offense. he just suggested that the democrats need to spend months in court fighting the president over those witnesses before writing that up as an obstruction article of impeachment. harvard law professor noah feldman said he did not support impeachment efforts against the president until he read the call record with the president of ukraine in which donald trump asked the president of ukraine to announce an investigation of joe biden. i d like to focus the panel on the evidence they considered and the findings in the intelligence committee report that the president solicited the interference of a foreign government, ukraine, in the 2020 u.s. presidential election. professor feldman, did president trump commit the impeachable high crime and misdemeanor of abuse of power based on that evidence and those findings? based on that evidence and those findings, the president
so we will be examining the evidence. yesterday we were looking at the constitution, the framers, what they had in mind. but on monday we ll be actually looking at the evidence. and i think we will probably do that for a couple of days, and then we will take it from there. whether we get to writing articles or not, we ll take it one step at a time. let s talk about the question, the discussion that is ongoing about whether or not or why or not to include elements from the mueller report into the report. i just want to read you from the wall street journal, a reporting about representative alyssa slotkin from michigan who said she hadn t decided how to vote on impeachment but would advise a kitchen sink approach that included mueller s findings. what do you think of that and what s your take? i know that that s the debate we are going to have. i would agree with her in terms of imposing a kitchen sink approach. the question is whether or not including the obstruction of
obstruction article of impeachment. harvard law professor noah feldman said he did not support impeachment efforts against the president until he read the call record of the phone call with the president of ukraine in which donald trump asked the president of ukraine to announce an investigation of joe biden. i d like to focus the panel on the evidence they considered and the findings in the intelligence committee report that the president solicited the interference of a foreign government, ukraine, in the 2020 u.s. presidential election. professor feldman, did president trump commit the impeachable high crime and misdemeanor of abuse of power based on that evidence and those findings? based on that evidence and those findings, the president did commit an impeachable abuse of office. professor karlan, same question. same answer.
a lot of other people, maybe even most of these cases, are normal folks. they ve gone into a hospital for, say, a procedure. they ve gone into a nursing home to get bit of rehab. everything s going well. but a few weeks later, they re approaching that 20-day mark when medicare s not going to stop paying. maybe they re going to shift to medicaid and boom. they get a letter saying you re all better. time to go home now. so these evictions can happen in really subtle and complicated ways. we ve got a whole report up on sort of the different cases and the different ways this can happen. people should check it out on nbc.com. thank you, katy. left field producer. her reporting can be seen on nbc news.com. house speaker pelosi gave the judiciary committee its marching orders today. begin drafting articles of impeachment against president trump now. committee member says the president abused his power and betrayed the constitution. she joins me next. you are watching msnbc. joins me. you ar
got it. here, president trump has said you don t even have to show up. there s no basis in the law, in our history, for that kind of a broad claim of privilege. and a couple of federal judges have already knocked it down. michael, you re off and on with our friend liz holtzman. she s written an op-ed in the washington post. i want to read from her about how she says that the impeachment inquiry can deal with the missing the eyewitnesses who didn t show up. the people who didn t accept the invitation. said focusing only on ukraine suggests that trump s impeachable offenses are limited to this one matter. that approach might make it too easy for the senate and the public to say in effect that as it is, it doesn t warrant removing the president from office. the narrow focus, meaning on the ukraine issue, minimizes the fact that trump s abuses are staggering and include lining his pockets by ignoring the emoluments clause and flouting the rule of law in general. so liz is making the