Self Impeachment News Today

>> the president doesnt care about the rule of law or constitutional norms in the ways that most people do. everything is through a self-interested prism, and his aides are treating this as a maybe hell forget about this, maybe its just an outburst. because this would be almost a form of self-impeachment, shooting the messenger in public saying you should have come to me. its cuckoo land. >> if he wanted to do it, there would be a 30-day waiting period. if he did that, that would be a 30-day out...

Columnist george will made much the same point, writing that donald trumps refusal to cooperate in congress impeachment inquiry as well as his decision on syria is the type of self-impeachment speaker pelosi predicted. he added that republicans have failed to preserve congressional power, writing that in his view, in 13 months, all congressional republicans who have not defended congress by exercising the constitutional rights of the place should be defeated. and joining me now is lawrence tride...

What lamar alexander said except apparently the dynamic right now within the republican party is you cannot break with the president at all on this issue. you cant even say that the conduct hes engaging in is inappropriate. so that is interesting. look, but in terms of the election and impeachment you know this better than anybody that up until this week the president has seen his -- his poll numbers have seemed impervious to the news cycle and you feel maybe thats changing right now. and the la...

You cannot break with the president at all on this issue. you cant even say that the conduct hes engaging enis inappropriate. so that is interesting. look, but in terms of the election and impeachment you know this better than anybody that up until this week the president has seen his -- his poll numbers have seemed impervious to the news cycle and you feel maybe thats changing right now. and the last week has been an exercise in self-impeachment. so i do wonder whether senators like lamar alexa...

Now were seeing self-impeachment. with his own behavior, his own reaction to the impeachment inquiry he seems to be adding potential articles of impeachment. and its crazy to behold but i dont think its an unconsidered thing. i think its for lack of a better word a sort of strategy. hes saying -- hes trying to give you the impression that theres so little wrong with what he did in that july 25th call with the president of ukraine that hes willing to do it in the open with yet another country, be...

Were seeing self-impeachment. the articles expand every time donald trump gets to a micropho microphone. >> i just got off the phone with a senior administration official who said, that was a "disgrace" for him to say that. you do not reach out to a totalitarian government and say, come investigate us. >> you dont reach out to russia and ask for hillary clintons emails. >> correct. >> your point theyre all hiding under this big desk. >> a bigger desk. >> say one thing publicly, one thing private...