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
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watergate hearing witness and nixon counsel, john dean, and abby phillip, anchor of inside politics sunday. abby, we heard from former white house staffers that as the capitol was being attacked, the president didn t call the national guard, didn t call the secretary of defense, didn t call the fbi, didn t call the department of homeland security, and didn t call the capitol police. does that make the case to you, as the committee laid out, that he deliberately chose not to act? it s really, really important, john. and i can t overstress this. i think that presentation they put on last night is really the keystone to connecting this story they have laid out over the course of the hearings. so we ve heard through all the previous hearings, all the attempts that the president made, the president and his people made to obstruct the certification of the election, to overturn the results of the election, to get in the way of this day of certification. and having failed in every other re
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