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What does that do to them politically? >> well, it should hurt them. the american people should hold them accountable. they have damaged the constitution. they have inflicted a wound on our system of checks and balances and separation of powers. they have abused the power of congress by impeaching for grounds that are not in the constitution. it's hamilton and madison's nightmare. hamilton said the most dangerous thing that could happen is to have an impeachment by the house just based on the numbers of votes you can get, not guilty or innocent, and medicines that if you start using phrases li...

>> well, it should hurt them. the american people should hold them accountable. they have damaged the constitution. they have inflicted a wound on our system of checks and balances and separation of powers. they have abused the power of congress by impeaching for grounds that are not in the constitution.ed it's hamilton and madison's nightmare. hamilton said the most dangerous thing that could happen isis to have an impeachment by the house just based on the numbers of votes you can get, not guilty or innocent, and madison said that if you start using phrases like power -- >> sean: everybody's...

Standard for running an impeachment. and i think they helped define high crimes and misdemeanors. and one of the most powerful high crime and misdemeanor was article ii which was the abuse of power article regarding richard nixon. they documented the efforts that richard nixon made to use instruments of government to hurt his enemies. i think for the american people, that is the most powerful misuse of power imaginable. imagine if your president because he doesn't like you, can go after you and can use the irs against you or the fbi. it's ironic to hear jim jordan and others talk about 63 mill...

Put service over self. to put the country over his personal interests. i note from my colleagues that all four of the constitutional scholars who testified including the republican's own witness have confirmed that abuse of power is an impeachable offense. president trump's actions, in fact, exemplify the framer's fears and the very reason that abuse of power is a high crime. worse than president nixon, president trump pressured a foreign government to aid in his corrupt scheme. that's the abuse of power article, but there's a second article, obstruction of congress. we know that no president ...

The american people can understand what we were trying to dupe or the first minute we did took out the first article which was the abuse of power article because it was so unwarranted and wide and varied that you could charge any president with abuse of power. it's not is in the constitution. >> listening to you watching what's going on, you've got 3-4 more fights to get in the middle of. i've got to send you back inside to thank you for bringing us to the historic hearing spread that's it for us to think that i want you to tune in at 8:00 eastern time because this is the show of the sworn ene...