him that use for ukraine was put on hold to develop an investigation into the bs. so we have another official directly tying president trump to the shakedown. the evidence is coming in. it s not completely consistent but it is demonstrating, i think, something that we ve studied impeachment is sort of a classic impeachable offense. asking a foreign government to intervene in an american election. it doesn t matter whether it is a crime or not. mr. morrison got confused over that point. the concern is whether it is an abuse of power. the framers were very concerned about abuse of power. they used examples like this when they were describing impeachable offenses. it is not a hard question whether or not it will be impeachable. thank you for answering that. i want to ask you about
michael earhart. so good to have both of you on today. michael, i ll start with you. here s the bottom line. a top white house national security official testified today that a top diplomat told him that u.s. aid for ukraine was put on hold to develop an investigation into that. so we have another official directly tying president trump to the shakedown. the evidence is coming in. it s not completely consistent but it is demonstrating, i think, something that we ve studied impeachment is sort of a classic impeachable offense. asking a foreign government to intervene in an american election. it doesn t matter whether it is a crime or not. mr. morrison got confused over that point. the concern is whether it is an abuse of power. the framers were very concerned about presidential abuse of power. they used examples like this when they were describing impeachable offenses. it is not a hard question about whether or not this is going to be impeachable. great.
protect her conference s majority and perhaps expand it. looking at. that and let s keep in mind it is not politics in any kind of negative sense. the realt is most of the country, if they want their representative, their elected representatives, to deal with issues like the economy and education, and public safety, and national defense, that is what they should be working on. health care reform. that sort of a thing. not simply charging off to try and impeach the president because they think they have the evidence and it might be the right thing to do. so she is trying to deal with the policies of the whole country here. and you know, it is a very tough decision she is going to have to make. the reality is, whether you call it impeachment or not, they have started so many inquiries, at this point, that a lot of information about what could be called impeachable offenses, is going to be made public. i don t think anybody should kid themselves about that. so you brought it up, there i
center, alex, after president trump announced yesterday he s going to send 1,500 troops to the region as a warning to iran about its nuclear program. but the president has on his mind the domestic issues looming garth, the domestic turbulence he dealt with last week after the feud he s been having with house speaker nancy pelosi really escalated amid that escalating cause for impeachment. nancy pelosi resisted the calls as well but it launched really sharp barbs at the president saying effectively he s committed a cover-up, impeachable offenses. he fired back forcefully before he left. take a listen to what he had to say. did you hear what she said about me long before i went after her? did you hear she made horrible statements. she knows they re not true. she said terrible things. so i just responded in kind. look, you think nance yas the same as she was? she s not. maybe we can all say that.
crime unrelated to the presidency and you might not want to give prosecutors the power to indict, but here the crimes go to the very essence of how he became president in the first place. that s one problem with the, oh, you can t indict president trump defense. the other is there s a difference between indictment and trial. indictment is the formal act of bringing formal charges against somebody, and even if the constitution prevents the trial because it s distracting and because the president has so many important duties he has to attend to, which is not always true with this presidency, but normal presidents who are not golfing all the time, and they may not apply to a circumstance in which the formal act of naming a president a criminal is being considered. so just to be clear, you believe that a sitting president can be indicted but not tried while in office? well, i think that the weight