on the other foot test. if you are good to be a serious academic pic, you always have to pass the shoe on the other foot test. you have to say the same thing you d be saying if the political dimensions were shifted. if it was a democrat being impeached by the republicans. unless you are can pass that test you are not legit. levin: since the house of representatives has denied this president but past presidents who have faced in hageman s have had basic fundamental fairness and with witnesses, transparencies, and not secret testimony in the dungeon or wherever taking place. would it be your argument that he has a case now? i think will be a mistake to bring the case now. i think he would have a better shot of getting judicial review if he waited and established a better record and found a clearer violation. right now we don t even have an impeachment. if the impeachment goes forward without any of the four
that are inconsistent with the majority view. i ve never seen a situation where there is been so much division. the clinton impeachment, cause division, but not like this. and look, there s a lot of fault to go around. i think the president is the visiting devising he uses words that divides as well. he fights back. he is what he is. he was elected, everybody knew who he was he didn t surprise anybody what is done in office. but there is so much division on both sides, that i hope we can begin to yield. and i don t see the healing process being furthered by an impeachment. i think will further divide the country. levin: don t forget you can see me most nights on levintv just 844 levintv, or go on the internet go to blade tv/mark tv, would love to have you. as a struggling actor,
political opponent. tapped the phones as vice president. and we have republican examples too. is this a joke that the phone call by donald trump is the worst example that these professors and others could come up with? if that s not impeachable nothings impeachable. under that theory everyone of these men should have been impeached. they have created open ended criteria which does not go along with the constitution itself. and if president trump is impeached, it will set a terrible precedent which role weaponize impeachment and the next democrat gets elected will be impeached. because they will find it abuse of power. it s hard to find any president whether a modern president or an old president that can t be accused of abuse of power. it may give you another example franklin wrote written roosevelt, he instructed his generals saying i don t want them tried civil and i want them electrocuted. telling the attorney general how
amendment was intended to protect. levin: you re not getting a lot of support and isn t it also because of your principal positions on impeachment. there s not a question about that. i get e-mails every day saying we thought you might be innocent, but now that we see you re supporting tron you have no morality and therefore you re guilty. or we hope you re guilty because that will diminish her voice. or i ve heard a website said we hope gratuitous guilty because he is too powerful and to articulate a voice on behalf of israel. and if he s guilty of this, it will diminish his voice in israel. and they are right. look at the 92nd street wine. they diminished my voice on israel. they do not allow me to it defend israel at the 92nd street y because of a false accusation which they know is false. and so accusations today can be weaponize by your political enemies. funny story, guy came up to me on the porch and i m not gonna
they have disappeared the aclu has abandoned its mission. i was on the board and the proud member of the aclu. during the nixon impeachment, which i favored. the aclu should be in there defending nixon s procedural rights. i was one of those who advocated the aclu to have knox nazis march. i said mama mom the side of the constitution hit she said mom i m your mother don t talk to me that way. you ve got a pick your side the jews of the nazis. no, we picked the constitution. so the list sybil libertarians are gone. the aclu is dead in the water. they should be deeply involved in this issue, defending the rights of the presidents to do process, free speech, you know they re claiming now the president now had impeachable offense of bulls by tweeting, writing, and talking about how he disagreed with the ambassador to the ukraine. look, i think she s a great