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Peter, as support for impeachment among republicans, however, has now gone up to 18%. a lot of people saying that s an alarming number right there? obviously if you re the president, disturbing. you don t want to see any republicans in favor of impeachment. he s counting on his base to keep republican senators on his side and the stronger that number is for him among republicans, the easier his task is to keep things in a party line basis. he did manage to keep all house republicans on his side during this past week s vote. that s really important for him, easier for a republican to vote fon an inquiry saying i want to know what happened than for a republican to vote for impeachment itself down the road. less likely if at all likely to vote for eventual impeachment, meaning when you have an impeachment, if we have that vote will be along democratic and party lines. a big deal for the president that sets up a sfrenate trial. ....
Similar. you have a party majority in the house that is moving forward but so far only on a party line basis. you don t have republicans on board. in 1998 when they opened the house impeachment yirry, they did take a vote on the house floor. and by the time they voted on impeachment itself, only five voted against it otherwise strictly on party lines. nancy pelosi was there 20 years ago, sea issue in her view that it didn t work out well for the republicans. and she didn t want to repeat the experience where you have simply a partisan impeachment because it doesn t seem as legitimate as what happened in the nixon case when both parties ultimately came together. but this has changed. what we ve seen the last week has been a radical change in the mood among house democrats, the momentum now, hard to see how they back off pushing all the way to impeachment and push it into a trial which we didn t at the moment doesn t have enough support to remove the president ....
Exist of those conversations, fredericka. the democrats are moving fast. you know, house speaker nancy pelosi spoke last night on why she believes impeachment moving in the direction at the very least is moving in the right direction. so this is not a cause for any joy that we have to go down this path. it s a difficult decision to make. but we have that obligation. so then, david, is it possible that this impeachment inquiry would not be divisive? i think any way you slice it is going to be divisive. this is something set in the constitution by the founders but is necessarily a political process. you don t want to go forward with impeachment just on a party line basis, but i think democrats at this point have figured out they re probably going to have to go forward at least on a party line basis ....
Look at accountability for this behavior of any sort, and if there are not, there are always going to be some democrats in the most marginal districts who will be hesitant about doing this on a party line basis when they know that the senate, again, for the same reasons is extremely unlikely to convict. so i think that yes, more democrats will likely come out for it but it will not change the dynamic. what will change the dynamic is there is a point where the republican party says this is behavior that is beyond the pail? in the past three years you got to say there is no point. one of the people calling this essentially beyond the pail outrageous in fact is joe biden. yesterday he came out really in a fiery way saying that he had actually never spoken to his son hunter biden about his role on the board of ukrainian energy company. let s listen to what he said. mr. vice president, how many times have you ever spoken to ....
Volume 2 page 8 of the report is a clear reminder of constitutional checks and balances limiting the president s power. the conclusion that congress may apply the obstruction laws to the president s corrupt exercise of the powers of the office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law. congress is going to have to investigate whether the president really abused power or not. but they have to dig into the intent. what was driving the decisions at the time? the calls for impeachment following mueller s testimony will definitely increase. it s just in the nature of the beast. the way the congress works. impeaching the president is an option the majority of democrats, including house speaker nancy pelosi, have declined to endorse. we decide whether this is the right thing to do for the country when we know the result, which is going to be the senate on a party line basis, of voting ....