He clearly wants to talk."įor more of Major's conversation with Jamie Raskin, download "The Takeout" podcast on iTunes, GooglePlay, Spotify and Stitcher. "I'm very curious to know what Bolton has to say. Trump's former Russia adviser, Fiona Hill, who is testifying in an open hearing next week. "Bolton is someone who, according to Fiona Hill, according to several other witnesses, was upset about the shadow corrupt government which Donald Trump unleashed against the Ukrainian president," Raskin said, referring to Mr. Raskin also said he would be interested in hearing from former National Security Adviser John Bolton. That's an absolute violation of the oath of office that the president is sworn to," Raskin said. "If you set up a kind of para-government outside of the the government to undermine official governmental purposes and to violate the law and engage in mob-style extralegal conduct - no, that's not something that you can just chalk up to personal idiosyncrasies. Bill Taylor, the top diplomat in Ukraine, testified Wednesday that there was an "irregular channel" of forming policy outside of the "regular channel" within the State Department. Trump of creating a "counter-government" using "mob-style" tactics. Raskin said that based on what he's learned from recent testimony, there is "overwhelming evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors." He accused Mr. The House Intelligence Committee conducted the first open impeachment hearing on Wednesday. "They're like someone who's robbing a bank who's got two big bags of money, and is about to leave the bank, and then the security guards pounce on the person, and then they dust themselves off and say, 'Oh, well, all's well that ends well, no money was taken out of this bank, nothing was ever converted.' I mean, they're basically conceding that there was a clear attempt to shake down a foreign government," Raskin continued.
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