evidence, we re not going to cooperate with you at all, if the president can do that, then the impeachment power is basically gone. and their argument that until you have supreme court decision forcing the president to turn over the evidence, he has no obligation to do it basically says that the power of impeachment is shared between the house and judiciary. that s not the way the constitution is written. professor tribe, thank you so much for putting your head to these all important matters. thank you, sir. thanks. you want to know how smart tribe is, there s his book. tribe coauthored a call to end the presidency, the power of impeachment. it means a fake trial, it only looks good on the outside. it was done by a prince in
president did by taking unto himself the power to decide whether to provide any evidence and effectively to say no evidence, we re not going to cooperate with you at all, if the president can do that, then the impeachment power is basically gone. and their argument that until you have a supreme court decision forcing the president to turn over some evidence, he has no obligation to do it, basically says that the power of impeachment is shared between the house and the judiciary. that s not the way the constitution is written. professor tribe, thank you so much for putting your head to these all-important matters. this conversation is to be continued. thank you, chris. thank you, sir. thanks. you want to know how smart tribe is, there s his book tribe coauthored to end a presidency: the power of presidency. that is a reference that goes way back. it means a fake trial, that it
obstruction of congress. two of these cases relate to congress saying in order to do our constitutionally permitted oversight, that also enables us to determine whether there are laws we should consider and pass, right? so if there are open questions about whether or not the president is engaged in conduct they think should not be appropriate for someone to engage in, one of the ways they say, and i am simplifying here, but we should be able to investigate that and determine it because it is our job under the constitution to look at our laws, see if we have holes to fill. but also in light of the fact that we have the opportunity to consider whether any serious abuse is going on here. we also have an impeachment power. so that, when you add that to the president going beyond questions of executive privilege, it goes directly to the separation of powers question and beyond.
president s constitutional authority is not impeachable. and the moment we make it so, the president becomes a servant of congress, and the separation of powers which has protected our freedom for nearly 2 1/2 centuries will be greatly diminished. and similarly the president s assertion of long established boundaries that maintain the separation of powers is also not impeachable. and once we make it so, we also clearly diminish the separation of powers. the overwrought political hyperbole we ve heard over and over throughout these hearings ought to warn us we re straying from the political motives which should never animate the impeachment power of congress. public opinion has not coalesced around this act, which should also alert us by proceeding we would further alienate the american people and agitate the waters of this nation. you fail to denifine any law th
constitutional attorneys over there distract you. this is not an ordinary dispute, folks. this is a very rare, thankfully, very rare dispute. it is not an ordinary dispute where you go to the court. we don t need permission to go to use our constitutional rules. if president trump is allowed to refuse to comply with requests for information it would gut the house impeachment power and undermine our bedrock principle of separation of powers. last night as we left i wanted to tell you this. i went outside and there was a team of about 12 high school students from ohio with their teacher. they said would you mind stopping for a minute jt could we talk to you for a minute? so interesting to watch and listen and to hear what was going on at this important historic time. we loved learning about our constitution and how much you prize this constitution. thank you for protecting it for us. and you know what they said to me? we didn t understand this before, but i do now.