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Misdemeanors as if by pondering it we can come up with a regional standard, objective standard, judicial standard about what exactly constitutes an impeachable defense. in his brilliant new article, mandatory reading entitled the case for mess moorizing impeachment, government mostly used to impeach federal judges and high crimes and misdemeanors means whatever the united states senate says it means. joining us now, ezra klein editor and host of the pod cast the ezra klein show. loved every word...

Used once a century or less, there is a case it should be used more frequently. >> this is the key, we have an attitude toward impeachment it can be used in the case of criminality and mental incompetence. here in a strange position running a new clear hyper power. the president of the united states is the most dangerous job in the world. a president who is the wrong person, the extent of what can go wrong there goes all the way over to nuclear holocaust that would be launched before breakfast a...

That this is golf. and that the lower -- [ laughter ] >> -- the tax rate is, somehow or other you win. but this is just simply ridiculous. there is no analysis underlying any of what is going on here to explain what the benefits to the united states will be of having the lowest golf score. i mean, corporate tax rate, other than, you know, cheers, you know, great for us. this absolutely makes no sense whatsoever. >> john, what happens tomorrow? are the -- i mean, youre asking me before the show a...

There is no analysis underlying any of what is going on here to explain what the benefits to the united states will be of having the lowest golf score. i mean, corporate tax rate, other than, you know, cheers, you know, great for us. this absolutely makes no sense whatsoever. >> john, what happens tomorrow? are the -- i mean, youre asking me before the show and im sitting there having worked on this kind of legislation -- >> you know more about this than any of us. >> my answer is i dont know. i...

Is there any evidence that the president is making similar phone calls to republican house members and republican house leadership? >> well, yesterday we saw clear evidence of this. an internal republican memo on the intelligence committee suggested that the department of justice should be held in contempt of court for not, you know, following the presidents wishes and other wishes that they, you know, haul in witnesses related to some of these bogus claims and after that memo was leaked within ...

Special prosecutors investigation? >> if thats the case then he should be asserting the basis which hes not answering the questions. refusal to answer the questions because he might be interfering with an on going law enforcement investigation may be a legitimate reason to say hey, i dont want to answer this now but he didnt do that nor has the white house asserted executive privilege so basically, the attorney general is just thumbing his nose at the powers of congress and what is shocking is t...

United states senate says they are when they decide an impeachment case and for centuries we have pondered the phrase high crimes and misdemeanors as if by pondering it we can come up with a regional standard, objective standard, judicial standard about what exactly constitutes an impeachable defense. in his brilliant new article, mandatory reading entitled the case for mess moorizing impeachment, government mostly used to impeach federal judges and high crimes and misdemeanors means whatever th...

The intelligence committee suggested that the department of justice should be held in contempt of court for not, you know, following the presidents wishes and other wishes that they, you know, haul in witnesses related to some of these bogus claims and after that memo was leaked within hours, the president was tweeting about it. so that shows some degree of coordination and of course, the chairman of our committee is recused because hes been working hand and hand with the white house. from every...

Its reminiscing of the trump transition where the stuff youre supposed to do to get ready to be president of the united states you dont do and find yourself as president of the united states and youve done none of the work in this case, steve mnuchin does not seem to be engaged in the part of the job thats not the part where you sign the money. or go and visit the money or touch the money. the symbolic stuff. this touches on the policy piece and nobody suggested steven mnuchin is strong with par...

Helping. >> and we know flynn was up for sale. thats not what you want your security adviser to be. he didnt expose what he was for sale for. some of those sales were to turkey. his very controversial election day op ed doing turkeys bidding. the final question to you and then nick. betsy, where do you draw the line over whether this was a bunch of stuff that was terrible policy. you dont want a give for sale in the u.s. government. or whether it went on to being a criminal for sale. >> thats an...