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robbery that s burglary, i ll get it right. and in this situation you ve got somebody really caught in the middle of it, and that doesn t excuse the person from the consequences. professors, we ve talked about abuse of power and bribery. when we started we said we would also discuss obstruction of congress. so i would like to ask you some questions about obstruction of congress. professor gerhardt, in your view, is there enough evidence here to charge president trump with the high crime and misdemeanor of obstruction of congress? i think there s more than enough. as i mentioned in my statement, just to really underscore this, the third article of impeachment approved by the house judiciary committee against president nixon charged him with misconduct because he had failed to comply with four legislative subpoenas. here it is far more than four that this president has failed to comply with. and he has ordered the executive branch as well not to cooperate with congress. th ....
Process for other things. the republicans have really had a wasted opportunity this morning with their witness and we ll see how they try and recover after this break. jason, thank you for that. andrea mitchell, whose hour is normally is, our nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent, obviously the host of andrea mitchell reports , is along with us. andrea, i imagine, knowing you as i do, that your attention has been drawn overseas with the president s hasty departure from what is supposed to be a gathering of members of the alliance. having just boarded air force one, in fact. i m torn between this split screen moment, we ve had many of these that we ve shared, brian, over the years. here you have this impeachment hearing which the president is clearly focused on, repeatedly mentioning it, including not only on the flight over but during lengthy press conferences that have been photo opportunities expanded, canceling the press conference, then having another bilateral meeting ....
Insular, that there would be no transparency which is one of the sole purposes of the press in the white house of being an extension of the american people, being able to have questions answered for the voting public. yeah, you can t cut the press off. the press is essential to our democracy. and more important, the president should remember in this day and age even by canceling the press conference, you don t cancel the press and they will find ways to find out what is happening. and there is more than enough avenues to obtain information always we re seeing already. and this will be doubling damaging to the white house rather than protecting them. all right. julian, rebecca, thanks so much. jake tapper will talk about all of this with james clapper and senator chuck schumer tomorrow morning at 9:00 on state of the union. be sure to watch. straight ahead, trump voters on what they want out of this president. i want him to be a good ....