those impeachments in terms of what bipartisan support occurred, is that impeachments require a certain period of saturation and maturatiomaturat. if you impeach this president, you re going to leave half the country behind. certainly that s not what the framers wanted. you have to give the time to build a report. this isn t an impulse buy item. you re trying to remove a duly elected president of the united states. that takes time and work. if you look at nixon, which was the gold standard in this respect, the public did catch up. they originally did not support peechltd but th impeachment but they changed their minds. the nixon and clinton impeachments were on the high
leader to open a political investigation? he replied, certainly the president is well within his right to do that. the american media and others were asking questions about husband and his involvement in the ukraine. president trump in his call with the ukrainian president simply asked the questions the media was asking. is it your understanding that the house peached nixon for helping cover up his separation s involvement of a crime. it is. is it also your understanding that the house impeached clinton for the crime of lying under oath to deny a woman suing him for sexual harassment, evidence she was legally entitled to. that is correct. there were requests for false information by the president s aid s and associates or by the
the law. the house judiciary committee staff wrote an excellent report in 1974. this is what they said. impeachment of a president is a grave step for the nation. it is to be predicated only upon conduct seriously incompatible with either the constitutional form and principle of our government or the proper performance of constitutional duties of the presidential offense. i d ask unanimous consent to enter the house judiciary committee report into congress. like the allegations against nixon, the allegations related to president trump involved election misconduct. nixon s associate burglarized the headquarters to give him a leg up in his election. nixon tried to cover up the
crime. he also abused his powers to target his political rivals. here we re confronted that appropriate military assistance to convince a foreign ally to announce an investigation of his political rival. professor karlan, i d like you to tell me your view on how president trump s conduct meeting his request of the foreign ally to announce an investigation of his adversary. how does that compare to what president nixon did? not favorably. as i suggested in my opening testimony, it was a kind of doubling down. because president nixon abused domestic law enforcement to go after his political opponents. and what president trump has done is he s asked a foreign
there are skbrushl seedings going on but there s also a criminal congressional proceeding which brings us to obstruction of congress. i know there s never been anything like the president s refusal to comply with subpoenas from this body. these are lawful subpoenas. these have the force of law to them. these are the things that every other president has complied with and actually acted in line with except for president nixon in a small but significant set of materials. professor turley says as long as the president asserts absolute immunity, he can t charged with obstruction of congress because after all it hasn t gone through the courts yet. would you comment. i m sorry. i missed part of the question.