Cooper Teams Up With Dem to Rip GOP Calls for Transparency in Impeachment

Nicholas Fondacaro | October 23, 2019
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Calling for transparency in the impeachment investigation of President Trump, a number of House Republicans stormed the conference room being used for the hearing and staged an old-fashion sit-in. Transparency was apparently something only demanded of Republicans because the liberal media spent Wednesday decrying the GOP tactic. CNN host Anderson Cooper was so peeved by the move that he began that night’s AC360 by teaming up with a Democrat in the room to rip the Republican effort.

“Good evening, we begin the program last night saying that yesterday could prove to be one of the most consequential days in Donald Trump as presidency. Well, today could prove to be one of the weirdest,” he quipped. Whining:

[A]bout two dozen conservative Republican lawmakers decided to engage in a publicity stunt storming the secure conference room, … Some of them held up their phones to record their storming of a secure room and held up proceedings for about five hours demanding to witness the closed-door testimony complaining loudly about due process and the way the hearings are being run.

It’s interesting what CNN was willing to denounce as a publicity stunt because they fell in love with congressional sit-ins when Democrats were obstructing business for gun control. “Rep. John Lewis, who launched the sit-in Wednesday morning that eventually drew 170 lawmakers, lit up social media, and infuriated House Republicans -- but spurred no legislative action -- said the fight was not over,” CNN reported in 2016. And they were more than willing link that sit-in to the sit-ins of the civil rights era.

But on Wednesday, Cooper had no problem showing off his discontent for the Republican protest.

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