which is when congress if congress decides to get involved, they may be judging along different lines. you know, we don t know what the law of impeachment is. nobody knows. there has never been an attempt to do that. if i were a lawyer for an impeached president, i would bring the case to the supreme court and i would expect that those who believe in applying the words of the constitution would say, you really have to see whether there is bribery, treason, high crime and mi misdemeanor. i want to focus on the big picture rather than the technical words of the statute. there are two basic questions. did the president have the constitutional authority to fire comey and try to prevent the investigation of flynn? the best evidence that he does have that authority is comey testified to that yesterday. he said unequivocally, that the president would have had the
if you concede the testimony did not amount to obstruction, certainly if the motivation to fire director comey was based on an attempt to obstruct justice or impede justice, then that s the relevant point in time to fixate on. by not doing so, you undermine your own arguments. i want to move on to the tapes, if i can. the alleged tapes, the perhaps tapes, maybe not tapes. the president was coy, which is a nice way of saying he wouldn t answer the questions today after the white house hasn t been able to answer the questions for the last month or so. if tapes exist of the conversations of the between the president and james comey here, if there are tapes, can the president be forced to turn them over? that s the ultimate question that i think the white house is going to have to answer. the first issue i think they have to deal with is, were there tapes at all? i think they do have to acknowledge whether or not the conversations were taped. if they were taped, they have to
investigation, of course, after his refusals, director comey was fired. the initial explanation for the firing didn t pass any smell test. director was fired because he didn t treat hillary clinton appropriately. okay, that explanation lasted about a day, because the president, himself, then made very clear that he was thinking about russia when he decide to fire director comey. the reports suggest that the president admitted as much in an oval office meeting with the russians the day after director comey was fired. disparaging our country s top law enforcement official as a quote/unquote nut job the president allegedly suggested that his firing relieved great pressure on his feelings about russia. this is not happening in isolation. at the same time the president
the initial explanation for the firing didn t pass any smell test. so now director comey was fired saying he didn t treat hillary clinton appropriately. that explanation lasted about a day. the president himself then made very clear that he was thinking about russia when he decided to fire director comey. shockingly, reports suggest that the president admitted as much in an oval office meeting with the russians the day after director comey was fired. disparaging our country s top law enforcement official as a quote, unquote, nut job, the president allegedly suggested his firing relieved great pressure on his feelings about russia. this is not happening in isolation. at the same time the president was engaged in these efforts with director comey, he was
the initial explanation for the firing didn t pass any smell test. so now director comey was fired because he didn t treat hillary clinton appropriately. of course that explanation lasted about a day, because the president himself then made very clear that he was thinking about russia when he decided to fire director comey. shockingly, reports suggest that the president admitted as much in an oval office meeting with the russians the day after director comey was fired. disparaging our country s top law enforcement official as a quote/unquote nutjob, the president allegedly suggested that his firing relieved great pressure on his feelings about russia. this is not happening in isolation. at the same time, the president was engaged in these efforts with director comey, he was also