anita. that s right. hi, shannon. the bar is high. only two presidents have been impeached before. andrew johnson and bill clinton. both were acquitted. when it comes to president trump, talk of impeachment has been swirling around him ever since he was sworn in, maybe even before. just as we, the president said it would be bad for the country. i don t know how you can impeach somebody who s done a great job. i will tell you what. if i ever got impeached, i think the market would crash. here s how the process works. first, impeachment charges are introduced to the house based on treason, bribery, or other high crimes and this meters. then they investigate whether the charges are warranted. if the consensus is the ascom articles are drafted. a simple majority is needed to improve the articles of impeachment and advance the case to the senate. the senate then conducts a full-blown trial presided over by the chief justice of the united states. in this case, john roberts. a convictio
of john edwards a few years back is a very aggressive, on the margins of the justice department s enforcement authority a very aggressive take on what campaign-finance laws holes and it did not work out well for the justice department. they convinced the judge to let the case go the jury but the jury acquitted on one count, hung on the rest and when doj took another look they said they are not doing well again. mark penn, former clinton pollster, democratic i wrote an op-ed in the hill and this is what he said about the edwards case when there were hundreds of thousands of dollars funneled to take care of a woman he had a child with. and a lot of similar parallels. none of the donors in the 2012 john edwards case face any legal issues and the federal election commission ruled payments were
issues effect with the stock market does. are we in a great economy? yes, we are. his employment down? yes. our stocks up? yes. stocks were up under barack obama and bill clinton prior presidents. the president is taking too much, knock knock, surprise, too much credit. shannon: he and his team don t want it but there are those conspiracy theorists say that he would love to fight against it if he s going for reelection. seems like a risky gamble. democratic leaders don t want to talk about it. the hill says democratic leaders have worried talk of impeachment could hurt their chances and when he backed the house this fall. fearing it could cost him support from independents while risking a higher turnout among president trump s supporters. i don t think it s a conspiracy theory that the white house, if trump does not have impeachable offenses that are actually lodged against him, if it s this futile gambit by the democrats, they would love
aggressive, i would say really on the margins of the justice department s enforcement authority, a very aggressive take on what the campaign finance laws hold. it didn t work out well for the justice department. basically they convinced a judge to let the case go to the jury. but the jury acquitted on one count, hung on the rest. when doj took another look at it, they said this is not worth going to the well again. shannon: it s interesting because mark penn, former clinton pollster, democrat, he wrote an op-ed in the hill and this is what he said about the edwards case where there are hundreds of thousands dollars funneled to take care of a he had a child with. a lot of similar parallels here. he said note that none of the donors in the 2012 john edwards case faced any legal issues, and the federal election commission ruled their payments were not campaign contributions that had to be reported. both facts that prosecutors tried to suppress at trial. so why is it different for
never happened before. reporter: the bar is high, only two president have been impeached, andrew johnson and bill clinton, both were acquitted but when it comes to donald trump talk of impeachment has been swirling around him ever since he was sworn in, maybe before. just this week the president said it would be bad for the country. i don t know how you can impeach somebody who has done a great job. if i ever got impeached i think the market would crash. reporter: first, impeachment charges are introduced in the house based on treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors, the house committee investigates whether the charges are warranted and if yes, lay out the accusations. a simple majority is needed to improve the articles of impeachment and advance the case to the senate. the senate and conduct a trial presided over by the chief