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Cal to our democracy and nothing inju ininjuries the american people more than the president weakens his power under the authority of the constitution as well as the authority of the constitution, itself. may i read one more sentence? >> the witness may have another sentence or two. >> thank you. >> if congress fails to impeach here, then the impeachment process has lost all meaning, along with that our constitutions carefully crafted safe guards against the establishment of a king on american s...

Hovering around 50%. >> well watch and see how many democrats vote when it comes to voting time. it is 90%. >> and i think somebody on the table who feels odd about the idea, i know we have to show the deference, this being a difficult time in the country, but it is a constitutional obligation that members of congress have. so i understand wanting to convey the gravitious but they should not have to be apologetic about fulfilling a constitutional opportunity any more than the president slud feel...

Im commissioning it now. it needs to happen. call it. make it happen. >> powers that be. i think there needs to be a bigger discussion about how african-americans are carrying the democratic party in this race. >> black women in particular. >> it will depend on especially black women. >> candidates need to be heard. its a whole thing. >> i agree. i cant daisagree with that. >> i have things. >> well bring you back. >> i have a book. >> jay-z, made in america. >> i appreciate it. >> youre on the ...

In making decisions. >> reporter: for now, moderates and independent wes talked to are sticking with cunningham, especially as long as he keeps his focus and his message close to home. >> i dont think hes harmed, especially not at this point. >> do you think hell be re-elected? >> yes. >> you say that with -- >> i think he will. >> hes supported the ongoing impeachment process, telling his constituents that just because he supports the process doesnt mean he supports removing the president from ...

You have to be able to think at the beginning of the impeachment process. that the evidence is so clear of offenses so grave that once youve laid out all of the evidence a good fraction of the opposition, the voters, will will reluctantly add commit to themselves they had to do it. otherwise have a partisan impeachment which will tear the country apart. if you meet these three tasks then i think you do the impeachment and those were the words of chairman nadler. now lets see if chairman nadlers ...

Campaign. what youre seeing in this room over the past two weeks is a show trial. the witnesses deemed suitable for television by the democrats were put through a closed-door audition process in a cult-like atmosphere in the basement of the capitol. >> while it is a partisan venture and its not a real impeachment the way that impeachment process has worked the other times its been used. >> what have they delivered? the impeachment version of three-card monte, notorious short con card trick where...

>> the thing they were focused on first, when i went back and talked to madison and franklin, i did find the footnote to all of this very interesting. that before they figured out how a president would be elected, the first thing they wanted to know was how do you get rid of a bad one? >> because it hadnt been done before. dont forget, there werent elected leaders like this before we did it. thank you so much for that. >> thank you very much. all eyes will be on this room right there. the impe...

Professors that discusses what they consider to be a legitimate impeachment process. the book is pretty anti-trump. its called "to end a presidency." in that book the authors state the following, when an impeachment is purely partisan or appears that way, it is presumptive presumptively -- theres a strong risk that policy disagreements have overtaken the proper measure of -- we can also expect that opposition leaders to the president will be pushed to impeach. the key question is whether they wi...

Guess speaking hypothetically, obviously about what george washington would make of all this and everybody trying to get in the minds of the founding fathers and said he would set his powdered hair on fire thinking somebody could be impeach eed on a phone call. even if you dont support impeachment this is not just about a phone call. this is a whole campaign. >> one person who feels its only about a phone call is the president of the united states. notice every time he talks about his perfect ph...

Impeachment. >> its important because its a question of, why are we here? the impeachment train is up and running and were into this question of what can they prove, what cant they prove and that becomes the subject of a trial assuming impeachment articles are passed. how did we get here? there are the constitutional questions. im a little torn about this because while that is worthwhile, i am wondering why its important that we hear from constitutional professors about what their opinion is abo...