lines and we can all hear him saying what he s saying whatever words people want to use, and to this point, though, the former fbi director jim comey, you know, obviously he and trump, no fan, he has been saying all of the way along and do this in an election and don t do it through impeachment. today he said we may be at the point when members of the house and senate cannot defend the constitution without acting. do you think he s right? as a lawyer, looking at the constitution and looking at that oath to be consist went that do they need to act now? i very strongly agree with that. and each before we saw the transcript of the call we are seeing the president calling a world leader for his own personal gain and this is public corruption and with talking with quid pro quos and you can look at constitutional violations and it is really important that this be investigated and that congress hold the president to account and, you know, let the facts be when they may and it s very importa
whistle-blower s report urgent and credible, and now this firestorm is clearly weighing on the president. today he held his first press conference since house speaker nancy pelosi launched an impeachment inquiry, he was unfocused and lacked energy and it is not the usual bombastic trump and he rambleed for 24 minutes before he even took a question and here was the call with the president of the ukraine. it was a joke. impeachment for that when you have a wonderful meeting or you have a wonderful phone conversation? so we have five pages of it, declassified and here s why trump thinks it was wonderful. ukraine s president tells trump in the call, quote, actually last time i traveled to the united states i stayed at the trump tower. he then tells trump, quote, you are a great teacher, end quote. he even says of a wished-for trump visit for ukraine, quote, we can either take my plane to
go to ukraine or we can take your plane which is probably much better than mine. okay, the power dynamic here is clear. the kind of sucking up to trump is clear and why trump loved that call equally clear, but trump also loved the call for other reasons, deeply personal ones. the reasons at the heart of his possible impeachment. president trump says again, back to the transcript, the united states has been very, very good to ukraine. i wouldn t say that it s reciprocal, necessarily, because things are happening that are not good, but the united states has been very, very good to ukraine. you can hear him saying it. it s not really a subtle hint from the president who at the time of that call was holding up helpeds of millions of dollars in military aid to ukraine, a country that relies on that aid and after those hints and after ukrainian president zelensky brings up u.s. military support trump asks for his word, a favor, quote. i would like you to do us a favor, though, because our
and say, yes, the russians interfered. mr. maguire knows the democrats will be pressing him and the president will be watching him and he s an acting. the pressure is on him to disclose as much as he can. we ll see how much he says i cannot disclose. the pressure is on the democrats to ask the right questions, to build their case, to do it calmly to try to get people who have a trump pedigree to acknowledge the seriousness of the situation. and one thing before we go because you mentioned republican in the senate, right? the three that we ve heard from who have expressed such concern, senior respected members of the senate, sas, thune, romney. you can t impeach the president for real. he can t leave office. is there any chance that happens? do you hear anything when you hear three significant voices starting to speak out to make you wonder or no? i think it s very important not to get that far ahead. you had first senator romney and senator sass. don t get out of your skis.
and that reflects on what our country is all about and our country is better than the way we re being perceived as. reporter: but he thinks impeachment will further divide an already hyper partisan country. i think it is ugly now. i think we should focus on not being ugly. reporter: hard core trump supporter roxy pixel says democrats will only harm they were selves in going after the president. in this town there s a lot of people who have turned. they say it s stupid. reporter: quaker town is part of bucks county, the vote rich philly suburbs. it narrowly supported clinton in 2016. in new hope, a democratic strong hold, many voters hearsay impeachment, about time. show people that a president can t do these things and just get away with it. i think that democrats need to show some spine. i think that it s a good way of showing power and what s right and doing everything by the law. so i have spoken to a lot of