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Chuck Todd: A "Functional Washington" Would Be ... Draw Up Articles of Impeachment (tr)
RCP Video ^ | 8-22-2018 | Ian Schwartz

Posted on 08/23/2018 8:27:11 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot

Chuck Todd said Wednesday morning if a "functional Washington" existed that Congress would be holding investigations into the Trump presidency and looking for ways to draw up articles of impeachment. He also advised outgoing House Speaking Paul Ryan to leave behind a group of Republicans to "start an investigation" in the House Judiciary Committee to probe Trump.

"You now have a president of the United States accused of committing a federal crime," Todd said on Wednesday's Today Show. "The way a functional Washington would work is that Congress, there is a process here. The sitting president is accused of a crime. The Judiciary Committee in the House of Representatives would begin to look to see if there's enough evidence to start investigating and drawing up articles of impeachment, but this is not a functional Congress. This is a Congress controlled by Republicans."

(snip) … Todd implored the retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan to create a Trump investigation before he leaves office.

"I do think Paul Ryan needs to think long and hard about the future of the Republican Party. This is your last chance off this train," Todd said. … "I think he could actually do the party a favor and just start the procedure in the House Judiciary Committee to give some home, to give some place for Republicans getting nervous to say, 'Hey, you know what, let's start an investigation and we'll go from there."

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: cuckdood; cucktodd; frontholechuck; frontholetodd
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To: Sir Napsalot

Congresscritters would be investigating ?
F. Chuck must be up from his nap.


21 posted on 08/23/2018 8:36:52 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: apocalypto

Exactly,

The more the MSM and the Rabid Trump haters talk impeachment, the much more likely those non traditional MAGA voters will engage this fall... because the GOP sure isn’t given them any reason to.

If the general public are going to get to see 2+ months of left wing crazy between now and November, between the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings and the Impeach Trump crazy... GOP will not only hold the house but gain 20 seats.


22 posted on 08/23/2018 8:37:19 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Sir Napsalot

Like we don’t all recognize that Mueller already is a “ Trump investigation”

Can we even imagine how great our country would be doing if Donald Trump did not have to wake up every single day to the greatest coordinated onslaught ever faced by a US President? What a man. I don’t care what he did 10 years ago or more. What a brave dedicated soul he is now when we need him.


23 posted on 08/23/2018 8:40:50 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Cuck Todd:

Self appointed judge, jury, and executioner for the state. But he’s not even close to being a “journalist”.


24 posted on 08/23/2018 8:46:11 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Trump: "I am Batman!")
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To: Sir Napsalot

Another liberal who never took Civics in school.


25 posted on 08/23/2018 8:50:45 AM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Thanks Professor Emeritus of Election Night Todd... 👍

26 posted on 08/23/2018 8:52:12 AM PDT by Geronimo (God Bless America and President Donald J. Trump...)
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To: Sir Napsalot

In the 90’s these ass-hats argued that Impeachment made Washington dysfunctional. Which is it?


27 posted on 08/23/2018 8:52:44 AM PDT by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I went to the site and asked what the “felony” actually was. I am waiting for the onslaught of emails slamming me as a Trumpster and how evil Trump is. Should be a load of fun.


28 posted on 08/23/2018 8:53:53 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

And they wonder why their ratings are lower than a whale turd................


29 posted on 08/23/2018 8:57:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (July 2018 - the month the world learns the TRUTH......Q Anon.......Timelines change. Aug 16)
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To: tennmountainman
“And what high crime has Trump committed?”

He has treated politicians and their media hangers-on with exactly as much respect as they deserve - which is almost none. They are the losers in society, not the ‘winners’ their pathetic egos want them to believe they are. TV news anchors = generally low knowledge make-up drenched copy readers. Politicians = experts in the field of bull**itting. That pretty much is as accurate as it gets. These are low value narcissists who actually think they're special. Trump has damaged their egos, and that is primarily why they hate him.

As yourself this. If Trump had run as a Democrat, beat Hillary in the primaries by running to her left, sucked up to the media, and won the Presidency as a liberal ‘reformer’, do you think they'd care what Stormy Daniels said about him, or who he may or may not have paid off because of a previous affair?

30 posted on 08/23/2018 8:59:37 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Sir Napsalot

What could Chuck Todd know about functional he’s been of the rails for years just a whiny liberal.


31 posted on 08/23/2018 9:01:18 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: HamiltonJay

We live in a dangerous time if one steps back and examines our current political climate.

“Truth” is now completely different for half of our nation. An intolerable situation for a republic made far worse by the “win at any costs” attitude of the minority and MSM/judicial activists in comparison with the “dignified bi-partisanship patrician attitude’ of the opposition who cannot get out of their way long enough to wield the power of the majority.

The rule of law itself is under attack with the bureaucracy firmly entrenched in the battle lines across the spectrum.

This is very dangerous. The societal upheaval of the 60’s had a major impact on our nation that continues today, but that was a movement outside of our government. What we are witnessing today is a movement that possesses great power in the government itself (bureaucracy and congress), the courts (judicial activism), academia (those who teach shape the future), and the media and culture.


32 posted on 08/23/2018 9:09:14 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: Vaduz
What could Chuck Todd know about functional he’s been of the rails for years just a whiny liberal.

I recall that someone with the name Dan Rather had the goods on George W. Bush. Why do we put up with this trash?

33 posted on 08/23/2018 9:09:51 AM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: pepsionice
A functional Washington....would have 90-percent fewer journalists.

And 90% fewer leftists. Of course most so-called journalists are really just far left wing activists as stations like the MSM, CNN, and MSNBC prove on a daily basis.

We are quite literally in a civil war with left wing loons posing as journalists.

34 posted on 08/23/2018 9:10:04 AM PDT by Boomer (Beware The Obsessed Leftist Pit Bull Haters on FR. Same as Gun Grabbers.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
The Media cried Trump (purged by YouTube)
35 posted on 08/23/2018 9:12:00 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Sir Napsalot
Chuck Todd: A "Functional Washington" Would Be ... Draw Up Articles of Impeachment

A functional main stream media would start covering real news.

36 posted on 08/23/2018 9:12:17 AM PDT by stevem
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To: immadashell

It’s what we call humor normal people don’t think like they do.


37 posted on 08/23/2018 9:12:35 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

To protect my blood pressure, I think I might have to stop reading the news for a while. Boiling blood CAN’T be good for me.


38 posted on 08/23/2018 9:15:28 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Sir Napsalot

Well Chuck, what’s the crime?

5.56mm


39 posted on 08/23/2018 9:18:56 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: immadashell

I recall that someone with the name Dan Rather had the goods on George W. Bush. Why do we put up with this trash?


I recall being rebuked by someone, possibly here, I don’t remember, for saying the MSM would bring Rather back into the fold, but there he is, grazing in their pasture, and being hailed as the granddaddy of journalism, treated with awe and wonder, whenever they put him in front of a camera. You can hear an angelic choir note, every time they mention his name.


40 posted on 08/23/2018 9:24:14 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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