one of the scholars that congress heard from in those hearings is pam karlan, professor pam karlan who's sort of a legal superstar from stanford law school. little to be known at the time that professor pam karlan from stanford law school is also a person who could see very clearly six months into the future, to predict for us, at that impeachment hearing, the news that would happen today in the middle of this epidemic. >> the list of impeachable offenses that the framers included in the constitution shows that the essence of an impeachable offense is a president's decision to sacrifice the national interest for his own private ends. imagine living in a part of louisiana or texas that's prone to devastating hurricanes and flooding. what would you think if you lived there and your governor asked for a meeting with the president to discuss getting disaster aid that congress has provided for, what would you think if that president said i would like to do you -- i would like you to do us a favor, i'll meet with you and i'll send the disaster relief once you brand my opponent a criminal? woul

re fesser pam karlan speaking six months ago warning us of this in a hypothetical designed to portray cartoonishly impeachable behavior by a president, and then he just lives up to it. the president is due to go to the state of michigan tomorrow. he wants to show off the fact that u.s. production companies have reopened plants, and he is due to visit a ford plant in ypsilanti tomorrow, and there is a lot whether everyone will wear a mask and the president will wear a mask, and prness pra it, perhaps it should be noted that as much as he wants to declare the pandemic over and open everything back up, while he is taking the victory lap, look, the plant is opened, ford has had to reclose two of the plants that they just reopened. because of coronavirus cases among the workers there, once they reopened. they had to reclose this week, a plant in chicago, and they have had to reclose a plant in dearborn michigan after reopening. and that sort of thing is happening now, in states that are reopening all over and it is not only in workplaces. big workplaces like those auto plants. it is also h