alliance like they do is it is is it actually a sign of help within the alliance that it s always in the somewhat of an identity crisis at least in stealing it s asking fundamental questions and pushed this and i think that s vital because just reaffirming that nato is important for us what. america for example did is not the answer we need to we need to think strategically also in terms of what is a plan b. if american extended deterrence for example would no longer be sufficient for it to also cover to cover europe. but it s always with you time and your insights thank you thank. story which we find ourselves today set in motion by president trump. president trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors this is not an impeachment this is just a simple railroad job but hey we got law professors here so i m insulted by the
baron. george mason asked can any man be above justice and alexander hamilton wrote high crimes and misdemeanors the abuse in violation of some public trust. professor feldman, you had previously testified the president has abused his power. is that correct? yes, ma am. what is the most compelling evidence in this impeachment inquiry that would lead you to that? the phone call itself of julr to my mind that we hear the president asking for a favor that is clearly of personal benefit rather than acting on behalf of the interests of the nation. further from that, further down the road we have more evidence which tends to give the context and to support the explanation for what happened. professor karlan, how do such abuse affect democratic systems? having foreign interference in our election means that we are less free. it is less we the people who are determining who is the next winter than it is a foreign
again. andy mccarthy, can i talk to you about what noah feldman was saying. he says there is evidence that the president has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors. if there was really an urgency, would it be taking this long? no. the more you have to try to explain why this is misconduct, and why it rises to the level of the of an impeachable offense, the more remote you are from an actual impeachable offense. the way i would look at it is this. if bob mueller, special counsel, lets imagine he actually found the gold line of evidence that said trump was an agent of russia. if he came up with that and we found about two weeks before election day, we would impeach the president. it wouldn t be some people would say there s no point now. we go to the polls.
with no income verification, no appraisal and no out of pocket expenses. and we ve extended our call center hours so that every veteran can take advantage of these near record low rates. on the basis of the testimony in the evidence before the house, president trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors by corruptly abusing the office of the presidency. dana: that was professor noah feldman today. we are waiting for the committee to come back to order. they took a break. they had some business to take care of. we ll take it around the table
the noah feldman argument is that letting trump be trump is not good enough under the constitution. we don t lower the bar because the president has unorthodox ways. the bar is intentionally broad and even ambiguous as to what high crimes and misdemeanors a are. we learned today that the democrats apparently intend to include in their things we didn t know they were going to include like bribery unlike the obstruction of justice allegations which were made by bob mueller long before the ukraine case came to the public s attention. dana: judge napolitano, thank you. we re going to take a quick break but when we come back, i will talk to chris wallace and bret baier about what the members might be thinking before they come back to resume the hearing. we ll be back with that testimony in just a minute.