White house, ken dilanyan in the washington bureau. Epic news week and the president is talking about all of this in this interview . Hes making a nonmarvel argument that what he pled to is in fact not a crime. The president of the United States Isnt The Ar Bitter of that. Its judges and prosecutors that decide and a jury that decides whether or not something is a crime. Also in that interview, you had a frank admission from the president that he made the payments. Hes trying to clarify things and make sure this wasnt a Campaign Violation but listen to what he had to say and well come back on the back end. He made the deals. And by the way, he pled to two counts that arent a crime, which nobody understands. I watched a number of shows. Sometimes you get pretty good information by watching shows. Those two counts arent even a crime. They werent campaign finance. Did you know about the payments . Later on i knew. Later on. But you have to understand, what
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changed the calculation in terms of raising impeachment as a campaign issue into the mid terms? would it be something you would advice some democratic candidates to confront head on or talk about head on? absolutely not. i can t think of a more serious power in the constitution than the power of congress to remove a president. we should take it as seriously as it is written. so you heard senator durbin there, michael, but do you believe republicans or specifically donald trump should be concerned about the possibility of impeachment? absolutely. i think the democrats believe right now they have in this allegation against the president made by michael cohen, the means to do so. i think if the president got ticketed for jay walking across pennsylvania avenue, they would use that as well. in fact, we know just from all of the comments before the election season came up that the