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
the bar graphs show counties and the height of the bars show the total of the cast. you can see the parts of the country represented by democratic impeachment leaders voted overwhelmingly during the last presidential election for hillary clinton. also, the 2016 elections, lawyer campaign contributions tilted 90% for clinton and 3% for trump. i would like to turn to the partisan process that defines these proceedings. this is how the nixon impeachment effort was described. you are talking about the impeachmentment inquiry. this action was not patterson. it was supported by the overwhelming majority of both political parties and it was.
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whistle-blower, him or herself, as being partisan and affiliated with democrats. so the president is using his twitter feed, especially to speak to his own base and supporters, to try to attack how the democrats are holding this impeachment inquiry, saying his rights have been denied, in fact, in this investigative phase. that they want access to be able to talk to witnesses and so forth. now, a more formal sort of embodiment of all of that came from the white house counsel who sent the letter to speaker pelosi and he writes that given that your inquiry lacks any legitimate constitutional foundation, they re referring to demanding that the house vote to move to impeachment. any pretense of fairness or even the most elementary due process protections, the executive branch cannot be expected to participate in it. so you get this argument that the white house is trying to control the steps the house
tweets in just the lawyer hour that the so-called whistle-blower, before knowing i was going to release the exact transcript said my call with the ukraine kran president was crazy, frightening and completely lacking in substance related to national security. of course, it wasn t a whistle-blower, but a white house official who said that akarding to this newly released memo. crazy and frightening is how one official is said to have described to call between president trump and the leader of ukraine in which the president asked for help investigating political rival joe biden. that s according to a newly reviewed memo written by the whistle-blower, separate from the complaint that sparked the i m impeachmentment inquiry. a congressional source with direct knowledge of the memo confirmed its contents to nbc news as reported by the new york times. the memo says the white house official who listened to the july call described the conversation as completely lacking in substance related t