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Exactly what hes being impeached for. he didnt tell the ukrainians to interfere with an election. they can talk about whether they liked the phone call or not, they can talk about bribery all they want. when you look at the bare bones of the constitutional language in the history, we have never seen anything like this before. >> nothing close. take the abuse of power, article one and then lay that alongside the abuse of power article and the three prong mix of impeachment, a fair-minded person w...

Impeachment, i cant even sometimes get my hands around exactly what hes being impeached for. he didnt tell the ukrainians to interfere with an election. they can talk about whether they liked the phone call or not, they can talk about bribery all they want. when you look at the bare bones of the constitutional language in the history, we have never seen anything like this before. >> nothing close. take the abuse of power, article one and then lay that alongside the abuse of power article and the...

Impeachment, i cant even sometimes get my hands around exactly what hes being impeached for. he didnt tell the ukrainians to interfere with an election. they can talk about whether they liked the phone call or not, they can talk about bribery all they want. when you look at the bare bones of the constitutional language in the history, we have never seen anything like this before. >> nothing close. take the abuse of power, article one and then lay that alongside the abuse of power article and the...

>> trace: on that segue, lets go to judge star who would like to judge it because i want to put these numbers here, look at the numbers here. impeachment numbers are flat. 48, 48, nobody has change their minds over the past three months according to these polls. your response on that, judge judge starr? >> im not surprised because the narrative was essentially baked in months ago at the beginning of the fall. you either take this with the kind of seriousness our democrat brothers and sisters are...

It was virtually certain at the beginning of those 85 days that the president would be impeached because the evidence of what became the abuse of power article of impeachment was right there in the phone call, right there in the smoking gun. in all previous political dramas of this sort the investigations began with suspicions, then the investigators slowly collected evidence and testimony, and then toward the end of the investigation they found the smoking gun. in richard nixons case tapes of h...

Written record of president trumps phone call to the president of ukraine and we read donald trump asking for a favor, though. we read the words of that phone call identifying joe biden by name as the target of the investigation that president trump was pressuring the president of ukraine to announce. speaker of the house nancy pelosi announced the beginning of an official impeachment inquiry, and here we are 85 days later with the president of the united states impeached. it was virtually certa...

Beginning of those 85 days that the president would be impeached because the evidence of what became the abuse of power article of impeachment was right there in the phone call, right there in the smoking gun. in all previous political dramas of this sort the investigations began with suspicions. then the investigators slowly collected evidence and testimony. and then toward the end of the investigation, they found the smoking gun. in richard nixons case, tapes of his white house conversations, ...

You were listening when andy mccarthy had to say. what was your feeling on that? >> andy is such a great prosecutor but we do need to come back as john roberts just said. it is a political exercise. my point is this. the evidence, whether its circumstantial or direct and entirely circumsensual has to be overwhelming to the american people who arent sitting in a courtroom and listening to every witness testify and drawing inferences and so forth. when you read the abuse of power article in the ni...

Where no crime is alleged, no victim and where the democrats themselves couldnt even decide what to accuse the president of doing wrong before ending up with this embarrassment of a grab bag of abusive power article. obstruction of congress? to even allege an omission of constitutional illiteracy. the founders had a term with the democrats call obstruction of congress. the founders pole at a separation of powers. the funny thing about obstruction, every time democrats get caught trying to frame ...

Will vote, however, for both articles of impeachment. another one jerry goldman said today hed only vote for the abuse of power article, thats the first article, not the article for obstruction of congress. many of the democrats cited the constitution and their conscience for their decision to vote aye. >> i think that a serious violation of abuse of power happened here. >> but if we dont do it now then when will we? >> i think its equally important today when he does something wrong. >> i belie...