Fox News judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said California Rep. Adam Schiff and the House Democrats were proceeding with the impeachment of President Trump through the proper process.
“The Republicans are looking for more transparency so that the better cross-examiners among them can challenge the credibility and the essence of the testimony of the witnesses. Right now, all that is going on in secret,” Napolitano said Thursday on Fox & Friends.
The legal analyst compared the investigation to Ken Starr, the independent counsel investigating President Bill Clinton, collecting evidence in secret, using a grand jury and witness testimony before public impeachment hearings were held.
“But nothing was used against Bill Clinton that came from Ken Starr that wasn’t at some point filtered through the public,” he said. “So Congressman Schiff is, in my opinion, following the rules of the House of Representatives. You generate the information in secret, you decide what you want to make public. You can’t use anything against the president that has not been challenged and aired in public.”
Fox host Steve Doocy protested, saying, “Congress has got some screwy rules.”
Napolitano agreed but responded that Republicans were the ones who had made the impeachment rules back in 2015. “It has come back to haunt the Republicans,” he said.
House Democrats announced the beginning of the impeachment process last month over accusations Trump threatened to withhold military aid from the Ukrainian government if they did not investigate Joe Biden.
Earlier this month, Napolitano called Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “both criminal and impeachable behavior.”
