Communicators on cspan2. Welcome host o Jonathan Turley back to the desk. Professor, in your latest column on the inquiry, you called the current effort perhaps the narrowest impeachment in history. What is the difference between a narrow impeachment and a wide faced impeachment . Iesco building this inquiry is comparable to building a building, and the tallest structure you can build in the constitution is the impeachment of a sitting president. This would be the narrowest in the history of the country. They are proceeding on an abuse of power there he based on one controversy involving ukraine, nothing from the russian investigations, none of those crimes will be part of this impeachment. Likemeans it will be more the impeachment of Andrew Johnson than Richard Nixon. That was the Gold Standard ironically because he resigned, but it was such a strong case that he did resign. It was broad, had a lot of different types of criminal conduct and a very developed record. This is more like A
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Good afternoon here at the National Archives the archivist of the United States its a pleasure to have you with us or joining us through facebook or Youtube Channels into the cspan audience. We like to tell you about a few other programs coming up next month on tuesday septembe september 10th Sidney Blumenthal will talk about the recently released volume about Abraham Lincoln 1856 and at seven the associate Justice Gorsuch will tell us about his new book a republic if you can keep it with the importance of Civic Education and discourse and mutual respect. Check out the website to get email updates you will find other information to other archives and activities another way is to become a member of the National Archives foundation and check out their website to learn more about the organization. Those murals commemorate two founding documents of the nation of the declaration of independence and the Central Group represents those who play key roles in the creation of that document along