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Transcripts for CNN New Day With Alisyn Camerota and John Berman 20191125 12:56:00

And from the white house itself, saying that they re trying to subvert an election with an election year just around the corner, why go down the path of impeachment? as a political judgment, that might be something that the attorney general could advance as a reason for avoiding impeachment, but as a legal judgment, it s just wrong and almost frivolously wrong. the idea that an impeachment cannot happen in an election year is tantamount to saying that impeachment can t happen during a first term in office when a president might, again, face re-election. quite to the contrary, the framers actually considered whether or not the house should have an impeachment power and the senate a trial power and they considered whether or not that would give the legislature too much power and they decided against it precisely because the maintenance of norms of behavior was too important an issue to let only be decided during election times. and no surprise that the justice department has not resp ....

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