Rep. Al Green: "I'm Concerned If We Don't Impeach This President, He Will Get Re-Elected"

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"I regret I'm the canary in the coal mine. I regret I was the person who had to first say there's some obstruction taking place here. I regret it had to be me but it had to be somebody. I take my duties seriously. I love my country and want you to know this, we must impeach this president. If we don't, it's not the soul of the nation that will be at risk only, it is the soul of the Congress that's at risk. Congress has a duty, a responsibility, an obligation that only it can fulfill. No one else can no. Other entity can. It is Congress that will have to act. If we put people above party, we'll act properly. But if we allow a party to be above principle, we will not. If we allow political expediency to trump moral imperative, we will have created a shameful situation that this Congress will never live down. History won't be kind to us. We must impeach him."

"MSNBC HOST: I do understand you believe you are duty bound but strategically speaking here, are you okay with the president going through impeachment proceedings and then at the very end in the Republican-controlled Senate where he needs to be convicted, headlines all over the country saying "Trump acquitted" right in the middle of the presidential election campaign?

REP. AL GREEN: Dr. King said -- and I agree completely -- the time is always right to do right. The right thing for the Congress to do is impeach. Let the Senate do what they may. We have to do what they must.

This is not a game. This is not about who's going to do well in the polls. The polls will catch up with justice when we show people that we have the backbone, the spine to do what this constitution demands of us when we have an unfit, reckless, ruthless, lawless president in the White House. We say that. We talk about it. You will hear Democrats talking about how he's unfit to be president, how he is doing things that are unconscionable and unconstitutional. "



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