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Essentially monarchist. >> the last week or so i have gotten more alarmed than i was before. i was obviously not particularly calm about what this presidency means. what you see last week was horrific. lindsey graham, the notion that we are all going to rally donald trump after this is over. but, that's not even the worst of it. the worst of it is as you alluded to earlier in the show, a president calling american law enforcement when they go after him scum? that's the language of a authoritarian. and when you have republican members of congress looking at what happened and saying this is okay...

Are going to change if this president remains in office, you will see him align himself with putin and russia and he already says, you know, that he's not going to condemn him. he's not going to do anything to talk about the fact that we have been undermined already about putin and russia. they're going to do it again. this president does not care. >> yeah. >> i am going to play lindsey graham. >> he's off the scale. they're telling us they don't care what we think. >> yeah. >> they're telling us they're going to do what they want to do. they're not going to have rules that are going to be fai...

What would happen? >> he keeps on joking about it. dictators happens all over the world. the 22nd amendment says the president has two terms or he or she is out. the remedy, the president messes up. when he commits a high crime or misdemeanor is impeachment and removal from office. would that happen? we have to ask whether that would. if you look at articles of impeachment. donald trump ignores congress. he does not believe in separation of powers or checks and balances and the republicans allowed him to get away with it. >> that's the key. >> that's the key. the only thing that stops a mindse...

All the enablers in congress. you have all the people that supports everything he does. you have congressman who says i don't care what the evidence is, he'll not be removed from office. i will not vote for impeachment no matter what the facts are. when you have that happening, anything could happen. it is a very serious, danger to democracy and our future as a country. i never felt any fear that richard nixon would actually stay in office. we did debate what would happen when we want to serve a subpoena. how would we want to get the subpoena to the president and you can't just knock on the do...

States goes to a foreign power and says i want you to investigate a political opponent of mine. that's desperatism. here you have people like lindsey graham saying that's okay. this is very scary for the country. >> yeah. a decade from now, a democratic president goes to china and says what have you got from ivanka or they go to the saudis and say what have you got with jared, did he bribe you to get money for the 666 buildings? when this comes back, it could come back to their monarch and the republican chosen royal family. it always comes back. they don't seem to think so. my producer told m...