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Im. ment, what are you doing to restrain that? what is the theory. case on how he is restrained. he does something cataclysmic? >> he's had a pattern going back to construction. border wall through funds that were not appropriated. his actions. defying yemen. this is a president who flaunted congress and that's why i think a censure resolution is so important. jackson flaunted on the construction. second. . what congress did is they censured him. i think we need to censure and make the case to the american public through aggressions. . ing that this president is under mining separation. powers...

The house. we have a lot of work to do to build a case. my view is that we could get 218 votes for a censure resolution and we could pass that in the senate. only one president has ever been censured, andrew jackson. that is a huge rebuke on the president. so i think we should do that now and aggressively investigate and see if we can build a case. >> what makes you think a censure motion could possibly pass the senate right now? >> it would only require a simple majority. two things for a censure motion, which the democrats don't have. i think you could get a mitt romney or a few folks in the...

Build the case. i'm for subpoenaing him. >> mueller moted that investigations of sitting presidents are permitted to preserve evidence while memories are fresh and documents available. do you believe he was preserving that evidence of those documents for congress to open formally an impeachment inquiry? >> i believe he was preserving it to open up any inquiry when the president leaves office. the constitution says you can't go after the president when he's in office because the president has many duties. there's nothing to say the president may not face consequences when he leaves office. that...

Wrong. >> what would that achieve? i know you're on the same page in terms of continuing to investigate the president. this censure motion that you would like to see instead of opening formal impeachment proceedings, explain why that would be a better option when impeachment would give congress more power to investigate and call witnesses? >> i think we have to continue to investigate but the challenge of launching an impeachment inquiry now is if the house did go down the road and impeach, it may send the wrong precedent and wrong message the president would go around saying he's been acquitt...

>> the censure resolution was then referred to the house ethics committee for review. on monday, house republicans stripped steve king of his committee assignments. local newspapers in steve king's home state of iowa are now calling for his resignation. yesterday "the des moines register" editorial board wrote, "steve king should resign. he has lost even the potential to effectively represent his constituents." the sioux city journal who has previously endorsed king wrote, "it's time for steve king to go." here is what steve king said in a radio interview yesterday when asked if he would resig...