states documents. the highlight here is anyone having custody of such a record shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the united states. your thoughts on that. i don t know that it s ever been used before that statute. it s getting a lot of attention today. yeah, he s just wrong as a matter of constitutional law. it s fundamental law of the united states that a statute can t amend the constitution. so the constitution prescribe what s the qualifications are for the president. they re quite minimal. you have to be 35 years of age or older and a natural-born citizen. also the constitution prescribes how you can be disqualified from the presidency. what it says is you have to be impeach by the house of representatives and then convicted by the senate. and then part of the penalty for an impeachment conviction is disqualification.
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to take that step back from being hand in glove with the defense. reporter: murkowski is one of several lawmakers under the microscope. when congress returns from the holiday recess, all eyes will be on a group of centrist senators, including republicans susan collins and mitt romney. but also democrats doug jones and joe manchin, red state senators who may feel pressure to vote against an impeachment conviction. in the house, not a single republican voted in favor of either article of impeachment. we didn t lose one republican vote in the house. reporter: and while the republican majority in the senate makes trump s acquittal all but certain, it s not clear whether he will be able to tout unanimous republican support.i as one who looks openly and critically at every issue in front of me, rather than acting as a rubber stamp for my party or my president, i m totally good with that. reporter: president trump in florida, on the attack, railing against house speaker nancy pelosi f
really leaning on. he and the white house have really leaned on his allies in congress. and she is certainly not as close to him as, say, jim jordan. but wants him out there mounting as robust a defense as possible. devin nunes sort of delved into conspiracy talk right in the beginning and people in the white house were rather unhappy. they thought jordan was more effective. but the president, as you know as well as known, is his his view of loyalty is someone to go on television and defend me. and particularly to do that in particularly to do that in a televise hearing. she did it as a stunt. she didn t necessarily maybe she s worried about a primary. i m not sure. but it s also auditioning for some other job. let me ask about this. mitch mcconnell. he appears to be writing off any chances of impeachment conviction. he says he doesn t see any way the democrats are going to get 67 votes in the senate to convict the president. that would be a number of republicans. do you th
his testimony, i warned about michael flynn back in december when senator asked for his security clearance to be reviewed. and the transition team in the trump campaign was aware of some of these facts, indeed, the vice president, now vice president pence may have been aware. there is circumstance evidence there. so this investigation clearly needs to be pursued aggressively and vigorously. i don t want to hold you all night. you know the prosecution requirements to make a case and you also remember the senate and you have the impeachment conviction, of course. it seems to me the points you ma made. he tried to get to drop prosecution and swear loyalty to them in a dictator ship manner. then he went up to the head of the national security agency and