Kathianne
08-08-2019, 08:55 AM
I think she's trying to buck up Pelosi, but my gut says that Pelosi and AOCs meeting had some deals made. Impeachment considerations seem to be one and getting rid of AOCs guru being another.
She was speaking to this in the context of Watergate, but the points I've included seem to me a serious problem today and for nearly every president since Nixon.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/08/hillary-clinton-impeachment-trump-1452724
Hillary wades into impeachment in Watergate interview
Clinton drew upon her time as a young House committee staffer in the hour-long sit-down.
By DARREN SAMUELSOHN 08/08/2019 05:03 AM EDT
Hillary Clinton has a message for lawmakers contemplating impeachment: Steer clear of politics, don’t hold press conferences and avoid leaks.
The former secretary of state’s advice came in a little-noticed interview conducted last July as part of an oral history project tied to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, and quietly published earlier this summer. The interview amounts to some of her most extensive public comments on impeachment, and a fascinating window into her current thinking on the subject as House Democrats contemplate ousting yet another Republican president.
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“I think that it's such a serious undertaking. Do not pursue it for trivial partisan political purposes. If it does fall to you while you're in the House to examine abuses of power by the president, be as circumspect and careful as John Doar was,” Clinton said of the Judiciary Committee’s lead impeachment staffer, a Republican who served as a civil rights chief during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
“Restrain yourself from grandstanding and holding news conferences and playing to your base,” Clinton added. “This goes way beyond whose side...you’re on or who's on your side. And try to be faithful purveyors of the history and the solemnity of the process.”
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She was speaking to this in the context of Watergate, but the points I've included seem to me a serious problem today and for nearly every president since Nixon.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/08/hillary-clinton-impeachment-trump-1452724
Hillary wades into impeachment in Watergate interview
Clinton drew upon her time as a young House committee staffer in the hour-long sit-down.
By DARREN SAMUELSOHN 08/08/2019 05:03 AM EDT
Hillary Clinton has a message for lawmakers contemplating impeachment: Steer clear of politics, don’t hold press conferences and avoid leaks.
The former secretary of state’s advice came in a little-noticed interview conducted last July as part of an oral history project tied to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, and quietly published earlier this summer. The interview amounts to some of her most extensive public comments on impeachment, and a fascinating window into her current thinking on the subject as House Democrats contemplate ousting yet another Republican president.
...
“I think that it's such a serious undertaking. Do not pursue it for trivial partisan political purposes. If it does fall to you while you're in the House to examine abuses of power by the president, be as circumspect and careful as John Doar was,” Clinton said of the Judiciary Committee’s lead impeachment staffer, a Republican who served as a civil rights chief during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
“Restrain yourself from grandstanding and holding news conferences and playing to your base,” Clinton added. “This goes way beyond whose side...you’re on or who's on your side. And try to be faithful purveyors of the history and the solemnity of the process.”
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