congresswoman who was for impeaching nixon. welcome. i think the first question is, legal legally there s mounting evidence the president is engaged in wrong doing, some doing with russia and other with bad stuff. on the other side he carries on if there is no weight to any of the findings? that s no different from watergate. most people will remember when nixon stood up and said i am not a crook even though the evidence was building up him. the fact of the matter is all of these investigations create a huge problem for him. one of the areas that was not mentioned, the problem of the family. who is executive 2 in the trump
this news about why federal prosecutors won t indict a sitting president and the assumption that congress should actually do things when they think the president has been involved in wrong doing, we have liz here, and she was not only a member of congress but she was a member of congress that voted to impeach president nixon. liz, last night the president spoke about michael flynn. he is talking about flynn a lot, he did it last night with fox and with the governors. let s listen to him. do you believe the fbi acted improperly with flynn. they said he didn t lie, and mueller said, well, maybe he did. now they are all having a big dispute. i think it s a great thing that the judge is looking into that situation. mueller said he did lie, so they took a man who is a general and a respected person and a nice man and i don t even know what
changed. i am not at all sure that they would go along with impeaching nixon today with the evidence that they had. so i think that i don t say this in a partisan base, i though it will be hard for people to believe, but i think for the welfare of the country you have to have a democratic congress because, or at least one house because the republican congress has absolutely refused to do their constitutional duty, which is to be a check and a balance on the president, to exercise account, to force accountability, to launch investigations and to be the check and the balance that matters in the framers of the constitution insisted the congress be. and without that check, an executive who has no c compunctions and no sense of institutional integrity can run amok as this president is doing. not strange to hear democrats
talk about the saturday night massacre. the ultimately, nixon faced a congress that once they had all the facts and saw obstruction detailed in full light, they fulfilled their duties. are you concerned that as more and more evidence comes out, it seems to have no impact on republicans in congress? i am very concerned. in fact, the republicans in congress have been some of them, the chairman of the judiciary committee, the chairman of the investigations committee, the heads of the freedom caucus, various others have been doing whatever they can to is that mark meadows? jim jordan. bob goodlatte, trey gowdy. they ve been doing what they can to subvert the investigation, to attack the investigation. to launch an investigation of the investigation. why do you think that is? to protect the president. i think they are putting the welfare of the president personally and politically above the welfare of the country. and i think the character of the republican party over years ha
and when did he know it. it was non-partisan and often quite young prosecutors oat the doj who faced incredible pressure and ultimately indicted people with over 30 crimes related to watergate. we turn to one of the prosecutors and one who recommended impeaching nixon. nick ackerman and elizabeth holtzman. elizabeth, what was the turning point going towards impeachment? well, the turning point was actually when president nixon had archibald cox fired. and the attorney general of the united states resigned rather than fire cox. and deputy attorney general resigned rather than fire cox. and the american people said, wait a minute. something is really wrong. the president is firing the person who is investigating the white house and him for a coverup? and the attorney general and the deputy are resigning.