Adam Schiff

So there will be other efforts like this, but it certainly indicates they will go to any length, including threatening members who vote in contrary fashion, to prevent even a debate from taking place, which is what this resolution would have called for. It would have called for a debate. They wouldn't even allow that. They brought in the vice president to stop the Senate from even debating whether we should be sending

Hän oli ystävällinen ensimmäisessä Trumpin hallituksessa, hän halusi yrittää ostaa Greenlandia. En tiedä, miten tämä idea tuli hänen puolestaan, mutta kuten on nähty hänen kanssaan, kun hän saa idean, ei kuitenkaan kuinka ympäröivää se voi olla,

It's difficult for him to let it go. And, you know, now with a very pliant Congress and with nobody left in his administration, unlike the first term, to tell him, hey, Mr. President, that's a dumb idea. Hey, Mr. President, if you use military force in Greenland, that's the end of NATO. There's no one like that. No one of stature, no Secretary Mattis to say no, no General Kelly. And so we see these harebrained ideas gain a lot of traction and do a lot of damage.