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McCarthy Talks Acquittal, Romney & Ongoing Investigations

February 6, 2020 by GregC

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The U.S. Senate acquitted President Trump of allegations of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress Wednesday. But what is the aftermath?

Critics of the president contend the Senate did not allow for a fair trial with witnesses and documents. Supporters of the president say Democrats used the Constitution to abuse it. So how did the Constitution hold up to the actions of the House and Senate?

Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy explains where he thinks the process was abused and where it functioned as designed. He also offers a passionate rebuttal to the arguments for conviction offered by Utah GOP Sen. Mitt Romney and tells us why no Democrats voted to acquit on the obstruction charge.

Finally, McCarthy tells Radio America’s Greg Corombos why this verdict does not end investigations into the Trump administration and how many different ways Democrats plan to target him in the months leading up to Election Day.

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Filed Under: congress, law, News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: acquittal, impeachment, news, Senate, Trump, Ukraine

McCarthy Dissects Senate Impeachment Questions, Bolton Revelations

January 29, 2020 by GregC

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On Wednesday, the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump shifted to a new phase, with senators asking questions of the lawyers on both sides of the case. But did we get some insightful and pertinent questions or was it mostly political grandstanding? And did we learn anything new?

In this podcast, former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy tackles those questions and also dives into the controversy over former National Security Adviser John Bolton allegedly confirming Trump demanded Ukraine launch investigations in exchange for military aid from the U.S.  And McCarthy offers a way to give both sides what they want with respect to Bolton without extending the trial any longer than necessary.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Bolton, impeachment, news, questions, Trump, Ukraine

Dems Suddenly Fear Bernie, Bogus Bolton Takes, CNN Mocks Trump Voters

January 28, 2020 by GregC

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Jim is back and shares the highly entertaining albeit frustrating tale of the high-maintenance passenger on his return trip from California.  After detailing that saga, Jim and Greg are immensely entertained by national Democrats realizing only now what a train wreck of a nominee Bernie Sanders would be and scrambling to make sure he’s not the nominee.  They also weigh in on the latest political and media reaction to John Bolton allegedly confirming a quid pro quo with Ukraine, and while they admit there are grounds for debating Bolton’s tactics in recent months, the accusations he was never a conservative are ludicrous. And they unload on CNN, Don Lemon, and former Republican strategist Rick Wilson for their sneering mockery of Trump voters.

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Filed Under: congress, Foreign Policy, News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: 2020, Bernie Sanders, CNN, democrats, Don Lemon, impeachment, John Bolton, National Review, President Trump, Rick Wilson, Three Martini Lunch, Ukraine

Bolton’s Big Moment, Do Endorsements Matter? D.C Yawns at Impeachment

January 27, 2020 by GregC

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Chad Benson, host of “The Chad Benson Show,” fills in for Jim, who will be back on Tuesday.  Today, Chad explains what the loss of Kobe Bryant means to the people of southern California before he and Greg dive into three crazy martinis.  First, they react to the news that former National Security Adviser John Bolton apparently wrote in his forthcoming book that President Trump ordered him to hold off on releasing military aid to Ukraine until Ukraine launched the investigations he wanted.  Is this a major wrinkle in the impeachment saga, a book-selling gimmick, or something in between?  They also discuss the Des Moines Register endorsing Elizabeth Warren and the Union Leader in New Hampshire backing Amy Klobuchar and ask whether endorsements really matter anymore. While on the topic they also explore whether Warren still has a chance or whether her campaign is out of gas but media insist on propping her up. Finally, they get a kick out of a Fox 5 poll in Washington, showing the nation’s capital is either bored by the impeachment trial or just not interested in it.

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Filed Under: congress, Foreign Policy, Journalism, News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, endorsements, John Bolton, Kobe Bryant, National Review, President Trump, Three Martini Lunch, Ukraine, witnesses

Rudy’s Bumbling Agents, Iowa’s Confusing Caucuses, West Virginia’s Wild Proposal

January 16, 2020 by GregC

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Nothing but crazy martinis today and the last one is a lot of fun!  Join Jim and Greg today as they try to understand how bumbling figures like Lev Parnas ended up as Rudy Giuliani’s key operatives in Ukraine.  They also shake their heads as Iowa Democrats plan to release three separate results from the caucuses next month, possibly giving multiple candidates the chance to claim victory. And they examine West Virginia’s offer for second amendment friendly counties in Virginia to switch states, leading Jim and Greg to wonder how the map would look if counties could jump to other states they find more ideologically similar.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: caucuses, democrats, impeachment, Iowa, Lev Parnas, National Review, Rudy Giuliani, Three Martini Lunch, Ukraine, Virginia, West Virginia

McClintock Talks Impeachment, Slams Dems

December 5, 2019 by GregC

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After one hearing in the House Judiciary Committee, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is directing committee chairman Jerry Nadler to begin drafting articles of impeachment. What’s behind the timing of that decision and what articles could be coming?

California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock is member of the House Judiciary Committee. He tells Greg Corombos why he sees nothing in President Trump’s conduct that warrants impeachment.

Listen to the full podcast, as McClintock also explains what he thinks of the Trump-Zelensky phone call, Trump’s request for Ukraine to investigate the Bidens, Wednesday’s testimony from constitutional law professors,  and much more.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: impeachment, Nadler, news, Pelosi, Trump, Ukraine

Fact vs. Fiction on Trump & Ukraine

December 3, 2019 by GregC

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On Tuesday, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released their impeachment report, arguing that President Trump deliberately and repeatedly abused the power of his office for his personal political benefit through his demands towards Ukraine.

But while Chairman Adam Schiff and his allies believe the evidence of impeachable offenses is overwhelming, former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy sees things much differently.

Author of “Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig An Election and Destroy a Presidency,” McCarthy explains why he is underwhelmed by the impeachment report.

Democrats argue that the facts everyone agrees on – such as the details of the Trump-Zelensky phone call – ought to be enough to warrant Trump’s removal from office. McCarthy explains why he disagrees with that too.

And as the rhetoric flies about why Ukraine did and did not do during the 2016 campaign, McCarthy separates which allegations about Ukrainian interference are absurd and what actually happened based on the best evidence available.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: 2016, impeachment, news, report, Schiff, Trump, Ukraine

McCarthy: Sondland Testimony Hurts GOP Defense, Still Doesn’t Rise to Impeachment

November 20, 2019 by GregC

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U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland says there was a quid pro quo pushed by the Trump administration, an assertion that damages the defense put foerward by President Trump and his Republican allies, but former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy says the facts simply don’t warrant impeachment.

McCarthy, who served as Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is the author of “Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.”  He is also a contributing editor and columnist at National Review Online and a Fox News Channel contributor.

On Wednesday, Sondland says President Trump directed him to work with presidential attorney Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine policy.  Sondland says Giuliani insisted on Ukraine publicly announcing an investigation into the 2016 elections and the energy company Burisma in exchange for an Oval Office meeting for Ukrainian President Vlodomyr Zelensky.

Burisma is the energy company that paid Hunter Biden huge sums of money to sit on its board of directors during the latter years of the Obama administration while Joe Biden was vice president. Sondland says he never considered that the effort to probe Burisma was really an effort to investigate the Bidens.

Sondland also says he never got an answer as to why $400 million in military aid to Ukraine was held up but he “presumes” it was also in an effort to compel the investigations.

McCarthy says the most significant impact of Wednesday’s testimony is that it proved the Republicans mounted the wrong defense by insisting there was no quid pro quo.

“I think it was a real mistake to fight the idea that there was a quid pro quo since there’s virtually always a quid pro quo in foreign relations.  If you’re going to do an effective defense in any kind of an adversarial proceeding, you don’t want to be fighting a pitched battle on something you can’t win.

“I’ve thought it was a mistake all along for the Republicans and the president to base their defense on the idea there was no quid pro quo when there’s a lot of evidence that there was,” said McCarthy.

McCarthy says the best defense from the beginning would have been to explain how the allegations simply do not rise to the level of impeachment.  He refers to this controversy as the “Seinfeld” impeachment, because it’s a high crime and misdemeanor about nothing.

He also says the founders did not intend impeachment to be used in a scenario like this.

“They were worried that the powerful presidency they had just created could be co-opted by a foreign power, so the might of the United States was being used for the foreign power rather than the American people.

So what they put bribery in there for was to fill this gap to address the possibility that a president essentially gets purchased by a foreign power, that is the foreign power bribes the president so that the president does the foreign power’s bidding rather than the American people’s bidding. We don’t have anything close to that here,” said McCarthy.

Listen to the full podcast to hear more of McCarthy’s assessment of Sondland’s testimony, his response to the assertion Ukraine only got the military aid after the whistleblower’s complaint surfaced, and where he thinks the likelihood impeachment currently stands.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Giuliani, impeachment, news, Sondland, Trump, Ukraine

Help for Hong Kong? Sondland Claims Quid Pro Quo, Media Still Protect Obama

November 20, 2019 by GregC

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Back to our usual format with three big stories today!  Jim and Greg applaud the Senate for passing legislation designed to sanction anyone found targeting the human rights of people in Hong Kong, but they still wish the demonstrators could get some public support from President Trump.  They also react to U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland contending that the Trump administration did demand Ukraine open an investigation into Burisma and the 2016 elections in exchange for President Zelensky to receive an invitation to the White House, and that he believes the suspension of military aid was linked to those demands as well.  And they marvel at the media deleting a story about the numbers of migrant children in U.S. detention when they learn the figure is actually from the Obama years.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Gordon Sondland, Hong Kong, immigration, media, National Review, obama, Senate, Three Martini Lunch, Trump, Ukraine

Pence Has A Point, Kerr’s Equivocation, Gabbard’s Gimmick

October 11, 2019 by GregC

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Happy Friday!   We’re finally back to our usual format today, so join Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America to wrap up the week in style.  First, they nod along as Vice President Mike Pence asks the media why they suddenly don’t care about foreign meddling in the 2016 campaign now that President Trump wants some answers.  They also feel ill as Golden State Coach Steve Kerr suggests an absurd moral equivalence between the U.S. and China.  And they have fun with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard threatening to boycott the Democratic presidential debate she just qualified for.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: 2016, 2020, China, debate, guns, Mike Pence, National Review, President Trump, Steve Kerr, Three Martini Lunch, Tusli Gabbard, Ukraine

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