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Clinton in 98 and 99. the house needs 218 out of 435 votes. thats just over 50% in order to impeach. if that happens, onto the senate. the senate gets the sole power to try all impeachments. now, weve had two prior senate trials in our history. 1868 andrew johnson was acquitted. noteworthy there. every democratic senator there voted to acquit. not a single one flipped over and voted against bill clinton in 1999. we actually have had an impeachment trial more recently though officials can be impe...

But then you layer in all the other events around it. ramifications of a impeachment trial during an election year. two other presidents who were impeached never had to face voters again. andrew johnson in 1868 did not get his partys nomination. bill clinton won his second term beef impeachment. this is a unique set of circumstances and the president welcomes it. i think he is crazy like a fox on this. steve: one of the things the president and his supporters have said, in this house thing im no...

This is what they might look like. for instance, for andrew johnson the first president to be impeached, the house adopted a whopping 11 articles of impeachment. this is back in 1868. nine of those 11 articles were about johnsons firing ever his secretary of war, the title at the time. the house said the dismissal violated federal tenure law, the constitution, and also defied congress. next example, richard nixon. as we look at that presidency, he resigned before a formal impeachment vote could ...

If and when they do, we are over to the senate. so in the senate, the constitution tells us the senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. there will be a trial in the senate. this will be the third one weve ever had in our history. first, who could forget andrew johnson in 1868. then bill clinton in 1999. this will be the third. a couple of interesting things in the way it works. john roberts will preside. hes going to have to come down and preside over this the way a normal tria...

The previous three impeachment cases, johnson in 1868 and nixon and bill clinton, there was more evidence he did what he was accused of. the question was whether or not that net criteria of high crimes and misdemeanors. and its whether or not is evidence and more importantly whether they should use that for what they consider the good of the country. >> what do you think about chairman schiff saying one of the impeachable offences is bribery? >> thats reallyinatesting because it you want to go b...

Presidency. >> no doubt about it. everything that happens from this point on will look back and say this is where the story changed. whats really fascinating is to see how the story is changing from the white house. and from republicans supporters at this point. who really have moved their discussion in many ways from a question of whether or not the president did something to essentially conceding something was done and asking us to consider what it means. the reason social security significant...

I have enormous respect for the department of state. people know my son works there and mike pompeo is a good friend of mine. im trying to be very respectful of them. but i dont see any impeachable offense. i see a back channel that the state department has hated since harry hopkins went to for fdr, since kissinger went to china. the state department hates back channels. when they blow up, they blow up badly, but theres nothing illegal. its policy dispute. were on the verge of the first partisan...

Ultimately moved quite a few republicans to put patriotism above party. a third of the republicans in the house judiciary committee voted for at least one of the articles of impeachment that the committee recommended to the full house. we are barely into this investigation. there could be entirely new lines open. we just learned some startling things from some of the release of the mueller material. the house has not yet seen financial records of donald trump. and of course you can have an impea...

Revised in recent weeks. and thats something that has another echo, which is that if richard nixon had gotten to an actual impeachment, rather than resigning or an impeachment trial, he later on said that the argument he was going to make was, when he asked the cia to interfere with the fbis investigation of watergate, he was going to say that to call that obstruction of justice required a corrupt motive, and he said, i did not have a corrupt motive, and who knows what the effect might have been...

Political situation. we havent had something like this happen. in 1868 which was what andrew johnson was impeached, it wasnt the election year, but johnsons hopes were dashed quickly. the other thing, nixon and clinton, both of them occurred after the president had bad reelected. we have not of the modern era had a time like this and which we are the middle of a presidential campaign of the opposition party is trying to impeach the president was running for reelection. its pretty clear that a nu...