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Three Experts Testify Trump Committed Impeachable Acts
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3:49Now PlayingFour law school professors are giving lessons on American history and presidential politics as they testify Wednesday in the House impeachment inquiry.
Several of the experts told lawmakers they think President Donald Trump's conduct with Ukraine meets the definition of "high crimes and misdemeanors" required in the Constitution for impeachable offenses.
Their testimony was part of the effort by Democrats to bolster the argument for impeachment by having outside constitutional experts make the case that Trump committed an impeachable offense.
"If what we're talking about is not impeachable," said Michael Gerhardt, a University of North Carolina law professor, "then nothing is impeachable."
Pamela Karlan, a Stanford Law School professor, said the founding fathers were particularly concerned about foreign interference in American politics.
"The very idea that a president might seek the aid of a foreign government in his reelection campaign would have horrified them," Karlan said. "But based on the evidentiary record, that is what President Trump has done."
The lone dissenter was Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University professor, who said that though he himself is not a supporter of the president, he found the case against Trump legally weak and warned that it would "collapse" amid an absence of criminal intent.
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