impeachment, you said and i quote "we must not overturn an election and impeach a president without an overwhelming consensus in the american people and their representatives in congress." you also said "there must never be a narrowly voted impeachment or in impeachment substantially supported by one of the major political parties and largely opposed by the other." you said such an impeachment would lack legitimacy, would produce divisiveness and bitterness in our politics for years to come and will call into question the very legitimacy of our political institutions. that's what you said back then, mr. chairman. well, what you said should never happen, what we should never do is exactly what you are doing now, moving forward without a consensus in impeachment by one major party that is opposed by the other. it's almost certain that it's going to result in the very divisiveness and bitterness that you so accurately warned us about back then.