shouldn t wait until the election if this is an american president that wants to interfere in this election, there is a clear and present danger and this remedy is important to do now. that s important. susan, what did you think? it made me feel old, deja vu all over again, you watched the clinton hearings and people switching seats, jonathan turley and nadler s words calling it a partis partisan coup came back and the one participating in every single one had an extensive argument what is an impeachable offense and in the end, a constitution is a living document and members of congress get to decide what is an impeachable offense. to the success of president trump s strategy of stone walling congress, i found that was really the theme that ran
four witnesses. all constitutional law experts. three recommended by the democrats. one recommendsed by republicans. what do you anticipate happening? i don t think it will be any fireworks. i think the fireworks we have seen from the past testimony. i think they ll try to put this in the context of the constitution. what does the constitution say about impeachment? what are impeachable offenses? what are the roles of congress? how the president may have stepped over what he was supposed to do in terms of stone walling congress.
articles of impeachment? it seems like they have. on this instance of obstructing congress and stone walling congress. they said that president trump isn t going to allow people to participate in this investigation. he sees it as partisan. from that flowed a lot of stone walling. a lot of witnesses subpoenaed failed to show up. a lot of documents as well have not been produced. you had adam schiff talk about this idea of whether or not they should proceed without having testimony from some witnesses and some of these documents as well. he said that there s no way they will get all of facts but at this point there s enough compelling evidence as well as a sense of urgency about the idea that a president could do these kinds of acts and ask for a foreign government to interfere in an american election. take a look at this list of officials who the intelligence
huge fight between congress and the intelligent community. what was happening here is that the complaint went to the inspector general for the intelligence community and to the dni and the dni went to the white house and the white house consulted it with trump. these are the key points that we didn t have as fleshed out here. what we now know is that the white house were going to raise questions about privilege and talked to the justice department and what we know the justice department, their office of legal council learns about this on august 28th and september 33rd issues an opinion that says the dni should not deliver this whistleblower complaint to congress, that touches the crisis that we all saw played out in september. let s talk about in your opinion and i know that you are
going on. this is what investigators have struggled with. the white house have blocked the witnesses who could really testify to this part of the timeline. so tonight when this is all digested with you and the media and somebody says julian what s the impact of this? why does it really matter that he would have known, what would you tell him? i would say look, we had some big questions about why the president changes behavior, why did he change tax from insisting that ukraine must investigate the bidens and must investigate 2016 and at that time denial a white house meeting and freeze the aid. we now know that he was put on notice that there were complaints, complaints that could go to congress and could become a scandal. that s why he changes his tone and tries to de-link the aid and