Joe Scarborough was really disgusted by yesterday's censure of Adam Schiff by Republicans.
"Before we get started, let's just get an overview really quickly of what this Republican House majority is doing," he said.
"We warned that they were insurrectionists, weirdos and freaks, that they would be reckless if they were given a little bit of power. Ed Luce, they've censured Schiff. They can't really tell us why, other than he investigated what Marco Rubio's Senate intelligence committee called, quote, a grave counterintelligence threat to the United States of America. That's what Schiff was investigating.
"Let me say that again. He was investigating something that Marco Rubio's Senate intel committee said of Trump's 2016 interactions with Russia. Manafort's high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services represented a grave counterintelligence threat. Okay, so he opens up an investigation against that and brings up, again, so many things that are disturbing.
"Then we keep hearing about the Biden crime family. But you ask the question, what crime? They can't tell you. The Wall Street Journal editorial page rightly says, 'a lot of smoke, no fire.' You have Grassley, the most senior Republican, when confronted about a document they're looking for and how it really doesn't do anything to suggest Joe Biden did anything wrong, said we don't care whether they're right or wrong.
"You have Comey going out and saying, 'We don't really care. We're just trying to bring down his poll numbers.' Comer, yesterday, I think maybe the saddest and most pathetic spectacle of all, when John Durham, who has made a fool of himself time and again, brought one case after another, trying to slander the FBI, trying to slander Hillary Clinton. He goes before a House panel, and he claims to be completely ignorant of things that happened, that were on the front pages of the New York Times, that Marco Rubio's intel committee wrote about.
"He even claimed that he didn't know about that grave counterintelligence threat to the United States. He didn't know that Donald Trump had asked Russia to find Hillary Clinton's emails. He didn't know one news item after another. And his lame response was, 'I don't follow the news. I don't really read newspapers and watch television.' This would be the starting point for any investigation of the investigators that he would have. Yet, they keep making fools of themselves. They're just gesturing to the most extreme members of the Republican party, including Durham. People who get their news from Chinese religious cults," he said, referring to the loony Epoch Times.
Calling it "the party of George Santos," Ed Luce said the censure of Adam Schiff yesterday devalued an incredibly important and valuable tool of the legislature, disciplining and shaming its own members for criminal conduct, for extreme ethical breaches.
"What Adam Schiff did was uphold the constitutional duty of the House, to provide oversight of the executive, at a time when the executive was breaking all kinds of rules. It's become conventional wisdom to say, not just on the right but, you know, amongst polite conversation, to say that the Robert Mueller report exonerated Trump.
"I reread that 448-page report a few months ago, having read it originally at the time. It is an extremely damning document, corroborated, as you say, by the Senate Intelligence committee report, signed off by Senate Republicans, that establishes multiple counts of obstruction of justice in the investigation into the alleged Russia collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia," Luce said.
"There is no doubt that there was Russia collusion. There is absolutely no doubt that there was an attempt by Donald Trump to get Putin to assist his election. It wasn't critical probably to his election in 2016, so there's been some overstatement of that on the left. But of course it happened. So to censure a congressman, Adam Schiff, for this, makes it the party of George Santos.
"Adam Schiff said, 'Look, one day, Trump will be gone but your dishonor will remain.' This is dishonorable. This is deeply dishonorable."
