BD, you're not alone in your anger concerning the shameful and "tone-deaf" manner the Repubs behaved during yesterday's hearing.

I was off work today recovering from knee injury and I caught a bit of Joe (Scarborough) and Mika this morning on MSNBC. I'm no fan of either Joe or Mika. But I must give credit where credit is due. Joe went in hard on the Repubs for their performance yesterday. And he kept tearing into them for a good portion of his show.

With Florida Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen being the only notable exception (her questions were directly related to Russia's meddling in our election), the other Repubs stuck to their ridicules script of focusing solely on "the leaks."

Joe offered up this possible reason for why the Repus seemed stuck-on-stupid yesterday. They were not prepared at all for Comey to go as far as he did in admitting that Trump and the Trump campaign have been under federal investigation since last July for possible collusion and coordinating with Russia to interfere in our presidential election. Repubs had arrived at the hearing having agreed on One strategy and THAT was the only playbook they had.

Whether Trump and his surrogates actively colluded with Russia OR were simply dupes who played right into Putin's hands? Hopefully the investigation will give us a clear answer in due time.

One things is for certain. Putin and the Russian Intelligence community have to be proud of what they were able to do to Us.

"Donald Trump lied about the British government being a participant in any efforts for Barack Obama to spy on him." Yep.

And let's be frank. Most people (including Trump supporters) knew both claims were LIES from the jump.

Still, it was necessary to get confirmation from officials who are in the position to know the Truth …and have them state so, unequivocally, in front of the nation and the entire world.

How many times have we said it right here on this site? He's a pathological liar.. he's also pathologically impulsive AND temperamentally and mentally Unfit for the job. But there he sits. In the White House (sigh)!.

DJ:
"Now, Donald Trump may have lied about colluding with the Russian government to hack the US presidential election to his favor."

The investigation is going to take time and Comey himself, has NO clean hands here. The fact that Trump and company have been under investigation since LAST JULY speaks to the very troubling actions of Comey against Hillary in the lead-up to the actual election day, while he said NOT a word to the American people about Trump being investigated.

The truth is this…………

On election day only One of the presidential candidates had been cleared of any wrong-doing. Hillary Clinton.

While the other candidate was AND REMAINS under federal investigation. Donald J. Trump.

Whether having that critical info be made public would've changed the final outcome? No one knows.

But i strongly feel that "WE The People" still had a right to know.