host: go ahead and respond, professor lichtman. guest: there is obviously some justice in what steve said. having taxpayer go to former presidents, as rich as both bush and donald trump, but that gets into very murky and complicated territory. it would be a bit demeaning, you know, to try to assess the need of a former president. it is just too much and too complicated. we have this multitrillion dollar budget and we are talking a couple hundred thousand dollars. it is never going to happen. as far as the other point, i am a big exponent of transparency in government and i absolutely agree. maybe we shouldn't tie it to pensions or perks, but i think it would be great to have a law requiring, to be on the ballot, you have to release your tax returns. host: here is a question i have not run across yet and i want to bring it to you because i'm also interested. professor lichtman, who pays for presidential libraries? from design and construction to keeping the doors open. is there any benefit to the living president or heirs. is that a

host: many of us know professor lichtman

host: go ahead and respond, professor lichtman.st: there is obviously some justice in what steve said. having taxpayer go to former presidents, as rich as both bush and donald trump, but that gets into very murky and complicated territory. it would be a bit demeaning, you know, to try to assess the need of a former president. it is just too much and too complicated. we have this multitrillion dollar budget and we are talking a couple hundred thousand dollars. it is never going to happen. as far as the other point, i am a big exponent of transparency in government and i absolutely agree. maybe we shouldn't tie it to pensions or perks, but i think it would be great to have a law requiring, to be on the ballot, you have to release your tax returns. host: here is a question i have not run across yet and i want to bring it to you because i'm also interested. professor lichtman, who pays for presidential libraries? from design and construction to keeping the doors open. is there any benefit to the living president or heirs. is that a pre

suzanne from pittsburgh, and berry from new york asked about marty lichtman, and athletes we haven'tet mentioned, but we were planning to do their stories. let's do that now, if we could. >> to the first question, known competes for years later. there are no olympic games from world war ii, set olympics in 1940, no olympics in 1944. we have a gap between 1936 and 1948. so, if you are a 22-year-old athlete, in 1936, by 90 40, eight you are in your mid thirties and out of your prime. the people who hoped i will compete in four years never had that opportunity. marty lichtman and sam are to american jewish athletes, sprinters, blackmon is on the, left a freshman at syracuse, and in 1936, sam is a runner at the university of michigan. they go over on the olympic team, these two jewish athletes to participate in the four by 100 meter relay, one of the last track and field events, and just before the race happens, they were told by the american coach, team chrome, well it will be replaced on the relay team by jesse owens and another african american sprinter, ralph metcalf, to arguably the

host: we are back with american university history professor, alan lichtman, who is here to talk abouthe

for us there in wilmington delaware let's discuss democrats to impeach trump further with allan lichtman who's a professor of history at the american university in washington is also the author of the case for impeachment and joins us via skype from washington thank you very much professor for being with us on al-jazeera always good to have you on so house democrats of planning to introduce it would seem these new articles of impeachment against president trump on monday i guess a 1st question that many people are asking especially outside of the us is why impeached and convicted a president who's only got a few days left in office why not ride it out 12 days. the simple reason is trump needs to be held accountable for what is arguably be the most immoral despicable and dangerous act ever committed by a us president and that is inciting people to storm the capitol to disrupt the constitutional functions of the congress to engage in violence that we now know has resulted in at least 5 deaths trump has never been held accountable for anything is entire life needs to be held accountable a s

coming up american university history professor alan lichtman discusses the perks and benefits offered to former u.s. presidents. max dyer talks about challenges facing the biden administration as it seeks to fill cabinets another key positions. watch "washington journal" live at some :00 eastern saturday morning and join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. announcer: biden nominees gina raimondo and denis mcdonough will be on capitol hill next week for their confirmation hearings tuesday at 10:00 eastern, gina raimondo testifies before the senate committee and wednesday former white house chief of staff dennis mcdonough nominated for secretary of veterans affairs testified -- testifies before this veteran -- senate veterans affairs committee. listen on the c-span radio app. >> next, the director of the white house economic council previous president biden's economic orders aimed at helping american families struggling to read the covid-19 pandemic. he spoke with reporters for about 25 minutes.

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individuals and groups have been banned from twitter this is not unique to donald trump ok allan lichtman so i'm afraid we're out of time it is great to get your thoughts and your expertise there thank you so much for joining us here on the al-jazeera news hour thank you very life we take care. there's a plenty more still to come on this news hour including the death of a prominent member of gary is opposition fuels mistrusts in the government. and some government funded muslim schools in n.z. are being forced to become secular plus we'll have the sport for you will bring unity maiming to avoid a man wants to lead the records in germany and he will be here later in the news are. there officials in indonesia say a passenger plane a suspected c. have crashed after it went missing shortly after takeoff from the capital jakarta fisherman who found debris cool thing have given the items to sources to determine whether they're from the missing plane the boeing 737500 as operated by budget airline should be joy or air it was headed to pull carrying 62 people jessica washington has the latest fro

with me now, presidential historian douglas brinkley and harriet lichtman.arned for the two dozenth time he's not really a lawyer and doesn't know what he's say iing and he always goe on offense. there's reasons that the 25th amendment isn't strong here. >> the quote from the president today in texas, the impeachment hoax is the continuation of the greatest witch hunt in this country and is causing tremendous anger, division and pain, far greater than most people will ever understand, which is very dangerous to the usa, especially at this very tender time. i mean, i know you're an historian, and maybe this is out of your lane. i'm just wondering if this is coded language to those white supremacists who support him. >> no question that it is, brooke. the spasm of violence that took place at the u.s. capitol wasn't spontaneous. it was orchestrated by donald trump. he is going to face charges of sedition in one way or another, and that congress would be delinquent if they weren't moving forward with impeachment. there could be the 25th amendment invoked but, of

. >> reporter: and history professor alan lichtman of american university says the vote in favor of impeachmentent's own party, the most of any impeachment in history, voted yes. one of them was jamie herrera beutler of washington state. >> my vote to impeach our sitting president is not a fear-based decision, i am not choosing a side. i'm choosing truth. >> reporter: was this a matter of conscience for you? >> to me, it was an issue of when i'm a grandma, can i look at this as passionately and say to myself, i believe in the stand i took. and i can tell you right now, i know that i will. >> reporter: do you think you're going to lose your seat over this? >> i don't know. i knew by taking a vote, it would put it all into question. >> reporter: now it's up to the united states senate to decide whether to convict president trump. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell will not start a trial before the inauguration, which democrats take control of the senate. some experts argue it is unconstitutional to try to president after he has left office. but others, like rice university history professor d

coming up saturday morning, american university history professor, and lichtman, discussing the benefitsered to u.s. presidents. then max stier come on challenges facing the biden administration, -- then max stier, on challenges facing the biden administration. be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, comments, text messages, and to -- and tweets. announcer: biden nominees, gina raimondo and denis mcdonough, will be on capitol hill next week for their confirmation hearings. tuesday at 10:00 a.m. eastern, gina raimondo, commerce secretary nominee, testifies before the senate commerce committee. wednesday at 3:00 p.m. eastern, former white house chief of staff dennis mcdonough, monai did for secretary of veterans affairs, testifies before the senate affairs committee. watch the confirmation hearings live on c-span, on demand that c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app -- at c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. ♪ announcer: next, a conversation about the impact of former president trump on the republican party and potential 2024 gop presidential candi

we will not know why lichtman -- desk glickman and ller wereand sta replaced. glickman was outspoken about it, he was was more quiet, not sure it was anti-semitism. that led to the replacement of these runners. it ultimately allows jesse owens to win his fourth gold medal at the games. run three races eventsnd up playing four and winning four metals. >> will fight not dissimilar story in the case of the loan to african-american women at berlin. can you tell us about these women? the 1932ere members of team and should have had an opportunity to compete in los angeles, they did not get a chance despite excelling in their event. 1936 they were put on the olympic team again. hurdler became the first to compete inan the olympic games when she competed in the 80 meter hurdles. unfortunately she hit one of the hurdles in the early races and broke her foot and was not able to make it to the final. louis stokes was on the team but did not get a chance to compete in her running race. theywas important because were caught up in both the racial dynamics but also the gender