Jerrold Nadler in Trump impeachment

On Government Reform: Impeachment: Trump continuing threat to election & democracy

There are two questions that are implicated in all this. One, is it OK to solicit foreign interference for your election campaign? Is it OK to use the power of the presidency to coerce a foreign government into helping you in the election, and to subvert the honesty of the election? And secondly, is it OK to order everyone not to testify in order to cover it up? Those are the two articles of impeachment. If the answer to either of those questions is it's OK, we will not have a democracy anymore.

On Principles & Values: Would lead impeachment committee very cautiously

If Democrats retake the House in 2018, Nadler will become the party's gatekeeper on the issue. In fact, his expertise in constitutional law--as well as his outsized voice opposing the Clinton impeachment in 1998--was a factor in his selection to lead committee Democrats. While he says impeachment would surely be on the table in a Democrat-led House, it's far from certain it would be the right call--politically or constitutionally. And it'll be up to his committee to tell voters why.

"If we were in the majority & if we decide that the evidence isn't there for impeachment--or even if the evidence is there we decide it would tear the country apart too much--if we decide that, then it's our duty to educate the country why we decided it," Nadler said.

On Principles & Values: Clinton provided blood during impeachment; Trump stonewalls