"The impeachment inquiry keeps moving forward — and the Republicans keep sinking lower," Stephen Colbert said on Tuesday's Late Show. Forget rock bottom, "in the last 24 hours they have gotten out the blasting caps and they are fracking America's moral bedrock." Tuesday's fracking involved Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a current National Security Council official who provided damaging first-hand testimony to House impeachment investigators about President Trump's phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
"Vindman's record is sterling," including combat tours in Iraq and a Purple Heart, Colbert said. "I think it's fair to say that unlike Donald Trump, Vindman's character is unimpeachable. But that didn't stop all the president's toadies from questioning his loyalty."
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