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House? >> i think the president continues to think about it as a campaign and not an issue of governing. the approach is energizing his base. there's been a sign of a little bit of enthusiasm lagging with supporters. but it doesn't get him to deliver. and it seems at the end of the day after you've been president for two years maybe and you're facing the first mid terms which would be brutal. ask president clinton and president obama about what first midterms can be like, your own voters don't want you to disrupt. they want you to have done some of the things you talked about. >> senator linds...

But the constitution itself is a protection. the problem is that there's no real judicial review of this decision. gerald ford famously said that the impeachment standards is what we say it is. that's really not true. that as the framers indicated what was the basis for impeachment, they limited it in a departure president english model, high crimes or misdemeanors, and that does have meaning and historically it's been respected. we've only had two impeached presidents in our history. >> susan? >> good morning, professor. >> good morning. >> i'm just wondering, the things that these folks are ...

Be going forward? >> well, just imagine that. i mean, that we're going to now impeach presidents because they have, you know, they don't have the values that we want. that they're -- that their thoughts are not in line with the thoughts of the majority. i mean, if you want a presidency like that, understand this is not going to be the last president. and that standard will be applied to the next one. maybe there'll be a democratic president where the majority doesn't think that that president has the values that it takes to stay in office. >> mark halperin? >> professor, if the president wants...

Was mexico was going to pay for the wall. in january he had the phone call with the president of mexico where the mexican president made it clear that mexico would not be paying for the wall, and trump seemed to understand that and said that's okay. i get it, but just don't tell your press that. it seem like he understands this is never going to get paid for my mexico. he needs congress to appropriate money to begin any kind of construction. it's a fixation for this president. he's been talking about scheit. he wants it rolling and he needs money to do it. >> he needs a lot of money. depending...

Just a way that they came up with in order to reduce the degree of legal vulnerability in their mind that this program would have. but it's clearly a muslim ban, and it's clearly unconstitutional for that reason. you know, even if it were actually supported by a majority of the population, which it is not, even if it were, the majority doesn't get to override the constitution. an i mus, even if widely felt, is not a reason to enact a law or a regulation that affects people's lives. and i think that, you know, if you look at the stories of who has been affected by this ban and how they've been ...