founders abuse of power, betrayal of our national security and corruption of our elections are present in this president s conduct? yes or no, professor feldman? yes. and professor garhardt. yes, sir. and professor carlen? yes. you all agree. and are any of you aware of any other president who has essentially triggered are three concerns that animated the founders? no. no. no as well. three constitutional law professors under questioning by congressman jamie raskin who was himself a highfalutin constitutional law professor before being elected to congress all agreeing, nope, they have never seen anything like this before. i need to tell you here just in the last couple of minutes since we have been on the air is a letter we have just gotten ahold of. it is a letter from the intelligence committee and oversight and foreign affairs committees which are the three committees that conducted the impeachment investigation. it s a letter to the judiciary
testimony from among other people the staff counsel to the intelligence committee, dan goldman, we believe who was such an integral part of the questioning of witnesses and seems to have been an integral part of putting together this report. one of the things i m trying to keep my head straight about is the fact that the investigation is ongoing. we just tonight saw a very provocative inquiry directed to the vice president s office, for example, about a matter that the intelligence committee would like declassified so that it can be factored into their findings of fact here. how much additional factual information do you expect that the committees will be extracting and going through in public that we the public will be able to see as you try to put pen to paper and come up with the articles as they will be voted on? well, both chairman nadler of judiciary and chairman schiff of intelligence has declared the
just textually the letter today from white house counsel pat cipollone doesn t make anything all that clear one way or the other. i have seen my share of lawyer letters in the day and as lawyer letters go, this is kind of a weird one. here s how it starts. dear chairman nadler, as you know your impeachment inquiry is completely baseless. that s the first line of the letter. house democrats have wasted enough of america s time with this charade. you should end this inquiry now and not waste even more time with additional hearings. that s not what lawyer letters typically look like, let alone lawyer letters from the white house. but i guess we interpret that to mean that the president won t be sending any defense counsel to the hearings. maybe? this is another sort of hallmark of this time. this is another one of those letters from mr. cipollone, the white house counsel that is coming in from some withering
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essentially waving any kind of executive privilege or attorney/client privilege by testifying. so they may call some witnesses. if they do participate in this process, they may call some witnesses around the edges. but they ve got to think think down the line what it will mean if they actually start calling people with with firsthand knowledge of facts. that can be pretty hazardous for them. scott, you were talking about schiff and leadership during the intel committee hearings, right? we were laying out the number of hours. 34 hours or so here that we heard of testimony. nadler doesn t have the same sort of halo, right? walking into this. because when this entire process began in debate, if you will, nadler, by critics view, didn t get all positive. didn t get all a pluses. that s exactly right. you know, looking back at some of the past hearings he presided over, corey lewandowski, which sort of went off the rails.