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American peoples money on this impeachment, theres so many other important things that are going undone. Within this committees own jurisdiction, we should be addressing the opioid epidemic. We could be working together to find a solution to our immigration and asylum challenges on our southern border. We could be protecting americans from having their intellectual property and jobs stolen by chinese companies. And we could be enhancing Election Security just to name a few things. And congress as a whole could be working on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. Providing additional tax reli...

Weakest, the thinnest impeachment in the history of america, that there is no bribery, no extortion, no obstruction of justice, and no abuse of power. >> he was referring there to one of the witnesses, professor jonathan turley. joining me now, one of the other three legal scholars who testified and went unmentioned by the minority leader, harvard law school professor, noah feldmann. professor feldman, you heard minority leader mccarthy there quoting turley saying this is the weakest in the history of impeachment in america. is it? >> no. and, you know, you have to begin with the fact that the...

I'm not sure what really ultimately will have been accomplished from that. then finally i disagree, the framers well-understood the common definition of bribery. that's been supplied in the bribery statute. i suppose reasonable people can disagree about this, i don't think a bribery defense has been shown. and short of that, as much as you want to talk about abuse of power, i think as professor turley correctly pointed out, abuse of power untethered from a high crime and misdemeanor which would be either treason, bribery, or some other high crime and misdemeanor is not sufficient to form a leg...

Determining who is the next winner than it is a foreign government. >> i think it is fair to say that the president's actions are unprecedented. but what also strikes me is how many republicans and democrats believe that his conduct was wrong. let's listen. let's listen to the colonel. >> is improper for the president of the united states to demand a foreign government investigate a u.s. citizen and a political opponent. >> professor feldmann, in light of the fact that the president asked for an investigation and then only when he was caught released the military aid. is there still a need for...

I take no pleasure in the fact that we're here today. as a patriot who loves america, it pains me that the circumstances force us to undertake this grave and solemn obligation. nonetheless, based simply on the publicly-available evidence, it appears that president trump pressured a foreign government to interfere in our elections by investigating his perceived chief political opponent. today, we are here to uphold our oaths to defend the constitution of the united states by furthering our understanding whether the president's conduct is impeachable. it is entirely appropriate that we're examin...