and having an adjudication that this conduct is not impeachable. there is not a simple answer here. the jury i m most worried about, not the senate, is the american people. can we make the case to the american people? and i want to make sure that that s true before we go down this path because it is going to occupy a year of the nation s time, and i want to make sure that s the right decision. is there a moment where it s too late calendar-wise? and how close are we? here is the thing, chuck. that is in a constitutional sense also justice delayed is justice denied. they are doing everything they can to obstruct the congressional investigation having obstructed justice, so there may get to a point in the fall where we decide, look, he is violating a different provision of the constitution by obstructing the congress in its lawful and constitutional duty. that would not be a crime. that would be a misdemeanor. the founders have a different idea of what misdemeanor means.
fascinating things we have seen, just the amount of police work that goes into this. they ask if reporters on the scene asked if the women were cooperating, some of the women who were involved were cooperating. they talked about how investigators are working with those women. in this particular case there s an enormous amount of surveillance that was done. as reporter rick leventhal talked about, there were also traffic stops to get i.d. s from these men. do they have enough evidence for this not to be swept away in do they need the actual cooperation of these women? if they have the video evidence, there s no better evidence than that. what a misdemeanor means, you can t go to jail for more than under a year. felony is something you go for under a year. misdemeanor is a lot smaller. in terms of the implications there. my guess is this kind of evidence would put anybody in jeopardy, but as we indicated