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
we ll just use that term, not to be obama or trump, clinton, anybody, isn t there an obligation by the president to actually assert the constitutional privileges or authorities that have been given when accused of something, a crime or anything else? yes, i think that president obama is invoked too broadly. but on the other hand, he has actually released a lot of information. you know i ve been friends with bill barr for a long time. we disagree on executive privilege. i m i madisonian scholar, i tend to favor congress in disputes. my natural default is article 1, his natural default is article 2. evaluated released more privileged information than any in my lifetime, including the mueller report. these transcripts would be core executive privileged material. that s not pointed out when we re doing a back and forth