Paul welcome. Great to see you. Thank you for having me. Paul lets take this legal question starts with the assertion of alleged crimes starts with bribery. What you think of chairmanships definition of bribery . I suppose he is right if you accept the gerald ford famous definition of an Impeachable Offense that is whatever the majority of the members of the house of representatives decide what it is. You know, thats a political judgment and ignores history in the constitution. Lets start with the constitutional language which is where we should start. A president or any public official cannot be impeached unless a determination is made by the impeaching authority which would be the house that treason, bribery of other high crimes or misdemeanor has been committed but the only one. Paul the only one defined as treason so bribery they are now using bribery all the time. But that can be untethered from what the founders understood bribery to beat which was at least common law bribery and
Paul welcome. Great to see you. Thank you for having me. Paul lets take this legal question starts with the assertion of alleged crimes starts with bribery. What you think of chairmanships definition of bribery . I suppose he is right if you accept the gerald ford famous definition of an Impeachable Offense that is whatever the majority of the members of the house of representatives decide what it is. You know, thats a political judgment and ignores history in the constitution. Lets start with the constitutional language which is where we should start. A president or any public official cannot be impeached unless a determination is made by the impeaching authority which would be the house that treason, bribery of other high crimes or misdemeanor has been committed but the only one. Paul the only one defined as treason so bribery they are now using bribery all the time. But that can be untethered from what the founders understood bribery to beat which was at least common law bribery and
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Common rubric so what are those commonalities . That so many people have simultaneously lost their minds . [laughter] and i am here today in part because i hear a great deal of the art of not losing your mind and asking questions about how do we return to a more sane place in politics . And for two main locations in that environment and the other social media. What do these have in common . So my answers are as follows. First the de tocqueville effect is a wellknown phenomenon in Political Science where a society takes to reform itself is often precisely the way in which those conditions make it even more intolerable that somehow things end up seeming worse. And there have been a number of social positive changes in recent years. People have met with social acceptance and the quality. We have had a great deal in our past and very much evidence nowadays but yet somehow we are angrier than ever before and we have seen a resurgence perhaps some degree of racism but also in that is puzzlin