This is the Tom Hartman program.

Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

believers in peace, freedom, and the American way.

The argument about whether or not Donald

Trump should be impeached is in some ways a very complex one and in other ways it's a

very simple one and in other ways it's a very simple one and for example

there are multiple news outlets and what not saying you know instead of impeaching

him let's just have a censure resolution

well an impeachment investigation which suddenly turns the house into a courtroom

essentially and gives the house judiciary committee access to things that they wouldn't otherwise have access to.

Can end up voting to censure rather than to impeach.

I mean it's not an all or nothing and you don't have to go to the Senate.

But you do have to start, right? You have to start somewhere. For example Thor Hogan

in the Washington Post he's saying censure not impeachment is the proper way to deal with the president's misdeed

Because it'll pass either house by a simple majority it doesn't need the two-thirds in the Senate that impeachment does to remove a president from office

But frankly if you look at the history

of the Nixon impeachment, the approval of Nixon

and his job started to collapse in May of 773.

It was in July, while it was in August 8th that Nixon resigned.

So it took about three months and during those three months support for removing him from

office went from 19% which is where it was in May during the Watergate hearings all the

way up to 57% on the day that he resigned so the key to the whole thing is not

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