element. it increases predictability. to do what? to reduce the profound danger that a presidential impeachment will be dominated bipartisan considerations, precisely the evil that the framers warned about. and so to history. history bears out the point. the nation s most recent experience, the clinton impeachment, even though severely and groundly criticized, charged crimes. these are crimes proven in the crucible of the house of representatives to be beyond any reasonable observer s doubt. so, too, the nixon impeachment. the articles charged crimes. what about article 2 in nixon
though they may appeal it, we ll get it. what do you expect to learn from that material? well, i think we re going to find more likely obstruction of justice. mr. mueller had in this report ten instances of obstruction of justice which most people feel that five of the cases, all of the elements were groundly soundly laid out and some people think as much as seven. but that is conduct that is impeachable. we think we ll find other material. we know that bill barr lied and misled the american public when he came out and wouldn t release the report. but said it was no collusion and no obstruction. well, mueller cleared the president. well mueller didn t clear the president. he said i do not exonerate him. and he said there were contacted that the administration had or the campaign had with russia and that they knew about russia s involvement and they welcomed it. he couldn t prove conspiracy. collusion wasn t even the proper
let s not forget, a man tried to kill a half a dozen of members of congress motivated by his hatred of their politics. congressman scalise barely escaped with his life. it was a despicable act roundly and rightly condemned by all. requires willful obtuseness to ignore. a study conducted by researchers at the university of north texas found counties that hosted a 2016 campaign rally reported a 226% increase in hate crimes versus those that didn t host a rally. the men who wanted to shoot up a mosque where somali immigrants worshipped who argued in court they were influenced by trump s anti-muslim rhetoric. the synagogue shooter who mused about the immigrant caravan and the jews he claimed were behind it. the el paso murderer who left a manifesto whose main talking points would be more or less unremarkable out of the mouths of the president s closest advisers or the president himself.
roundly. so you might believe that rosenstein is speaking for the president if the president hadn t spoken for himself. no, no, no, no, no. and the president had spoken for himself. he s making a recommendation to the president, not speaking for the president. and the president took the recommendation. this is i happen to agree with the criticisms. and i stated them last week. we ve got to this is the letter they released. whatever the president has not appeared on camera yet. nor has attorney general sessions. shortly earlier i spoke with kellyanne conway counselor to the president. joining us is the counselor to the president kellyanne conway. kellyanne, to those who say why now, why fire james comey now, what do you say? well, i would point them to the three letters that were received today, anderson, the letter by president donald trump, a letter by attorney general sessions, and really the underlying report by deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, who t