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Can Yates be president now?

 

[Piggus]

Yates is a hero.

 

[Crosseyes]

Man I could have fucking sworn that the title of this stream was "Sally Yates testifies before Senate subcommittee investigating Russia ties to the election"

Instead Yates shows up to Republicans telling her she shouldn't have disobeyed the president to discriminate against muslims.

 

[everyday math]

Obviously they are trying to make it that Yates was fired over defying the travel ban and not because she outed Flynn.. sadly she is intellectually superior to any of these republican clowns..

Yeppppp

It's a tragedy for this nation that a person of this intellect was fired from such a position.

 

[Welfare]

Yeah let's go back to Russia.

 

[Nairume]

Is there any office in Georgia that Yates could run for in 2020?

Governor is up in 2018

 

[Kaban]

Yates for President please.

 

[majik13]

Fuck yes she did her job, while no GOP does.

 

[RaidenZR]

Can we vote Cruz out in 2018 Texas? Please?

Beto O'Rourke is running against him in 2018. He's got some groundswell and he seems to be a straight shooter.

 

[Akuun]

What did she say? Everyone here is going BOOM SCHOOLED OH YEAH etc. but I have no idea what she actually said.

 

[Evil Monkey DTT]

I'm not even watching this, I'm at the gym working out but I felt compelled to say I feel like some idiot in the world just got a smackdown. My pathetic sense is tingling.

 

[NullPointer]

Holy fuck, Yates just bodied Cruz on national television.

 

[TwoDurans]

Is there any office in Georgia that Yates could run for in 2020?

Probably going to be a lot of open spots in 2018.

 

[Eidan]

I want Yates to run for office.

 

[MechaX]

"Let's go back to Russia, you know, the thing we had the fucking hearing about in the first goddamn place"

 

[X-Frame]

Shit just as I turn it off because I can't listen to Cruz she destroys him? Now I need to rewind ..

 

[cartoon_soldier]

Beto O'Rourke is running against him in 2018. He's got some groundswell and he seems to be a straight shooter.

Not going to happen.

 

[everyday math]

Damn straight you did your job Yates.

 

[LiK]

All the major news outlets are failing on twitter. Haven't seen the clip of it yet.

 

[Loxley]

Recap on her right hook to Lyin Ted?

Cruz basically said she should have enforced Trump's Muslim ban because the law says she has to do what the president says.

Yates countered back with the fact that she didn't have to enforce it because there's a provision in the law Cruz was quoting that says the president cannot ban a person or group of people simply because of their race, religion, or national origin - which the travel ban absolutely did. She knew the ban was illegal and so she chose to not enforce it.

 

[CrunchyFrog]

LOL, that last line by Cruz. Did he just try to justify a government agency/department not going through the proper legal channels because they're worried about "partisanship"?

That's exactly what he did. Pot meet kettle

 

[Autodidact]

I want Yates to run for office.

Georgia gubernatorial election next year...

 

[The Last Wizard]

No one in the room will call them out on the bullshit for derailing.

Which I don't understand, also if this is supposed to be bipartisan where's the people who actually have questions pertaining to the hearing.

 

[Maxim726X]

"Let's go back to Russia, you know, the thing we had the fucking hearing about in the first goddamn place"

I wish somebody would actually say that.

'Back to the reason we're actually here today...'

 

[RPGCrazied]

what do you have to gain to fight Yates on this?

Stroke Trump's ego. You know he put them up to this.

 

[broncobuster]

Cruz is embarrassment personified.

 

[Jenov]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtIQdneqlq4

On this stream you can go back to other segments? For those that missed it?

 

[smokeymicpot]

All the major news outlets are failing on twitter. Haven't seen the clip of it yet.

https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/861675005100388352

 

[Metroidvania]

Lol. "Let's go to Russia".

Can't imagine why we'd have ever left.

What did she say? Everyone here is going BOOM SCHOOLED OH YEAH etc. but I have no idea what she actually said.

Cruz tried to school her on a legal footnote. She then pulled out one of the subsections of that law and pointed to her justification/basis for not following the law.

Which I don't understand, also if this is supposed to be bipartisan where's the people who actually have questions pertaining to the hearing.

The democrats have at least been trying.

 

[FrontalMonk]

What did she say? Everyone here is going BOOM SCHOOLED OH YEAH etc. but I have no idea what she actually said.

essentially it boiled down to "have you ever heard of a situation where the OLC said an order was lawful, then the AG turned around and overrode them and said that it was unlawful?" and Yates was like "not off the top of my head, but I'm also not familiar with a situation where an EO was sent to the president without the AG being informed about it until after the fact." and Cruz was like "buh buh you're partisan"

 

[Protome]

I wish somebody would actually say that.

'Back to the reason we're actually here today...'

Klobuchar basically just did.
"I think that's pretty clear. And I think why we are here is pretty clear."

 

[xAngelicNinjax]

Pretty sure that Cruz is going to have a pre-existing condition after that one

 

[Kolx]

Klobuchar: "and I think it's clear why we're having this hearing today"
*looks at the republican side

lol

 

[btrboyev]

Look at the Republican fuck heads try to bury Yates And get owned in the process.

It's pretty clear, any investigation involving republicans will lead nowhere. An independent investigation needs to happen.

 

[Username1198]

Pretty sure that Cruz is going to have a pre-existing condition after that one

LMAO

 

[Brandon F]

I need a clip of what Yates said to Cruz.

She basically described and defined the purpose of the law as a method of protection to a sitting Senator and a WH administration that clearly doesn't understand it. It was pretty good.

 

[RCSI]

There are fundamental institutional changes the US needs for future elections and we will not get that from the GOP, Russia will try this again and with the behavior of the GOP, this is a concerning hearing.

 

[Ziltoidia 9]

Corbyn and Cruz...

what do you have to gain to fight Yates on this?

To give the right wing bubble something to use as defense for why the support the complete atrocity to everything they believe in.

 

[StarVigil]

This is better than TV

 

[Pedrito]

The GOP might be the most disgusting mainstream political party in any democratic countries.

Saying that, the whole "Russia could blackmail Flynn because they knew he lied to the vice president" is super weak...

 

[Vectorman]

Lol where's Corbyn and Cruz?

 

[BoogieWoogie]

The hell? Did Cruz leave?

 

[Az]

Nikola tesla taking pix

 

[everyday math]

This is better than TV

And that's the sad part

 

[cirrhosis]

Those stools that the photographers are sitting on don't look that comfortable

 

[TheOMan]

LOL - did those horrible Repugnicans *LEAVE* after they asked their horrible questions??

 

[TwoDurans]

Clapper looks bored.

 

[FTF]

Aaaand I've turned it off.

Yeah I don't know how any of you guys could sit through this. It enrages me and I just have to follow along in threads here for the info. I can't listen to Trump or any of these idiots without getting angry.

 

[Sephzilla]

Lol where's Corbyn and Cruz?

Yates put them 6 feet under

 

[NullPointer]

The hell? Did Cruz leave?

I think he vaporized.