually what BIDEN’S QUID PRO QUO? Total hypocrites. Get ready for 5 more years of terrible ratings

You are delusional! The American people see right through this SHAM!

Who puts their faith in a news Organization anchored by Gays. Lemon and Cooper just want to “Make Analsex great again”

Bullschiff!

Bernstein is laying out a backup defense for when impeachment fails...we are back to invoking the 25th amendment for insanity. This image is 2 years old...

Mr. Bernstein, wish you were President!! Gov Santorium is so anemic and ineffectual. You were so forceful and credible!! BRAVO!!

Evidence? Of what? That Democrats can make up good stories with no evidence except the guy heard the janitor say that some guy told him he might have heard something.... more fake news

What we are witnessing is a disgraceful party demorats that don’t care about Americans... haven’t done anything in three years ... wasting tax payer money!!

Hearsay & Opinions lead the day. Schiff saying he didn't know who the whistleblower is was another blundering lie.

Narcissism before Truth carlbernstein AC360 ChrisCuomo donlemon wolfblitzer jaketapper brianstelter jimsciutto

Today was NOT a great day for truth or justice. The American people demand Biden and Jr to through the same ringer. Whether Trump broke laws or not, does not take away whether or not Biden did or didn't. Equal and open right? Make it happen.

Carl. Are you drunk?

This man was so certain that Mueller was going to send Trump to jail just a few years back. He had his time when his mind followed the trail. Now he lets his heart (Democrat) guide him.

Carl Bernstein, a class act. He's seen it, lived it and is living it again. Who knew?

So has Bernstein truly lost his mind, and who paid for and used the Dossier against a Political Candidate!!!

If by 'foreign power' you mean moronic Democrats, then okay.

And pigs 🐖 can fly

The USA experienced The Civil War in 1860s and The Cold War in 20th century. Who may guess that we will be in the middle of the cold civil war nowadays?

If you think this Impeachment process is BULLSHIT. Please retweet this tweet!!

MarquardtA It’s a joke

MarquardtA Keep melting

MarquardtA Fireworks!! A BIG DUD AS EXPECTED, NO FACTS!

MarquardtA If a dem wins in 2020, the republicans need to start making up impeachable crimes the day after the election. Some people call it Karma. Obviously Dems are placing their party loyalty above the will of the American people. That is the real crime here, wasting taxpayer resources.

MarquardtA Suddenly Adam Schiff doesn't know who the whistle blower is? Shifty Schiff said nobody is allowed to mention the name of the whistle blower. So call for Eric Caramella to testify. What's Schiff going to say to that if he doesn't know who it is?

MarquardtA How much money is this costing the Americans workers who pay taxes and for what? I don’t understand why these idiots whom don’t give a shit about the American people get away with it. They worried about illegals before us.

MarquardtA Shittiest attempt at a coup ever. The real criminal on all of this is RepAdamSchiff

MarquardtA If by fireworks you mean smoke bombs... it was incredibly boring.

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Someone told someone that they overheard someone talking to the president and says he heard the president , on the other end of a cell phone, while in a restaurant, asking about “the investigations”— this is really “troubling new evidence”? Is this really where we are?

MarquardtA Man, these guys are beating a dead horse!

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MarquardtA An Democratic embarrassment. My gosh.

MarquardtA Go President Trump 2020! Best president ever America.

MarquardtA Have democrats done anything productive for Americans in the last 3 years? Asking for a friend...

MarquardtA ever notice that the people that elected Trump arent worth representing?

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MarquardtA I watched the hearings. There was nothing related to the transcript or the Ukraine funds that was of importance. Mostly all hearsay and revelation that these folks were out of the loop. So much a complete waste of time and absolutely a disgrace.

MarquardtA ? You NAZIS must be living on an ALTERNATIVE AMERICA

MarquardtA 'fireworks'

MarquardtA Why do you pay Rick Santorum to be an on-camera moron? Theresa Heinz Kerry was tight: ForestGumpwithanAttitude

MarquardtA 🍿

MarquardtA No fireworks, just more opinion

MarquardtA Did we watch the same hearing? Fireworks?

MarquardtA Another story you might report on is how ABC protected a child predator unless you protect them also EpsteinCoverup

I'm watching your chaotic show right now, then I go to MSNBC. Y'all are crazy trying to talk sense into someone who has no sense. I can't watch your network tonight, sorry. I mean, normally I can't watch it, but today? HA! Y'all really shouldn't have these folks on. 👀🇨🇦

This Democrat ain’t no Perry Mason

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