Robbery thats burglary, ill get it right. And in this situation youve got somebody really caught in the middle of it, and that doesnt excuse the person from the consequences. Professors, weve 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 theres 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. Those together with a
Somebody really caught in the middle of it, and that doesnt excuse the person from the consequences. Professors, weve talked about abuse of power and bribery. When we started, we said we would also discuss Obstruction Of Congress. So id 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 theres more than enough. As i mention 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 failed to comply with four legislative subpoenas. Here it is far more than four that this president has failed to comply with and hes ordered
the Executive Branch as well not to cooperate the congress. Those together with a lot of other evidence suggests Obstruction Of Congress. Professor karlan, do you agree .
about it. we said nothing about the aid being held up. morrison, who contradicted vindman and others, we re not going to do that. there s still evidence being withheld by adam schiff that has not come to this committee and we still haven t fgotten any of the underlying stuff. one being the very important part is the inspector general. his testimony is still being held and there s a quote secret on it or they re holding it in classification. we have plenty of places in this building and other buildings to handle classified information if they still want to do that. anybody in the media, anybody watching today, the first 45 minutes we went through have painted a very interesting
talk about this. we didn t talk about anything about kurt volker who said nothing about it. we said nothing about the aid being held up. morrison, who contradicted vindman and others. i don t expect the majority too because that s not what they re here for, they re not here to give exculpatory evidence just like the schiff report gives nothing of exculpatory evidence and also there s still evidence being withheld by adam schiff that s not come to this committee is and we haven t gotten any of the underlying stuff, that according to house rule 660 we re supposed to get, one that the inspector general, his testimony is still being withheld. and there is a, quote, secret on it or they re holding it in classification. last time i checked we have plenty of places in this building and other buildings to handle classified information. it s being withheld from us, i have to believe now there is a reason because undoubtedly there s a problem with it. we ll have to see as this goes forward. anyb