i can fire people, he can end criminal investigations. i mean, ultimately that s where their argument is going even if all of this is true, it could not be obstruction of justice. that s why attorney general barr was hired because he wrote this 18-page single spaced memo which said the president cannot be found guilty of obstructing justice because he sits atop the law enforcement machinery like a king. now our colleagues in congress unfortunately are going along with that on the republican side. they re forcing a very zraumt dramatic constitutional confrontation about the powers of congress, the law making branch which has the political sovereignty of the people versus the power of the president and we say he s got one core job which is to take care of the laws that they re faithfully executed not violated. if you trample the rule of law, we ve got the power to impeach you, you don t have the power to impeach us. congressman, is your committee going to get testimony
said. he said, i don t mind, i mean, frankly, i told the house if you want, let them see it. he said that a few times. let them see it. good. he is taking the right position. the house voted overwhelmingly, maybe unanimously, that the document should be made public. what we re talking about in all these things is transparency and sunlight. congress is in article 1 the law making branch of government. we represent the people. james madison was clear that if the people are going to govern, we have to arm ourselves with the truth, the evidence and data about everything going none government. look at this new poll on impeachment, a cnn poll. according to our poll, support for impeachment has declined from 47% in september to 43% in december, all the way down to 36% today. 36%, you sit on the judiciary committee, the committee that would have to initiate
enforce the alien and sedition act so presidents have done this traditionally since world war ii. it s totally out of hand. now i profoundly disagree with juan. it is not the number of executive orders signed by the president, it s those executive orders which intrude into the province of the law-making branch which is the congress. the president of the united states said to 11 million illegal immigrants, hey, do, a, b, c, d, and, e, i won t deport you. where d did he get that from, he made it up so instead of enforcing the law he s telling 11 million people how to avoid obeying the law. i think i reached the tipping point with senator feinstein of california, the dramatic change on enough is enough with the spying will cause the congress, i believe, to begin to take back power that it has been ceding to presidents since the new deal. that s precisely it. the congress is at fault here. yes. for doing nothing.