system of checks and balances, two three co-equal branches of government, of check and balance on each other. constitution spells out the duties of congress and one of them is oversight of the president of the united states. another one of them is to impeach the president of the united states. so we have and let me be as brief as succinct as possible in this regard. we have six chairman. you heard from adam schiff this morning who is having a success with getting documents from the justice department by the actions the committee has taken. you have elijah cummings, chair of the government reform committee who had a big success this week with one of his cases, the maser decision which spells out that it is congress responsibility and right to
bipartisan. i don t think impeachment is the right way to go. it s very hard to obstruct justice when there was no underlying crime to obstruct. having obstructed justice, is now obstructing congress. welcome back to kasie dc. democrats ran in the midterms with the straight forward message. elect us to congress and we will hold this president accountable. now at least 14 democratic-led house committees are investigating different aspects of donald trump or his presidency. the nbc news hill team reports that there are at least 50 different investigations, and at least 15 congressional subpoenas. and yet so far democrats have little to show for it, with multiple offices and agencies of the trump administration saying flat-out no. when they are saying unless you have a legislative purpose, you cannot ask any questions. you cannot investigate unless you have a legislative purpose. but one of the purposes of that the constitution spells out
that the constitution spells out for investigation is impeachment. almost saying convene the trial, start a dril because then we ll have better standing in the courts to say, give us the documents. doesn t mean we ll ultimately vote for impeachment. is that what she s saying? that s what it seems to me, she s trying to nullify some progressives in her base but at the same time not give trump the fodder he wants. it s such a fascinating moment where you ve got this weird coalition speaking of weird coalition, you mention pelosi and amash, the aoc trump coalition here where both parties want impeachment proceedings for different reasons. the left wants them for reasons they believe are on the merits that this president has clearly committed impeachable offenses. trump and his allies like the idea of impeachment because to them it creates this idea of
cipollone and flatly rejects the demand for documents and demands that congress puts an end to the investigations into president trump and his administration. quote, congressional investigations are intended to obtain information to aid in evaluating potential legislation, not to the harass political opponents or to pursue an unauthorized do-over of exhausted investigations already completed by the department of justice. earlier i asked speaker nancy pelosi if she agreed with chairman nadler. madam speaker, jerry nadler says the conduct of the administration is such that he cannot rule out imimpeachment or anything else. do you agree with that assessment? the letter that came from the white house yesterday is completely outrageous, says that the president is above the law and congress has no right to investigate any of the actions of the president, hold him accountable in any way. one of the purposes that the constitution spells out for investigation is impeachment.
completely outrageous. it says the president is above the law and congress has no right to investigate any of the actions of the president, hold him accountable in any way. one of the purposes that the constitution spells out for investigations is impeachment. so it isn t about impeachment, it s about impeachment as a purpose, a constitutional purpo purpose. and to give you a little insight into the letter from pat cipollone, one excerpt goes this way. congressional investigations are intended to obtain information to aid and evaluating potential legislation and not to harass political opponents or to pursue an unauthorized review of a do-over, as he puts it, of exhaustive law enforcement investigations conducted by the department of justice. that is the white house counsel s view, that is not the view of congress, and certainly, in areas like the battle over tax returns, legislative purpose