during the hearing that his view that this constituted as well a campaign violation but you haven t answered my question. can you answer my question though? the answer is no, because a request to a foreign government to open up an investigation, at least in the eyes of the justice department, apparently the criminal division and the public integrity section is that s not sufficient to constitute a campaign finance violation. the answer to your question is no, it doesn t pass the personal benefit test. professor feldman, what about that? yeah, that s preposterous. the question is not whether a statute has been violated. it s definitely not whether the department of justice that works for the president thinks it s been violated. the question is has the constitution been violated? in england, high crimes and misdemeanors were not always statutory crimes. in the united states in the history of impeachment here, high crimes and misdemeanors have often not been statutory crimes. it
campaign finance violation. the answer to your question is no, it doesn t pass the personal benefit test. professor feldman, what about that? so that s preposterous. the question is not whether a statute has been violated. it s definitely not whether the department of justice that works for the president thinks it s been violated. in england, high crimes and misdemeanors were not always statutory crimes. in the united states, high crimes and misdemeanors have often not been statutory crimes. it s a complete red herring to say we should care at all about what the statute says. second of all, it s also the case that when it comes to the conferral of a benefit, we don t have to look at campaign finance law. we can just look at the common sense of congress. congress is entitled to determine whether there was a personal benefit that aided the president and if there was,
finance violation. the problem with that can you answer my question, though? the answer is no, because a something as nebulous as the collateral effect on a campaign as a request to a foreign government to open up an investigation, at least in the eyes of the justice department, apparently the criminal division and the public integrity section is that s not sufficient to constitute a campaign finance violation. the answer to your question is no, it doesn t pass the personal benefit test. professor feldman, what about that? so that s preposterous. the question is not whether a statute has been violated. the question is whether the constitution violated. it s definitely not whether the department of justice that works for the president thinks it s been violated. in england, high crimes and misdemeanors were not always statutory crimes. it s a red herring to stay we