to play out? i agree with glenn that it s really hard to predict how long it s going to play out. the problem is, impeachment is a political process and a constitutional process. nancy pelosi is very interested and invested in making this look like a legal procedure, not a political procedure. she s saying we need to follow the evidence, find the facts and the truth. the fact is, there s no taking politics out of it. it s meant to be a political process. that s going to dictate all of these aspects of how it plays out. rebecca, here s a look at how long they ve been in the past. from the time the inquiry began until the end of the trial which is in nixon s case and his resignation. andrew johnson s in a couple of months. nix nixon s, almost a near. from what we ve seen so far, when it s said and done, do you think it could be by christmas? it could be. i think the senate, they want to move things along as quickly as
what struck me, watching the nix nixon impeachment hearing, the guy from the old ethnic neighborhood, a lot of these guys and people were regular tollticians. all of them stood on national television and talked about the gravity of the impeachment and what they were going to. all of them scored well. congress had never gotten a higher rating with the public in terms of job approval. i have a littwas a little gi remember watching. what do you think about impeachment. does it have a role? he was the investigator. the house is the prosecutor. the senate is the judge if necessary. i think the house has to do its
defenders have kroumabcrumbled. there is a count down towards the expected and end of the nix nixon s presidency. tonight at 9:00, eastern daylight time, the president of the united states will address the nation. it was over. i have never been a quitter to leave office before my term is completed is a harm to every instinct of my body. as president, i must put the interests of america first, therefore, i should resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. the impeach. me me ment impeachment, it worked. the scandal itself triggered a lot of fate in government and politicians.
catered to human rights abusers. they lined up most of the dictators in the world we could find. pro western dictators, of course, the good ones. nevertheless the questionable consultant s resume is filled with work for republican stars. nix nixon, reagan, bush senior and, of course i m a political adviser to donald trump. reporter: while working for bob dole, stone s personal life caused a public stir, he was forced to resign from dole s presidential campaign. after a tabloid revealed he and his wife placed an add ad for a sex partner. he did not go away, he continued to stir the political pot. in 1999, he helped donald trump navigate his first short lived campaign for the presidency. i have to give my best advice, but mr. trump makes the decisions. the polls reflect that the voters like it. reporter: a year later, stone
whole court, voting to require nixon to comply. you had a republican district court judge tracking the whip. you had action in the senate and the house. here we don t have it. we don t have the mcommittees d the thorough investigations. so we didn t facility anything to do with water gate and the special prosecutor excement that nix nixon s firing became grounds for the impeachment. amtdam schiff wants to make sure the democratic response to the memo gets out there. here is what he said. i think here is what he said, do we have that? all right, i heard what he said. we want to make sure that the