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What it really meant was someone who is abusing power. and so, in other words, you know, the president could declare that he's going to nuke canada tomorrow, but there's no law against nuking canada, but that would be a high crime and misdemeanor that certainly would be prosecuted. the problem with this whole high crimes and misdemeanor and the whole idea of impeachment is that, you know, if the economy was tanking and people were doing terrible and unemployment was high, i suspect the support for impeachment would probably be much greater. plus, we have this hyperpartisanship and we have such...

Threats that each and every one of us face. these are the kinds of conversations that we're having in our town hall meetings and house parties in different parts of the country where we have democrats, republicans, libertarians and independents coming together saying, hey, we are all concerned about making sure we have clean water to drink for our families, that we have clean air to breathe, that we're able to raise our kids in a community that's safe. it is the hyperpartisanship in washington unfortunately that has created this gridlock that has stood in the way of the kinds of progress that ...

People all over the world. this is not a democrat issue or a republican issue. this is about the environmental threats that each and every one of us face. these are the kinds of conversations that we're having in our town hall meetings and house parties and different parties of the country where we have democrats, republicans, libertarians and independents coming together and saying, hey, we are all concerned about making sure we have clean water to drink for our families, that we have clean air to breathe, that we're able to raise our kids in a community that's safe. it is the hyper-partisans...

Look what's happened in shanghai. we're silent. we're silent and wonder why the rest of the world thinks we're not going to stand up. so what do you have happening in europe? you have urban in hungary. you have what is an anti-democratic leader in a democratic state supposedly of turkey with erdogan. this is starting to fall apart. we have to lead the world, and we have to lead it by our example and making it clear that human rights and civil rights and civil liberties, they matter to us. i don't give a damn whether you buy all our arms. it's a mistake. [ applause ] >> our next question is fro...

This requires somebody who will rise above hyperpartisanship. that person isn't adam schiff and he's ill serving our country and ill serving his political party by being so partisan and so fundamentally unfair. jon: if the impeachment inquiry is seen as being simply a partisan attack on a republican president, it is not going to go far with the american people. is that fair to say? >> i think that is fair to say. it undermines the process if people, in this case mostly republicans, are suggesting that it is not fair. whether it's not fair to the white house, not fair to the american people bec...