Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks alongside Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) during a joint press conference at the U.S. Capitol on November 12, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump’s presidency has been unprecedented in so many ways that it’s unsurprising that it’s ending in a constitutional crisis. While there’s surely not a consensus, it’s clear that most of official Washington, including many Republicans, considers Trump to be unsuited to hold office. The question is what to do about it.
In the midst of a constitutional crisis created by a president inciting a mob to insurrection, it’s logical to ask what constitutional remedies are available to remove that president from office. Unfortunately, the two most likely remedies for a swift exit impeachment and the 25th Amendment are toothless, because they are unlikely to occur. Furthermore, their pursuit by Democrats will likely drive moderate Republica
that, when she decides whether or not they have a right to see this grand jury material, which normally congress can t see, but there s a precedent for letting the judiciary committee see it in connection with its watergate impeachment hearings. a generation ago. basically, the democratic party has been divided over whether to go after trump and open an impeachment investigation with some more liberal districts who are safe, maybe not unlike the congressman who s constituents want this, if nothing else, they know that the republicans in the senate won t remove trump. it will be a moral black mark on his historical record. then there s also more zrirkts, democrats for more moderate districts, especially freshmen who flipped republican seats in 2018. this is not popular in those districts. democrats don t want to put them at risk by firing up those purple districts. this debate seems to have gone
msnbc legal analyst danny is a valles. thank you for being here. tell us why the democrats may have to impeach president trump in order to win in 2020? first let me say, that impeachment is not right. not just political but morally and constitution ali, nancy pelosi has said that trump is so bad he should be in jail. that is congressional malpractice not to launch the constitutional remedy of impeachment. here s why it s essential politically. my 13 keys to the white house that have successfully predicted every election since 1984 are based on the proposition that elections are primarily refrn de on the strength and performance of the party holding the white house. and one of the crucial keys that would count against the re-election of donald trump is the scandal key. and through impeachment, through the focused hearings that s the
men looking like their bullying, looking like they re man explaining. let me get betsy in on all of this, we ve shown you the fox news poll. show the president falling behind biden by 10 points. that prompted a twitter tirade from the president. the biden campaign, a tweet mocking the president s response, donald trump, we know you love the polls, we re glad you saw the latest one from fox, biden 49, trump 39. you re losing by 10, have a nice day. polling didn t give us the full picture as you know in 2016. is it still too early for democrats to get excited and tweet about it like that? it s hard to say, people can t resist talking about polls and even though we all know to take any poll with a hefty grain of salt, they do provide interesting and useful snapshots. and whether they re predictive or not, they drive these conversations, in this case, one thing that s interesting about
our elections. yeah, he was backing president trump. do you get a sense of that s who he s going to try to back again in next year s election? you could certainly draw that conclusion, it goes to what you were saying earlier as well. the president since both in helsinki and since helsinki, many people do not believe have taken it seriously enough, the fact that russia intervened in 2016. and robert mueller is intervening now and tried to intervene again in 2020, shows this disconnect between what the intelligence has shown and what the government is doing about it, that s underscored as well by the fact that the senate, that mitch mcconnell blocked those bills this week. i m curious to see whether democrats will push that as a way of saying, we are the ones taking this more seriously than the republicans. in general, of all the things that are supposed to be or