'Every time you go behind closed doors you lie': The View unleashes on impeachment GOPers

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"The View's" Whoopi Goldberg (Photo: Screen capture/ABC Video)

Republicans passed an impeachment inquiry vote against President Joe Biden in the House on Wednesday, but they've still been unable to cite evidence for crimes they say he committed — and that's something that is infuriating the hosts of "The View."

On Thursday, the ladies called out Republicans for refusing to have public hearings, with even Republican and former Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin saying that the Justice Department should handle Biden's son Hunter's problems, not Congress. Republicans have fixated on business dealings between the president and his son as a potential smoking gun for impeachment.

"Let them deal with it and keep it," Whoopi Goldberg said. "Since you want us to know about this so badly, keep it out so we can hear it. I don't want — every time y'all go behind closed doors, you lie. You leak stuff and then the person who you've leaked it to is — then they have to prove that you lied about what was said because then somebody plays it and it's not at all what was said."

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Sara Haines pointed out that the House members tend to lie in the open too.

"I have not seen one shred of evidence that it's tied to Joe Biden," Griffin said. "That's what it comes down to, to me. I'm no Joe Biden fan. Steve Doocy on Fox News has been hammering James Comer. Give me one thing. One piece of evidence. Otherwise, it's a waste of taxpayer dollars."

Sunny Hostin pointed out the fatal flaw in the GOP's claims — that they are searching for the crime, not investigating one.

"When you are prosecuting a case and investigating a case, you're not investigating a person," she said. "You're investigating a crime. And I think Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who I love, was a former prosecutor, and he said the Biden impeachment investigation isn't a whodunit. Like an Agatha Christie novel is the mystery — what's the crime? It's not how you investigate cases and it's political retribution. They're playing politics."

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One Democratic member of the House of Representatives is now sharing disturbing audio of death threats that supporters of President Donald Trump recently called into his office.

The Hill reported Friday that Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) posted a minute-long clip of several death threats to both Moulton and his children after he called on President Donald Trump to take the lead on calming the national temperature in the wake of MAGA activist Charlie Kirk's assassination. Many of the threats were profane and detailed, and at least one caller explicitly said "MAGA" before threatening Moulton's life.

"I pray to God some good old MAGA boy blows your motherf------- brains out," the caller can be heard saying. "We have most of the guns, and you won't find very many Democrats at the shooting range. We know what we're doing."

"I would spend the rest of my f------ life in federal prison to make America great again by eliminating somebody like you," the threat continued. "I pray for your violent, bloody anguishing death."

"My office has received an extraordinary number of violent and graphic threats yesterday and today from right-wing individuals online and over the phone—directed toward me, my family, and my staff—after I pointed out the simple fact that President Trump should join Speaker Johnson and other level-headed Republicans in condemning political violence, not inciting it further," Moulton tweeted. "The solution to political disagreement in America is never violence. It should be easy for everybody to say that."

After Kirk's death was announced on Wednesday, Trump took to his social media platform to blame Kirk's death on "radical left political violence." And on Friday morning, he joined Fox & Friends to say he "couldn't care less" about uniting the country and doubled down on his attacks on the political left.

After 22 year-old Utah resident Tyler Robinson was arrested for allegedly shooting Kirk, new details have emerged showing that he was raised in a staunchly pro-Trump family. While Robinson himself was registered as non-partisan in recent elections, his grandmother said she wasn't aware of a single Democrat in their family.

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A prominent New York Times reporter said President Donald Trump seems to be struggling with the killing of MAGA ally Charlie Kirk, and acknowledged that fellow ally Steve Bannon was right about one big thing.

Maggie Haberman joined CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins on her show, "The Source," to discuss the fallout of Kirk's killingon Wednesday at an event at Utah Valley University.

Collins played clips of Trump and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R), in which Trump said "radicals on the left" are "vicious" and "horrible," while Cox used his speech to urge Americans to "find an off ramp" rather than point fingers at "the other side."

"I mean, the contrast there is evident," said Collins.

I think it depends on when somebody catches him as to exactly what he is going to say," said Haberman.

She noted that Trump and his circle were very close to Kirk.

"President Trump faced two assassination attempts, one near miss last year. And so all of that is a lot of the context for how people in the White House and the president are responding to this. I think that he is struggling with this in terms of how to deal with it," she said.

She added: "I think that we have seen moments when President Trump has, over time, episodically, been calmer and more of a traditional leader at various points in term one. I think that he is never going to be the person who is going to be sort of the clearest talker about this. I don’t think you’re ever going to hear him say something like what Governor Cox said. I think that he is saying what he thinks, and he is who he is. And I think that people knew that before they voted for him."

Haberman noted that Kirk was as "close as a sibling" to many in Trump's orbit.

That includes Donald Trump Jr., who said Kirk was like a brother.

Later in the segment, Haberman was asked about MAGA allies criticizing FBI Director Kash Patel's handling of the manhunt for Kirk's shooter.

Collins played a clip of Steve Bannon bashing Patel.

"I don’t know why Kash flew out there — you know, thousands of miles — to give us, hey, working partnerships and our great partnership in Utah. Okay, I got that. No offense to the law enforcement guys and the future of this. The public assumes that you’re working together as partnerships. Charlie Kirk was assassinated in cold blood by a left-wing, Antifa-affiliated or aligned person. Okay, we want to find out about him. We want more details about him," Bannon said in the clip.

While authorities haven't mentioned anything about Antifa, Collins asked Haberman her thoughts on Patel's unusual actions. Patel flew to Utah and shared "confusing messages" about a suspect in custody and a person of interest, which contradicted what other authorities were saying.

"You have somebody like an FBI director who is very online, who comes from an online world and is pretty new to law enforcement from this side. And there is a lot of frustration among Republicans that I have heard, and with administration officials, that there was such a lag time in capturing this person who, as we said earlier, was not caught by law enforcement directly or by their work," she said.

Haberman added, "A lot of time lapsed between the shooting and the first claim that there was somebody in custody, which was all over the internet. And then that wasn’t the person. Then Kash Patel posted on X, 'We have the person in custody.' And then two hours later it was actually, 'That person is released.' There is a reason that things like that don’t happen. There is also a reason—Steve Bannon is correct — that usually you see the FBI director kind of head down, trying to figure out what's what, not flying around this way."

The ink is barely dry on the Missouri Republican Party's mid-decade gerrymander, and it has received its first lawsuit, filed in the state circuit court of Jackson County by the elections watchdog group Campaign Legal Center and the ACLU of Missouri.

The map in question, passed after President Donald Trump ordered Republican-controlled states to redraw their maps to try to block a Democratic election wave next year, chops up a Democratic district in Kansas City, likely eliminating longtime Rep. Emanuel Cleaver in favor of a Republican.

"Today we sued Missouri for its unconstitutional gerrymandered congressional map and filed for an injunction," wrote CLC redistricting strategist Mark Gaber on X. "The map's got a lot of problems, its primary one being the Missouri Constitution."

"The state constitution prohibits mid-decade redistricting," wrote Gaber. "In 1955 the state supreme court held that 'only one valid apportionment is intended for each decennial period. This must be true because the decennial census is made the basis of reapportionment.'"

Furthermore, he continued, "The state constitution requires compact districts comprised of closely united territory. The prior map drew a compact near-rectangle around Kansas City metro ... The new map fragments the Kansas City metro area into three districts stretching into far flung regions of the state. This is not 'closely united territory.'"

It gets worse, though, he wrote, because the new map is racially discriminatory: "they created a giraffe neck like appendage in CD 4 that divides CD 4 from CD 5 strictly along racial lines with no basis in law to do so."

Even more absurd, Gaber continued, "The process was so slapdash and rushed that the Legislature assigned one Kansas City precinct to TWO congressional districts. So they actually passed two maps, creating malapportioned and noncontiguous districts."

This lawsuit, which would ultimately have to be heard by the state's Republican appointee-dominated Supreme Court, is not the only potential legal hurdle to the Missouri gerrymander. A group of activists is already moving to gather signatures for a process that, if successful, would force the new map to be put to a vote on the ballot, suspending its implementation until and unless voters approve it.

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