impeachment and darn. pete: i will do it for you, steve. steve: what is it and how does it work? noah feldman, the harvard law scholar, who appeared on behalf of the democrats, that man right there, he is throwing cold water on nancy pelosi and her plan. right now she is not sending the articles of impeachment to the senate because she feels it s not going to be fair. so noah feldman writes today in an op-ed in bloomberg. pete: democratic witness. steve: right. eight eight harvard professor. steve: this is great news for the president. he says house does not communicate its impeachment to the senate, which means if nancy pelosi doesn t send them to mitch, it hasn t actually impeached the president. if the articles are not transmitted, trump could legitimately say he wasn t truly impeached at all. so, the constitution makes it very clear, you ve got to
reporting from your colleagues at the washington post ? amazing reporting. i had nothing to do with it. the thing that stands out to me is, we talk about the nievity of jared kushner, a guy entering government with no experience. he s accompanied by the former head of the defense intelligence agency. mike flynn would understand what it would mean to request to the russians, let me come to your embassy and use your communications gear. it s not the full explanation if you bring an expert in espionage with you. michael flynn was the head of the dia, the defense intelligence agency. president obama, for all practical purposes fired him. didn t looik his style over there. and a year, in 2015, he went to moscow. had dinner at a fancy russian television-sponsored dinner and putin was at his table. that s what i m saying. i don t think if this is a mistake by mike flynn, it s hard to imagine it happens because mike flynn doesn t understand how these things work. of course he unders
during the campaign, before the election, because that could have been efforts to influence the election by russia. once they are in office, after the inauguration because he s the president of the united states and we an administration, but then there s this interim period which is the least likely to contain any kind of criminal behavior because they are still private citizens, and they ve already been elected. this is another example of very important information. the public has a right to know but not necessarily information that will lead to a criminal investigation, a criminal indictment or criminal prosecution. let me press you on that, professor dershowitz. you re the expert, the harvard law scholar. if, in fact, we don t know if this is true, but if, in fact, during the campaign, there were trump associates instructing the work with the russians, collude with the russians on how to interfere in the elections and get bad stories out there in wisconsin or michigan or
you re the expert. you re a harvard law scholar. we don t know this is true by any means, but if in fact during the campaign there were trump associates working with the russians, colluding with the russians on how to interfere with the elections and get bad stories out there in wisconsin or michigan and pennsylvania, and do that, wouldn t that be illegal to work with a foreign country and try to interfere in our democratic process? well, i ve gone through all the relevant federal criminal statutes, and i can t find a crime in the existing law. it certainly should be a crime, and i would hope congress have hearings are and make that criminal. the only way it could be a crime if the the trump administration has noeds of this of course gave them information about how to be hacked, told them and who to be hacked. if they have information that the russians on their own hacked
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