Dershowitz on Impeaching Rosenstein: The Most ‘Stupid Thing I Have Heard in a Long Time’

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SMITH: "First off, can you tell us what exactly this means? Republicans have been warning this would happen for quite some time. Now, they are actually acting on it. What does that mean?"
DERSHOWITZ: "It is the most shortsighted, and I have to say stupid thing I've heard in a long time. Here we have a president who the Democrats are trying to impeach. If they gained the House of Representatives, they will almost certainly do so. And the big issue will be can you impeach a president or anyone else when you don’t charge him with specific crimes, just because you disagree with what he has done. And now, you have the Republicans making the case for the Democrats who want to impeach the president by offering bills of impeachment against Rod Rosenstein and don't charge crimes. I’m going to have to write a new book called 'The case against impeaching Rod Rosenstein.' Because the same arguments apply. This is so shortsighted. Both sides do this. They use criminal law to go after their enemies, they use impeachment to go after their enemies. The big victim is the American public. Impeachment is supposed to be there for serious crimes. Treason, bribery, other high crimes and misdemeanors. If you don’t like the way Rod Rosenstein is responding to your subpoena, charge him with contempt of court, bring him to court, but do not use impeachment. That just helps the Democrats who are trying to impeach President Trump. It's a dumb, dumb decision."