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Meanwhile the impeachment push continues on capitol hill. you write about that in your piece titled don't call it impeachment, call it a witch hunt. you write, this is a legislative -- it is an effort to destroy the president chosen by the american people. this is a project they have been involved in since election night 2016. in that piece you talk about the importance of words and the context they create. you urge everybody not to use the word impeachment in the current political process. you offer a unique perspective on that because you were at the center of the clinton impeachment proceed...

>> someone who knows how this works out, the push to impeach is at stake. it might come back to bite the party pushing it. always good to see you. why do you say that? >> i say that because impeachment is doomed to fail given what we know. the facts are flowing in. in the history of the country, obviously presidential efforts to impeach do not work. but guess what, of the 62 impeachment proceedings eight have resulted in convictions. this will result in a conviction, why we on the impeachment train, we should be on the oversight train and quick calling it impeachment since there is something p...

Constitution to call it impeachment that we are on a formal impeachment inquiry. with all due respect until the house of representatives votes as a body to conduct an impeachment inquiry or investigation, there is action by committees sanctions by the speaker so sounds like a structural point but we live by structure in the constitutional republic. neil: how do they proceed to that next step? they are leaving it to the judiciary committee to get involved. what would change doing it the way you said? >> there would be a formal action by the house resulting if there is any court fight, a federal...

Flirted with a foreign aid to go after the competitor. so the idea that this is somehow going to stop. that somehow trump is tamed. that he won't do everything possible to win in 2020. it's now bogus. this man the president will do anything. including directing a foreign power to make up information about the family of his most likely at least then competitor. >> whether you call it impeachment or illegal. call it what you will. this is -- he's batting 100. >> i asked trump is acting like a democrat in this case. would pursue something far more extreme than the impeachment you're talking about...

Information about the family of his most likely competitor. >> yeah. >> if i could -- >> well, whether you call it impeachment or whether you call it illegal, call it what you will, you know, he's -- this is -- he's batting .100 at this stage. >> i want to ask you, you know, trump is acting like the diplomats in this case would actually pursue something far more extreme than the impeachment you're talking about, juliette. if the tables were turned, the president actually had this to say about what he thought democrats would do. >> if a republican ever did what joe biden did, if a republican ev...