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High did not argue that today the way he did in the clinton impeachment. today he argued the real risk is in impeaching president trump, and that the house should not rush into that because that s such a big scary thing to do. and professor turley isn t himself the subject of these proceedings, him changing his mind on this stuff over time is like an interesting thing to note about him as a congressional witness. it s not particularly material to what we are facing in terms of this decision for the congress and the country. but seeing professor turley and seeing michael garhart, seeing them both testifying at both of these impeachment hearings for clinton in 98 and for trump today, recognizing that the report of the watergate committee that came in february 1974 was on this same subject, the constitutional grounds for impeachment. it s kind of a good reminder i think that this is part and parcel how we as a country approach presidential impeachments at least in the modern era. there d ....
Inquiry, february 1974. it was not until maryland congressman lawrence hogan sr., a republican on the house judiciary committee, he announced on july 23rd that he would vote to impeach. two weeks later, president richard nixon announced his resignation, having lost the support of his party in congress. joining us now, former assistant watergate special prosecutor and msnbc contributor jill weinbanks, nbc.com think contributor kurt, and back with joyce vance. jill, i know you would look at that and say, there s a lot of details you re missing, richard, but we can t go through them all. but was that the key moment? what might lead up to the key moment this time around, where we have the one republican who said, i m going to vote to impeach? i think the key moment for watergate was the final release ....
After the mueller report there is no question donald trump and his entire family know that you cannot ask for or accept anything from a foreign government. and asking for help with your campaign is clearly something of value that is illegal. we don t need illegal. i don t want to focus on crimes because high crimes and misdemeanors does not mean a violation of the federal code. let me ask you this. february, 1974, the house launches the impeachment inquiry formally. end of july the judiciary committee votes on i think 27-11 articles of impeachment. within two weeks nixon is done. he resigns. it is over. that was about a six-month process there. how fast do you think things would move right now? well, the obstruction here, the stonewalling is much greater. actually, the count, the article of impeachment that i really think is significant, is the contempt of congress, which is just as bad as the obstruction, just as bad as the abuse. maybe even more so because it is ....
For or accept anything from a foreign government. and asking for help with your campaign is clearly something of value that is illegal. and we don t need illegal. i don t want to focus on crimes because high crimes and misdemeanors does not mean a violation of the federal code. let me ask you this. february 1974, the house launches the impeachment inquiry formally. end of july, the judiciary committee votes. i think 27-11 articles of impeachment. within two weeks, nixon is done. it s over. how fast do you think things would move right now? well, the obstruction here, the stonewalling is much greater. and actually the count the article of impeachment that i really think is significant is the contempt of congress, which is just as bad as the obstruction, just as bad as the abuse, maybe even more so because it s destroying democracy, which is built on having checks and balances and having oversight. and if you say, i won t have any ....
Report, said maybe he didn t know that it was wrong to take money from a foreign government, after the mueller report, there s no question that donald trump and his entire family know that you cannot ask for or accept anything from a foreign government. and asking for help with your campaign is clearly something of value that is illegal. so and we don t need illegal. i don t want to focus on crimes because high crimes and misdemeanors does not mean a violation of the federal code. let me ask you this. february 1974, the house launches the impeachment inquiry formally. end of july, the judiciary committee votes out, i think it was 27-11, articles of impeachment. within two weeks, nixon resigns, it s over. a 5 1/2, 6-month process there. how fast do you think things will move now? the obstruction here, the stonewalli stonewalling, is much greater. actually the article of impeachment that i really think is significant is the contempt ....