'I would say that there is something to see here,' legal scholar Benjamin Wittes told MSNBC on Thursday.
While President Donald Trump and his supporters have argued that the reconstructed transcript of his Ukraine phone call shows no wrongdoing, one MSNBC guest said there are at least five impeachable offenses highlighted in the document.
"There are Republicans, there are Trump pundits going on television to say there is nothing to see here—literally nothing. With a legal eye, is there nothing to see here?" co-host Mike Brzezinski asked. Wittes argued that in the conversation, Trump threatened to misuse congressionally-appropriated funds to extort a foreign leader into interfering in the U.S. electoral process by digging up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.The White House released a rough transcript of Trump's call with Zelensky, which took place on July 25.
Trump does tell Zelensky twice that the United States has been"very, very good to Ukraine" before asking the foreign leader to"do us a favor." Then, the president encouraged Zelensky to open an investigation into Biden and his son even though Ukraine's top prosecutor said earlier this year there was no evidence of wrongdoing from the Bidens.
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