Business, the media, across the board, and the president since hes been in office has stoked that in an unprecedented way. The argument that theyre going to make about the fact that hes obstructing certainly matters on constitutional level but does it matter on a who cares level. This is an issue, i think the loss of institutional integrity, because our politics are tribalized and divisive, why nancy pelosi did not want to move forward with impeachment for the longest time, because it would be so divisive and she feels like her hand has been, you know, that theres no choice but to move forward. Whether its i remember during the health care debate, senator dodd said this is a really bad idea to do this on a party line vote. Doing impeachment this way is really hard because it allows one side to cast the other as seeking to legitimize them. Thats what the American People should not want because it undermines our institutions. Were going to hear from three witnesses basically at length to
democratic side, stephen castor, they will make their arguments, on the democrat side in favor of impeachment, the republican side clearly against impeachment. 30 minutes is a long time, actually, for a lawyer to present a matter before congress, having testified before congress and prepared five-minute statements, 30 minutes is a long time. they do have at least from the majority perspective, a very lengthy report to base his statements on and so he s really going to want to, barry berke, to go through the constitutional grounds for impeachment in depth and it will really be i m interested to see how stephen castor for the minority is able to counter those arguments on the constitutional basis. we ll hear from the democrats side. first the republican side second. here we go. the chair authorized to declare recesses i object. objection noted. the quorum is present.