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And pam arlan and mike gerhardt, they explained that the reason the framers put in an impeachment power is we might someday have a president whos such a demagogue and so inattentive to the law and the rule of law that it would be dangerous to wait for the next election. thats why we have the impeachment power. and i think this is the time we need to use it. >> i want to take a look at an exchange with a congressman and jonathan turley in which jonathan turley does not disagree that previous pres...

Been controlled by republicans. one challenge with this political context that has been discussed inpo private meetings among house democratic leadership according to democratic sources is the fact that the poll numbers dont seem to be moving. democratic leaders have said that they believe its unlikely theyre going to have more than 55% give or take a little bit of support for the impeachment process because the country is so polarized and so divided right now. it seems like that number might be...

>> nancy pelosi driving the impeachment process to the next phase and being asked if the house is moving too fast. we will take a closer look at the democratic strategy as lawmakers draft articles of impeachment. plus what the framers of the constitution said about impeachment. were going to look at whether the evidence against trump holds up to their standards. you are watching "velshi & ruhle" live on msnbc. you are watching "velshi & ruhle" live on msnbc without my medication, my small trem...

House judiciary committee during the impeachment of president nixon. so he knows of what he speaks. i want to pick up what -- where -- where garrett just left off. theres garrett, in case anybody was missing him. i want to pick up right where he left off, michael. that the obstruction case, to some people, seems clearer than the case about quid pro quo with ukraine. >> well, youre absolutely right. you know, the constitution uses the word sole power twice. it says that the house has the sole pow...

Doing exactly what rudy giuliani is doing. it is an affront to the impeachment process. he is digging his client even deeper in a hole here. perhaps steves right. perhaps trump really doesnt know but im skeptical of that. and even if he didnt know im sure the cell phone records will be burning up all night with rudy boasting whatever craziness he is doing over there. this is a sign. well, we have to put an end to this kind of behavior by our top government officials and their agents. and thats w...

Apparently we go back to the same people over and over again as long as theyre still alive whenever we need to keep talking about these things, whenever weve got impeachment questions. and for us citizens watching this unfold and thinking about the weight of all of this for our republic and government and for this country that we love, at least from my perspective even as they are bringing back the same witnesses again and again, it is sort of satisfying and grounding and occasionally quite an i...

The impeachable high crime and misdemeanor of abuse of power? >> we three are unanimous. >> the weak defense of the president from the republican witness. >> if you prove a quid pro quo, you might have an impeachable offense. >> and what happens next in the impeachment process. plus new reporting that the presidents lawyer is still meeting with a ukrainian prosecutor. and as the whole world watches impeachment unfold, how the trump administration just kicked hundreds of thousands of americans ...

Impeachments that weve been through so that the impeachment committee looking at or the investigative committee looking at the watergate scandal knew essentially how theyd fit into history. this is at the outset of the nixon impeachment process and watergate scandal, 1974. they took a time out from just looking at the fact pattern around what nixon had done to take some time to review historically the constitutional grounds for presidential impeachment and that included looking at the sort of ex...

Was intoxicated both off the bench as well as on the bench. ah, yes, the famous drunk judge case of 1873. how can we forget? or theres the secretary of war case from 1876 where the secretary of war at the time was accused of, quote, basically prostituting his high office to his lust for private gain. see how they balanced prostituting and lust there? pretty good, right? essentially that purple prose was about him taking bribes to give people at various jobs. the report notes that the secretary o...

Was trying to corrupt the electoral process? >> if congress fails to impeach here, then the impeachment process has lost all meaning. and along with that, our kougss carefully crafted safeguards against the establishment of a king on american soil. and therefore i stand with the constitution, and i stand with the framers, who were committed to ensure that no one is above the law. >> the hearing today followed a somewhat similar format as the house intelligence impeachment hearings last month. th...