Michael Gerhardt’s full opening statement | Trump’s first impeachment
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Michael Gerhardt, a University of North Carolina law professor, urged House lawmakers on Dec. 4 to hold President Donald Trump accountable. Speaking during the first day of public hearings by the Judiciary Committee in the impeachment inquiry into Trump, Gerhardt said, “no one, not even the president, is beyond the reach of our Constitution and our laws,” and added that if Congress does not impeach Trump, the impeachment process “has lost all meaning.” The focus of the Judiciary hearing, which came after the House Intelligence Committee held hearings in late November, is to define the grounds for a presidential impeachment. The impeachment inquiry has revolved around a July 25 phone call in which Trump asked the president of Ukraine to investigate former vice president and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. For more on who’s who in the Trump impeachment inquiry, read: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/whos-who-in-the-trump-impeachment-inquiry Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6 Follow us: Facebook: http://www.pbs.org/newshour Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/newshour Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/newshour Snapchat: @pbsnews Subscribe: PBS NewsHour podcasts: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/podcasts Newsletters: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/subscribe
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