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Allegations will be put before the congress and the country and will be judged. and that forces washington and the nation to answer. is it okay for the president to do that stuff? and if its not okay, what is the congress going to do about it? what is the remedy? this is history we are watching together. you can probably feel that on a night like tonight. this is history that is significant, in part, because it is rare and has very few echoes. heres one in 1868, if you go back then. there is 199...

2020 democrats that are running right now for president and theres six senators doing so facing a possible campaign crunch in the impeachment trial happens along the timeline that many democrats hope this passes impeachment move in the house, thats when it would be arriving in the senate. what do they do? karl rove on all of that. what happens then? theyre in more of a box than the president. >> yeah, they have to show up. this is a trial as you may remember from 1998 or even earlier, the hearin...

>> the presidents counsel cant participate. its very inadequate. >> in 1868, it wasnt this complicated. >> bret: welcome back to the richard nixon presidential line in california talking about the impeachment inquiry vote. its scheduled for tomorrow. meantime, were continuing to get the list of potential witnesses on capitol hill. one big name announced today, that is former national security adviser john bolton. his testimony is seen as potentially explosive depending on what he says about what...

Thats what happened in 1868. the house eventually impeached johnson in whatever you think of hm in the fact he was finally acquitted. the house did do that. thats one thing to take away from it. the other to take away is the there were men of they were men at the time. men of probity and solemn and serious about what they were doing. and wanted to do the best for the country. they trying to act in the best way possible. even going beyond partisan ship and think about the fate and the future of t...

Emotions of the lek tort. and the executive branch was dangerous. the monarchy was the ghost at the banquet throughout the philadelphia convention and wanted to reassure themss they would be able to remove a chief executive. if he violated certain values. that put the republic at risk. through themselves not crimes. they didnt think impeachment should happen often. it should be a last resort. it was a kind of nuclear option. but you didnt have to commit a crime you had to violate principles that...

Equivalent of article 2, section 4 of the constitution which deals with impeachment. not equivalent in any way but to compare it to the impeachment. the president goes beyond the pale. and we must, in my opinion, add his bigotry that has been infused in policy in the articles of impeachment. i truly hope that we will because this was our original sin. in is the reason a civil war was fought. this is the reason republicans, republicans had this at the root of their articles of impeachment against...

Imprisonment. that could keep the hole. the trail just before the iowa caucuses and new hampshire primary in early february >> are you concerned about the length on your side of the aisle having to be here versus being on the campaign trail? >> i havent thought of that at all. lets see what the house puts forward and really knows how log impeachment trial can run. the first trial of andrew johnson consumed the spring of 1868 stretching from late march through may. president clintons impeachment ...

That could keep the six presidential hopefuls off the trail just before the iowa caucuses and new hampshire primary in early february. >> are you concerned about the presidential candidates here versus being out there? >> i havent thought of that at all. lets see what the house puts forward and we will go from there. >> reporter: no one knows how long an impeachment trial could run. the first presidential impeachment trial of andrew johnson consumed the spring of 1868 from late march through may...

Because russias attacking his country. last point id make here, we also cant forget that the inspector general who looked at the whistleblower report said, this is urgent. >> right. >> this is serious. and he was a trump appointee. this thing is inexerable. sitting through the impeachment trial of clinton was the most painful thing, honestly, for so many, including myself. it went on and on and on. its very difficult. it is very serious. its very old-fashioned because really most of the rules we...

2000. youre saying experience shows the party that impeaches more likely to win the white house? >> yeah. the party that did the impeachment won in 1868, 1976, and 2000. and by the way, jim, in 1998, there were 91 house republicans in districts that voted for bill clinton in 1996, a much larger number than the trump district democrats today. only 7 of them were beating in the next two elections. one of them was a guy named jim row gann beaten by adam schiff in 1998 in pasadena. in fact, the part...