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Artist or wardrobe consultants. and pelosi grew hotter on >> im not going to talk about wednesday after the president re her. i respond to the president of planned infrastructure meeting. united states. other conversations people want youll remember this from 24 to have among themselves is up hours ago. nded up giving a eeting with to them. fiery press conference in the rose garden. >> this morning, nbcs caskasie hunt asked speaker pelosi if democrats think they can still work with the president...

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, 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 ideological. however bad a president andrew johnson was, there were no grounds to remove him. >> the country was one vote away ...

Lincoln was assassinated. the country was still deeply divided over the civil war. enter andrew johnson. the vice president who succeeded lincoln. johnson was a southern democrat who lincoln picked to create a national unity ticket. theres few things historians agree upon but this is one, andrew johnson was one of americas worst presidents. >> he was essentially an incredibly racist, neo-confederate that was dead set against congresss program of reconstructing the south. >> republicans in congre...

Decided to wage a political war. it sets an impeachment trap for him. that trap was called the ten-year of office act. >> congress passed the law over johnsons veto that says he could not fire his own cabinet members. >> when president johnson fired his secretary of war, the house approved 11 articles of impeachment against him. >> their entire approach to impeachment was partisan and id idea logical. there were no grounds to remove him. the country was one vote away from removing president john...

>> 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 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 reall...

>> 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 trap was called the tenure of office act. >> congress passed a law over johnsons veto that said he could not fire his own cabinet ...

From office, essentially because congress did not like him or his policies. >> johnson 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 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 ...

>> he stood for the repression of african-americans whom a war had been fought to liberate. >> president johnson vetoed almost all the measures to give civil liberties and representation to blacks. 12k3w4r50i6r7b8g9sds they decided to wage a political war. >> they set an impeachment trap. >> that was the tenure of office act. >> they passed a law over his veto who said he could not fire his own cabinet members. >> when president johnson fired his secretary of war, edwin stanton, the house approv...

Peter baker and jeff mason, always good to see the both of you. thank you so much. have good sundays. for all of you, im going to speak with sam nunberg about how he came up with the border wall idea and whether he thinks its a good one now. next, setting an impeachment trap for the president, is that what democrats are up to? denny heck of the house intel committee joins me next. >> you cant impeach somebody thats doing a great job. ive probably done more in the first two years than any presi...

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...