On Friday, Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas joined host Melissa Murray, and Basil Smikle on The Beat with Ari Melber to discuss holding Donald Trump and his family accountable for their crimes and misdeeds.
On impeachment, Markos said, “I don’t see it as an either/or situation. Ultimately, my goal isn’t impeachment that will then die in the Senate, because there’s not going to be a conviction in the Republican Senate. I want to see that whole Trump clan in prison, so to me, any information that leads to that in the end is a good thing. So I’m saying bombs away — subpoena, contempt, all of that.”
A short clip, as well as the full video, can be found below the jump.
Markos also weighed in on the difficulty of impeachment and how Democrats can navigate this moment in a productive manner.
“Part of the problem is a misunderstanding about what impeachment is. I think people think, ‘you impeach, Trump is gone,’ not realizing that impeachment is that first step towards a Senate trial, and we do not have the votes in the Senate for any kind of impeachment. Republicans will protect Trump — they’re bought and paid for by the Russians, that is who they are. So to me, it’s about laying the groundwork to expose all of Trump’s crimes heading into next year’s election, showing base Democrats that we’re fighting as a party, that they worked their butts off last year to elect a House that is going to deliver for them. And they can’t, legislatively, so let's do so investigatively.
And ultimately, it’s realizing that it’s a base election next year, motivating our people to turn out, because Trump’s people are going to vote no matter what. They’re already at 100% — nothing Democrats can do will make them more motivated to turn out than they already are.”
Watch the full segment here: