Pelosi: Left Unchecked, Trump Is Taking Us Away from the System of Checks and Balances

RUSH EXCERPT:

PELOSI: “No. This isn’t about Politics at all. This is about patriotism. It’s not about partisanship. It’s about honoring our oath of office. This is the first president that has committed all of these things as the constitutional experts said yesterday, nobody has ever even come close, not Richard Nixon even came close to his dishonoring his own oath of office. So no, Politics is not even a consideration in this. This is about protect and defend the Constitution. I truly believe, naya, I truly believe that the times have found us to save our democracy, defend our democracy for the people if we didn’t, we would no longer — on September 17th, 1787, was the day that the Constitution was ratified, was adopted. When Benjamin Franklin came out on the steps of Independence hall and they asked him, what do we have, Mr. Franklin? A Monarchy or a republic?”