Because according to these articles, and my belief, and what I hear from many persons, many of them newscasters, the president is not honoring the Constitution, his oath of office to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.
unidentified
He is not respecting the rule of law, the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
He doesn't respect Marlbury versus Madison, the right for judicial review.
The best way is for the president to honor the Constitution.
The president should do as the judges indicate, and many judges have told him that he is to facilitate the return of someone that was taken from the country in error, and that person has not been facilitated by way of the court's order.
But the president wants to make sure we understand that he can remove people from this country and even American citizens if he has his way and send them to a foreign place with an indeterminate amount of time.
So if these things fail, if the courts fail and his party won't do it, then that's the only thing left is impeachment.
unidentified
So I'm doing what's left.
And I'm doing it because we have to build the momentum for it.
People don't always understand it, which is why I'm here today to say to people, impeachment is a means by which we can remove a president or we can deter him.
unidentified
Impeachment is a process for removal or to stop a president.
He's chair of the House Democratic Caucus, so he is your colleague there and was asked if anything President Trump had done in this presidency rises to the level of impeachable offenses, and then I'll get your response.
unidentified
In the first 100 days, has the president done anything that rises to the level of impeachable defenses?
What the president has done is he sought to erode the fabric of our country by stoking chaos, fear, division.
This is not unlike behavior he has done in the past.
But right now, we will deal with the tools in front of us and the policies that he and House Republicans have placed forward, which are reckless cuts to the health care system, to our supplemental nutrition that is relied on by women and children and families across this country.
Those are the policies that we're going to push back against.
And those are the items that the American public is paying attention to.
Impeachment is at times a tool that can be used.
This president is no stranger to that.
He's been impeached twice.
But we don't have any confidence that House and Senate Republicans would do their jobs.
And so this is not an exercise that we're willing to undertake.
Do you think that this could actually help President Trump politically?
Because some of his advisors are saying that this is a former Trump attorney, David Schoen, saying, I think that Trump would recognize that while some on the far left would cheer impeachment, it would likely help him politically on the backdrop of the previous two efforts and the other attacks of the past four years, which I believe propelled many voters to vote for him.
unidentified
To complete my answer to your last question before this one, impeachment is what the House says it is.
So anyone who says that this is not impeachment, anything that comes before the House can be thought to be not impeachment.
Every member has the right to decide for himself or herself, for their selves, what impeachment is.
Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868, Article 10, for simply speaking ill of Congress.
So for a person to say that dishonoring court orders, to say that the president somehow is honoring his pledge to uphold and protect and defend the Constitution, that that's not impeachment, then everybody's entitled to say that.
unidentified
But there are a good many people who believe that it is worthy of impeachment.
They just don't think that they want to do it now.
Now, with reference to this notion of helping the president, I believe that the president lost in part last time because he was impeached.
I think that that made a difference in that election.
And I believe that if he tries to make this the issue in an election wherein we have a bad economy and he's saying, well, keep me because if you keep me, then I can continue this bad economy.
I think the president is in a very difficult position with his tariffs, with his behavior as it relates to the federal judges saying that they should be impeached because they don't agree with him.
unidentified
But finally, on this point, I think the American people have to see where we are.
And we'll take your calls for Representative Al Green, Democrat of Texas, until the end of the program in about 15 minutes when the House gavels in.
And we'll start with Richard, a Republican in Savannah, Georgia.
Good morning.
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unidentified
Good morning, Maby.
Mr. Green, I talked to you on February 6th this year, and Greta was speaking.
I would like for you to look at a camera and tell us why you didn't attend Jocelyn Ngri's funeral.
She was a 12-year-old girl in your district who was murdered by illegals, and it was disgusting.
And then, of course, you haven't mentioned anything about her, and the park was renamed in her memory for the brutal murder, which she didn't attend either.
And all this impeachment with you and the Democrats is ridiculous.
And I think you're just on the wrong side of history, as usual.
I have indicated not just for this person, but for anyone who's lost life under similar circumstances and under other circumstances, I have great sympathy for the parents, the friends, the persons who are suffering, and of course for the loss of that life.
unidentified
I don't attend funerals that I'm not invited to.
There are some people who have things that are private.
This is Michael in Gainesville, Florida, Independent.
Go ahead, Michael.
unidentified
Yes, hi.
Children in Gaza are starving, and here in the U.S., we have a constitutional crisis.
I think it's time to grab our keys, not our shoes, and start a rolling march and a tailgate parade of protesters to block traffic in and around McDonald's, Walmart's, and Tesla's, and move over for emergency vehicles because not everyone can march at one of the organized marches, but everyone has one of those three establishments in their town.
And let's face it, it's the dollar that counts.
And if traffic is blocked, you're illegal.
You're trying to get to an establishment.
If anyone pulls up and asks you to move over and it's an emergency vehicle, pull over.
And if it's a policeman, tell them you're hungry and you want to go to McDonald's or you want to go to Walmart or you want to buy a car at Tesla's and put a stop to traffic in your town and put a stop to traffic nationwide and just get out and drive when the time comes.
Any time of the day, it doesn't matter.
You're not pick a time.
If you start feeling antsy, what's the benefit of that, Michael?
I noticed that we didn't have, we didn't, I think it's March or May the 14th.
You know, when the children got the gun law passed, they got together and they announced on, I think it was a Saturday morning, along with the teachers' union, that they were going to go on strike.
That Saturday night, before that next Sunday news cycle, Congress somehow got together and announced so they could interrupt the news cycle that there was going to be a bill so that no one heard that the students and the teachers union had potentially gotten together and were going to go on a get-out or stop.
This is something that Israel would never appreciate if it was being imposed by another country, probably, especially if it was imposed by a country that we had a relationship with, this collective punishment.
unidentified
And as for what happened to cause all of this to continue, I can't really address that.
But I can tell you this, Mr. Netanyahu was part and parcel to it.
We need to talk about peace, not allow Netanyahu and President Trump, I might add, who wants to see Gaza become some sort of resort for people other than the Palestinians who were there in Gaza.
unidentified
This is just unbelievable that this is unfolding before our very eyes, and we won't say what it is.
It is collective punishment, and it is ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
Here's Maria in Atlanta, Georgia, Independent Line.
Good morning.
unidentified
Good morning, Limi, Mr. Green, C-SMAN family.
I'd just like to mention a couple things.
Mr. Green, a long time follower of you, and I heard you were Roland Martin Monday night, and we kind of felt heartfelt for you because you told Roland that if anything happens to you, just record it.
And I hope nothing happened to you and we appreciate it.
And I'm also concerned about Medicare because I'm a Lucas advocate and I just wrote a book about Lucas.
And I hope they don't do anything because we really need that.
And I like to leave my name and number for you to read my book and to C-SPAN Family.
It's called My Lucas Journal while learning of other autoimmune diseases.
And I just wish you well and I hope nothing happens to you.
Well, thank you.
Believe it or not, many people have said to me what you've just said.
There really is a belief in this country that persons who get out front on these issues, some of these issues that the president, for example, is promoting, and the president says that I ought to be removed from Congress.
unidentified
Anybody that opposes him, he wants them either removed if you're a congressperson, or if you're a judge, he wants you impeached.
And yes, I did say to Roland, who's a fraternity brother, that I would hope that if something happens to me, because this comes up as it's coming up now, I would want it to be thoroughly investigated.