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impeaching me. >> two flimsy, pathetic, ridiculous articles of impeachment. >> while nancy pelosi stays the course. >> this is about the constitution of united states. don't mess with me. >> at issue a phone call with the president of ukraine. >> my call was perfect. >> no pressure, no pushing and more quid pro quo. >> others heard much worse. >> he had a desperate man on the phone and he asked a desperate man for a favor. >> corrupting and abusing the office of the president. >> the debate gets ugly fast. >> they dislike us so much, they're willing to weaponize the government. this is scary stuff. dangerous for the country. >> come on, get real, be serious. >> we know what happened here. 17 witnesses. it is uncontradicted. >> these people are stone cold,
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crooked. >> the president is impeached. history becomes the only guide. bill clinton impeached when he lied about sex. >> i did not have sexual relation with that woman. >> andrew johnson, a troubled president, almost removed from office. >> the impeachment office against him failed by a single vote in the senate. he did not deserve to be president of the united states. five men in the democratic national headquarters here in washington. >> richard nixon directed a criminal conspiracy. >> he's thinking what am i going to do? >> a grave and profound -- >> there is no greater fall from
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no greater height. >> good evening, i am fareed zakaria. when our great grandchildren study the presidency of donald trump. among the first thing they would learn is this. he was impeached. it is a historical judgment on the president that can't be erased. we don't get the rest of trump's story but we do know he's apart of an exclusive club. only three presidents had ever been impeached, trump, bill clinton, andrew johnson. richard nixon resigned when he saw impeachment was inevitable. all strings from the same source. article two, section four of the american constitution. the impeachment clause written
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by our founding fathers. remember they were men who afford the revolution to escape the tyranny of kings. together they waive what the grounds for impeachment should be. they agreed on the two worst crimes the president can commit, treason and bribery. james madison said that was too vague. impeachment was not a remedy for a bad president. george mason came up with a broader phase. high crime and misdemeanor. scholars know the word "high" was used in british law where it comes from to describe crimes committed by people in high office. and that is the impeachment clause. there had been moments in our history when it saved american democracy. at other times it hurts other
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opponents as a weapon. how will it end this time? >> from the moment he stepped on the political stage, we are going to win so big. >> donald trump had been the most controversial and most polarizing figure. just one day after he won the election, americans were taken to the streets. >> thousands are in the streets now. >> impeachment proceedings. >> we began impeachment proceedings. >> some democrats took up the call. >> impeachment. but, to the constant of people in the trump white house, the mueller investigation, the indictment, the convictions, house speaker pelosi, fought the push for impeachment.
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it divides the country unless there is some conclusive evidence that took us our place. >> three times she had the house votes down on the impeachment in dw inquiry but then came that phone call. >> i would you to do us a favor though. everything pointed toward as quid pro quo here. >> trump had pressured the ukrainians, investigate the bidens or we won't give you the aid money you need. >> we know that president trump asked for a favor to help his political career to attempt extortion and bribery. >> there is no rival story. it is contradicted. >> finally nancy pelosi was on board. the president leaves us no choice but to act. >> at impeachment hearings from trump's officials gave troubling
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testimonies about his behavior. >> was there quid pro quo? as i testified from the white house call and white house meeting, the answer is yes. donald trump insisted he had done nothing wrong. >> i am the first person that never gets impeached in this no-crime. i feel guilty. >> the vote against the president. we passed the two articles of impeachment, the president is impeached. revealing a frightening divide between america's political faction. >> read the transcripts. there was no quid pro quo. no bribery. no extortion. we all know what president trump did was wrong. we all know it is wrong to withhold foreign aid. >> they hate the 63 million americans who voted for this president. >> when you see something that's not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to
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say something and do something. we have been through periods of polarization before. the difference now i think is that we don't have a common base on facts. we disagree on reality. >> hey. >> to understand today's prices, we need to go back to the last time america was shaken this profoundly by a political scandal. we now think of watergate as a time when america came together and forced a crooked president out of office but to richard nixon and the republican party, the watergate scandal was a partisan war. >> i had a partisan senate committee staff, special prosecutor staff, we had a media
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and fifth column. i gave them the source. they stuck it in and they twisted it. >> the real story of the war nixon describes is one that few americans know. it is a story of a small group of men who turned impeachment into an act of patriotism. it all begin on june 17th, 1982. >> five men were arrested while trying to install eavesdropping equipment at the democratic committee. why would someone break into the campaign office? >> i accept that nomination as president of the united states. >> well, richard nixon won the presidency in 1968 by promising to get america out of vietnam.
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>> but as the war dragged on, the antiwar exploded. as nixon campaigned for a second term, he feared vietnam may give his enemies the ammunition to defeat him. and so his men plan a sea of dirty tricks. >> to cripple the democrats. one of them was the watergate break in. nixon won reelection by a historic landslide. >> i, richard nixon, solemnly swear. the watergate story was still growing. weeks after the election inside
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the oval office, richard nixon declared war on the press. >> the press is the enemy. the press is the enemy. >> nixon hated the press because it was digging into the very story he was desperate to hide. that the white house was deeply involved in the watergate cover up. his campaign seemed to work, early in his second term, nixon's approval rating sorinin but then came the first crack in if white house defense. in the summer of 1973, all of america was riveted by the watergate hearing. what did the president know and when did he know it? as the country watched white house counsel john dean turned on his president. >> i began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the
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presidency. >> dean testified that the watergate burglars were blackmailing white house aides. >> i told him that i could make it an estimate. he told me that was no problem. >> it was john dean's word against the president of the united states. >> most republicans continued to standby the president but then from a little known white house aide, a dramatic twist. >> my name is alexander butterfield. are you aware of any listening devices in the oval office? >> i was aware of listening
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devices, yes. >> it was a bomb shell. >> he fought subpoenas after subpoenas. >> i have never heard or seen such outrageous recording. >> even as he tried to convince the american people that watergate was a press creation. >> what is it of television coverage of you in the past weeks and months that arouse your anger. >> don't get the impression that it aroused my anger. one can only be angry of those he respects. finally a drastic step. >> nothing like this has ever happened before. the office had been sealed by the fbi. a mass firing of the men pursuing the tapes. the saturday night massacre. the news calls for a sensation in the white house's courtroom
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and sent reporters scrambling to their telephones. the president set himself against his own attorney general and the department of justice. >> it will have to do with the resignation. >> by the time it was over, the attorney general, the deputy attorney general and the special prosecutor were all out. the bipartisan, american outrage, changes the politics of the situation of richard nixon. tens of thousand of telegrams flooded washington. >> most of them demand an impeachment. >> nixon was forced to appoint a new prosecutor. as the months went on, bit by bit, he was forced to turn over the tapes. they were as damming as he had feared. white house's counsel, john dean's testimony turned out to
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be entirely accurate. >> it was clear nixon's defenses were beginning to crumble. >> well, i also quickly in my life -- >> the meeting will come to order. in july of 1974, a back hearing room, the house judiciary committee began to debate removing the president. >> make no mistake about him. this is a turning point, whatever we decide. committee chairman, a democratic machine liberal from new york,
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new jersey, he was new to the job, some doubted whether he could handle this. >> a highly partisan prosecution if there was one. many nixon's loyalists were angry and still i aimmovable so they kept on holding out for more evidence. >> the weight of evidence must be clear and convincing. you can't substance for anything else. clear and convincing but you can't and should not any circumstances to remove the highest office in the world for anything less than clear and convincing. but as emotions began to run high. the facts were calmly recited and documented and something surprising happened. there is an obstruction of
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justice going on. someone trying to buy the silence of witness. larry hogan, the fathhe was move evidence. >> the thing is so appalling to me is that the president when this whole idea was suggested to him didn't righteous rise up and say get out of here, how can you talk about blackmailing and keeping witnesses silence, this is the presidency of the united states. >> one by one, conservatives revered the president, put conscious over party. >> i can't condone what i heard and i can't and will not stay for it. i wish the president could do something to acknowledge himself. >> perhaps the most conservative
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southern southerner. >> i wake up nights on those nights i could go to sleep, wondering if this is some sort of dream. impeach the president of the united states. he did vote to impeach even though waterflowwer f-- >> i must admit that it has been very fair. >> this impeachment has been historic and honorable. >> republicans understood that they were not going to carry their base if they voted for impeachment. and some did it any way. >> all those in favor say ay and all oppose say no. >> mr. donohue. >> aye. >> mr. brooks. >> aye. >> the committee approved three articles of impeachment,
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obstruction of justice, contempt of cause, abuse of power. >> aye. >> aye. >> no. mr. o' dean. >> aye. >> he left the room and cried. official impeachment would come later with a full house vote. >> it never happened. a count down for the expected and the nixon's presidency. tonight at 9:00, the president of the united states will address the nation. it was awful. the impeachment the framers had imagined. it worked. democracy worked. >> there is the president waving
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good-bye. the scandal itself triggered a lot of faith in government and politicians. it would be 25 years before impeachment would come up again. this time it was a completely different story. if your glasses aren't perfect, we'll fix them. so will we. no we won't. use your 2020 vision insurance on your first pair and get 50% off a second pair. visionworks. see the difference.
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vofred with people. >> i tried to bring out the best of people through politics. he and his wife hillary were investing in some real estate. a nice patch of land in the ozarks called the white water. that plot of land on the white river ended up losing money would change the course of history. >> decades later. >> the white water controversy, political turbulence over white water. >> white water became a massive spiraling investigation that led prosecutors to a sex scandal. >> the ayes have it. william jefferson clinton is
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impeached. >> that became the second presidential impeachment in american history. how on earth did that corner of arkansas -- >> i hear by delivering these articles of impeachment. >> how did it explode? >> one thing leads to another and we were on the house floor debating whether the president of the united states should be removed from office. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman, miss lewinsky. >> before there was monocal, there were the mcdougal and jim and susan. clinton would not have been impeached before them. it was mcdougals convinced the president the investigate in white water. when jim and susan found guilty
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for fraud. >> there are too many questions. the clintons came under fire, too. >> questions have been raised about the clintons' involvement with mcdougal. it planted a sade for something much bigger, something that would lead to the constitutional confrontation. there was a growing drum beat for an independent counsel to investigate white water. >> we did nothing improper and i had nothing to say. >> lock a special counsel and take a beating the press. >> it appears to be the case of the president's past coming back to haunt him or giving him and leaving himself open to a limitless investigation. the president gave in. >> i don't want to be distracted by this anymore. let them look into it, i want to go back to work. >> he would call that decision one of the biggest miscalculations of his
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president. >> once you had an independent counsel appointed, prosecutors will keep on looking at the crime until they can find it. >> robert fist, vowed to wrap up his investigation quickly. >> can you guys get out? >> he was replaced and his successors, ken star, was more aggressive. >> our job is to gather facts and the truth. >> the investigation leads in all different directions. >> this is truly a historic night. >> no one could have been happier with star's aggressive approach than newt gingrich and the republicans. >> there has been a change in american politics. >> this is an earthquake preaching a new gospel and
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orthodox and interests. >> our base wants this, we do this. we do not compromise with democrats. president clinton became the democrats, the republicans despice the most. >> he created with the truth. >> i was no clinton's lover for 12 years. >> a womanizer. >> they viewed him as an imposter as president. >> the law is the law. the law is sacred. >> meanwhile ken star had been digging into the clintons for more than two years. >> his investigation was whining down. >> i am not going to make my statements. >> out of the blue, some explosive tape recording came his way. >> i never expected to feel this
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way about him. >> conversations about monica lewinsky that was recorded. >> if you get to orgasm, that's having sex. ? n >> no, it is not. >> do you understand that your answers to my question are testimonies being given under oath. >> star learned that the president was testifying about lewinsky in another metric. >> it is humiliating of what he did. a sexual harassment lawsuit dropped by paula jones. >> penalty of perjury, do you understand that, sir? >> in his testimony, clinton was not truthful with lewinsky. i never had a sexual relationship with monica
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lewinsky. >> there are allegation of infidelity and perjury against president clinton. all hell broke lose. >> charges of sex and lies and audio tape. clinton kept denying the affair. the allegations i have led are not true. >> star was able to get monica lewins lewinsky's dress that had clinton's dna on it. the president was forced to tell the truth. >> i had a relationship with miss lewinsky that was not appropriate and in fact, it was wrong. >> there were semen on that dress. star released a detailed x-rated account of the scandal. >> bringing her orgasm on two occasions. lying under oath and obstruction of justice. it is easy to forget in hindsight but bill clinton was in real danger of being pushed
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out in office. many of his fellow democrats were furious with him. >> let justice be done. they came to the white house like republicans did with nixon in 1974 saying your time's up, that would have been it. clinton, the ultimate come back. >> i never should have misled the country. >> he was able to rally the party and country back to his side. >> i will continue to do all i can to reclaim the trust of the american people and serve them well. >> his behavior was rep prehenceable. the american public agreed. the democrats scored a shocking upset gaining seats in the house. >> the lewinsky issue did not carry any weight. >> republicans got stuck. >> newt gingrich predicted a victory. >> we had a chance to win some
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sta startling victory, lost his job as speaker. >> you may intend to use it against your executive enemy but it could very well hurt you everyone moeven more politically. president clinton was thrilled, thinking he was in the clear. tom delay impeach him anyway. >> we have witnessed history, the house impeached clinton entirely on party line. >> in the senate, he was easily acquitted. >> in the 1988 and 1999 effort to impeach him. the american people spoke in the midte midterm saying we don't want to
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impeach this president. congress took the law that created ken star's job and let it die. >> i am not going to comment. >> bipartisan acknowledgment, the things had gone too far. >> we'll be silent no more. >> today in the me too era. clinton's impeachment is being reconsidered. his affair with a young intern seen by many. >> women's voices matter. >> bill clinton should have been resigned. the kind of behaviors that was tolerated a long time ago will not be tolerated today and we can't allow it to be tolerated today.
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from the start, donald trump refused to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry. president trump's stone wall was complete and absolute. >> that refusal became the second article of impeachment. >> the president leaves us no choice but to act. >> aye. >> no. >> there are 23 ayes and 17 noes. . >> the constitution says impeachment is up to the house. >> it is not up to the president
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of the united states. how it can investigate him. >> article one is adopted. >> after the house votes. we passed the two articles of impeachment, the president is p impeached. >> donald trump became the first president to be impeached while running for reelection. >> it does not feel like we are being impeached. the country is doing better than ever before. we did nothing wrong. we are going to keep on winning, winning, winning. >> but he's not the first to lose impeachment to rally his base. impeachment been viewed as a political impeachment by both parties. >> impeachment went from being something that you use only in moments of crisis. >> impeach obama.
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>> to something you use for everyday. that's a horrible development of the american people. the country supported president bush as he took the united states into battle to destroy sudan hasan. an anti-war movement moved quickly. and it views impeachment as a weapon. >> nancy pelosi, the leader of the democrats wanted none of it. >> impeachment is off the table. >> disagreements over policies. we are not intended by the founders to be the bases of a series attempts and impeachment. it is not a crime or a
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misdemeanor to make a mistake. the country was totally polar ris ize in his view of the president. the partisan gap was the widest ever recorded. the president of the united states. >> impeachment fever would only get worse under the next president. >> change has come to america. in 2008, barack obama, was elected on a promise to help heal this country's extreme partisan divide. but the candidate who had campaigned on yes, we can, ran into a wall of republican opposition. the tea party formed around opposition to barack obama. in 2010, it propelled a wave of new republicans to congress. >> what does it feel like? >> it feels bad.
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this new hyper partisan congress recited over a growing impeachment movement. >> when you promise that you are out to impeach the president, you can make a name for ourself and raise money and rally the base. >> impeachment, really? >> it is not a rallying cry to get people to vote for you. both sides played around with it. impeachment campaigns against president obama never gained legislative report but there was another serious consequence. if you play around with impeachment that way, overtime the american people are going to misunderstand its constitutional power and its necessity. >> when barack obama left office, he was more popular than george bush. the gap between the people who loved him and hated him was larger than it had been with president bush.
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the deep polarization of the last few years is the worst in american history with one exception. the period around the civil war. on april 15th, 1865, president abraham lincoln was assassina assassinated. the country was deeply divided over the civil war, enter andrew johnson. the vice president who succeeded lincoln. johnson with a southern democrat who lincoln had picked to create a national unity ticket. this is one. andrew johnson was one of america's worst president. he was essentially racist and neo-confederate. >> republicans in congress de despised andrew johnson.
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he vetoed all the measures to give sifcivil liberties to blac. it set an impeachment trap for him. that trap was called the tenure of office act. >> congress passed a law over johnson's veto that said he could not fire his own cabinet member. >> the house proverd 11 article of impeachment against him. however bad a president andrew johnson was, there were no ground. the senate was one vote away from removing president johnson essentially because congress did not like him or his policy. johnson basically agreed to seize the behavior to go on with
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the program. >> johnson's impeachment would serve as a warning of the consequence of a partisan impeachment in a sharply divided country. >> it raises blood pressures and in some proverse ways, it makes impeachment harder to use when you may really need it. >> when donald trump faces trial in the senate, it remains to be seen whether any one will remember the lessons of history. the relaxing feeling of knowing you're getting the best price. these'll work. the utter delight of free wi-fi... . oh man this is the best part. isn't that you? yeah. and the magic power of unlocking your room with your phone. i can read minds too.
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on this crucial issue, i know people have taken firm positions. i did not. impeachment is a clear option to be under taken in the most extreme circumstances. the best mechanism to remove bad leaders in a democracy is through elections. an impeachment will only make the wounds worse and the healing more difficult but the events of the past few months and gravity with the charges against the president led me to support the impeachment of donald trump. let me explain why now and not before. i believe the campaign did shady things dealing with the russians but i thought robert was right
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to paint a somewhat ambiguous picture and ambiguity wasn't enough for me to call for inspeechme inspeechment. truch's efforts are different. it appears that acting as the president using the power of the government he with held funds for his personal political gain. that's the definition of abuse of power. defielders argue what he did was bad but claimed it does not rise to the level of an impeachable offense. what is more troubling is donald trump's refusing to cooperate with the impeachment process. >> they are pursuing a bull [ bleep ] impeachment.
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>> other presidents contested a specific subpoena for request for a document. donald trump effectively rejected congress's ability to hold him accountable at 5all. the rule has built up but very fragile because it's based on a bluff at the highest level everyone will respect the rules, even though it might not be possible always to enforce compliance. and the rule at the heart of the u.s. system is the separation of powe powers. too much in the hands of government shared and each branch would act as a check on the other. the crucial feature for the chief architect of the kons tufgs giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist
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ambition must be made to counter act ambition. the system only works if both sides respect it. congress doesn't have an army a supreme court that richard nixon would not use executive privilege to hold watergate tapes. president nixon agreed to compile. even though he knew it would mean the end of his presidency. >> there is a president waving good bye and you hear the applause. >> all modern american presidents republican and democratic expanded powers and that expansion is excessive in the decades but donald trump is on a different planet. >> i alone can fix it. >> he has refused to compile with holy constitutional legislative requests for documents, information and
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testimony. his position to prevail, the u.s. president would become an elected dictator. a democracy can turn into a tyranny not all at once with a bang but over time. officials even elected and popular can simply weaken and dispense with constitutional constraints or legislative checks. liberty is eroded slowly but irreversib irreversibly. germany's republic was a well functioning democracy and within a few short years, using mostly legal means, it became a dictatorship. [ cheers ] >> i know that america is far from that grim scenario today but we're living at a time when the constitution's laws, and norms that sustain liberty in the law are under attack across the world from poland and hungry to turkey and india the
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democratic fabric is frayed. in the long history of the world, liberal democracy has been a brief fragile experiment. if we look away now, as it is being undermined unwilling to deal with the discomfort or the disrupti disruption, we might live to regret it. those are my thoughts as as we head into the 2020 elections, you should make up your own mind which is central to america's democracy and its future. i'm fareed zakaria. thanks for watching. let's be honest, quitting smoking is freaking hard. like quitting every monday hard. quitting feels so big. so, try making it smaller. and you'll be surprised at how easily starting small... ...can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette for your worst sore throat pain, try vicks vapocool drops. it's not candy, it's powerful relief. ahhh vaporize sore throat pain with vicks vapocool drops
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