1999, charged with obstruction of justice. one of the senators who voted to acquit him said i believe he did commit obstruction of jut st is but not serious enough in this kashgs the question of lying about the lewinsky affair, serious enough to warrant removal from office, therefore i m voting not guilty. when it become as question there in congress it become as political question like that. yeah, but doesn t seem as though clinton lawyers ever argued that the president couldn t be charged with obstruction of justice. simply said he hadn t obstructed justice and perhaps that senator you quote and others determined that was the case. wasn t serious enough. did not rides to the level. we know he was acquitted of that charge. struck with your last guest and the whole question of obstruction, donald trump said he fire ed mr. comey because of
he finds that trump has committed obstruction of justice he said, he committed obstruction of justice. here are the charges. house of representatives, this is now on you. now which is actually what happened in 72-74. to say that the reason that he was called an unindicted co-conspirator and evidence from the tapes was used to convict the other people was he was not yet in the docket. that doesn t mean his words can t be used against others. and so this really puts the burden on congress. if he s going to push and push and push, but it does make sense. it he s going to arrest himself, then he ought to be, ought to quit office. and this is where the constitutional crisis comes in. it s not because they re going to come to arrest him. it s that he ll fire mueller, and then rosenstein won t appoint a new mueller and then or just becomes when i say it become as political question. exactly what i mean. mueller puts this in the hands of congress. i found what i consider a
air conditioning units that are tied onto this building here, they re rusted, how rustd are they, we ll find out when 90-mile-an-hour sustained winds hit them and try to move them and it drops down to a sustained gust and comes back. will that ac unit be a projectile into another building that may in fact be fortified. god forbid. last point for right now and then we ll go to break. i ve been telling people when that band comes see it as a taste, only a taste of what will come some 20-plus hours from now when irma is here but also to see moments like this as opportunity. if you ve been told to get out, because now you can see, now you can handle things, now you can drive. is that a fair assess p. i think it s fair assessment. i m not so sure about driving. driving will have to be tens of miles, not hundreds of miles. if off friend inland, ten, 20 miles, absolutely, take break, you see the wind bands die down, get in the kashgs git to that friend s house whose home hopefully more fo
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plan, not democrat or republican, an american plan, and that s where we need to be. there you have it. i have jeff jarvis with me, professor at cuny graduate school of journalism and mike pes kashgs bill cohen, jeff, i want to start with you, we saw republicans say we will apply the jimmy kimmel test. do you believe jimmy kimmel had a tangible well, we know health care went through. but do you think he s had a tangible impact? the night he gave his first speech on the show about his son i tweeted, the record for all history then, that he will save health care. i think this is a moment when, you know, maybe a little late to it, not quite there yet, but i think that is a moment in history when we bring back empathy into politics and also, note the power of comedy in this country now. the comedy does journalism s job, politics and activism job, calls b.s. what others don t. that s what jimmy kimmel did is make it personal and human and i hope, i pray, that he s going to