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Any office means the president of the united states. it is in the constitution that he cannot accept any profit. >> people say dont touch that red button and hes like im going to touch that red button. >> well, and thats part of the relationship with the republicans, too. there is this weird, whether its unconscious, whatever, power move, he is in trouble. so he -- its almost like hes saying, you know what? love me even more. im going to give you more trouble. im going to pull out of syria. im g...

Article one of the constitution. lets play it. >> if you look, other presidents were wealthy. not huge wealth. george washington was actually considered a very, very rich man at the time. but they ran their businesses. george washington they say had two desks. he had a presidential desk and a business desk. i dont think you people with this phony emoluments clause -- and by the way, i would say that its cost me anywhere from 2 to $5 billion to be president. and thats okay. between what i lose an...

I -- i think that there is one throughline, though. all of these instances have to do with that overall abuse of power. broader inquiry focus that the speaker was talking about today as reported by nbc news. i think all three of these examples going against the established rules and norms and even laws, in some cases, and basically saying im going to disregard these things. asking for foreign help. thats against the law. doesnt matter. emoluments? thats in the actual constitution article one. do...

Foreign state. i mean, the broader like dismissal of something that is in the constitution. does that wrinkle people? or is it -- is it just cable news? >> i think the constitution has a bit back. in about a month into the -- the transition after the election in 2016 when trump hired this lawyer to help him figure out what he had to do about his businesses and he got this opinion that basically said, you are the president of the united states article two of the constitution says basically that y...

Good thing i dont have to talk for a living. >> youre funny. >> so given theres that rule that applies to everybody but the president or vice president, is the president in the clear here? >> absolutely not. theres this thing called the united states constitution. it absolutely applies to him. the emoluments clause. now, i know a lot of people, this is a big word, in latin it means to profit or to gain. the emoluments clause is found in two places in the constitution, article one and article two...

Because we dont like the process. if you go to the constitution it says the house has the sole power of impeachment. period. doesnt say anything about witnesses or how its supposed to work and later in article one says the senate shall try impeachments. the chief justice is the chief judge of the impeachment trial in thesont. and impeachment is for any federal official who is -- who misuses, abuses their power, their office. and the framers were obsess would the idea, the concern of foreign inte...

We now know thisss argument for bucking almost every request from congress. the current proceedings are nothing more than an unconstitutional exercise in political theater. article one, section two, "the house of representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment." tats arer it. congress can do it in the house and they do the way they want. and then theres this. your contrived process is unprecedented in the history of the nation and lacks the necessary authorization. we just told you the ...

Your side. whats clear in this letter is that they never get to the point that article one, clause five of the constitution says the house of representatives has the sole power to determine impeachment proceedings. what they tried to do here is conflate whatever due process is necessary at a senate trial with what happens at a house impeachment proceeding. look, we could have a whole argument whether there should be a vote on an impeachment inquiry but thats not required here. lets also be clear...

That they were coaching witnesses and they were piling onto try to create an impression that judge kavanaugh was a flawed human being. this is kavanaugh all over again. >> congresswoman lee, what is your response to that? >> well, i hope one day in the next few weeks that the republicans and the united states congress will rise to the level of being patriots and care takers of the constitution and the people of this country as opposed to being partisans. and using the bully pulpit of their major...

And to sort of like twist their arm. and put them at peril of russia. it is really not in the best interest of the united states. and its ultimately also about abuse of power, the president pressuring that government to do that, and now, we see other governments to do that. and third is about the betrayal of the oath of office. so these are the three items that are ultimately, this is about, and this is something that is deeply imbedded in the constitution, article one, it give us the power to d...