never it s never happened before in an impeachment crisis. in every previous impeachment crisis the same party has controlled both houses of congress. that s one reason why we ve never seen the house retain the articles of impeachment to put pressure on the senate to determine the rules of the trial. because and nixon, it was both houses were democratic and clinton both houses were republican. and andrew johnson, both houses were one party. one party. national union, however you want to describe it. so this kind of political gamesmanship has never had to happen before. and as americans we like to play political games. sadly, even in impeachment crises. that s something new, and that s a wrinkle to add even more room for politics in this case. annette, when we look at the andrew johnson trial, andrew johnson was a terrible guy, vicious, racist, but what he was impeached for is now generally
congress. never happened before in an impeachment crisis. in every previous impeachment crisis the same party has controlled both houses of congress. that s one reason why we ve never seen the house retain the articles to determine the rules for the trial. in nicks son both houses were democratic. in clinton both were republican. and johnson both were national union, however you want to describe it. this kind of political games manship has never happened before. as americans we like to play political games. that s something new. that s a wrinkle to add even more room for politics in this case. annette, when we look at the andrew johnson trial, i mean, andrew johnson was a terrible guy. yes. vicious, racist, but what he was impeached for is now
statements were unprecedented. his behavior around the impeachment vote was quite different from that of his predecessor in the 1988, 90 impeachment. we ve never had before a divided congress during an impeachment crisis. every one in our had iftry, one of the parties controlled both houses. so what speaker pelosi is doing isse issest testing for the first time in history whether indeed there is any leverage at all, that one house, the impeaching house, has that it can use to shape how the trial house, the senate, deals with the next part of this process. it s never been attempted before because no one has ever had to attempt it before. i think the wild card is president clinton president trump. the wild card is president trump. leader mcconnell has shown that
senator michael bennet. and also on tap today, a prominent christian magazine is calling out trump for the fraud that he is, urging evangelicals to pull their support of the president, explaining trump s theoretical removal, quote, is not a matter of partisan loyalty es, but loyalty to the creator of the ten commandments. we ll get to that in just a few moments. but we ll start with everybody s favorite topic, the impeachment crisis. joining me now, congressman hank johnson of georgia, a member of the judiciary committee. congressman, let me ask you. you are on the judiciary committee that did the impeachment inquiries. are you certain that this was done in a matter that was above partisan posturing and partisan
between the old and new testaments. never professed knowledge for religion and doesn t talk about his faith but because of the policies he has endorsed getting conservative judges on the benches, and because of the way he s a champion for certain culture war issues, he s someone the evangelicals support in huge numbers throughout the campaign and they stayed with him to this point in his administration. this has become sort of the tipping point. things he s either said or done while in office but rather this impeachment crisis has led for this magazine to call for his removal. he has tweeted about it a few times, a few minutes ago, the fact is no president has ever done what i have done for evangelicals or religion itself. it s not clear what he means, what he has done for religion itself, but certainly he is leery, the evangelicals make up a specific portion of his base and the campaign officials as he heads to the reelection year,