Should President Trump Be Impeached?
We the People
National Constitution Center
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2019
⏱️ 84 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome |
| 0:07.8 | to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate. |
| 0:11.5 | The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress |
| 0:16.2 | to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people. |
| 0:21.0 | The House of Representatives is now debating articles of impeachment against President |
| 0:26.2 | Trump. |
| 0:27.2 | On December 2nd here at the National Constitution Center, we hosted a fascinating two-part conversation on the constitutional dimensions of impeachment. |
| 0:37.0 | The first panel features leading constitutional scholars from diverse perspectives, |
| 0:42.0 | including Professor Michael Gerhart, |
| 0:44.3 | our scholar in residence at the Constitution Center, who testified as an impeachment |
| 0:49.1 | expert before the House Judiciary Committee. |
| 0:50.9 | It also features John Malcolm from the Heritage Foundation |
| 0:54.0 | who's a member of our Madisonian Constitution for All Commission. And the next |
| 0:59.0 | panel features current and former members of Congress, two Republicans and two Democrats, including the Vice |
| 1:05.1 | Chair of the House Judiciary Committee Representative Mary Gay-Scanland. |
| 1:09.7 | Because impeachment involves a mix of legal and political considerations, |
| 1:15.0 | it's hard to have a purely constitutional debate about impeachment. |
| 1:19.0 | But I ask the audience during this program |
| 1:22.0 | to separate their political from their |
| 1:24.8 | constitutional views. In other words not to ask as a partisan matter whether or |
| 1:29.4 | not they believe that President Trump should be impeached, but whether they thought that the Constitution compelled |
| 1:35.5 | it and how they would vote if they were members of the House of Representatives. |
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