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Johnson was a southern democrat whoem whom lincoln picked to create a national unity incompetent the. there's few things historians agreed upon, but this is one -- johnson was one of the america's worst presidents. >> he was a racist neoconfederate who was dead set against congress's prom of rekruks the south. republicans in congress despiced andrew johnson. >> he stood for the oppression of african-americans whom a war had just been fought to liberate. >> president johnson vetoed nearly all the measures to give civil liberties and representation to blacks. the republican congress decided to w...

Impeachment was partisan and ideological. however bad a president andrew johnson was, there were no grounds to remove him. >> the country was one vote away from removing president andrew johnson from office essentially because congress did not like him or his policies. >> johnson basically agreed to cease all of the behavior that had been so problematic, to go along with the congressional reconstruction program. >> historians today regard the impeachment trap as unconstitutional. >> impeachment fell into disrepute. >> johnson's impeachment would serve as a warning about the consequences of a p...

America's worst presidents. >> he was essentially an incredibly racist, neo-confederate who was dead set against congress' program of reconstructing the south. >> republicans in congress despised andrew johnson. >> he stood for the repression of african-americans whom a war had just been fought to liberate. >> president johnson vetoed almost all the measures to give civil liberties and representation to blacks. the republican-controlled congress decided to wage a political war. >> it set an impeachment trap for him. >> that trap was called the tenure of office act. >> congress passed a law ove...

>> tucker: i mean, have you spoken -- i mean, you have been in the house for a while. you were committee chairman. you know everybody. are democrats fully on board, i mean, off the record are they saying to you, boy, we are going to impeach this guy and get a conviction in the senate? do they believe this is going to work? >> that's a very good question. the way i would say it is about like this. you have 30 or 40 or so, maybe a few more that have been around a while that know what they are doing is wrong. but they are being challenged by the left. now, what you also have though is you have pe...

Advisors and question nancy pelosi's competence. >> i walked out, i was so calm, crazy nancy, i've been watching her. and i've been watching her for a long period of time. she's not the same person. she's lost it. pelosi doesn't understand the bill. i don't think she's capable of understanding it. i think she's got a lot of problems. they feel she's a mess. when i watch the movement and the craziness, that's a person who has some problems. i'm a stable genius. >> many democrats now fear president trump may be laying an impeachment trap to consume the house, distract from key issues and alienat...