Steyer pressures Congress to impeach

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7. If Congress won't impeach, what precedents are set?

JOY ANN REID, MSNBC: It sounds like what you're saying is that the American public has to take the burden of reigning in a president who is out of control and that Congress is going to, A, wait for public sentiment to lead Congress, rather than Congress leading the public, and that, B, we're just going to wait and let the electorate handle Donald Trump.

First of all, what message does that send to the public, because the public elected you guys to lead, to be bluht. And second of all what message does it send to the next president, who says if this guy didn't get impeached and he committed what 7-800 former attorneys say is obstruction of justice, couldn't the next president just throw the emoluments clause in the garbage, commit obstruction of justice, investigate his political enemies, essentially Congress would be saying it's fine.

REP. RO KHANNA: Two things, first of all, I do believe this president has committed grave misconduct and I agree with you and I do think Congress is leading. Not leading would be saying we're just going to do infrastructure. I saw one of your guests make that point. That's not the case. Every day we're having four committees aggressively investigate, we are talking about the extraordinary obstruction, we're educating folks ...

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