Overall, 13.082 million people watched Ambassador Bill Taylor and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent testify on Capitol Hill Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET — according to Nielsen. Of that number, 2.555 million fell in the advertiser-coveted adults 25-54 demographic.
Fox News nearly pulled off the clean sweep of beating not only its cable news rivals in both categories, but the broadcast networks as well. The network posted 2.898 million total viewers and 444,000 in the key demo. That former total was tops among all outlets televising the hearing, with the demo number trailing only ABC — which led that category with 496,000.
Wow... considering every network channel and every cable news channel covered this thing, that is dismal. To put it in perspective, the first season of Donald Trump's The Apprentice "averaged" over 20 million viewers a show! That only played on one channel (not all of them).
Given we have about 320 million people, that suggests that only about 4% of our public tuned into the glorious made for television (pushed by every network) event! I wonder how the cooking and history channel did during that same time period!
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IF THIS IS TRUE...
Giuliani Associate Was on ‘Secret Mission’ for Trump
November 15, 2019 at 9:10 pm EST
“Among the many guests who had their pictures taken with President Trump at the White House’s annual Hanukkah party last year were two Soviet-born businessmen from Florida, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman,” CNN reports.
“At one point during the party that night, Parnas and Fruman slipped out of a large reception room packed with hundreds of Trump donors to have a private meeting with THE PRESIDENT AND GIULIANI.
“Parnas said that ‘the big guy,’ as he sometimes referred to the President in conversation, talked about tasking him and Fruman with what Parnas described as ‘a secret mission’ to pressure the Ukrainian government to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.”
OH BOY! SOMEBODY WHO CAN TELL US SOMETHING THE PRESIDENT ACTUALLY SAID.
A PRIVATE MEETING? BUT I THOUGHT PRESIDENT DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THESE GUYS.
First hand knowledge.
David Holmes, a U.S. embassy official in Kiev, told investigators today about a July 26 call he overheard between Gordon Sondland, the ambassador to the European Union, and Mr. Trump. Mr. Sondland allegedly told Mr. Trump that President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine “loves your ass,” and would conduct investigations into Mr. Trump’s rivals and “anything you ask him to.”
Mr. Holmes said that on the call, Mr. Trump asked Mr. Sondland: “So, he’s gonna do the investigation?” Mr. Sondland replied, “He’s gonna do it.” After the call ended, Mr. Holmes asked Mr. Sondland if was true that the president did not care about Ukraine. The ambassador replied that Mr. Trump cared only about the “big stuff,” like investigations that Mr. Giuliani was pushing for, because they affected him personally.
Your only hope is that the American people don't pay attention to the impeachment proceedings.
The President, according to Fox news hosts and Ken Starr who impeached Bill Clinton, said that President went to far by attempting to intimidate witnesses.
We now have first hand people who heard the President committing a quid Pro quo! Aka bribery.
Regardless of your stance on the merits, validity and applicability of the charges being considered against the president of the United States, you must consider this.
Anyone who, knowing (s)he is the target of a criminal investigation, tweets a threat, implicit or blatant, naming a witness in that investigation, should be charged with witness tampering. You would be. I would be.
The following words are illegal to broadcast, in today's circumstances, by anyone in the legal jurisdiction of the USA, except for the president, according to the president.
"In an extraordinary step, Trump attacked Yovanovitch during her testimony. “Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. She started off in Somalia, how did that go?” he wrote on Twitter. “Then fast forward to Ukraine, where the new Ukrainian President spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him. It is a U.S. President’s absolute right to appoint ambassadors.
"Adam Schiff, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, read the tweets aloud to Yovanovitch. “What effect do you think that has on other witnesses’ willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing?” he asked. Yovanovitch replied, “I can’t speak to what the President is trying to do, but I think the effect is to be intimidating.” Schiff later said that Trump was intimidating a witness—potential grounds for impeachment."
Scott A**hole is hiding!🙏🤗
“So, he’s gonna do the investigation?” Trump asked, according to Holmes's testimony.
"He’s gonna do it,” Sondland replied.
The call, Holmes said, occurred at a restaurant in Kyiv on July 26, one day after Trump's now-famous phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which Trump asked Zelensky for "a favor" in the form of investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and the 2016 elections.
Both of those probes could have helped Trump politically, and the Democrats' impeachment inquiry is focused on whether Trump abused his office by recruiting a foreign leader for help in a U.S. election.
Trump's Republican allies have criticized many of the witnesses who've testified in the investigation, saying their accounts lean too heavily on second- or third-hand information and are therefore unreliable. Holmes's account was purportedly first-hand, and Democrats hailed his arrival in the Capitol.
"We always learn more when witnesses come in, and today we learned a lot more," Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), a member of the Intelligence Committee, said Friday night as he left the closed-door deposition.
"The arrows continue to point in the direction of a shakedown scheme, led by the president of the United States [and] operated by agents like Rudy Giuliani, Gordon Sondland and Mick Mulvaney," he continued.
On the July 26 call, Holmes testified, Sondland told Trump that Zelensky would do anything the president asked – including comply with the investigation requests – because the Ukrainian leader "loves your a--."
Holmes also testified that he asked Sondland after the call if it was true that Trump “did not 'give a shit about Ukraine.'”
Sondland responded that Trump only cares about "big stuff," Holmes testified. Holmes said he noted plenty of big things happening in Ukraine, including a five-year-old war with Russia in the east.
"He meant 'big stuff' that benefits the President, like the Biden investigation that Mr. [Rudy] Giuliani was pushing," Holmes said, paraphrasing Sondland.
Holmes said Sondland's cell phone was not on speaker mode, but he could nonetheless hear Trump's words because "the president's voice was very loud and recognizable."
First hand knowledge Scott when will you wake up?
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