On Cuomo Prime Time Tuesday, CNN’s Chris Cuomo weighed in on the impeachment debate; pointing out the pluses and minuses of going down the impeachment road. According to Cuomo, impeachment “could be the best way to get you the information you deserve so that you can decide if there were an actual abuse of power here by the President.” In other words, Congress must impeach President Trump so that way they can figure out whether or not he deserves impeachment.

Cuomo began the segment by playing clips of two Congressional Democrats with differing views on the impeachment question, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. He then made his point highlighting impeachment as “the best way” to help the American people “decide if there was an actual abuse of power” by President Trump. Ironically, Cuomo played a clip of Democratic Congresswoman Katie Hill; who rebutted his statement by saying “we don’t need impeachment at all to be able to move forward with the…investigation.”

Another “upside” of impeachment, according to Cuomo, would be the acceleration of “some of the legal battles that this President is throwing up all over the place as challenges.” Cuomo pointed out that “the AG is already in contempt, Don McGahn may be next.” For the record, Attorney General Bill Barr has only been held in contempt of Congress by the House Judiciary Committee, not the House of Representatives as a whole.

After going through the polling among Democrats and the American people as a whole when it comes to their feelings about impeachment, Cuomo warned that impeachment could have negative political consequences for the Democrats. Cuomo proceeded to refer to President Trump as a bully: “There is a real risk of making the bully in this so far, this President, look like a victim.”

Cuomo pushed back on President Trump’s characterization of Congress’s Russia investigation as a “do-over” of the Mueller investigation by making a semantic argument that it’s actually a “redo.” Cuomo pointed out that under this “redo,” “it’s a different standard. This is not about a reasonable doubt. It’s about beyond what the country wants in a President.” Cuomo want on to slam President Trump’s “gross abuse of power” while expressing hope that it “disgusts enough of you to influence lawmakers.”

At least Cuomo admitted that the impeachment process is all political, not legal. He also reminded his audience that the Congressional investigation “doesn’t put this President behind bars,” while attempting to show them a silver lining: “but it could bar a second term, especially if people hear and see what key folks have to say.”

A transcript of the relevant portion of Tuesday’s edition of Cuomo Prime Time is below. Click “expand” to read more.