Should the President Be Impeached? Two Views

Today on Midday, a conversation about whether President Trump himself has committed the high crimes and misdemeanors that the Constitution elucidates as a reason for Congress to impeach him. In an essay in the March issue of The Atlantic, Yoni Appelbaum makes the case that Congress should impeach Mr. Trump. Appelbaum is a historian and a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees the Ideas section. His March cover story in The Atlantic is called: “The Case for Impeachment.” He joins us on the line from the offices of The Atlantic in Washington, DC.Yascha Mounk is a scholar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and the Agora Institute. He has published a kind of rebuttal to Dr. Appelbaum’s Atlantic essay, which was posted on Slate.com on Wednesday. It’s called: ----The Case Against Impeachment.---- Dr. Mounk joins us on the line from his office in Washington, DC.Email us at [email protected], tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.