300 page report that the house intelligence committee produced. obviously they haven t. obviously they are not taking it seriously and we re all the less for it. what about house speaker nancy pelosi, congressman. here is what she said this week about those democrats and the so-called swing districts. we are not within this legislation nor do we ever whip something like that. they have seen the facts as presented. they have seen the constituti constitution they know it, they take an oath to protect and defend it, but they say the constitutional experts speak about it, they will make their own decisions. i don t say anything to them. so here is what we re talking about. 31 house democrats in the so-called swing districts that trump won, do you have a sense of how many might defect from the party on this matter of impeachment and could that affect either of those two
against president trump. pretty historic stuff, which they could vote on we expect within the next 24 hours now. democratic congresswoman of california said rich rld nixon s impeachment in her call for republicans to consider the evidence over party loyalty. one of my most vivid memories of the 1974 impeachment was representative chuck wiggins, one of the most defenders of nixon when he realized nixon had been lying to him. i ve been waiting for republicans here to have chair chuck wiggins moment but it seems we live in an alternate realty where one columnist said if it swims and quacks like a duck it s a piano. loyalty to our country and our constituti constitution must be greater. i ll joined by msnbc contributor howard fineman. let s take a look back at some
responsibility to live into my oath. it doesn t take away my responsibility to the constituti constitution. it doesn t mean i don t know right from wrong that he pressured a foreign leader for help in a political election to try to smear his rival. that s abuse of power. if we ve shown some discipline in crafting the strongest articles with the clear and compelling and overwhelming evidence supporting them, then i think that strengthens the case and makes it easier, the project of communicating its necessity to voters and constituents who might be skeptical. there have been meetings among a small number of house democrats, so-called moderates, about the possibility of offering censure as an alternative to impeachment. you haven t been part of those meetings, have you? absolutely not. i think it s a terrible mistake to negotiate against ourselves. has the president acknowledged wrongdoing? has he offered apology? are the republicans willing to
a lynching? comparing impeachment, which is an investigation and a trial by congress provided for in our constituti constitution, to the brutal murders of almost 5,000 americans? three-quarters of them black, that s according to the naacp, by the way. now, others have used that word in the same way. but they were wrong. just like this president is wrong. thousands of african-americans. they didn t call them african-americans back then. you know what they called them, right? thousands of people who looked like me were murdered, simply for who they were.
none of us, my colleagues will agree, came to congress to impeach a president. this is not a cause for any joy, that we have to go down this path. it s a difficult decision that make. but we have that obligation. because in the actions that were taken but undermine the constituti constitution. perhaps one reason she was hesitant, impeachment has consequences, not just for the subject of impeachment, but for the impeaching party.