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They are saying impeach of offense that's another account. has this ever been done before? >> no and it's extremely dangerous to do that. it denies the executive branch the power granted to it under the constitution as a coequal branch. to challenge legislative excessive. when i was growing up it was the liberals like me and the libertarians who were opposed to congressional overuse of subpoenas. it was called the mccarthy period. at least civil libertarians constantly challenge congress. we took them to court and won a lot of those cases. to eliminate the excesses of legislative power during ...

Issues is to go to court. we have three coequal branches of government. if one branch says they're going to completely obstruct the business of the second, then we just go to court. that's the way it works in our country. again, it's important to remind people of the facts, and the constitution. that's not how it works. it doesn't work that way. it's never worked that way. never. in the entire history of our country. we haven't had a president of the united states simply defy coequal branch altogether. there's no example. my friends on the other side of the aisle cannot point to a single examp...

The way that we resolve these issues is to go to court. we have three coequal branches of government. one branch says they are going to completely obstruct the business of the second, then we go to court. that's the way it works in our country. again, it's important to remind people of the facts in the constitution. that's not how it works. that's never how it has worked, and the entire history of our country have we had a president of the united states simply defy a coequal branch altogether. there's no example. my friends on the other side of the aisle cannot point to a single example where ...

This week when he had the opportunity to question a wide range of constitutional scholars during the judiciary committee's hearing i had an opportunity and chose to use my time to focus on this very issue, to highlight the historical context of the way in which even president clinton and to some extent president nixon participated at greater lengths in their impeachment inquiries than this president, who has directed his executive branch to simply not participate at all. and he has had every opportunity to engage in good faith and has chosen not to. and instead has released these outlandish le...

President nixon participated at greater lengths in their impeachment inquiries than this president, who has directed his executive branch to simply not participate at all. and he has had every opportunity to engage in good faith and has chosen not to. and instead has released these outlandish letters by the white house counsel all in my view in an attempt to obfuscate from the fundamental egregious nature of the president's conduct that ultimately undermines our national security. look, i've never lost faith that congress is coequal branch under article i would ultimately take the steps necess...