well, they have some huge disruptions caused by the sanctions. we ve now sanctioned their central bank. their bank can no longer do business. it s been labeled by us and the world community accepts our labeling as a terrorist organization. their central bank. if they sell oil, they can t get paid through banks. it s really, the sanctions that have been imposed are really, really crippling, and they are working if the idea is to crush iran s internal economy. but, this is very critical, as secretary state pompeo said. he s supposed to be the lead dana: to the country. he s not being diplomatic. he s acting like a secretary of war, like the defense secretary, that he s being threatening to iran. i asked him will he meet with president trump? will the iranian president meet with president trump this week at the general assembly? he said, absolutely not. he will only meet with president trump at a scheduled wednesday
treason, high crime. and it involves looking at the law. that s an inquiry. an impeachment itself is something quite different. it is voting on articles of impeachment like an indictment which is then handed over to the senate. so we know there has been two presidents that have been impeached. andrew johnson in may of 1868. he winds up being acquitted by a single vote in the senate. he was impeached because he violated a law. he ignored a law and fired the secretary of war and was also trying to under moomine the civ war. president clinton was impeached because of a sexual situation. and nixon would have been
defined thom. defied them by saying i don t ca care. i m going to fire my secretary of war. they went to impeach him. they say he escaped a trial by one vote. that was 1868. that was an election year he could not be nominated for another term as president. does the impeachment sanction withstand acquittal. if you re acquitted are you still impeached and what does that do in terms of the way they historians view a president? it really depends on the case. in the richard nixon case as you said he never even made it to a house vote on impeachment before after nixon quit to avoid impeachment and conviction, he thought the house voted and said if there had been a vote we
and he gave the authority to the secretary of war. it would monitor the telegraph system where all the information was coming and going. people might say that was for the civil war. i will give you will gerbil said, he had a dues addition in which she put journalists in prison and shut down newspapers. give you another one, franklin roosevelt, when he came into the office the fcc, the license has worked two year terms and he made them a six month term. he put one of his political hacks and job. he stepped to the irs on the owner of the inquirer and his wife stick to the irs on the new service. i could go on with john kennedy. you are saying in contrast? donald trump has done none of the stuff! look at obama. you never hurt me threatened
tenure of office act. congress passed a law over johnson s veto that said he could not fire his own cabinet members. when president johnson fired his secretary of war, the house approved 11 articles of impeachment against him. one of which accused the president of bringing congress into ridicule and disgrace. their entire approach to impeachment was partisan and ideological. however bad a president andrew johnson was, there were no grounds to remove him. the country was one vote away from removing president andrew johnson from office, essentially because congress did not like him or his policies. johnson basically agreed to cease all the behavior that had been so problematic to go along with the congressional reconstruction program. historians today regard the impeachment trap as unconstitutional. impeachment fell into disrepute. johnson s impeachment would serve as a warning about the