ABC opened on January 17 with a story by Mike Von Fremd on Clinton preparing for the State of the Union and the debate over calling witnesses. Republican Senators argued today the standards for removing Presidents should be no different than for removing judges. O'Brien played a clip of Phil Gramm on This Week saying there's only one standard for all federal officials. Mitchell on Meet the Press said that judges are not elected by people and elections are sacred. There is no such requirement in the Constitution for Presidents.
Nobody votes for a judge.
He's got to be gotten rid of through impeachment. In a preview of what is certain to come this week, the President's defenders were arguing today that not only does the Constitution require different standards for removing Presidents than for removing judges, but also that there are different levels of perjury and that no one has ever been removed from office for lying about sex. The Judge Nixon comparison has yet to make it onto NBC Nightly News, but Tim Russert did raise it twice on Sunday's Meet the Press. On the January 17 show he pressed guests from both parties with the tough questions their opposites would want asked. I refer you back to July of 1987 when Oliver North had obstructed Congress and you called him an American hero.