far-fetched conspiracy theories about essentially a partisan witch hunt inside the deep state to get the president of the united states. but the other expressing real critique, quite concrete ones of the abuses of the fisa process. and i m wondering what you re reaction to that was. well, clearly there were mistakes made based on the inspector general s reports. and i know a lot of people attribute it and i might attribute it to these were fbi agents and they were probably overly aggressive, they didn t pay careful attention to some of the details. they may have ignored some aspects of the work that was uncovered, but i think the i.g. was very clear that politicization did not seem to creep into any aspect of their work either at the initiation of their investigation or throughout. but clearly as chris wray has said, these are issues that really need to be addressed
times congressional correspondent who wrote today about a front line support for impeachment. i m not surprised honestly every democrat in one of these trump districts has come out, but it wasn t necessarily guaranteed going into this process. what does your reporting endicate about the decisions that people have come to on this vote? i think they did really wrestle with their consciences and these are members that resisted impeachment all the way through this year. they did not want to do this at all. they came here saying they were going to work in a bipartisan way with this president. they won election in districts that he won, but to a person they have concluded that the evidence is really overwhelming and that they can t ignore it, and it s been interesting. several of them have said to me including alissa slotkin that if the voters choose not to return to them, so be it.
the crowd giving a 20 second long-standing ovation. can you tell me what your process was on coming to a conclusion on this vote? thanks for having me tonight. my process was about openness and transparency. i made a promise to the folks in my district a long time ago to focus on making sure the process is open and fair. and that i would do what i did as a lawyer and i remember when i was serving as a lawyer and i would listen to the judge give the admonition to the jury saying wait until all the evidence is in. i waited until the process was done and i had made my decision. because one of the big struggles we face as a country and this goes to what your earlier guest was saying is that trust and betraying their elected officials is at all-time low. and we re showing the government can work and we can put politics aside and do the right thing.
responded today to criticism by already announcing on trump tv he s coordinating with the white house in the impeachment trial he has already abdicated his constitutional role which requires him to literally take an oath of quote impartial justice. i m not an impartial juror. this is political process. impeachment is a political decision. the house made a partisan political decision to impeach. i would anticipate we will have a largely partisan outcome in the senate. i m not impartial about this at all. joining me now to respond to all of this senate minority lider chuck schumer who s a democrat from new york. first, i want to get your response to that statement. it s not a judicial process and we have the votes on your side. well, george washington, benjamin franklin, james madison would be rolling their eyes. the whole reason read the federalist papers to choose the
due process was afforded to those in the salem witch trials. fact check, not true. republicans have been trying a variety of tactics throughout this entire progression towards impeachment, primarily arguing about the process and making lots of loud noises rather than engaging on the substance, basically the president s fundamentally corrupt abuse of power to interfere in an american election to benefit him. and republicans try agpolitical congame in which they project confidence this is all going to be terrible politics for the democrats and a disaster waiting to happen. but the polling shows the country evenly divided on this question. more support on removal than there was by far for clinlten and just below there was for richard nixon. and not only that front line democrats, those in districts that trump won have in announcement after announcement