MSNBC Hardball With Chris Matthews December 22, 2019 00:06:00
How long can she get away with it? if it's two, three months, does she even hold the sort of damocles she can at any moment impeach the president. does she have that authority? >> under the constitution the house has the authority to impeach. the impeachment proffer takes place when someone from the house goes over to the senate and impeaches the president at the bar of the senate. that's the way it's always been expressed for a couple of hundred years. so until she does that, he's not technically impeached. when we stated the president's been impeached that's a kind of shorthand. we mean the ...