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The framers of the constitution had three particular concerns. a, abuse of power. b, the betrayal of the constitution for personal gain. and c, corruption of the election process. president donald trumps misconduct has managed to implicate the impeachment trifecta. hes actually engaged in behavior across the board that the framers of the constitution would have found abhorrent, so were going to explore that. were going to continue to follow the facts, apply the law, be guided by the constitution...

Whats new and what we found here and what is likely to happen next in your committee. what can you tell us about how the house as a whole and judiciary is going to move on this next? >> were going to continue to move expeditiously because it relates to an urgent national matter of concern and requires action and accountability. at the hearing tomorrow before the house judiciary committee you can expect well explore the concerns that the framers of the constitution had as it relates to potential ...

Present the truth to the american people. >> in terms of that corruption of the election process you were just describing i was interested to hear chairman schiff today when he spoke to reporters but also to read in the report a real sense of urgency that this needs to happen fast, essentially, that this needs to happen right now and it cant wait. in part because there is a risk to the 2020 election that the president is still at this point actively courting for an interference in the 2020 elect...

They have long been forbidden from giving donations to candidates. because that denies us our right to self-government. then-justice brett kavanaugh was correct in saying this because the supreme court has taken campaign finance case after campaign finance case to talk about the first amendment. summarily affirmed here, they didnt even need to hear argument to know its constitutional to keep foreigners out of our election process. >> professor feldman, you were somewhat of an impeachment skeptic...

Democracy by betraying his trust to foreign influence and interference. and also, by corrupting the election process. professor karlan, youre one of americas leading election law scholars. what role does impeachment play in protecting the integrity of our elections, especially in an international context? in which vladimir putin and other tyrants and des pits are interfering to destabilize around the world. >> enacted a series of laws to make sure there isnt interference in our elections and all...

For taxes. and they knew if they voted for taxes that they would never be an elected official again. but we had a $40 billion deficit and they voted anyway. i want to see my republican colleagues have a backbone and say, is this seat that i hold so important that i would compromise the national security, and i would compromise the next election? i think whats at stake here is so much more important than their individual elections. and one final point, if all of them stood together, or even 20 or...

Personal and political interest above the interest of the united states and sought to undermine the integrity of the election process and endangered u.s. national security, unquote. i know you dont think president trump asking president zelensky to investigate the biden is out of bounds. is there anything in the report that changed your mind? >> well, i got the report an hour ago. it is over 300 pages long but i do speed read but not quite that fast. let me say that i dont think the president ha...

Respect to that first hearing which, after all, is setting sort of intellectual underpinnings to the election process. the issue of impeachment, how it came about to be included in the constitution and how its been used. i think thats going to be an instructive hearing, not particularly compelling with respect to the presidents interests one way or the other. >> i know youre saying its the norm. is it fair? >> well, i dont know whether it is a question of fairness. its a question of how we proce...

Interesting to see how the attorney general handles it and juliette, we all remember the series of tweets early on in the press dnsy and greg, i want to turn to you and the president accused president trump of wiretapping and he, in fact, said terrible, just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tou are just before the victory and nothing found. this is mccarthyism and how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. this is nixon/watergate b...

Free and fair election system that includes one person, one vote, well, its a bit skewed if people who have millions and millions, in some cases billions of dollars, and have the ability to influence how people think about who is available for their election process and what the ideas are. so it is very challenging, to that point, it is very challenging. and im trying to raise the money to be able to compete. but, you know, when youre looking at 30 something million or what other people are spen...