been saying. they may, like congressman collins, the ranking member, give more speeches than actually ask questions. if i could dovetail on one and he said, these four are very, very highly regarded. the two in the middle road the casebook that is used in constitutional law almost everywhere in the country. a fixture testifying before congress and professor feldman is the up-and-coming bright new superstar of constitutional law in the united states. obviously three of them are on the side of the democrats. democrats get to have as many as they want. in terms of their academic reputations of the four of them, they are impeccable. dana: martha, doesn t matter at all, if the goal of the hearing for chairman nadler was to lay a predicate, leah foundation for what impeachment is or is not, doesn t matter if
three of them called by the majority because they are the majority, so they called three. the minority only got one. they each made opening statements then they each got the majority. nadler and his lawyer got 45 minutes to question and they questioned their three witnesses almost exclusively. then the republicans got their chance and they question their witness almost exquisitely. you heard from the three law professors the democrats have called, that the president had committed impeachable crimes. hasn t even amounted to bribery. yes, he committed one of the law professors, michael gerhardt of the university of north carolina law school said and probably the most dramatic moment of the morning session, if what we are talking about here is not impeachable then nothing is impeachable. he was a pretty strong performance by the three
mr. chairman, couple more quotes from a very wise jerry nadler from two decades ago. the last thing you want is to have a party line impeachment. you shouldn t impeach the president unless it s a broad consensus of the american people. those were wise words, mr. chairman, but you are not following them today. finally, your words back then the issue in a potential impeachment is whether to overturn the results of a national election. the free expression of the popular will of the american people. that is an enormous responsibility and an extraordinary power. it is not one that we should exercise lightly. it is certainly not one which should be exercised in a manner which either is or would be perceived by the american people to be unfair or partisan. again, mr. chairman, those things that you warned against men are exactly what you and your democratic colleagues are doing now. you are about to move forward
impeachment, you said and i quote we must not overturn an election and impeach a president without an overwhelming consensus in the american people and their representatives in congress. you also said there must never be a narrowly voted impeachment or in impeachment substantially supported by one of the major political parties and largely opposed by the other. you said such an impeachment would lack legitimacy, would produce divisiveness and bitterness in our politics for years to come and will call into question the very legitimacy of our political institutions. that s what you said back then, mr. chairman. well, what you said should never happen, what we should never do is exactly what you are doing now, moving forward without a consensus in impeachment by one major party that is opposed by the other. it s almost certain that it s going to result in the very divisiveness and bitterness that you so accurately warned us about back then.
dana: chad, chairman nadler on the democratic side said they expect to hear from the other committees which may also be doing an investigation. the intelligence committee will transmit by the end of the day tomorrow its report and a few minutes ago, ted deutch, democrat from florida, member of the judiciary committee, and other members talked briefly about what might happen. they indicated they expect an open session where members of the majority on the intelligence committee would come and present their findings in the minority would be invited as well. they put out kind of a minority report the other day and we don t know quite what that would look like. that is neither fish nor fowl. we are told it would be open. we don t know if that would happen this week or next week and we don t off the judiciary committee would have a additional regular hearings with a call witnesses. the other things they have to do regardless if they are going to try to impeach the president, they then go