precisely. the supreme court has unanimously ruled that a president can be required to turn over information. it upheld the subpoena for the tapes of oval office conversations that revealed president nixon s efforts to cover up the watergate break-in. this, as you know, was us v. nixon. you said the nixon case might have been wrongly decided. was us v. nixon wrongly decided, in your view? that quote is not in context. it is a misunderstanding of my position that s up there. i have repeatedly called us v. nixon one of the four greatest moments in u.s. supreme court history. the four i ve always identified are marbury verse madison, youngstown steel, brown versus board of education, and united
leland: assuming that exist as robert says, will take him at face value. how do republicans exploit that? it s really a tough battle right now as you say in the democratic party is moving my left. republican party movie marbury. a wide opening in the middle. was able to take advantage of that i m not sure. but jump in the white house to continues to go right in more right and it s going to go that way through 2020. as 20. his 20. his first 2018 goes, not a lot of exploiting the democrats to the right to support trump and his people. if you look at the special election, it was a democrat essentially running almost as a moderate republican if you listen to and with nancy pelosi and others that won the election. you may say progressives are the future the democratic party. but is that a winning future? imagist ineptitude by the clinton campaign that resulted
it. especially in the senate. i m just saying from a practical perspective. ezra, i m older than you guys. we ve been arguing what high crimes and misdemeanors means since i was born practically. you in your article say basically it s not a legal term, it s a political judgment like in the british house of commons. it s a no-confidence vote. if you don t like this government, if you don t like this prime minister you want to get rid of him, you vote no confidence. i wouldn t say high crimes and misdemeanors is meant to be like a no-confidence vote. james madison talks about impeaching a president for capriciously firing executive branch officials. the first federal official ever impeached. is that marbury? no, that was the federalson papers. he is rambling at people from the bench. he is commented. that s a high crimes and misdemeanor standard. it s very clear they mean if you talk to constitutional scholars something like breach of public trust. the problem is, as john says we
that, the same reporters who ignored obama s marbury will have it for years, and are fretting that trump doesn t spend enough time on the stair master. sitting in a golf cart is now a sin. but you know it s even worse than sitting in a golf cart? sitting next to vladimir putin at dinner. today the press expressed shock that during an event at the g20 in germany, he voluntarily spoke to his russian counterpart. i don t think there s anything abnormal about outside the presence of any american presence. is suspicious when he appears to be coddling vladimir putin, as he did as a candidate and no president. mrs. vladimir putin, it s a dangerous game is playing. tucker: eating with equals coddling, dangerous indeed. not just for the country, but for the white house staff that could literally die because of it. louise mensch, a former member of poll, is now on the major