Tim Neftelli News Today

If you pass the aisle, youre politically dead. one of the things we have to look at is are there facts to support that? now, ive never run for office or faced voters. its easy for me to say. but when you look back at the people who decided to defy their partys basic conventional wisdom, you find their political futures were not automatically pushed to the side. >> one of the things that i wonder, tim, about all this, is you have this extraordinary -- trumps own officials saying look, we were pre...

February 24th, 1868, andrew johnson. december 16th, 199 8, bill clinton. december 18th, 2019,, donald trump. these are the three impeachments of american presidents. joining me are three historians who have studied presidents who have been impeached or almost impeached. annette gordon reed is the author of many books, one called andrew johnson. tim neftelli is a professor at nyu and a cnn presidential historian. and john meacham is a contributing editor at time. hes written the introduction to "...

Were seeing it right now, there was a line of thought, they took it more directly from monteskew. there was a study of it in the months before the constitutional convention. what they saw was that we had to make things incredibly difficult to do because we we were as human beings more likely to do the wrong thing than the right thing. and the fruits of that system, however frustrating it might be to one side or the other at a given moment is something were seeing right now. >> tim, you mentioned...