this is what they might look like. for instance, for andrew johnson the first president to be impeached, the house adopted a whopping 11 articles of impeachment. this is back in 1868. nine of those 11 articles were about johnson s firing ever his secretary of war, the title at the time. the house said the dismissal violated federal tenure law, the constitution, and also defied congress. next example, richard nixon. as we look at that presidency, he resigned before a formal impeachment vote could take place in 1974. the house judiciary committee approved three articles of impeachment, all related, breaking into the democratic national committee headquarters at watergate. the charges included obstruction of the investigation, resisting subpoenas, and abuse of power by violating the, quote, constitutional right of citizens, misusing agencies like the fbi. third example for you, that s
times before. let s see. andrew johnson and bill clinton impeached. richard nixon resigned before the house could vote. articles of impeachment were drawn up. andrew johnson, he faced 11 crimes of peeflt. they were not for any crimes. no crimes you doing jail for. they were, the articles were addressing the ways in which johnson was trying to interfere with reconstruction. there was some illegaliality. he was charged by firing the secretary of war without getting senate approval. he thought it was unconstitutional but that s not a felony. they re great examples of abuses of power. of obvious concern to the frailers that are not technically illegal but they do hurt the republic and they breached the public trust. if there was a crime, the
is a deep state, but somehow it is a deep state but they re appointed by republicans, by the trump administration. very interesting. michael, we have been here three times before. let s see. andrew johnson and bill clinton impeached. richard nixon resigned before the house could vote. articles of impeachment had been drawn up. i want to ask about johnson first. he faced 11 articles of impeachment. wiese these for specific crimes or broader abuses of power. they were not for any crimes. no crimes you could go to jail for. the articles were addressing the ways in which johnson was trying to interfere with reconstruction. there was some illegality charged by firing the secretary of war without getting senate approval. he thought it was unconstitutional but that s not a felony. and they re great examples of abuses of power that were of
there is no missing server. no. that is absolutely that s actually not true. we have been briefed on it. they re not sure if they found everything with the server. were you told there s a missing server? the democrat on the other side of the aisle i ve never heard that from a democrat or anybody involved with the investigation, that there s a missing dnc server. because no one wants to talk about it. here s the deal. everybody wants to point at everything but themselves. here s the fact of the matter. give me one thing of one piece of evidence that we have that says the president has committed any crime. it doesn t exist. let s talk about andrew johnson. andrew johnson tried to remove the secretary of war under tenure act. he did. that was illegal. nixon tried to use the intelligence service to gain political advantage. that was illegal. clinton lied under oath. clinton lied to a grand jury. that was illegal. yes. all three had committed crimes before an
there is no missing server. there is no missing server. no. that is absolutely that s actually not true. we have been briefed on it. they re not sure if they found everything with the server. were you told there s a missing server? the democrat on the other side of the aisle i ve never heard that from a democrat or anybody involved with the investigation, that there s a missing dnc server. because no one wants to talk about it. here s the deal. everybody wants to point at everything but themselves. here s the fact of the matter. give me one thing of one piece of evidence that we have that says the president has committed any crime. it doesn t exist. let s talk about andrew johnson. andrew johnson tried to remove the secretary of war under tenure act. he did. that was illegal. nixon tried to use the intelligence service to gain political advantage. that was illegal. clinton lied under oath. clinton lied to a grand jury. that was illegal. yes. all three ha