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And the controlling law. Use of an obstruction theory from the Mueller Report would be unsupported, unsupportable in the house and unsustainable in the senate. Do you remember writing that . Yes, i do. Why did you write that . Because i think its true. The fact is that this was reviewed by main justice. The special counsel did not reach a conclusion on obstruction. He should have. I think his justification quite frankly was a bit absurd on not reaching a conclusion. But the attorney general, Dep...

Apeern appearances at impeachment hearings. the clinton impeachment hearing also featured testimony from another witness who we heard from today. then and now george washington university law professor jonathan turley. >> if you decide that certain acts do not rise to impeachable offenses you will expand the space for executive conduct, and we will have to live with that expansion. >> that was the 1990s iteration of respected constitutional law professor jonathan turley arguing in the context th...

>> if you decide that certain acts do not rise to impeachable offenses you will expand the space for executive conduct, and we will have to live with that expansion. >> that was the 1990s iteration of respected constitutional law professor jonathan turley arguing in the context then of the clinton impeachment that president clinton must be impeached otherwise every president will try to get away with this kind of stuff. today of course we saw the same professor jonathan turley arguing just as em...

Does not rise to impeachable offenses you will expand the space for executive conduct and we will have to live with that expansion. >> professor turley rejected the impeachment inquiry of president trump, arguing that the democrats probe is moving too quickly. >> fast and narrow is not a good recipe for impeachment. thats the case with johnson, narrow was the case with clinton, they tend not to survive and they tend to collapse in front of the senate. impeachments are like building. there is a r...

He committed impeachable offenses. while the republican witness may not be convinced there is sufficient evidence the president engaged in these acts, the american people and the majority of this committee disagree. and i also think the republican witness, professor turley a stage wanting in 1998 when he was a leading advocate for the impeachment of bill clinton who said "if you decide that certain acts do not rise to impeachable offenses, you will expand the space for executive conduct." that w...

Trump administration officials he committed impeachable offenses. while the republican witness may not be convinced that theres sufficient evidence that the president engaged in these acts, the american people and the majority of this committee disagree. i also think that the republican witness, professor turley, issued a sage warning in 1998 when he was a leading advocate for the impeachment of bill clinton. he said, "if you decide that certain acts do not rise to impeachable offenses, you will...

Bl blower belowing the whistle on the president. >> there are things we dont know but it could breach proper executive conduct. here we would have a president using his power in the oval office and, in fact, the full force and weight of the u.s. foreign policy to try to compel another country to engage in essentially opposition research on a potential political adversary going into the 2020 election. if thats not problematic, i dont know what is. this could escalate to another echelon if there w...