Jerry Nadler: “I saw the news this morning that 400 and some odd Members of the House yesterday voted for an inquiry into impeachment…”

“I saw the news this morning that 400 and some odd Members of the House yesterday voted for an inquiry into impeachment of the President, including all of those of us who voted for the Democratic amendment to the Hyde resolution. That is simply not true. Many people who voted for the Hyde resolution voted for it, many people who voted for the Democratic amendment voted for it because they wanted an inquiry, but they thought the Republican Hyde resolution was a formula for an open-ended, politicized fishing expedition, and at least this would make it fairer. So they voted for the Democratic amendment, and then, when it failed, they voted against the Hyde resolution. Some of us, however, thought and think there is no impeachable offense described in the Starr Report. Even if you assume the President did everything it alleges he did, there is no impeachable offense. He should be punished in some other way for things he did that are not good things to do, but there was no impeachable offense.”