Stand up, stand up. You've been sitting way too long.

Welcome to our final installment of the impeachment of Donald J. Trump,

where Ralph and

constitutional scholar Bruce Fine reflect on the importance of holding our

elected officials to a higher standard.

All these counts point to a real lowering of the bar for what presidents can get away with, the

lawlessness, the contempt for the Constitution, the contempt for Congress, the contempt

for people who are trying to exercise

their rights of civic advocacy, blocking law enforcement

with obstruction of justice,

blocking access by the people of this country to their own government

proceedings, whether it's cabinet departments or regulatory agencies or decisions exonerating corporate crime or providing corporate welfare bailouts of Wall Street

handouts, giveaways, subsidies.

It all shows a tremendous deterioration of standards that we should apply to holding our government,

not only just accountable, but to make it reflect the preamble, the people and Abraham Lincoln's phrase government

of by and for the people it sometimes Bruce finds good to go back in history

Sherman Adams was the chief of staff for President Eisenhower.

He was from New Hampshire. I think he was a former governor.

And he once accepted a Vaikuna coat from a textile manufacturer and he had to resign his

position. So that indicates how higher the standards were. There wasn't anything

clear that he gave this textile

manufacturer. He just should not have accepted this Viscunicoat and President

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