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>> historians today regard the impeachment trap as unconstitutional. >> impeachment fell into disrepute. >> johnsons impeachment would serve as a warning about the consequences of a partisan impeachment in a sharply divided country. >> it raises blood pressures, and in some perverse ways, it actually makes impeachment harder to use when you might really need it. that life of the party look walk it off look one more mile look

Congress decided to wage a political war. >> it set an impeachment trap for him. >> that trap was called the tenure of office act. >> congress passed a law over johnsons veto that said he could not fire his own cabinet members. >> when president johnson fired his secretary of war, edwin stanton, the house approved 11 articles of impeachment against him, one of which accused the president of bringing congress into ridicule and disgrace. >> their entire approach to impeachment was partisan and ide...

>> historians today regard the impeachment trap as unconstitutional. >> impeachment fell into disrepute. >> johnsons impeachment would serve as a warning about the consequences of a partisan impeachment in a sharply divided country. >> it raises blood pressures, and in some perverse ways, it actually makes impeachment harder to use when you might really need it. i got you something. ♪ ooooh ♪ even though we just started dating ♪ ♪ i find you so captivating ♪ and im done with hesitating...

>> he was essentially an incredibly racist, neo-confederate who was dead set against congress program of reconstructing the south. >> republicans in congress despised andrew johnson. >> he stood for the repression of african-americans whom a war had just been fought to liberate. >> president johnson vetoed almost all the measures to give civil liberties and representation to blacks. the republican-controlled congress decided to wage a political war. >> it set an impeachment trap for him. >> that...

Impeachment was partisan and ideological. however bad a president andrew johnson was, there were no grounds to remove him. >> the country was one vote away from removing president andrew johnson from office essentially because congress did not like him or his policies. >> johnson basically agreed to cease all of the behavior that had been so problematic, to go along with the congressional reconstruction program. >> historians today regard the impeachment trap as unconstitutional. >> impeachment ...

Johnson was a southern democrat whoem whom lincoln picked to create a national unity incompetent the. theres few things historians agreed upon, but this is one -- johnson was one of the americas worst presidents. >> he was a racist neoconfederate who was dead set against congresss prom of rekruks the south. republicans in congress despiced andrew johnson. >> he stood for the oppression of african-americans whom a war had just been fought to liberate. >> president johnson vetoed nearly all the me...

Impeachment was partisan and ideological. however bad a president andrew johnson was, there were no grounds to remove him. >> the country was one vote away from removing president andrew johnson from office essentially because congress did not like him or his policies. >> johnson basically agreed to cease all of the behavior that had been so problematic, to go along with the congressional reconstruction program. >> historians today regard the impeachment trap as unconstitutional. >> impeachment ...

Americas worst presidents. >> he was essentially an incredibly racist, neo-confederate who was dead set against congress program of reconstructing the south. >> republicans in congress despised andrew johnson. >> he stood for the repression of african-americans whom a war had just been fought to liberate. >> president johnson vetoed almost all the measures to give civil liberties and representation to blacks. the republican-controlled congress decided to wage a political war. >> it set an impeac...

>> tucker: i mean, have you spoken -- i mean, you have been in the house for a while. you were committee chairman. you know everybody. are democrats fully on board, i mean, off the record are they saying to you, boy, we are going to impeach this guy and get a conviction in the senate? do they believe this is going to work? >> thats a very good question. the way i would say it is about like this. you have 30 or 40 or so, maybe a few more that have been around a while that know what they are doing...

Advisors and question nancy pelosis competence. >> i walked out, i was so calm, crazy nancy, ive been watching her. and ive been watching her for a long period of time. shes not the same person. shes lost it. pelosi doesnt understand the bill. i dont think shes capable of understanding it. i think shes got a lot of problems. they feel shes a mess. when i watch the movement and the craziness, thats a person who has some problems. im a stable genius. >> many democrats now fear president trump may ...