marshall had been a justice, he had been an attorney in virginia who had witnessed one of the trials samuel chasead overseen as a circuit court judge in virginia. in this trial, it was alleged chase had been a little rough on the defendant's attorney. and marshall disputed that as a witness. brian: this is in the united states senate, he is a witness? joel: he is being tried in the senate, and impeachment trial. marshall basically argues it was not that way at all. the trial is overseen by the vice president, aaron burr. he is very fair-minded in the way he directs the trial. as a result, they really don't have any clear grounds for convicting him. he is acquitted in the trial. of course, jefferson is enraged by this. this is really what turns jefferson against burr. burr had already been responsible for the murder of alexander hamilton, and yet, that did not turn jefferson against burr. jefferson offered to help burr escape legal consequences for the murder of alexander hamilton if burr would see to it that samuel chase was convicted. and yet, burr defended the rule of law and withstood the pres

samuel chase, in 18 oh four. he was easily acquitted in a similar area of partisan unrest.ts say that and kavanaugh may have lied to congress during allegations of sexual misconduct during his contentious organization. >> kavanaugh is on the bench, and there is only one obstacle. making the midterms increasingly important. but there are already splits in the party. that does not mean that we will be making a priority of impeachment or investigation. >> we would have to investigate incredible any credible allegation and things that hadn't been looked into properly before. >> these calls for impeachment are common, and those efforts all went nowhere. >> in a twist, if kavanaugh is impeached in the center holds a trial it would be presided over by the chief justice of the united states. >> bret: john roberts is asking federal judges outside of the beltway to investigate complaints over statements made by now justice brett kavanaugh during his contentious confirmation. a letter from roberts was posted on the website of the d.c. appellate court, the d.c. appeals court work kavan

samuel chase, a great friend of the committee on the conduct of the war, he is treasury. secretary most of the time, but he works with lincoln area when somebody leaked that he was running third party, lincoln fires him and he does not use the treasury at all after the summer. he puts in the side and is looking at shea, you know who is sick? roger b taney, supreme court justice. want the presidency, you ,o for it, but if i do win you could be chief justice of the supreme court, so what are you going to do? chase says nothing for about 90 days about, i want to be president of the united states. july, when robert tenney is about to get sick on his deathbed, he zips it. would rather be chief justice of the supreme court then living in the white house. if lincoln gets reelected, he will probably like me enough to make me chief justice, which he did. fremont, he was a candidate in 1856. lincoln put him on the backwaters of the military. he did not have any outstanding qualifications other than he was an avid abolitionist. he worked with the committee on the conduct of the war.

it was samuel chase in 1805. the house voted on articles of impeachment, took it to the senate where he was acquitted, shep? >> shepard: john, president trump says he has no plans to fire the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. >> it looks like rosenstein, at least for the time being, going to hold on to his job. we were all very surprised this morning to hear that rosenstein was accompanying the president aboard air force one down to that chiefs of police veentd and there you see him walking off of air force one. along with chief of staff john kelly. rosenstein strongly denied a "new york times" article that he was trying to drum up further spore a 25th amendment removal of the president even going so far to suggest that he might wear a wire to gain incriminating evidence. the president when he was speaking to the chief of police said he and rosen sign spoke for 45 minutes. he didn't let on too much about what the substance of the conversation was. listen here. >> thank you as well to our deputy attorney gen

has happened before. 15 federal judges have been impeached but only one, supreme court justice, samuel chase1804. he was easily acquitted in a similar era of partisan unrest. congress say kavanaugh may have lied to congress during his contentious confirmation. >> i'm here today to tell the truth. >> kavanaugh's on the bench but that hasn't stopped many in the left from demanding the fight continue. there's only one obstacle. democrats don't control either chamber, making it a midterms outcome increasingly important. there's already splits in the party on whether to go after a sitting justice. >> will we seek truth to set the record straight? yes but that does not mean that we will be making a priority of impeachment or investigation. >> we would have to investigate any credible allegations certainly of perjury and other things that haven't been properly looked into. >> calls for impeaching justices are common, including john roberts, clarence thomas, ruth bader ginsburg, sonia sotomayor in the late antonin scalia. those efforts went nowhere. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell predict all

samuel chase in 1804.the house of representatives has the power to investigate allegations that can lead to impeachment. even if democrats win back control of the house in the midterm elections, it is not clear that they would move forward impeachment proceedings against cavanaugh. -- judge kavanaugh. a >> what we seek truth to set the record straight? yes. but that does not mean you will making them that's like a party of impeachment. >>reporter: a two thirds one of the senate would be required for judd -- brett kavanaugh to be removed. >>> today, kanye west 80 with president trump at the white house. is scheduled to lunch with the president and meet with his son- in-law and advisor, jared kushner. he said he wants to talk with the president but job opportunities for ex-convicts and ways to increase manufacturing jobs in and around his hometown of chicago. pvc met with the president at trump tower shortly after he was elected in december 2016. >>> first lady melania trump said she thinks the easiest and m

congress brought articles of impeachment against justice samuel chase.ccused him ofle continuing to promote his political agenda on the bench, thereby tending to prostitute t he high judicial character to the low purpose of partisan rate. the court was damaged, and he was not impeached. this court, i think, when alito time to change the .onservative court we had the right to appoint merrick garland. the way these justices are appointed now is so partisan, there's no hope for the court. host: justice alito is very much alive, you must have meant justice scalia. -- wrote that president trump requires an oath of personal loyalty or you don't get the job. gorsuch and kavanaugh obviously took that of. -- wrote that the reason we lost obamacare -- --tern gets the last word independent civil libertarian, i am appalled by all of the republicans and democrats calling in and never mentioning the constitution and bill of rights once, but that is to be expected. they don't care about that. the court is independent. they've proven it time and time again through histo