Rep. Jerrold Nadler: 'The Role Of Congress Is Not To Protect The President'

Rep. Jerrold Nadler explains to Meet the Press host Chuck Todd what the role of Congress is supposed to be when dealing with the sort of lawlessness we're witnessing from Trump, members of his family and his administration right now.

The press has been playing this game of "gotcha" with Democrats on impeachment, which they know full well is an exercise in futility even if Democrats regain control of the House and the Senate refuses to vote to convict, which is unlikely given it takes a two-thirds majority in the Senate to obtain that conviction.

Republicans have proven themselves to be completely unable and unwilling to put a check on Trump, but instead of badgering every Republican that agrees to an interview on these so-called news shows about why Republicans are refusing to do proper oversight of this administration, we're treated to segments like this one, where they're badgering Democrats on impeachment, and playing the "both sides" game with what Trump has done while in office, and conflating that with the Great Penis Chase of the 1990's with Bill Clinton.

Nadler, for his part, did a very good job responding to Todd, and with beating down the false equivalencies:

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