"With the president of the United States testifying under oath in front of the chief justice, and the full Senate and 200 million people watching on television.”



Napolitano has said on several occasions in recent weeks that he believes the president Napolitano has said on several occasions in recent weeks that he believes the president should be impeached based on evidence laid out as part of the House inquiry, which is examining Trump's efforts this year to get Ukraine to launch politically charged investigations.

In a recent interview with Reason.com, Napolitano said he believes there could be "three or four articles of impeachment" against Trump, including bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors and obstruction of justice.

“The Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have unearthed enough evidence, in my opinion, to justify about three or four articles of impeachment against the president," he told Reason's Nick Gillespie.

"One is bribery. The allegation is the technical definition of bribery is the failure to perform an official duty until a thing of value comes your way," continued Napolitano. "And they will argue that the president’s failure to disperse funds that the Congress ordered, they dispersed until the recipient of the funds agreed to investigate a potential political opponent is an act of bribery. That is enough, in my opinion, to make it over the threshold of impeachable offenses. I don’t think it’s enough to convict of bribery, but it’s enough to allege it for the purpose of impeachment."



"The second charge will be high crimes and misdemeanors, election law violation," he added. "The third crime will be obstruction of justice. The fourth will be interference with a witness, and the fifth may be lying under oath."



“The evidence of his impeachable behavior at this point, in my view, is overwhelming," Napolitano concluded.

Should the Democratic-led House vote to impeach Trump, it should shift the process to the Senate, where GOP leaders have predicted that the president will be acquitted.