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Pelosi: Republicans Voted to Release Intel Memo to 'Distract' From Tax Cuts
CNSNews ^ | January 30, 2018 | Susan Jones

Posted on 01/30/2018 9:12:13 AM PST by jazusamo

2 min Pelosi meltdown video at link.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
speaks to CNN's Chris Cuomo on
Jan. 29, 2018. (Photo: Screen grab/CNN)

(CNSNews.com) - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) went on CNN Monday night to express her fury at Republicans on the House intelligence committee who voted to release a classified memo dealing with the ongoing Russia investigation.

She accused Republicans of "dangerously and recklessly dealing with intelligence" to "cover up" the Russia investigation.

She said the four-page memo, written by Republicans on the House intelligence committee, is false, a "total misrepresentation," a threat to national security, and on top of that, a "distraction."


The Republican Party has, as I said, crossed over to cover-up. They're deadly afraid of the Russia investigation. We don't want the investigation to be anything but based on the law and the facts and let the investigation proceed. That's the right thing to do for our country. We have to be respectful of law. We have to be respectful of intelligence and the rest. And what they're doing is reckless in regard to both.

But the fact is also that it is a distraction from the fact that they passed a tax bill that gives 83 percent of the benefits to the top 1 percent. They'd like to distract from that. And 86 million middle-class Americans will pay more in taxes...They do give this gift to corporate America at the expense of our children's future. They don't want to talk about that. They don't want to talk about the fact that they have -- what they've done in terms of the president put forth a ridiculous memo on...on infrastructure which doesn't even go near what our country needs.

They are doing bad things in terms of immigration and the rest. What they do is they give you a nugget. They say, here's what we're doing on immigration. Isn't that wonderful? It looks so pretty, and while they do very unpretty things behind the scenes. Same thing with the tax bill. Isn't this a nice little thing we're giving you while we give-- And same thing again with intelligence. We're going to show you a memo. This is ridiculous. It's beyond ridiculous.


Pelosi also argued that Republicans voted to release the classified memo because "they can't keep government open."

"I want to tell you something. You're missing it. This is very big," Pelosi explained to CNN's Chris Cuomo. "This is very big in terms of -- in terms of what line they have crossed tonight. And it's shocking really but not surprising because they're desperate. And they're desperate because, look, they can't keep government open...Now they're trying to get their their fifth continuing resolution because they're incompetent and they're ineffective, and all they have to do is sit down and say, let's come to terms on how we're going to fund the government."

"And you're saying the Democrats are willing partners in that process?" Cuomo asked her.

"Absolutely. We have been willing partners," she said.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; chriscuomo; clintonnonnews; cnn; incometaxes; intelmemo; meltdown; nancypelosi; pelosi; taxcuts; taxcutsandjobsact; taxreform; tcja
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To: jazusamo

“But the fact is also that it is a distraction from the fact that they passed a tax bill...”

Distraction?

Tax cut TAX CUT tax cut TAX CUT!!!

5.56mm


81 posted on 01/30/2018 11:34:28 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: jazusamo

pelosi is fred flinstone retard!


82 posted on 01/30/2018 11:34:42 AM PST by merkava
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To: jazusamo

Help I can't blink anymore. Complications of Botox abuse

83 posted on 01/30/2018 12:19:59 PM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; ...

https://twitter.com/RealJack/status/958474612131713024

rumors that DJT will release the memo right after the SOTU


84 posted on 01/30/2018 4:07:27 PM PST by bitt (We dont need an electric chair, we need electric bleachers.)
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To: bitt

Rush said it was to be released.


85 posted on 01/30/2018 4:14:47 PM PST by stockpirate (TYRANNY IS THY NAME REBELLION IS OUR ANSWER. HANG THEM ALL!)
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To: bitt
Who is Jack Murphy?

We here at FR hear rumors...but I haven't heard or seen any rumor about the release of the Memo.

I think Trump is enjoying watching the Dems squirm in fear over the release.

They are miserable right now.

86 posted on 01/30/2018 4:16:52 PM PST by RoosterRedux (Think outside the litter box.)
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To: stockpirate

But Rush didn’t say when, did he?


87 posted on 01/30/2018 4:17:28 PM PST by RoosterRedux (Think outside the litter box.)
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To: Bob Ireland

http://i68.tinypic.com/dr8b2v.jpg


88 posted on 01/30/2018 4:18:06 PM PST by bitt (We dont need an electric chair, we need electric bleachers.)
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To: bitt
Yeah... I saw that pic. Still, I think I would rather see him in an iron maiden. He was so quick to appoint a special prosecutor that it was obvious he was part of the 'Never Trump' cabal.
89 posted on 01/30/2018 8:13:08 PM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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