apple. shelby was his first bite of the apple and this has been a lifelong dream of his. to chip away at the voting rights act. but you know what, lawrence? we re not going to sit around wringing our hands. crying into some handkerchieves. we have to mobilize and we have to fight. we got to get people registered to vote. we got to educate them on why it is important to vote. we got to mobilize them. and then, we are going to protect every damn vote that we can. that we will at the ballot box. and that s what we have to do. does this put more pressure on the democrats in the senate to change the rule on the 60-vote threshold so that they can actually pass a bill that protects these voting rights? i think the president put it perfectly. like, this puts a tremendous amount of pressure on congress to act. you know, the supreme court that s filled with folks who like to call themselves strict constructionists, right? who who follow the letter of the law, and they did everything to sub
trump. so i think they re going to pick out certain things. there will be some low lying fbi guys who will get slapped for not doing everything correctly with every pfizer or warren application. the big picture is that what trump isn t saying it was a witch hunt and he was spied upon by the obama administration, that s the scandal. it s going to be shown to be proven to be just another trump yan distraction. you know, representative on the lower level attorney, potentially we hear in this report not acting along the letter of the law. is this enough if you re a republican, if you re against this report to say give me an inch, take a mile there? richard, you can expect the president to use this report, specifically any criticisms of the fbi, any highlighting of irregularities or vital of processes, the president is
ukrainian president disa linsky. he made up a transcript rather than reading the official record of the conversation and putting that into the congressional record. he s violating rule 23 of the house rules which says a member of the house shall behave in a manner at all times that reflects credibly on the house and that is not what he is doing. richard, setting aside whrorpt you think there are impeachable offenses, when you compare this to the clinton impeachment, nixon and others, do you feel that they re playing this above board in a way that will give bipartisan credibility to this if you really believe in it? they are doing that. if you look at the rules from the bill clinton impeachment, they re being followed by the letter of the law. what happened in the first stage of this investigation is fact finding. and in those fact-finding conversations, in those depositions, both members of the
50 times. you re the expert. the white house claims house democrats are abusing power. they are violating the constitution. they re violating the rule of law. and every past precedent of impeachment. did you find any legal basis for any of that? no. it s just the opposite. this is easy. i think the letter is what i would describe as fake law. it s a very weak document. it makes mostly political points. the legal points are actually crazy and frightening. to quote from earlier. the letter is the president can dictate how impeachment is done. he can dictate the procedure. he can decide what information he shares and doesn t share with anyone. he s not accountable to the law and the criminal process. that sounds like the president saying he s above the law. and that s inconsistent with the constitution in american law. we went from fake news to now to fake law.
really did open up they thought it might stop impeachment from going forward. of course quite the opposite happened. new people came forward, enormous amount of facts were available for the democrats to investigate. and this letter tonight which i have read as many smart legal commentators on it as i could find. it doesn t sound legally sound to argue the house doesn t have somehow unconstitutional to go forward with the inquiry. and i assume this is headed towards the supreme court. in the meantime, i don t think it s going to stop the democrats in any way from going forward with the investigation. although it makes it difficult without any cooperation whatsoever. it didn t all of a sudden become a legal document when they use the word constitution