Neal Katyal

This isn’t free speech, this is incitement.

That`s breathtaking. That`s Putin-esque.

if impeachment isn`t for this, what`s it for?

I think there was a moment of reckoning.

the president was pushing the Justice Department to the point of saying he was going to replace the acting attorney general with one of the subordinates who would do his business and interfere with the Georgia election.

You can`t -- you know, this is a majestic power of the president. It`s a noble thing that Madison and others put into the Constitution about mercy. And it`s emblematic of the Trump presidency. He takes this noble thing and he perverts it…

The pardon power was put in the Constitution. It`s a kind of majestic thing, and presidents normally use it to wield mercy, to show there`s a problem with some sort of criminal conviction.

I am 100 percent sure that in the new administration there will be a real investigation, and these crimes won't be covered up or swept under the rug.

The pardon power is absolute and isn't subject to restrictions except if there's a state or local crime, and there may be for some of these people.

What these are going to require though is not simply, did you let someone in and didn't know? But did you have some sort of mens rea, specific intent to try to help these folks?

Congress is basically like the opposite of Trump right now. Trump is totally AWOL. We don't see from him. He's doing nothing. But Congress is moving really fast and introduced today the single article of impeachment, focusing on inciting…

Mitch McConnell has said, well, I can't start a trial until January 19 because the Senate's in recess. This is the same guy who rammed a Supreme Court appointment through three days before an election.

What the Attorney General Karl Racine is doing is opening an investigation.

Donald Trump's never going to win an election for dogcatcher again.

These people aren't patriots. These people are insurrectionists.

Yes, our founders were so wise. What they said -- and this is George Mason and others in Philadelphia -- is, we need an impeachment mechanism that does two things, one, takes someone out, removes them from office, but, number two…

I think we could see them as all getting toward the same thing; 25th Amendment, impeachment, Section 3, all of these are different mechanisms our founders gave us for precisely this moment, to remove someone who's 100 percent utterly unfit…

I support the idea that the president would be qualified to run for future office? And the answer is absolutely not. This guy is not capable of running for office. He shouldn't be. He should be barred.

This person has to be removed from office. There has to be a signal sent so future presidents doesn't act this way.

there has to be a signal sent so future presidents doesn't act this way.

I am someone who does believe that President Trump should face a second impeachment.

This is a serious, simple question. Are you an American? Do you believe in democracy? Or do you believe that a thug like this could install himself in power? It's nothing more complicated than that.

I thought Trump should be impeached. I still think that.

It's a beautiful summary of the issue. I mean, with Ukraine, Donald Trump tried to cheat with a foreign power to try and win his reelection, trying to get dirt on Joe Biden. Now he's trying to do the same thing domestically.

What Trump is doing, it's about race. It always is African-Americans were disenfranchised.