national security, and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections. i am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. what has happened in the case today is something that i do not think we have ever seen before. a president who has doubled down on violating his oath to faithfully execute the laws and to protect and defend the constitution. president trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors by corruptly abusing the office of the presidency. after reviewing the evidence that s been made public, i cannot help but conclude that this president has attacked each of the constitutions safeguards against establishing a monarchy in this country. if what we re talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable. is it fair to say that all three causes for impeachment explicitly contemplated by the founders, abuse of power, betrayal of our national security, and corruption of our of our elections are
president trump. the house judiciary committee could approve them as early as next week setting up a whole house vote before christmas. solidifying the democrats case, a trio of constitutional law experts. president trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors by abusing the office of the presidency. when the president invited indeed demand foreign involvement in our upcoming election, he struck at the very heart of what makes this a republic to which we pledge allegiance. if this if what we re talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable. reporter: meanwhile the republican s solzhenitsyn witness so far said democrats are rushing to judgment. impeachments require a certain period of saturation and maturati maturation. i m not pre-judging what your record would show, but if you
thank you, harry. great stuff. thanks to all our international viewers for watching. for you cnn newsroom is next. for our u.s. viewers, a major announcement from house speaker nancy pelosi. new day continues right now. three legal scholars invited by democrats told lawmakers the president s conduct is worthy of impeachment. on the basis of the testimony and the evidence before the house, president trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors. fast and narrow is not a good recipe for impeachment. the facts really were not disputed. there are no set facts here. they re not anything that presents an impeachment here. if what we re talking about is not impeachage, then nothing is impeachable. this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. it s thursday, december 5th. 8:00 in the east. we begin with breaking news. in one hour, house speaker nancy
on the basis of the testimony and the evidence before the house, president trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors by corruptly abusing the office of the presidency. tucker: oh, yeah. that sounds bad. and as you just heard the framers would frown upon it. what would they think specifically? well fortunately jerry nadler asked that question and witness noah feldman had an answer. here it was. if washington were here today, if he were joined by madison, hamilton and other framers, what do you believe they would say if presented with the evidence before us about president trump s conduct? i believe the framers would identify president trump s conduct as exactly the kind of abuse of office high crime and misdemeanor that they were worried about. tucker: um-huh. madison, hamilton, washington. these are basically the same people the left would like to see dethroned. their statues knocked over by screaming college kids. they must be very bad men. so presumably,
laura: we first played that for you last night but since then it has gotten even better. a fantastic 24 hours for this president. first, he infuriated foreign elites for making them late to a cocktail party. that is why they were really mad. then he was attacked by these unhinged partisan, bitter, angry academics who think he should be impeached for a phone call. president trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors. bribery, soliciting personal favor, obstructing justice, and obstructing congress. used the powers of his office to demand a foreign government participate in undermining up competing candidate for the presidency. laura: i wonder whom the american people will side with. here to debate, dan bongino, former secret service agent. author of exonerated.