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House, president trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors by corruptly abusing the office of the presidency. >> tucker: oh, yeah. that sounds bad. and as you just heard the framers would frown upon it. what would they think specifically? well fortunately jerry nadler asked that question and witness noah feldman had an answer. here it was. >> if washington were here today, if he were joined by madison, hamilton and other framers, what do you believe they would say if presented with the evidence before us about president trump's conduct? >> i believe the framers would identif...

Before the house, president trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors. by corruptly abusing the office of the presidency. >> martha: all right. so looking at it from the democrats' perspective interest for a moment here, they look at your line of questioning and say yeah, so why didn't you defend the president on this issue of abuse of power. you spent most of your time going after them as partisans and trying to undermine their argument that way. but you didn't try to dismantle their argument that the president abused his power. why not? >> because i only had 5 minutes, mar...

Camera then abruptly calling off a scheduled news conference and as he was in the air, back on capitol scholars were telling democrats exactly what they wanted to hear, that the president has indeed committed impeachable offenses and that's where we start with nbc's peter alexander. >> reporter: tonight house democrats leaning on history to make their case for impeaching president trump. >> if what we're talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable. >> reporter: inviting a panel of constitutional scholars to bolster their investigation. >> president trump has committed impeach...

Now, we can be theoretical all we want, but the american people is really going to look at this and say, huh? >> after that it was time for the witnesses to respond. >> mr. collins, i would like to say to you, sir, that i read transcripts of every one of the witnesses who appeared in the live hearing because i would not speak about these things without reviewing the facts. what has happened in the case today is something that i do not think we have ever seen before. a president who has doubled down on violating his oath to faithically execute the laws and to protect and defend the constitution...

Academic in substance, the democrats three witnesses were unanimous in their conclusion president trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors. they said trump's impeachment was not only justified but a congressional duty. here we go. >> on the basis of the testimony and the evidence before the house, president trump has committed impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors by corruptly abusing the office of the presidency. >> when president trump invited, indeed demanded foreign involvement in our upcoming election, he struck at the very heart of what makes this a republic to which we pledge all...