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Comes after 3 days of arguments by house impeachment managers with democrats outlining the president s corrupt scheme to abuse power and warning that he will do it again if hes not removed from office. He has shown neither remorse nor acknowledgment of wrongdoing, if you can believe that july 25th was a perfect call that asking for investigations of your political opponents and using the power of your office to make it so is perfectly fine, then there is nothing that would stop you from doing it...

Ago. Official impeachment inquiry. A mafialike skak shakedown. What is that fellas people . Biden and his son are stone cold crooked. We are done here. An assault on the constitution. This time looks different. While every day certainly brings new breaks in the story, the larger issues are not actually about each detail, but the dilemma of what defines the kind of abuse of power that should end a presidency. And in this special, we have a live debate on the two core questions in this crisis. One...

Because all were involved. >> counselor, thank you. a tight one minute on the argument for impeachment. david, your response? >> ari, good to be with you. my 92-year-old aunt is a big fan, so i appreciate a chance to talk -- >> shout out to your aunt. >> i appreciate the chance to talk about the constitution. lets pretend were not talking about donald trump. really only interested in the constitution. both are fundamentally wrong about the place of impeachment on our constitutional permanent. th...

Re-election, a very personal goal, having nothing to do with public policy. there is a history of looking at impeachment and seeing if there was a good faith reason for any act that a president >> let me plea one piece of sound from the person in question, president trump who has spoken in broadways about something that david has referred to. which is he does have under the constitution these powers. what i want to do is turn to the other part of this debate, the senate part -- >> can i just mak...

But does it meet the constitutions requirement the president should only be impeached on these grounds, treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors. we welcome former federal prosecutor john flanry. he assisted in democrats in the clinton impeachment debate and constitutional attorney david rivken who served in the white house counsels office and has represented the 26 states that challenged the constitutionality of ob amas affordable care act >> nice to be here, ari. >> great to have...

The credibility of the whistleblowers. lets assume that president trump for a certain period of time delayed the delivery of aid because he sincerely believed there was a genuine corruption that took place in ukraine. not just corruption in the sense of what joe biden told him to do but corruption in a sense that you had efforts to involve ukraine, italy, australia, britain and a number of other foreign countries into digging dirt on then candidate trump on mr. manafort. you may disagree with th...

Invited to debate this particular issue. >> precisely given the framers concern, having impeachment focussed solely on this particular president because of a conduct that is at best identical to the conduct of a previous administration is the highest form of weaponization and pollicization of impeachment power that is constitutionally dangerous. >> i suppose all republicans have a problem with focus because they cant add anything to say to the facts that are actually out there that relate to whe...

Turning to david, so everyone understands, to the second part of this, which is if the house impeaches, should the senate actually convict president trump and vote to convict and potentially remove him from office, which has never happened in american history, for which johns side of the debate is a hard and high bar? david, then john. >> my point advice simple. the senate should not convict, the house should not impeach. let me explain. were talking about a perfectly legitimate use of president...

Good deal on nuclearization of korea, he calls chairman xi, why dont you finally give me a good deal that shows what a great foreign policy leader i am? benefits and enhancing his political luster. do you live in a world where you think american politicians or politicians anywhere in the world have to be completely apolitical? if you never heard the expression, good policy is good politics? whats the difference here? >> a barrage of rhetorical questions, john flanery -- >> good ones. >> let me g...

Is so important. john, lets get into it. you can build on the points you made or respond to what david said. >> i would like to respond. >> you cant impeach the president for foreign policy. >> this was about personal interest. this was about his election. this was about having dirt on what appeared to be one of his principal opponents in the general election. it is a big difference between talking about policy and talking about what favors him in an election. and he apparently started this in a...