merits due process. do you think there s fairness there? would it concern you to remove any president if it was primarily on anonymous testimony? look, the constitution vests the authority to remove a president exclusively in the united states senate. and other than that, it does not spell out any specific guarantees of due process or some amorphous notion of fairness, although we do know that it is a fair process and procedure. it s a political process by nature. that argument does not work, and it will not work. no. the country really deserves a full airing of all of the charges that may be brought, whatever they might be and wherever they might lead. and we have reposed in our representatives the solemn responsibility to rise above politics to the extent possible and to do what they must do, what they ve taken an oath to do and uphold the constitution.
the president s that is of primary importance. let me read you a statement from senator ron johnson who wrote this letter to the republicans on your committee. he said vindman s testimony together wiother witnesses use similar terms of our policy, long standing policy, lend further credence to the point that i m making. whether you agree with president trump or not, it should be acknowledged that the constitution vests the power of conducting foreign policy with the duly elected president. republicans saying that vindman had a problem with the policy but that shouldn t matter. and of all the bologna i ve seen floated by the republicans, of all the shabby defenses they have mounted. that may take the cake. of course it is his foreign policy, but it is not his prerogative to extort a vulnerable leader. nobody disagrees that the policy
to ask all week since i had the opportunity to interview the president s lawyer, jay sekulow. he s taken the position it would be unfair as a matter of due process to try to convict a president on anonymous testimony, people who can t be confronted. most people know the rules are different, there s no constitutional requirement what was merits due process. what do you think about the substance of that argument? do you think there s fairness there? would it concern you to remove any president if it was primarily on anonymous testimony? look. the constitution vests the authority to remove a president exclusively in the united states senate. and other than that, it does not spell out any specific guarantees of due process or some amorphous notion of fairness, although we do hope that it is a fair process and procedure. it s a political process by nature. that argument does not work. and it will not work. no. the country really deserves a
republicans. people sit in the house and senate are governed by their own bodies pursuant to powers given to those bodies to control the behavior of their own members. when al franken is getting tossed out or bob packwood, the constitution vests them to control their own ethics. the only power against the president is impeachment. so if new allegations arise or new facts in old allegations arise, post the presidential election, i think you d see an upswell in chatter about im maei impeachment but they haven t. they re talking about the same allegations today that were asked and answered by 62.9 million voters who voted for donald trump last year. go ahead? i was just keep going. so to me the line is, when does the appropriate body in this case for the american people to vote for the president or the congress to vote impeachment get the amount of evidence they need to move forward? there are clear ethical lines in
sense, but at the end of the day, no matter how rep rehen s henceable roy moore is, he hasn t been convicted of a crime. article one, section five of the constitution vests with the body to expel a member. they were going to expel bob pacwood and mitch mcconnell led that back in the day. he s very unforgiving about this. there will be a process. the senate can t deny him his seat. they can only expel him once he s taken it. but i don t expect him to get a committee assignment if he were to win. i don t see that happening, stephanie. but i would not be at all surprised if it is the quickest expulsion process ever. making me wonder why would president stick his neck out. happy thanksgiving.