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Have actually been impeached. 1868, andrew johnson. bill clinton, 1998. of course, nixon resigned. then you say what? >> i say that impeachment is a very serious matter, and this majority in the united states house of representatives is not taking it seriously. what they are doing is they are changing the rules. the judiciary committee chair, nadler, did that just two weeks changing the rules for conducting an impeachment inquiry or investigation. whatever he calls it. then speaker pelosi yester...

>> reporter: it is a nuclear option in presidential politics, congress removing a president from office, a process only undertaken three times in american history. the founders designed it to be difficult >> its for every generation, every congress to decide what is a high crime, what is a misdemeanor, what is worth undoing an election and removing a president from office. >> reporter: first, a house committee decides whether to recommend impeachment. the full house then votes. finally, the sena...

Day. pelosi saying that thing -- she didnt take a vote but her saying it is i can get the votes if i need it because she doesnt say it unless she can, and all the players in this understand that which is why today was so significant. thank you both for joining us. that is "all in" this evening. the rachel maddow starts right now. >> i decided to take a nap most of the day. just woke up five minutes ago. ive learned everything i need to know from the last five minutes of your show. thank you, my ...

Tried to impeach him again in 1868. that one stuck. but when those articles of impeachment that passed in the house, when those articles were conveyed over to the senate for president johnson to face trial, they couldnt get a two-thirds vote in the senate to convict him and remove him from office. so the effort to remove president andrew johnson from office failed, even though he was impeached in the house. basically the same dynamic at work in 1998. just before christmas, 1998, when the house o...

To present articles when he is impeached for his bigotry. >> so youre saying aside from his financial dealings, aside from obstruction of justice, that his actual policies -- and youve called them biased and racist and certainly ive not disagreed and have been very vocal saying that i feel they are. you feel that those ought to also be elements for impeachment and that weve seen policy attached to impeachment proceedings before, particularly with supreme court judges. you say this must be attach...

Indigenous peoples and then the very first real terrorist cell in america, the first terrorist organization in america was made up of white supremacist forces of the defeated confederacy in the aftermath of the civil war and they arose because they didnt like the demographic change that was happening, right? they want to preserve a white mans republic above all else and so they used their weapons to terrorize free black people of the south. they slaughtered and murdered people in memphis, ten tn...

They organized the klu klux klan for night raids. they shot people in the dead of night. they ransacked peoples homes. they left nooses. they roughed black people up on the way to the polls. you know, there were more than 2000 murders in the state of kansas in the election related to the election of 1868. mostly black people and republicans. all of this was done, all of it with the explicit purpose of what that individual went down to el paso to do. what he wanted. to stem the tide of the erosio...

Policies and try to mold them into law, into executive orders and the problem is that he seems to be molding them into unlawful and unconstitutional policies. when we look at the muslim ban that president tried to put into effect within weeks of being inaugurated by executive order, a court immediately jumped out and issued a temporary restraining order saying it was likely unconstitutional and an appellate court upheld that. it took the administration three times to get the so-called travel ban...

He has benefitted the rich and the powerful by giving them the tax cut that they want. so he has benefitted them to the extent that they will tolerate his bigotry. when you tolerate bigotry, you perpetuate bigotry. this is a beneficial bigot unlike we have seen before in the highest office to the land since 1868 since andrew johnson was the beneficial bigot of his time. >> i hear you saying the president is a beneficial bigot. he says he is the least racist person you know. but we have to also l...

States into contempt, ridicule, and disgrace to the great scandal of all good citizens whereby said andrew johnson, president of the united states did commit and was then and there guilty of a high misdemeanor in office. so the language that ive used is language that the framers would have had me use and its language that was used when andrew johnson was impeached by the radical republicans. we need some radical republicans and democrats who are willing to take on this president to the same exte...