Number of significant procedural protections where the president even on the house side, as you know the role of the house is to act as the grand jury and the prosecutor and the actual trial takes place over in the senate, but still, we had significant procedural protections we invited the president and his counsel to attend, we provided the president s counsel the opportunity to cross examine witnesses and object to the admissibility of testimony, and we provided the president s counsel it make presentation of evidence before the full Judiciary Committee including the chance to call witnesses. The president chose not to avail himself of any of those opportunities. It reminds me the president Blockading Witnesses saying you dont have enough people with direct firsthand evidence. First of all, were those rights provided only in Judiciary Committee. Youre not the Principle Committee of impeachment. Youre sort of the final stop. Did the president get those
rights in the Intelligence Commi
the 95-year-old former federal judge william web ser says he thinks the attacks threaten the rule of law and are a threat to american democracy. nbc news andrea mitchell sat down with him in an exclusive interview yesterday about the column he wrote for the new york times. you have written that you are disappointed that the president has spoken of the fbi as a broken agency. why does that distress you? because i know it s not true and because i know that it could adversely affect the confidence that the american people have in one of the most important agencies in government. he also spoke of the fbi men and women, personnel, as scum. i hate to use that term. i m shocked to hear that he had used it. it s so inappropriate. you are almost 96 years old.