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One simple impeachable offense. it's called rub instruction of justice. it's not turning over material to congress, and pointedly it's both article 1 and article 3 of the nixon impeachment. that's exactly what it was about. and indeed when clinton was being impeached there was a guy named lindsey graham who took to the floor of the house and this is on my twitter now and said that is an impeachable offense. if you don't turn over material to congress, and that's what happened today. >> lindsey graham basically making the argument that nixon kind of signed his own political death when he refuse...

At the same time, and we've seen so many of these cases but it's worth revisiting, a lot of the republicans who were defending the president now on impeachment sang a different tune when they were trying to take bill clinton down. here's lindsey graham, for example. >> article three of impeachment against richard nixon, it was based on the idea that richard nixon failed to comply with subpoenas of congress. congress was going through its oversight function to provide oversight of the president. when asked for information, richard nixon chose not to comply and the congress back at that time sai...

Article was based on the idea that richard nixon as president failed to comply with subpoenas of congress. congress was going through oversight function to preside oversight to the president. the day richard nixon is the day he was subject to impeachment because he took the power from congress over the impeachment process away from congress, and he became the judge and jury. >> so speaking of became the judge and jury, writes this eight page letter today where he says it's basically a political document so i don't think we should take it seriously as legal documentation but we have deemed ever...

Impeachment inquiry. >> adamczyk we've heard the end of that. i think there will probably likely be, in the coming days, weeks and months, and opportunity for, as a legal matter to make a point in the existing attempts, just the subpoenas thrown all over the place and possibly, not within the lawful oversight function of a particular committee, you are intending this to be with you in your impeachment function but you haven't had a houseboat therefore it's illegitimate. and imagine at some point someone may stand up and raise the flag and say hold on a second period if there's not a houseboat ...

So the democrat party impeachment inquiry. >> adamczyk we've heard the end of that. i think there will probably likely be, in the coming days, weeks and months, and opportunity for, as a legal matter to make a point in the existing attempts, just the subpoenas thrown all over the place and possibly, not within the lawful oversight function of a particular committee, you are intending this to be with you in your impeachment function but you haven't had a houseboat therefore it's illegitimate. and imagine at some point someone may stand up and raise the flag and say hold on a second period if th...