President Trump is only the third president in U.S. history to have been formally impeached by the House of Representatives. The Miller Center, along with the Center for Politics, the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, UVA Law’s Karsh Center, and the Jefferson and Literary Debating Society, is assembling some of UVA’s leading experts on the presidency and the Constitution to offer context and answer questions from the audience. The Miller Center's Director of Presidential Studies Barbara Perry will host the nonpartisan, bipartisan panel, which includes Deborah Hellman, the David Lurton Massee, Jr., Professor of Law and the Roy L. and Rosamond Woodruff Morgan Professor of Law at the University of Virginia; Kyle Kondik, communications director for the Center for Politics and the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball; and Chris Lu, former deputy secretary of labor under President Obama. 

The White House violated federal law in withholding security assistance to Ukraine, an action at the center of President Donald Trump’s impeachment, a federal watchdog agency said Thursday. GUESTS:
Anna Edgerton, politics editor for Bloomberg; she tweets @annaedge4. Barbara Perry, professor, co-chair of the presidential oral history program and director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center; she tweets @BarbaraPerryUVA. David Rivkin, partner at the law firm BakerHostetler; he has previously held positions at the Department of Justice, in the Office of White House Counsel and elsewhere in the federal government; he tweets @DavidRivkin

According to Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, the nation’s founders chose the chief justice to preside over impeachment trials precisely because partisan senators cannot be expected to be impartial. Regardless of the Senate verdict, though, the House impeachment vote will forever hang over Trump’s presidency to some degree.

Chris Liu joins me to discuss the Senate’s impending impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. And attorney James Quander talks about the newly released film Just Mercy.

Senior Fellow Chris Lu is interviewed on MSNBC.

Bush was punished for the Iraq War – but only after it had begun to sour and the public re-evaluated its earlier support for the action, notes presidential scholar Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. The payback came in the 2006 midterm elections, when Democrats took control of both the House and Senate.