jefferson never made a secret of the fact that he revered george mason. the sage of monticello called him the wisest man of his generation. jefferson's theme park for agreed, summarizing mason's markie contributions to the revolution when he said quote, mason chartered the rights of human beings much more fully than jefferson did in the immortal but necessarily compressed paragraphs in the more famous document, referring to the declaration of rights. of the contemporary impact of mason's declaration, malone went on to say, there can be no possible question, more than any other single american -- did you hear that? more than any other single american, george mason may be regarded as the herald of this new era. quite simply, mason's developed into a private man of renaissance interest, , but with an abiding conviction deep inside him, the fate of individual liberty, individual freedom was paramount to governmental power. he believed individual freedom was a natural right. individual liberty was a natural right. he wrote in his virginia declaration of rights

jefferson never made a secret of the fact that he revered george mason. they called him the wisest man of his generation. jefferson's famed biographer agrees summarizing his contradictions to the revolution when he said, quote, mason charter of the rights of human beings much more fully than jefferson did in the compressed paragraph in the more famous document referring to declaration of rights. if the contemporary impact of the declaration, he went on to say there could be no possible question. more than any other single american. did you hear that, more than any other single american, george mason may be regarded as the herald of the new era. quite simply, mason developed into a private man of renaissance interest of havana abiding conviction deep within him. the faith of individual liberty, individual freedom is paramount to governmental power. he made individual freedom was a national rights, individual liberty was a natural right. he wrote in his virginia declaration of rights, quote, all power is vested in and consequentially derived from the people

carlin constructed garments for washington and george mason. at least 38 members of alexandria's merchant class as well. hopefully someone you have heard of. john carlisle, a wealthy high profile merchant, was a frequent customer in carlin pop shop. william carlin had a strong working relationship with the artisans and trade city as well. these represent a wide cross-section of the men who worked with their hands. as locksmith joel cooper. and silversmith charle turner. one architect, two blacksmiths, five joiners, one silversmith. he produced 305 garments for alexandria's artisan. including 36 coats widths -- with fabric choices that arrange cought range to a country -- country cloth suit. served other equally visible yet marginal members of alexandria society. white indentured servants who worked on the plantations here. and in the workshops of the cities, artisans and taverns as well. carlin made clothing for apprentices and artisans. james parson purchased clothes for two of his apprentices. apprenticesto alexandria citizens utilized a work

like george mason even one of the workers in town have more than one outfit? would they have several? the second question is, what about hygiene at this time in history? katherine: hygiene is a fun one to answer. they do things differently. there is a great book, if you want to do a deep dive. it is by kathy brown. she talks a lot about bathing, about hygiene and all of these fun questions. it is very virginia centric. but laundry is a thing. bleaching things out in the sun is a thing. people are taking care of their clothing they do bathe in this , contrary to popular mythology. there are things that we can do to keep our clothing fresh. back to your question about multiple garments. it is clear in the account book, and that one receipt for some of the enslaved men, also in the fairfax records as well. you can see when people are acquiring new sets of clothes. a lot of it revolves around seasonality. at least for enslaved members of society, you were obligated to clothe slaves. people like washington and mason -- i think it is plain to see in the account that

he was at george mason university law school, founder of their security institutes, welcome to the program. based on your experienceof the house intelligence committee and there's a lead committee on this impeachment inquiry, what national security concerns do you hear coming out of that one piece of evidence, that memorandum on the phone call ? >> guest: obviously the phone call is concerning . if the president is making commitments are asking for things from foreign leaders that don't go to the national interest , that go to his personal interest, that could be a concern to the committees in the house not just the intelligence committee but the judiciary committee which will vote on impeachment and send them to the floor. the house as you point out is doing all the investigation. when i served under chairman mike rogers, it was a bipartisan committee. they spent time figuring out a way to work together and create common cause to support the national security . as we seen in recent months and on the past two years, the committee has become partisan on both sides and we can blame the forme

george mason talks a lot about civil liberties. we find it important to talk about civil liberties and national security and have the discussion in public and help give ideas to members of congress and elective officials about how they can solve thelems and reconcile important, competing values and our national security while preserving the privileges that americans enjoy. host: let us hear from cindy, north carolina, independent line. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i would like to know, does the president have a right to inquire, and i believe he does by law, to any foreign government about corruption in a former election, 2016. does he have a right to inquire to any leader of any country about corruption in our own government? this letter, the way i understand it, where the secondhandedly got information that the president was looking at biden. wasrding to the letter, he -- what the president said was he was inquiring about election. in the 2016 is this fact or something that they are still debating? nancy pe

for his writing since he won the pulitzer prize now the robinson professor of public affairs at george mason and this is in addition to writing books. and to his right he lives in singapore and flew it all for this event more or less. [applause] he grew up in many places around the world and is a graduate of georgetown university and then the phd at the london school of economics and has written many books of global affairs and now gives strategic advice and that to esquire magazine said not too long ago he is one of the 75 most important people in the 21t century. we'll see if he can live up to that at some point. [laughter] your book has an exciting title. kit american capitalism survive. the answer is. >> sure. [laughter] it will survive but whether it will continue to be the richest country and have the most vibrant and innovative economy the last social and political institutions is not a given. >> your book does point out we have a lot of challenges social mobility issues and things like that. why are there not riots in the street why aren't as people upset as you think they should be?

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at 7:00 pm, we go to george mason university for a conversation on intelligence and the u.s. presidential elections. speakers include former cia director john brennan, former deputy cia directors john mclaughlin and michael morel, and former deputy director of the fbi andrew mccabe. a.m., the at 10:00 house homeland security committee hears testimony on global terror threats with fbi director chris wray. at three clock p.m., we joined house rules committee as it considers an impeachment investigation resolution, laying the groundwork for how the inquiry will proceed. sunday, live at noon eastern on in-depth, princeton joinssity professor perry us to talk about african-american history and racial inequality. >> my mother came of age in alabama. youthher lived her through white nationalists society, and it has -- >> open officially white nationalists society? >> yes, and it has reared its head again. book, "ast recent letter to my sons." other books include "may we forever stand." join the conversation with phone calls, tweets, and facebook messages. afterwards,ern on the autho

i'm ellen laipson and i'm currently the director of the international security program at george mason university and it's a great pleasure to preside over today's discussion on a topic that i think is particularly compelling. so in our topsy-turvy world where we write love letters to authoritarians and would publicly disparaged our allies, it's interesting to think what is a u.s.-turkish relations fit in that sort a spectrum from how we treat allies and authoritarians. it seems to fit into every category, or maybe none, maybe we'll try to figure out today a special is the case of u.s.-turkish relations. it's often been a tumultuous relationship, one where the executive branch and coastal always see eye to eye it is a fundamentally a secreta partnership, or do we have a turkey's democratic standing? if turkey is questioning its nato membership and its evolving come in its evolving relationship with moscow, what should the united states do? this is without even mentioning the incursion into northern syria and the decision by the united states to withdraw our troops from northern syria.

to george mason university for a conversation on intelligence in the u.s. presidential election. speakers include former cia director john brennan, former deputy cia directors john mclaughlin and michael morel, and former deputy director of the fbi, andrew mccabe. a.m., the at 10:00 house homeland security committee hears testimony on global terror threats with fbi director chris ray. at 3:00 p.m., we join the house rules committee as it considers an impeachment investigation revolution -- investigation resolution, laying the groundwork for how it will proceed. house democrats announced that lower drug prices act, has been renamed in memory of representative elijah cummings. two congresspeople spoke about elijah cummings's efforts to lower costs. they also spoke about the impeachment inquiry. >> good morning, everyone. this week, the house democrats will continue our effort to lower health care costs on behalf of the american people with the focus on driving down the high cost of lifesaving prescription drugs. we continue to move forward with the effort around hr-3, which has bee

a professor of law at george mason university, jaffer served as white house counsel for president georgeush. jaffer joins me now from raleigh, north carolina. profsor jf jaffer, thank y very much for being here. let's talk a little bit about the arguments put oua in tht letter. one legal argument that's made is that this is simplt a because the full hse has notry voted to authorize theze impeachment inquiry. is that laid out in the constitution as a requirement? >>ell, william, there are no for how the house is supposed to but prior praice suggests that, the house should take a full -- a vote of the full hou to initiate the impeachment inquiry. you can imagine, th a huge issue. it's a conflict between two coordinate, co-equal branches of the government, one investing in another. somewhat outside of the normal purview of what the house does. sypically the house doe legislation and oveight. this is not a requireme t for have a full vote of the house before beginning an impeachment inquiry. >> there's precedent but no requirement for it. let's say the house were to hold the vote and formall

morning, we will discuss has democrats' impeachment inquiry of president trump with a professor at george masonrsity. on, the new documentary mohammad bin salman, the crown prince of saudi arabia. join the discussion. state department officials talk about the trump administration's approach to public diplomacy, including a reorganization of the public affairs arm of the state department. the heritage foundation hosted the hour-long event. >> good morning, and welcome to the heritage foundation. it is a pleasure to welcome our distinguished panel. we will be talking about public diplomacy, in the trump administration. significant changes have been taking place, with the state department in this field, and i think, as someone who studies this extensively, not enough has really been coming forth about the extent of those changes and the effects they are having on the effectiveness of your communication with other publics in other countries. mainve with us today, our speaker will be the assistant secretary of state in the bureau of public affairs. thrilled you could join us today. she joined the st

we'll have to see where this alan fischer thank you bill schneider is a public policy professor at george mason university he says the republican majority in the senate will make sure trump doesn't get impeached. tribe has an army it's not a majority maybe about a 3rd of the country but it's a big part of the republican primary vote and republicans who are elected officials have to paste republican primary voters and they're terrified they're absolutely terrified that if they even criticize president's office they say anything vaguely negative about the president the army will come after them and their political careers so unless their career political careers are already over they want to do nothing that would defy president shop just last week he said he expects to be impeached the democrats have a majority in the house of representatives so therefore he said let him go ahead let me impeach me he's already preparing for that by saying he expects to be impeached and that shouldn't be a surprise to anyone he's relied on the republican majority in this senate which is a majority but nowhere clos

fischer live for us in washington alan thank you bill schneider is a public policy professor at george mason university he joins us also from washington d.c. so they'll as alan just reported there the white house has released a statement saying that the president has done nothing wrong. is it is the only question to republicans are you ok with the president of united states standing in front of the white house and plainly saying this is not about the whistleblower plainly inviting other countries to meddle in the u.s. election isn't the only question that continues to need to be asked is are you ok with that. yes that's the question and to prove he doesn't think he did anything wrong he invites china to investigate his political enemies his adversaries the president is communicating here with his base with his loyal supporters and basically saying what i did was nothing wrong there's no come there's no objection and here watch me i'm going to do it again so is that a tactic that actually might work. yes his base is very loyal and frankly i've spoken to the republican supporters and they all

for example, the example that george mason, our founder cited during the debates on the constitution. a president who misused his pardoning power to pardon all his friends and protect himself from criminal prosecution. nobody would say issuing the pardon was a crime, but mason's view was it was abusive authority and thus a high crime or misdemeanor. i would say gerald ford was quoted as saying a high crime or misdemeanor is whatever a majority of the house of representatives says it is, which in practice is actually the right thing, but in theory is probably a little too strong. ney-on theie pvige issue and rudy giuliani, there are several aspects. ishat giuliani said on tv when he went to the ukraine he wasn't acting as a lawyer. he was acting as an advocate for the president's policies. aneven begin to consider attorney-client privilege it is not just that you are talking to an attorney. i'm an attorney right now but our discussion here is not under the attorney-client privilege because i'm not here as your attorney. that is the first thing. the second piece is the privilege i prote

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going up so what could happen next week in speaking to bill schneider a public policy professor at george mason university. tribe has an army it's not a majority maybe about a 3rd of the country but it's a big part of the republican primary vote and republicans who are elected officials have to face republican primary voters and they're terrified they're absolutely terrified that if they even criticize president's office they say anything vaguely negative about the president the army will come after them and their political careers so unless their career political careers are already over they want to do nothing that would defy president shop just last week he said he expects to be impeached the democrats have a majority in the house of representatives so therefore he said let him go ahead let me impeach me he's already preparing for that by saying he expects to be impeached and that shouldn't be a surprise to anyone he's relying on the republican majority in this senate which is a majority but nowhere close to $2.00 to $2.00 thirds he's relying on the republican majority in the senate to prote

joining me now from sangdon in south korea is andray abrahamian, a korean expert with george mason universityes to what we know so far, these are reports from the south korean military, but we are talking about a short—range projectile that breached japan's exclusive economic zone. what more do you know? well, this is the ninth time the north koreans have tested a short—range missile since donald trump met kim jong—un short—range missile since donald trump met kimjong—un on the dmc on 30 june. and clearly it falls below the threshold for donald trump in terms of willingness to push back against the north koreans. and so they know, on the one hand, they can kind of get away with this sort of thing. also, yesterday here in south korea was armed forces day, and the south koreans unveiled some of their new f 35 is. that is a stealthy multirole fighterjet, new f 35 is. that is a stealthy multirole fighter jet, and new f 35 is. that is a stealthy multirole fighterjet, and is much more advanced than anything the north koreans have, much more versatile, much more stealthy. and perhaps from the north

i'm mark loiselle at this george mason university and we author the intelligence policy and national security that has put on a number of these wonderful programs in the last few years. i'm flattered that his turnout and look very much forward to this event. for those of you who don't know george mason university has a short school policy government that provides academic programs in fairfax and arlington virginia and we have a number of her fashion of degree programs primarily taught in arlington and public policy public administration international security studies which has been ranked number two by "u.s. news and world report" nationally that we are very proud of and i think the michael hayden sent her center for security policy studies a number of other entities at the school are a very important component of the recognition we have received for being leaders in the field of security studies. again thank you for being here. i look forward to a great event that i want to acknowledge the presence of the provost of our university david willits. [applause] several members of our boa

their attorney was george mason. one of our local heroes. 1705 based his case upon a slavery law that specifically mentioned the lead gala day of enslaving people of african descent but did not specifically mention enslaving native americans. missiond the essentially -- this omission appealed previous laws enslaving indians. mason also argued, in 1770 two, the indians of every done nomination were free and independent of us. they were not subject to our empire, not represented in our legislature. derived norived -- protection from our laws. independence,ht, disavowal of protection are not sufficient to keep them from the coercion of our laws, on what principle can we justify our opposition to some late acts of power exercised over us by the british legislature? pretended to impose a paltry tax and money. our free -- oh neighbors the yoke of perpetual slavery. richard bland, another of our founding fathers, defended indian slavery at the trial. he rested his case on the argument that captives taken in just wars could

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is themple, there example that george mason, the debates onted during the constitution. a president who misused his pardon of power to pardon all his friends and protect himself from criminal prosecution. nobody would say that issuing ae problem -- the pardon was crime, but mason said it was an abusive authority unless a high crime or misdemeanor. gerald ford said a high crime or misdemeanor is whatever the house committee says it is, but that is probably a little too strong. on the attorney general -- on the attorney-client privilege issue, through the giuliani, there are several aspects to this. the first is that giuliani said on tv that when he went to the ukraine, he was not acting as a lawyer, he was acting as an advocate for the president's policy. to even begin to consider an attorney-client privilege, it is not just that you were talking to an attorney. i am an attorney right now, in our discussion is not under the attorney-client privilege because i am not here as your attorney, bill. that is the first piece. the second piece is that the attorney-client privileg

. >> phil graduated from wheeling jazz with university and is a graduate degree from george mason university. he is currently a supervisory park ranger with the national park service in florida, so with that, let us learn a little bit about why someone would want to burn down boston. [laughter] [applause] i'm a park ranger in the everglades so i did not bring any snakes, so everyone in the first or second row i know that was a big concern, but today's talk is centered on summit farther north and being a baltimore orioles fan, there are reasons why want to see boston burn. [laughter] >> today is the road to , at theon and boston center of that early colonial british comeo the into existence. i figured i would summit up in three days. thanks for coming, we will take questions. [laughter] >> they are all important dates. the 13 british north american colonies the ledge of the creation of the united states of america. but events did not happen in a vacuum. events like the three mentioned above are integral to the american revolutionary war. the mere breadcrumbs or should we say the paving stones

with a bachelor of arts degree from wheeling jesuit and has a graduate degree in history from george mason. he has a supervisory park ranger with the park service in florida. you can ask him about fun things he might have seen recently. why that, let's learn about someone would want to burn down boston. [laughter] [applause] >> there is a microphone. i am a park ranger in the everglades, so i did not bring any snakes, so everyone can stay in the first and second rows. today's talk is centered on something farther north. fan, a baltimore orioles there are a number of reasons i want to see boston burn, especially fenway. today is the road to revolution and boston at the center of that , i figured isition would sum it up in three days. march 5 17 70, december 16, 1773, april 19th 1775. so thanks for coming. we will take questions. [applause] there -- [laughter] they are important dates. they disrupted the colonies. in as do not happen vacuum. centralmic events are to the history of revolutionary war, but so are the smaller breadcrumbs, or should we say the paving stones on the road to revolut

he was at george mason university law school, founder of their security institutes, welcome to the programr experienceof the house intelligence committee and there's a lead committee on this impeachment inquiry, what national security concerns do you hear coming out of that one piece of evidence, that memorandum on the phone call ? >> guest: obviously the phone call is concerning . if the president is making commitments are asking for things from foreign leaders that don't go to the national interest , that go to his personal interest, that could be a concern to the committees in the house not just the intelligence committee but the judiciary committee which will vote on impeachment and send them to the floor. the house as you point out is doing all the investigation. when i served under chairman mike rogers, it was a bipartisan committee. they spent time figuring out a way to work together and create common cause to support the national security . as we seen in recent months and on the past two years, the committee has become partisan on both sides

george mason talks a lot about civil liberties.nd it important to talk about civil liberties and national security and have the discussion in public and help give ideas to members of congress and elective officials about how they can solve thelems and reconcile important, competing values and our national security while preserving the privileges that americans enjoy. host: let us hear from cindy, north carolina, independent line. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i would like to know, does the president have a right to inquire, and i believe he does by law, to any foreign government about corruption in a former election, 2016. does he have a right to inquire to any leader of any country about corruption in our own government? this letter, the way i understand it, where the secondhandedly got information that the president was looking at biden. wasrding to the letter, he -- what the president said was he was inquiring about election. in the 2016 is this fact or something that they are still debating? nancy pelosi w

hyland junior will tell us about a forgotten founding father, george mason, the founding father who gave us the bill of rights and then on tuesday september 10 at noon, said a blumenthal will tell us about this recently released a young three of his biography of abraham lincoln, all powers of earth, the political life of abraham lincoln 1856 to 1863. to find out more about these programs and our exhibits, please visit our website at archives .gov/calendar and you'll also find some printed materials held in the lobby about upcoming events as well as the sign-up sheet so you can receive an electronic version of the monthly calendar. phillip joins the central intelligence agency in 1985 as an analyst specializing in south asia and then the middle east. as the september 11 attacks he was the cia member of the small diplomatic team that helped piece together a new government for afghanistan. after returning to the cia, he became deputy director of the counterterrorist center and served there until 2005. he was the first deputy director of the federal bureau of investigation's national securit

when george mason said impeachment should be with other things, madison got up and said what does that mean. that could mean anything. and the president is captive of the house of representatives. >> the other way of saying that as you've heard cortez essentially say on the basis of impeachment is that the president has deviated from democratic norms which is pretty much a modern way of saying the same thing, no the remedy for that administration or deviation from democratic norms is guess what, and election. that's how we deal with who you want your president to be. we wait until, we wait your turn until the next election and the people decide who the president is. impeachment is not supposed to be, the presidents always subject to impeachment throughout his presidential term, the framers made impeachment a very high bar on purpose, and you're right it's not exclusively a political process, it's also a constitutional process with all kinds of protections built in. a simple majority vote in the house but of the entire house, and it requires a two thirds vote in the senate to remove. it

in that role under president obama, now the director for the hayden center for intelligence at george masonrsity. thank you for joining us. whatus your insight on goes on -- it may have changed but givesident trump, us a sense of what may happen presidents and heads of states. larry: these are practices that go back many years. the little i have seen with the release of the transcript suggests things have not changed much. that isa situation room responsible for setting up and coordinating the date and time of the call, the day of the call they execute the call. as the director, i would go to the oval office and tee up the president for when the call is about to start. staff members would be listening to the call and typing fast and furious, everything they could capture. the resulting three transcripts are then reconciled into one working draft that is then provided to the national security council direct or it responsible for the call. the would then massage text, fix anything that we may have gotten wrong, and then often making the language more elegant, flow more nicely, eliminate some

i'm currently the director of the international security director at george mason university. it's a great pleasure to reside over today's discussion on a topic i think is particularly compelling. in a world where we write love letters to authoritarians and we publicly disparage our allies is kind of interesting to think where does the u.s. turkish relations it in the spectrum from how we treat allies and authoritarians. it seems to fit into every category or maybe none and were going to try to figure out how special is the case of u.s. turkish relations. it's at the motionless relationship one with the executive branch does not always ci to eye. is it fundamentally security partnership or do we have a stake in the democratic standing and if turkey is questioning and involving with moscow what should the united states to prove this is brought out even mentioning into northern syria in the decision by the united states to withdraw troops from northern syria. there is just a lot going on in the u.s. turkish relationship and i'm delighted we have three such excellent speakers to

national security and a former trump transition staffer who is an associate professor of law at george masond this letterer, paul, you actually say in some cases you would have gone further. there's a lot in here. what didn't you say? >> well, as i've said publicly for me we reached the point where if i were a member of the house i would vote to impeach and based on what i know now aif i were a member of thesont i would vote to convict and remove. it letter calls for an expedishes investigation, a vote in the house and if aprpropriat asont trial. so it doesn't want to presume to tell the members what to do and that's wholly appropriate for a letter that 16 of us have signed. but in my personal capacity i'm comfortable saying i'm past that point. >> i do want to read part of it for those not familiar with it. "we political candidate open to receivinger foreign assistance to better his chances in winning an election but a current president and privately calling on foreign governments to actively interfere in the most sacred of u.s. democratic -- and threaten our democracy. is this behavior tha

they were aligning themselves with george mason and sing the focus of the impeachment mechanism for presidents is on offenses against the community or policies of the society that violate public trust, those reach beyond near violations of the criminal code to a dangerous assault on political order. guest: one of the things people often think of when they hear the phrase high crimes and misdemeanors, it sounds like it is referring to crimes in the ordinary sense. because of that, it tends to confuse people. it tends to mislead us and draw us into discussions about whether a president's behavior falls into the narrow parameters of some particular statutory crime during the time we are having an impeachment controversy. that is not what it is about. casesfundamentally about for the executive represents a danger to the constitutional republic has held onto for many years. that that kind of thing the framers were most concerned about. host: at cnn.com, you wrote if the president's ukraine call is not impeachable, nothing is. define your argument. going one of the things, back to the time the briti

served on the house intelligence committee as their senior counsel from 2011 to 2013, now with george masonniversity law school, founder of their national security institute, welcome to the program this morning. , and on your experience there is other committee on this inquiry, what national security concerns did you hear coming out of that one piece of evidence from that memorandum on the phone call? >> sure, obviously the phone call is concerning. if the president is making commitments or asking for things from foreign leaders that don't go to the national interest -- that is the claim on the table

george mason law university jeffrey offer. ben, first, what does all this mean, what the president said last night? >> it means we're selling out our closest allies. the turning point in the campaign was in 2014. you will recall there was a battle of kabani. we started flowing weapons into the kurds. they're the ones who fought on the ground with u.s. air support all the way to raqqah. thousands of kurds were killed to root out isis. we also carefully put advisers to help them but it's a trip wire to prevent the turkeys from coming in and potentially massacring the kurds. what donald trump has done is against the counsel of his entire administration, this entire campaign we put together, he has sold these people out just because one authoritarian leader called him up and said he wanted a fare. st a horrific way to make foreign policy. >> you were a republican staffer on that foreign relations committee. the gop senators are opposing the move. mitch mcconnell, lindsey graham, mitt romney, marco rubio, ted cruz, pat toomey. that

a poll yesterday, "washington post" george mason roughly 50/50. what about voters? voters who don't support impeachment? the move today politically risky for biden? >> brooke, i laid out for you why vice president biden felt it was important to do what he did today. donald trump has essentially betrayed our country. he has put his personal interests and political interests over those of the american people. he stood on the white house lawn and asked a foreign government to interfere in our elections. in the beginning of vice president's speech today he talked about for 200 years, since the founding of our country, that one of the cornerstones that the founders talked about they wrote into the constitution that there should be no foreign interference in our government. we should protect our voting process the integrity of our process, integrity of our democracy at all costs and why the constitution is written the way it is and why there is a clause, if you will, impeachment clause to deal with in the event a president no longer has the interests of the american peopl

so george mason of virginia came up with a broader phrase -- high crimes and misdemeanors, and that isi, section 4 of the american constitution. there was a moment in our history when it saved american democracy. but at other times it's been turned into a cheap political trick hurled at opponents as a weapon. so which is it right now? >> if ever there were a time to impeach, it is now. >> he's got to go. >> almost three years into the trump presidency, calls for his impeachment come every day, sometimes every hour. >> i say impeachment, impeachment, impeachment. >> impeach trump! impeach trump! >> thousands are in the streets out here this evening. >> but this was just one day after donald trump was elected president. from the first moment, donald trump has been the most polarizing president in an already bitterly divided america. >> we will impeach him. we will impeach him. the people said, but he hasn't done anything wrong. oh, that doesn't matter. we will impeach the president. >> we have been through periods of polarization before. the difference now, i think, is that we don't have

a huge story today, peter barnhart, conducted by "washington post," george mason university. throw out the numbers. 58%, majority of americans endorse opening of a house impeachment and 49% say the house should take a more significant step to impooch the president and ca -- pea -impeach the president and call for his removal. is that enough to break and speak up against the president, the republicans? >> i don't think so far it's enough. prab republicans are looking at primarily what republican voters think. staunchly divided, most republican voters are anteimpeachment and don't think trump did anything wrong, again, gets a lot of media information telling them that message. with the exception of a couple, that it would be enough to ratify impeachment yet. the movement could continue and we at least can say is the conventional wisdom as of a few months, democrats would suffer politically if they pushed for the impeachment that has changed. i don't think the impeachment push on ukraine is hurting democrats politically. >> talking to a republican last hour said the same thing.

here's the deal today from "washington post," george mason university poll.they endorse the opening of the house impeachment inquiry. on top of that 49% say the ho us should take more significant steps to impeach the president and call for his removal. >> yes. >> look at those numbers and also think we're about where republicans are, and do you think that will start to sway them? >> i think we've seen movement in this direction for a solid two weeks now. this is the third or fourth poll to come out and since the inquiry announced everything is moving in the direction of greater concern about donald trump and more open to impeaching him. that poll showed three in ten republicans supported the impeachment inquiry and close to two in ten republicans supported more like a vote to impeach. those are significant numbers. broke out the independents, independents very much in favor of the impeachment inquiry and impeachment, all incredibly relevant to november 2020. >> i think this is the story of the day. i think you're seeing the ground shift, if this trend continu