i got to know him when he was our chief historian curator on the blockbuster show alexander hamilton the man whoho made modn america way back in 2004. we were wayay ahead of our timen the hamilton craze but it caught up with us. richard brookhiser was awarded the national humanities medal by president george w. bush in 2008 and his newest book "give me liberty" a history of america's exceptional idea was published just this week. congratulations. our moderator this evening is her own chuck c. professor van political science ideas university group were for joining the faculty professor amar clerked for associate justice breyer when he was on the court of appeals for the first sector. in 2017 professor amar received the american bar foundation annual outstanding scholar award as well as the howard r. lamar award. he's the author of numerous books including his most recent the constitution today. we are grateful professor omar is our very own as we said a trustee at new york historical. the four speakers began our conversation i'd like to ask that you make sure anything makes it sound li

the great diplomat and patriot and alexander hamilton. who had a very good staff and you can see the musical. [laughter] and was also working with new york's quakers who appear several times in the book and they are always on the outs by their own choice because their vision is so radical this is an ongoing debate within the quaker community but with this moment that have a common interest to rectify new york situation with respect to slavery they feel this is a violation of the principles of the revolution that these men have fought people like hamilton did and they want to set new york on the path. so they write a constitution which is very eloquent to resemble the famous opening of the declaration of independence but is more exclusively religious talking about the laws of nature and nature's god. speaking to the benevolent creator and father of men. and says it is our duty as citizens and christians not only to sympathize but actively work to enjoy the same rights as ourselves so can our brother and. it's a very sweeping statement many

got to know him when he was our historian, chief historian curator on the blockbuster show alexander hamilton: the man who made modern america, way back in 2004. he and we were way ahead of our time in the hamilton craze, but it caught up with us. so richard brookhiser was awarded the national humanities medical by president george w. bush in 2008, and if his newest book, "give me liberty: a history of america's exceptional idea," was published just this week. congratulations. our moderator this evening our own trustee, materialing professor of law -- sterling professor of law at yale university. before joining the faculty, professor amar clerked for judge, now associate justice stephen breyer when he was a judge on the u.s. court of appeals for the first circuit. in 2017 professor amar received the american bar foundation's annual outstanding scholar award or as well as the howard r. lee mar award. he's -- lemar award. we're grateful that professor amar is our very own, as i said, trustee at new york historical. as always, before our speakers begin their conversation, i'd like to ask that yo

alexander hamilton warned us about this. exactly in a place that alexander hamilton was most afraid of. a party would use it for only there political gain, not for the rule of law. we have had so many better days in the house than what we have watched for the last two weeks. i do not think history will be kind to this moment in time. based upon what this majority has done and lack of doing. yes? >> [inaudible] do you generally believe [inaudible] >> if you listen to the ambassador -- he was asked how many different times? , theg the testimony democrat allegations of quid pro quo, bribery, extortion. every single time it goes back to mike turner's question. did anybody on the planet? the answer is no. i think we have the facts before us. i do not know how anymore people they want to try to bring forward. every time they do, it goes right back to the case that the president did not make conditions. he released the money and ukraine did nothing for the money to be released. i know the moment they got sworn in, i know the partie

you know, alexander hamilton warned of us this day may come. that a person may have the majority with inside of congress to use impeachment for their own personal political gains. we watched how many times they tried this in the last three years and failed. and we see adam schiff leading the charge. reporter: you say not impeachable. is it appropriate? mr. mccarthy: are we having a hearing about inappropriate or impeachment inquiry? it goes to the core of the fabric of democracy. do you take it that lightly that you just have the u.s. congress vote about an impeachment inquiry and then change the rules of the house where you don't have due process, you move t out of the judiciary committee to the intel committee and make it an impeachment committee, you have secret meetings inside the basement of the capitol, you have not released all the transcripts, you audition who you want to bring forward and we just watched the two witnesses that they wanted to pick, you deny the minority to bring witnesses forward, you deny the president, who you're movi

it was alexander hamilton and in 1865 in missouri, he squared off against david and they actually approached each other and you could see which one was still standing. >> host: in front of an audience? >> guest: in front of an audience. >> host: who paid for? >> guest: it was in town square. he said i will be there at 6:00 and i will walk around to paradg you. he warned him don't do that. he's actually calling him out. what happened, the townsfolk's stopped what they were doing and watched this display take place. when he emerged victorious the word spread like a prairie fire. it was more calculated than anybody they had ever seen before. so, he became the american frontier gunmen and others came along to rival him, but he was the undisputed heavyweight champion of gun fighting until he died. >> host: how did he make his money and survive? >> guest: mostly as a gambler. one of the things i found fascinating working on the book is that for an individual with a form of transportation at the time, he got around a lot. he was in kansas, missouri, nebraska, the dakotas, arizona, new mexico, texas

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. >> it was a last resort and alexander hamilton, federalist 65, warned about what's happening now which is everyone just lines up based upon their partisan views. you're so right. bringing attention to this clash of visions which i think is what we have. these public servants. i have a more favorable view of people who dedicate themselves with point is they had a soaring vision about the ukraine and u.s. foreign policy. the president didn't share that vision and the president is the ceo. that's our constitutional system. that's exactly what all the founders including alexander hamilton had in mind in terms of the separation of powers. investing authority in the executive ultimately the president of the united states. >> laura: nancy pelosi, she keeps saying that there is no decision impeachment yet. but then she kind of gave it all away today. watch. >> we see a violation of the constitution. we had no choice but to act. the evidence is clear that the president, the president has used his office for his own personal gain. >> laura: andy, is the evidence clear that the president abused h

alexander hamilton warned about days like today. this is not what we should be doing. clearly. when you ask the american people who know they're paying higher drug prices and they see there's legislation, bipartisan legislation, to lower drug prices that won't come to this floor because of the infatuation with impeachment. we don't have a bill to formally pay our troops and make sure they have the tools they need to defend this country because there's so much an infatuation with impeachment. madam speaker, when you look through this resolution an you see how one-sided, how soviet-style this is running, this is the united states of america. don't run a sham process, a tainted process, like this resolution ensures. it ought to be rejected. i encourage burn rejection of this and yield back the balance f my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the gentleman from new york, the distinguished chairman of the committee on judiciary, mr. nadler. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two mi

alexander hamilton made it very clear, his concern, when they were trying to promote the constitution was that he did not want to see impeachment used for political purposes. yes that -- yet that is what is happened today. it's a sham, it should not have happened, it's a tainted process that adam schiff has been conducting that nadler might one day conduct. the house deserves better, the people of this country deserve better, we should be tackling real problems. guest: -- host: he calls it a soviet style process, what do you call it? guest: anyone who looks at the facts and suggest that this is just politics is not thinking about the interest of this country domestically or internationally. the president has engaged in extremely inappropriate conduct at a minimum. the idea that it's only politics to look at the fact that he was talking on the phone with the president of the ukraine and withholding aid in return for he -- a promised investigation of joe biden and his son is something other than just politics. if the house was not investigating this and considering impeachment, they wou

and madison had some very clear thoughts about why that my basement alexander hamilton and madison had some very clear thoughts about why that might be necessary and how it should be done they were very specific but be necessary and how it should be done they were very specific but for instance i don't know how they would have defined misdemeanors but i wanted for instance i don't know how they would have defined misdemeanors but i'm under the impression that a mr meter in their mind was a more serious charge that impression that mr meter in their mind was a more serious charge then we interpret it today misdemeanor today as a a minor criminal and we interpret it today misdemeanor today as a a minor criminal violation or maybe even you know is it a distilling something about elation or maybe even you know is it distilling something wrong so i think they thought it was more serious than it now is interpreted wrong so i think they thought it was more serious than it now is interpreted so they thought of it as something more than high crimes and not to say so they thought of it as som

alexander hamilton made it very clear. his concern, when they were trying to promote the constitution, was that he didn't see impeachment used for political purposes. yet that's what happened today. he predicted it. it happened today. it's a sham. it shouldn't have happened. that adamnted process schiff is conducting, that conduct.ght one day the house deserves better. the people of this country deserve better. we should be tackling real problems. could have lower prescription drug prices today but pelosi bills to thehose floor because she's infatuated with impeachment. our troops could be properly funded but pelosi is infatuated with impeachment. we could have better trade with canada and mexico and create 160,000 new jobs infatuated infatuated with impeachment. we deserve better. chair, liznce cheney. >> thank you very much, steve. i want to make sure everybody is focused on a couple of things. and you'll hear from a number of aboutmbers here today this. the first one is that the democrats cannot fix this process. record

alexander hamilton made it very clear. his concern when they were trying to promote the constitution was that he didn't want to see impeach. used for political purposes. yet that's what happened today. he predicted it. it happened today. it's a sham. it shouldn't have happened. it's a tainted process. that adam schiff has been conducting that nadler might one day conduct. the house deserves better. the people of this country deserve better. we should be tackling real problems. we could have lower prescription drug prices today but pelosi won't bring those bills to the floor because she's infatuated with impeachment. our troops could be properly fund bud pelosi is infatuated with impeachment. we could have better trade relationships with canada and mexico and create 160,000 new jobs today but pelosi is infatuated with impeachment. our conference chair, liz haney. ms. cheney: i want to make sure everyone is focused on a couple of things. you'll hear from a number of members about this. the first one is that the democrats can

closely research novel "burr," about aaron baer, the serving vice president whose duel with alexander hamilton led to the latter's premature death, refers to the opposition to jefferson's sedition act, which hamilton explained, "had only been aimed at what jefferson liked to refer to as false facts. " the french revolution was initially inspired by the american one, which the french intervention helped to victory. jefferson, u.s. ambassador to france, certainly talked to a l awyer and member of the french national assembly, who was drafting the declaration of the rights of man. the formation of the society of united irishmen in 1790 was conceived initially in the mainly reformist spirit of the early french revolution. however, the reign of terror and popular fury gave weapons into the hands of the enemies of democracy for another century. the 1798 united irish rebellion in ireland, supported by france, resulted in a bloodbath and the incorporation of ireland into a union with great britain, intended to provide an insuperable bulwark against the separate irish democracy with its own representat

. >> an abuse of trust, as alexander hamilton said and many legal scholars sayo is a grounds for impeachment. it doesn't just have tbe a criminal violation. >> the criminal violation, that's my definition. >> to be mclear, f your perspective, an abuse of power not, for you, an impeachable offense. the united states president has to be proven to have broken a law or committed a crime. >> i think the abuse of power or committed a crime iltimately the same thing. is that you have an abuse of power that's not a violation of the law. >> it may not be iegal to ask a foreign leader to open an investigation into your chief political opponent, but it could be argued that is an abuse of power. >> you can also argue that's inappropriate or shouldn't have been done. but how didwa the person tha receiving that request view it? and ntultimately, presi zelensky and their foreign minister have made it very clear th they didn't feel like their arms we being twisted or that they were being pressured to do anything. >> you will soon likely have to vote, as it turns out. quite likely, have to vote on articles o

alexander hamilton warned of the risks of impeachment becoming a partisan act. in federalist number 65 he wrote of his fear during impeachment there will always be the greatest danger that the decision will be regulated more by comparative strength of parties than by real guilt demonstrations of incense or guilt. i fear the proceedings have not heeded this washing. impeachment was never designed to be a supplemental process but a safety valve to be used on the rare yeasest occasions when an eelected official acts in a manner to threaten the basis of our republic. i urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to remember that this as they assess the interviews, deposition, and hearings unfolding today and their impeendpending vote on impeachment. impeachment must not become weaponized. it cannot simply be another election tool. the question before this body is not whether a member is comfortable with the rhetoric of the president, his political tactics, his twitter, his policy choices, or political rallies, the question is have high crimes and misdemeanors been

much has been said about the federalist papers, alexander hamilton was cited more times this week on the hill than in a number of years because he wrote specifically about this day, this was a fear of the founders, that partisan politics would be driving an impeachment quest. the democrats determine a long time ago what the outcome of this would be. it is predetermined and they are using the impeachment process to obtain that and that is not fair. it is an abuse of the system of justice and assault our sense of fairness. katherine: congressman, as these hearings move into the public sphere and lawmakers and the public are able to see what some of these witnesses, who i know democrats are planning to bring back for public hearings, do you have any concern with the attacks this week from the president and former members of congress against the lieutenant colonel against the erosion of trust in the intelligence community or military community or diplomatic corps if there are attacks against the witnesses in these public settings? rep. johnson: no, look, i spent over an hour with the pre

the whole point of impeachment from the time of alexander hamilton is it would require a by part andupport in congress. that needle has not moved. it will not be bipartisan. lou: if it's not bipartisan and significant in that result, there is no purpose to this. the leadership of the democratic party -- >> is going to pay a political price for doing it, i would think. the argument that's persuasive is how can you justify that action was in the country's best interest? >> are you surprised that nancy pelosi has not had the judgment to call an end to this, quietly exit the stage with impeachment and move on? >> i think she did several months ago. i think she buckled under pressure of the progressive wing of the democratic party if she didn't do this, she ran the risk in 2020 of potentially losing the speakership. lou: their newest entry, michael bloomberg saying he's running against donald trump, and he wants to do great things for the economy as if president trump has not already done that. >> newsflash the stock market is above 28,000 and the lowest unemployment in our history. bloom

of how to run it ph the process the reason why i mention that is that you've got people like alexander hamilton james madison and timing the writing of the constitution that set this is what is a political process or the criminal process of anything else and it follows i hate to say this the set of rules that congress really decides this was the fall so i know what all of us i get a lot of talks in the united states look it will ask me well what are the rules what's supposed to happen etc etc i say there's an awful lot of questions out there that people really don't have a clear answers to and i don't want to quite say congress makes it up in the process but over time after for a peach with congress sort of mix it up a little bit as it goes yeah but david if i can stay with you here i absolutely agree with you but the way it's being perceived by the public and i and there's been polling data on this is that it seems intensely unfair what is going on here coaching witnesses not allowing the of the of the other party to ask questions not allowing them have a point of order i mean it seems inheren

convention and we will happen again yorker, a man new anduestionable virtue taking bodies with alexander hamilton. he was boasting that he could treat washington that he could treat any other of his best morris and hamilton made a wager. couldon said if morris treat washington like any other friend in public then hamilton ford buy dinner and wine morris and 12 of his friends. a the night in question public event, george washington as we know will become president of the constitutional convention and he was hosting an event that in.ing and morris comes it was a public event, big craft -- big crowd. immediately shakes his hand that reaches out to shake his hand, then he took the secondhand and run it up and began putting -- padding george on the shoulder, -- my goodnal friend, it is good to see you. what had happened, that familiarity. washington pulled his hand back, took three steps back and he just glared at morris with his evil, angry stare and the people .ho were there froze they simply stood and watched and morris's leaked off into the morse's leaked -- he , so hamilton i won the bet i will c

regardless of how you feel, this is exactly what alexander hamilton warned us about that impeachmentld be taken ahold of by one party for political gain. not because you believe in the rule of law, but you believe in the party. nancy pelosi said earlier this year that we should not do impeachment because it's so divisive it had to be 0 overwhelming, compelling and bipartisan. the only bipartisan vote in congress was to stop the impeachment. judge jeanine: congressman kevin mccarthy, thank you for joining us tonight. tom fitton from judicial watch is next. governor huckabee brings his take on the democrats "justice." (employee) enterprise car sales has access to over half a million preowned vehicles, most with tech features like blind spot detection, back up camera... [kristen gasps] (employee) because you never know what might be behind you. (kristen bell) does the sloth come standard? (kristen bell vo) looking to buy? enterprise makes it easy. aishah: live from "america's news headquarters." i'm aishah hasnie. a nail biter in louisiana with john bel edwards keeping his seat. the unc

regardless of how you feel, this is exactly what alexander hamilton warned us about that impeachmentld be taken ahold of by one party for political gain. not because you believe in the rule of law, but you believe in the party. nancy pelosi said earlier this year that we should not do impeachment because it's so divisive it had to be 0 overwhelming, compelling and bipartisan. the only bipartisan vote in congress was to stop the impeachment. judge jeanine: congressman kevin mccarthy, thank you for joining us tonight. tom fitton from judicial watch is next. governor huckabee brings his take on the democrats "justice." ♪ pets. ♪ [ gasps ] they see everything we do. whoo! [ screaming ] and they never say a thing. [ sighs ] well, i feel better. that's why progressive covers them in your auto policy at no extra charge. [ crying ] he only needed a spare. keeping you and your secret keepers safe. [♪] aishah: live from "america's news headquarters" i'm aishah hasnie. soldiers from mainland china taking to the streets of hong kong for the first time since protests began. they were not there to

regardless of how you feel, this is exactly what alexander hamilton warned us about that impeachmentld be taken ahold of by one party for political gain. not because you believe in the rule of law, but you believe in the party. nancy pelosi said earlier this year that we should not do impeachment because it's so divisive it had to be 0 overwhelming, compelling and bipartisan. the only bipartisan vote in congress was to stop the impeachment. judge jeanine: congressman kevin mccarthy, thank you for joining us tonight. tom fitton from judicial watch is next. governor huckabee brings his take on the democrats "justice." . . judge jeanine: pick a crime, any crime. the democrats moved on to bribery as their latest act president trump committed. that warrants him being impeached. the whole quid pro quo thing didn't work out. then it was extortion. the country didn't buy that either so now the president and his administration was out to bribe the ukrainian president. you have heard me ask a million times so i will let these folks ask it tonight. >> it's just plain stupid. >> are you stupid o

on gouverneur morris, a new yorker, a man of questionable virtue was drinking buddies with alexander hamilton. he was boasting that he could treat washington just like any other of his best friends. and morris and hamilton made a wager. hamilton said if morris could treat washington like any other friend in public, then hamilton would buy dinner and wine for morris and 12 of his friends. on the night in question, a public event, george washington as we know will become president of the constitutional convention and he was hosting an event that evening, and morris comes in. it was a public event, a big crowd. morris immediately reaches out his hand to shake washington's hand. morris took the secondhand and began patting george on the shoulder, saying, general washington, my good friend, it is good to see you so well. what had happened, that familiarity. washington pulled his hand back, took three steps back and he just glared at morris with this evil, angry stare, and the people who were there froze. they simply stood and watched morris slinked off into the crowd. morris later told hamilton, i