that both coburn and bentivolio are trying to like calm the crowd, you know. they think of themselves in that moment as taking the more moderate position, and say you may be going crazy calling for impeachment but there s some procedural things we have to do, there s a process here and maybe this doesn t quite rise to the level of impeachment, though i would love for it it to. we have a situation this summer without obama care being quite so acutely on the table as it was, all of these representatives are going home to their districts and hearing the consequences of the fear they ve been whipping up for years and that s put them in this weird position. but nobody ever steps out there, ryan, and says, guess what, obama care isn t against the law. in fact, it is the law. it was upheld by the supreme court. they are trying to placate the rowdy right flank it might be worth a memo to say by the way no crime has been committed,
in the white house? you know, if i could write that bill today do it. excuse me. it would be a dream come true. the gop s outrage over benghazi, the irs and obama care, has reached fervor pitch. representative kerry bentivolio seen there is the latest in a recent space of republican congress members calling for the impeachment for the president of the united states. but bentivolio for 19 years before being elected to congress owned a santa claus impersonation business, that s part of that, isn t the only one calling for president obama s removal from the office. here is the senior republican on the chief oversight committee of the the head of the house oversight committee the chief oversight committee of the senate, just trying, it s monday, tom coburn, let s take a listen. what you have to do is you have to establish the criteria that would qualify for proceedings against the
0 warfare. why do you think the seeming confidence from the white house that this is actually the work of the assad government and it would also push back on your notion that this is not the time and place for the u.s. to intervene, richard haas, who also is a council at the council on foreign relations says that this is that the use of chemical weapons, i mean we ve talked about red lines, but does mark a there is a reason for the u.s. to get involved in the western powers to get involved. he writes the reasons for a strong response transcends syria. it will be a very different 21st century if weapons of mass destruction come to be seen as just another type of weapon. basically this het seths a precedent if we don t do something. richard is right but the assumption the regime has used chemical weapons. if we follow richard s line of argument and it s established it wasn t the regime but the rebels and al qaeda elements that used weapons of mass destruction or chemical weapon
impeachment fever, here are today s top lines with there s no shortage of criticism. there s knows shortage of criticism being directed at president obama. why aren t you impeaching the president? that talks includes talk of impeachment. tell me how sick impeach the president of the united states. you could probably get the house of representatives to do it. senator tom coburn said he believes there is some intended violation of the law. you have to establish the criteria for proceeding against the president. and that s called impeachment. michigan congressman kerry bentivolio to write an impeachment bill. he s a smart politics. i don t have the legal background to know if that rises to high crimes and misdollars. i think they re getting close. one day he goes out and says let s talk about shutting down the government, crazy talk.
but i think they re getting close. barack obama is a personal friend of mine. he became my friend in the senate. but that does not mean i agree in any way with what he s doing or how he s doing it. i, quite frankly, think he s in a difficult position he s put himself in. if it continues, i think we re going to have another constitutional crisis in our country in terms of the presidency. without using any specifics, senator coburn cited, quote, intended violation of the law by the obama administration as well as general competence of some of his appointees. meanwhile, at a town hall in his district this week, kerry bentivolio said, if i could write that bill, it would be a dream come true. well, joining me live for more on all this is the national