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Jerry Nadler: “There really are three--there really are three questions, I think. First, has the President committed impeachable…”

On the recordDecember 3, 2019
There really are three--there really are three questions, I think. First, has the President committed impeachable offenses? Second, do those offenses rise to the gravity that's worth putting the country through the drama of impeachment? And, number 3, because you don't want to tear the country apart, you don't want half of the country to say to the other half for the next 30 years he--we won the election. You stole it from us.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Nadler outlines criteria for legitimate impeachment proceedings.

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