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biden. number two, the specific impeachment charge, therefore, is abuse of office. as laid out in federalist 65, or the crime of extortion. as summarized on my sirius xm radio show by larry dean, the dean of the harvard law school and the current president of the hewlitt foundation. >> the quid pro quo is softening and missing what's at the heart of this, an effort by the president to get something he wanted by with holding something of value that the country is supposed to give to another country. one of our allies. >> you believe this is indeed what was envisioned by federalist 65? >> no question. no question. if that's the case. it's the purest example of abuse of power. >> point number three, the white house has yet to provide a substantive defense and may never do so. point four, so far, the white

house defense has been to attack the process and smear the witnesses. point five, the lack of defense on substance may be sufficient. if americans believe that the president was in the wrong, but that this is not worthy of impeachment. senator pat toomey has said as much. he called the ukraine call quote, not appropriate, but not impeachable. after noting that no president has been removed from office after having been impeached, toomey said this -- that should tell us something about the gravity of this. the seriousness of this and why in my view it's a very high bar. there is i think latitude in our system to have errors of judgment and inappropriate actions remedied through the political process. it's called an election. point six, beware of the bubble. about those recent national polls showing support for impeachment, yes. nationally in the latest poll, 49% want him impeached and

removed. 47% oppose it. but according to other recent data, in the battleground states of arizona, florida, michigan, north carolina, pennsylvania and wisconsin, the majority of voters remain opposed to removing the president from office through impeachment. opponent seven, it's best for democrats to expedite the process. so as not to bump up against americans voting in 2020. point 8, in the vote to auth authorize impeachment hearings, no republicans, despite 18 pending retirements and only two democrats broke ranks. therefore, nine, final point, this is going to be a partisan shit show, just in time for christmas. go to my website, smerkonish.com to vote on this week's survey question, will the impeachment process remain partisan from start to finish? how is the impeachment inquiry

matters, crucial battleground states that could make or break president trump's victory in 2020? joining me from pennsylvania, the director of the franklin and marshall college poll terry madonna. michigan program director co-host of it's just politics, zoe clark and political reporter at the milwaukee journal sentin sentinel. chloe, give me the view from michigan. >> we're different in these parts and this flyover country as you said. i kid, look, voters here in michigan are just as divided as the country feels. just as divided as some of the polling that you've said. and that's why we were a swing state. so i think if you really want to look at michigan sort of as a microcosm of the country, look to the eighth congressional district, that's alyssa slotkin, a freshman democrat, won in 2018

a congressional district that went for trump in 2016. one of the six freshmen who signed onto the sort of now-infamous "washington post" op-ed saying why they were voting for an impeachment inquiry. the fact that she did that as a moderate democrat in the state of michigan i think was telling. >> in the latest data that i have for your state, 51-42, 51% say no, don't remove him for this. 42% say yes. it probably is similar to what his approval and disapproval numbers are in your state. no? >> you're absolutely correct. and look, i mean for those of us who cover this, who day in, day out are reading the headlines, know that instant that someone tweets, sure, it all feels like someone should have a decision being made or know exactly what they think about impeachment. but for voters who have regular jobs in manufacturing or agriculture, two of the biggest

economic drivers here in the state, impeachment is not the number one priority for them every single day. it is early days. we just saw the formal vote this past week there have not even been these open hearings yet. where we'll be able to see some of these transcripts. so i think folks are cautious, the polls show they were interested in seeing an inquiry but are still concerned about the actual idea of impeachment or removal. i think probably for a lot of voters across the country, taking it slowly, better understanding the issues is where they're at and there isn't this fervor, like there is for those of us waiting to see what the next thing is that happens, right? >> molly, when i interview pundits, pollsters on my radio program and i ask them to progosticate about 2020, often they'll say to me, if you could only tell me what happens in wisconsin, i could tell you who

the next president will be. give me the lay of the land in your great state. >> the issue of impeachment has split our state, too. but that's relatively new. a few months ago in april there was a similar question posed in a poll here. about impeachment and removal. and i think only about 29% supported that idea at the time in april. now we're seeing about you know, 49% don't want to impeach or remove and 46 do. so you're seeing a split state. but that's, that also you know reveals a growing support for it as well. >> the data that i have, 51% say no, don't remove him from this. 44% say yes. that's in wisconsin and that's according to the marquette law school poll. that comports with the vibe that you're getting through your

reporting? >> there's less support for removing president trump from office than there is for the impeachment inquiry. when i talk to voters here, there's a willingness to hear you know what happens in this inquiry and what they find out. there seems to be less enthusiasm for the idea of removing the president from office. but overall i also don't get the sense that the impeachment issue is top of mind for a lot of voters that i talk to here. >> terry madonna from the commonwealth of pennsylvania, give me the lay of the land. >> well michael, the lay of the land in franklin and marshall college poll just recently released, 57% of pennsylvania voters do support the inquiry. but only 21% of republicans do. 85% of democrats do. as the other folks have indicated. there's huge, huge polarization

with democrats overwhelmingly supporting it. and republicans underwhelmingly supporting it. and the new york times siena college survey just released, only 45% of pennsylvanians support impeachment and removal. 45%. put another way, 52% say no. that's pretty consistent with the national polls that show you know, in the 52-58% range support for the inquiry. but the national average is about 47-48%. that support impeachment and removal. so a poll here and a poll there gets over 50% on impeachment and removal. the fox poll recently. bottom line here is we are deeply divided. i've been doing polls since 1991 in the state of pennsylvania and

i can say with complete candor, we have never seen the kind of deep divisions that exist in our country. on a whole array of issues. certainly when you deal with president trump they're huge. i want do make one other quick point. america and pennsylvania and the battleground states have become in many ways three americas. small town and rural america, small town in rural pennsylvania, republican. urban america, democratic. urban america pennsylvania, democratic. and the battleground is in the suburbs. that's why the democrats won the mid-term election last year. because they swept the suburbs, giving them 40 seats in the federal house of representatives. many of them from of course suburban america. >> doe wi, give me your bottom-line take-away from the great state of michigan. what do you most want us to

know. i'll ask po molly and terry that final question as well. you go first. >> time will tell. i mean i know that sounds sort of like this, you know let's grab a magic 8-ball and wonder what's going to happen. but i think voters need a little bit more time for something that is so huge to our democracy, to better understand before they can really get behind again something that would be so historically monumental and i think they are listening. they are willing to hear the sides. and we need to lean in a little bit to the process that's going to happen over the next weeks and months to come. >> molly, from wisconsin, what do we most need to know? >> i think we need to watch what's going to happen in rural wisconsin, that president trump had a 27-point swing in his direction in 2016 among rural voters in wisconsin. and there's an issue of tariffs hitting the dairy industry and we're seeing a lot of dairy farms close.

think republicans and democrats are just watching what's happening in rural wisconsin and how they also react to the impeachment inquiry. we'll see. >> terry madonna, from the keystone state. what do we most need to know? >> i think we need to see how impeachment plays out it looks like he's going to be impeached in the house, there will be a trial in the senate. we'll have to see how that affects voters. pennsylvania was won by president trump in 2016 by 0.7%. by 44,000 votes. the critical areas will be president trump's support in the old mining and mill towns where the industries that once predominated america like coal, iron and steel, gave donald trump the victory in pennsylvania. and so we're going to have to see what the enthusiasm level is, remains with his base, as we go through this entire process. then you have the economy.

right now the economy is good. but it doesn't seem to move democrats at all towards the president. what happens if the economy goes south? we could have a foreign policy crisis. we're 12 months away from the election. a little more than 12 months. when it's all said and done, what will independent voters do? can the president somehow someway move some independents in his direction? >> let me remind everybody, 137 million votes cast in 2016. 77,759 according to the cook political report in your three states, determined the outcome of the election. it was excellent. thank you all. >> what are your thoughts? tweet me at smerkonish or go to my facebook page and i'll read some. what do we have? from facebook -- has trump really done a bad job thus far?

we seem to be rocking and rolling as a country. and john, did you see the commercial? you know he's tapping alice cooper. no more mr. nice guy, that's the pitch. the pitch that pat toomey made. okay, maybe it was wrong, do you really want to throw him out for this? i think as we get closer and closer to people voting, the republican hand gets strengthened because they say let's settle it at the ballot box. which is why i think speaker pelosi is trying to get this thing on a fast track. go to my website, smerkonish.com. answer the survey question, will the impeachment process remain partisan from start until finish. with impeachment all but certain to end up in a senate trial, as per the constitution, the person in charge will be -- chief justice john roberts. how might he try to hold the line against partisan politics? and congresswoman katie hill resigned this week after allegations of an improper affair and the publication of

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what will the seemingly inevitable impeachment trial of president trump look like? all it says in article 1, section 3 of the constitution is this -- the senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments, when sitting for that purpose they shall be on oath or affirmation, when the president of the united states is tried, the chief justice shall preside. and no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present. so, it's left to the senate to set the ground rules and for supreme court chief justice john roberts to preside over the case and rule on motions. roberts who has long championed the importance of the court's nonpartisan role will be thrust into a situation very different from his day job. a televised polarized political showdown. joining me now to discuss is jeffrey rosen. the president of the national constitution center, professor at george washington school of law and author of the new book,

which drops on tuesday, conversations with rbg, ruth bader ginsberg on life, love, liberty and law. jeffrey, the constitution silent as to procedure. do you think they will look to the clinton impeachment process for guidance? and will it be a binding precedent? meaning the way in which clinton's impeachment was handled? >> yes, the clinton impeachment is the best precedent, although it's not binding because the senate could change the rules. in the clinton impeachment, chief justice rehnquist viewed his role as ministerial. he quoted gilbert and sullivan's musical, said i did nothing in particular and did it very well. he ruled on a few objections, senator tom harken objected when someone called the senators jurors and rehnquist agreed they sit on court they're not just jurors, refused to accept limitations on questions by house managers. beyond that he always consulted the senate parliamentaryian. he didn't want to be the guy

making substantive rulings and roberts is lyingly to want to make his role as ministerial as possible. >> chief justice john roberts said there are no obama judges there are not trump judges. but he can't be immune from the way this thing is shaping up as a partisan exercise. do you think he relishes this opportunity? do you think he loeths the thought? what do you think is running through his mind as he looks forward? >> i'm sure he dontrellish it. he's so committed to nonpartisanship. but he will take seriously the fact that this is one of only three requirements in the constitution for impeachment. the other being a two-thirds conviction and the fact that everyone is under oath. i think he will want to conduct himself in a way that is as dignified and neutral as possible. he'll want everyone to feel that each ruling is either compelled by the senate rules, he'll want to defer to the senator as much as possible. he views this you will matly as a political proceeding as the

constitution specifies. so it will be a ceremonial role that will give the event dignity and weight, he will not want to have any substantive role at all in swaying the results one way or the other. >> jeffrey, if for any reason he cannot serve in that role, my understand something that it would fall to clarence thomas. that could be interesting on a whole host of levels. not the least of which is, i think he would have to speak. >> you know, justice thomas would preside over the supreme court. if chief justice roberts had to be over at the senate at the same time. because justice thomas is the most senior justice and he would have to speak, just as john paul stevens presided when chief justice rehnquist was sick. if chief justice roberts were unable to appear at the senate it's not clear whether another justice could preside. the constitution does say the chief justice must preside. it's probable or possible that the trial could not take place unless chief justice roberts actually were part of it.

>> one final point, the constitution relative to remedy of an impeachment process is limited to removal. i mean that's what's at stake, right? simply, you make it sound simple, it's not. but just the removal of the president and not any other punishment that could follow. >> no, there is one other punishment, the constitution specifies, that's disqualification to hold any other office or trust or profit under these united states. and i understand that according to senate rules, conviction and removal from office requires two thirds, but the disqualification can require a simple majority. so in the historic event for the first time in history that the senate were to remove a president from office, they could then have a separate vote about whether or not to disqualify him from running again for president. >> can you imagine? by the way that's why i have you here to set me straight on constitutional interpretation. thank you, good look with the rbg book, which drops on tuesday. >> thank you so much. let's see what you're saying

on my smerkonish twitter and facebook pages. from twitter. smerkonish, how about the house impeaches and does not send to senate. instead they refer to the american people for trial at the ballot box in 2020? >> there's zero chance that will be the outcome. if they impeach as a matter of right it will go to the senate. could censure. presumably they could stop short of an impeachment vote. but this thing seems like it's on its own track now to head by hook or by crook to the senate. i want to remind you, are you voting on my survey question at smerkonish.com. i think it's a winner. will the impeachment process -- i ask this because nobody -- okay, two democrats stepped out from their party no republicans. but it was a strict party line vote on thursday. is that the way it's going to end? meaning will the impeachment process remain partisan from start to finish? go vote, results at the end of the hour.

still to come, when it comes to politics you've often heard me talk about people putting on their partisan jerseys, it turns out that the political divide is also affecting kids' participation in school football. i'll explain. and congresswoman katie hill resigned this week due to allegations about improper relationships and the leaking of some explicit photos, because she wrong to step down? donald trump, he's the clean one. everything about him reads clean, doesn't it? he's not going anywhere. but a democrat resigned this week. katie hill, there were pretty graphic pictures of her kissing women and smoking a bong, nude. to which -- exactly. she was a representative of california. that's pretty representative. this one grows fuel. ♪ exxonmobil is growing algae for biofuels.

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announced it was opening an investigation into allegations of a separate relationship with a congressional staffer, which she has denied. in hill's final floor speech thursday, she cited a double standard. >> the forces of revenge by a bitter, jealous man, cyberexploitation and sexual shaming that target our gender and a large segment of society that fears and hates powerful women have combined to push a young woman out of power and say that she doesn't belong here. >> film maker michael moore tweeted dear speaker pelosi do not accept the resignation from representative katie hill, she's a crime victim. if you allow a plan who uses revenge porn to succeed here, you and the rest of congress are his collaborators. this is 2019. "washington post" columnist monica hessey joins me now. she wrote this piece, what mattered in the katie hill

scandal and what didn't. monica thanks for being here. you say she was pushed out for all the wrong reasons. explain. >> thanks for having me. i think that when i say that, we need to be, we need to be careful and considerate in the way we talk about this. because there could have been correct reasons for her to be pushed out. she admitted to an affair with a campaign staffer. which while not violating house rules is really troubling. and it gets to the core of issues we talk about when we think about power dynamics and when we think about consent but what we ended up talking about were words like -- thruple and naked hair brushing and scandalous affair and naked photos. when we're talking about those issues we're not talking about the things that matter. we're just making this into a salacious gossip column. >> from your column, here are some phrases that are pertinent to parsing out the ethics of katie hill's behavior. power dynamics, improper relationship, potential special

favors, potential misuse of campaign funds, official congressional rules related to lawmaker/staffer relationships. here are some phrases that are not pertinent. wife-sharing, bikini line, naked hairbrushing, list beian affair. you think people's judgment got clouded by some of those elements put online and could not separate out. what's the narrow issue by which she should be judged in this context? >> the narrow issue is whether we feel it's possible for a member of congress to have a consensual relationship with a campaign staffer. congressional rules don't prohibit relationships with campaign staffers, but they do prohibit relationships with congressional staffers. so i think when we talk about katie hill, the question that you need to ask yourself is not how do i feel about the fact that she took naked photos. the question that you have to ask yourself is -- how-day feel about the fact that while she was running for congress she had an affair with a campaign

staffer. >> it would have been arguably hypocritical if democrats had seen it differently, i'm speaking of the alleged relationship with the congressional staffer. because on its face they would say if it had been a republican, that's per se, sexual harassment. >> i think what is really frustrating to a lot of people and where we get into a lot of, he did this, but she did this. we look at other examples that are similar that have not resulted in resignations, we look at republican congressman duncan hunt another has been alleged to use campaign funds to support various extra marital affairs and hasn't resigned. i think there's a temptation to say it's not fair, he did, she didn't. he didn't, she did. but i don't think that those kind of comparisons are actually useful. we need to get to a place where we're having conversations about the issues that actually matter and we're judging people on what they do, not based on what other

people did or didn't get away with. >> monica hesse, thank you for that. more social media reaction. your tweets and facebook comments this comes from twitter. yes, she should have, but not because it's fair, but because dems put it out there that everyone should resign or quit who has the perception of any mall misfeasance, so here we are. >> i was making a slightly different, but similar point at the end with my guest when i said i think the standard that was established in #metoo necessitated. to the extent she had a relationship with a campaign staffer. i'm not talking about the bong and the nakedness. which i frankly think is an irrelevancy to the issue confronted in this circumstance. but people tend to see them all together. i want to remind you to answer the survey question at my website this hour, will the impeachment process remain partisan from start to finish? go vote at smerkonish.com. what does politics have to do with participation rates in high school football?

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the national federation of state high school associations released its annual report in august. and found participation in 11-player football dropped to the lowest point in almost 20 years. but, "sports illustrated" noted that football participation is up significantly in four states -- alabama, 45%. louisiana, 56%, oklahoma, 15. utah, 9. those states all supported donald trump by at least 18-point margins over hillary clinton in 2016. of the places that went to clinton, only nevada and washington, d.c. have seen football participation rates rise since 2008-09. in fact participation is down only 6.1% in states that were red in 2016. it's down 15.7% in blue states. with me now is former harvard football player, former professional wrestler dr. chris

nowinski, the ceo of the concussion legacy foundation. chris, what do you make of the data? >> it is very interesting data. when you do, i love that clip of president trump belittling concussions and i think back to a few years ago, you know, president obama had us all down to the white house to talk about how serious concussions are. and then also said he wouldn't let his son play football. the data feels like a red state/blue state issue. can you also look at the fact that there are laws on, that rk proposed in blue states to ban youth tackle football in california and new york and illinois. and massachusetts. so there is something to this argument. it's very interesting. >> you testified this week in one of those states. you testified in new york. what is it that you most wanted to hear those, you most want those decision-makers to hear? >> one of the important things we do talk about football. i don't have a problem with high school football. as a former player myself.

the data we're seeing on chronic traumatic encephalopathy is very alarming. our team at boston university studied the brains of 266 former football players and found their odds of developing cte go up 30% per year they play. that's a huge number. and so, looking at this from a how do we prevent this disease going forward, the most logical way is to say shorten the number of years. and that would be a ban on youth tackle football. the only way to really make sure that future football players have much less of a risk of developing cte. >> the way you explain it is reminiscent of smoking. >> exactly right. a perfect analogy that decades ago we sort of understood that something you do when you're younger can affect you when you're older. and the actual statistical link between smoking and lung cancer is actually not as strong as the

link between years of playing football and developing cte. that's something that we should stop and think about. in the 1950s we had overwhelming data that smoking increased your risk of developing lung cancer, but we didn't make policy change for decades, a lots of people died because of that. we're hoping that the world looks at this data and think maybe this is our opportunity to stop cte from affecting so many football players, and make a policy change today, rather than waiting for decades for resea h research. >> what would be the age, below which you would say no youth tackle? >> i think there's consensus among researchers here that probably 12 is a smart way to start. you know there's debate about middle school. but we have to realize these are developing brains and so, over again, is never a good and idea. and if you hit your own child in

the head 300 times every fall, you would go to jail. the idea that you can put a helmet on them and let other kids hit them is something we should reconsider. it's interesting that this is becoming political. i will tell you there is, another way to look at that data that we haven't talked about yet and that is the fact that if you look at the three states that are up the most, alabama, louisiana and oklahoma, those are big college football states. and it's where college football is king. so another proposal that's been out there is what we're seeing here is really not political. but really more that high school football players see that as achievable goal. if i grew up in alabama, i would want to play football for alabama. so it might be a success of those programs that's drawing people in. the high school football discussion, i like to push it over to the youth discussion, because we want football to have a bright future we can't be letting 5-year-olds get hit in the head this much. >> dr. chris nowisnski. thank you so much. from social media, twitter

and facebook. what do we have, katherine? so people who are likely to have more concussions vote red? just joking, sort of. i think what he said at the end makes a great point. the states that dr. nowinski just identified, the red states where football is king? i have to think about this and i may be mistaken. they're not nfl states, right? alabama, they're college states, that's what seems to be driving the interest in all of this. still to come -- 168 empty chairs sit outdoors in oklahoma city. each a tribute to a person killed in the 1995 bombing, the worst domestic terrorist act in american history. i'll tell you the story about one of the chairs in just a moment. 's a sit-up, banana! bend at the waist! i'm tryin'! keep it up. you'll get there. whoa-hoa-hoa! 30 grams of protein, and one gram of sugar. ensure max protein.

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