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Well when he was impeached in 1998. impeachment is a political matter and if the house of representatives decides to impeach, they can do it. the senate chooses to convict, they can do so. and the constitution says nothing about the performance you're doing. it has everything to do with your lack of performance, the fact that you're violating the constitution, the emoluments clause, that you are constantly overriding the will of the people. >> now, even if that's true, though, as you point out, it's political, rick, right, you hear the dow, look, it has been having a horrible time. okay, so to...

They're doing a good job and you don't impeach people when there was no collusion, because there was no collusion. >> trump referring to what he says nancy pelosi told him in the white house today. those comments coming after freshman democratic congressman rashida talib, hours after being sworn into congress, said this. >> and when your son looks at you and says, mama, look, you won, bullies don't win and i said, baby, they don't because we're going to go in there and we're going to impeach the [ bleep ]. >> "outfront" now, frank, columnist for the "new york times" and rick sontorum. i want t...

Investigations. you have to have subpoenas. you have to have oversight and accountability. after you've gone through that process and maybe even after you've had the mueller report or have some indictments, then you can go forward with the possible impeachment but you don't just do it right out the box. >> the president was asked about this today, right, as i said, 40 minutes of question and answer in the rose garden. he was asked about what she said, and you know, of course, obviously, he has said some pretty bad things, but here is how he felt about her. >> i thought her comments were disgra...

President trump that if democrats went in and impeached him, there's no sign that he would get convicted in the senate so it would end up being this incredibly divisive process that got nowhere in terms of removing him from office. but wait, one other thing, though. this idea that he's doing such a great job. this is a president who when asked to grade himself said, is there a grade higher than an a-plus? he may have had a good jobs report but he's hemorrhaging cabinet members. >> stocks essentially entered a bear market. >> we're about to go into the third week of a government shutdown. the i...

That i criticize him, you know, quite frequently on. i don't think the president's used quite that kind of language. >> yes he has. >> there are degrees of -- >> he's used the exact same words, rick. >> of profanity and that is at the top wrong of that. listen, i understand how someone like -- look, i was a young member and you get into a -- get all whipped up in a crowd and you say something and you think, oh, gosh, i wish i hadn't said that. i've done it on the air like keith just did, but the -- the problem i have with her is she didn't walk it back. she just said, i stand by it. i'm going ...