In an interview on CBS's 'This Morning,' Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine says that Richard Nixon was impeached for doing what Donald Trump jokingly asked Russia to do to the DNC. At a campaign rally in July, the GOP candidate for president asked Russia to release anything "helpful" they might have hacked from the Democratic National Committee.



“[Trump's support for Putin] betrays an irrationality and a hostility to the president that’s unpatriotic,” he said.



"What about invading other countries is leadership? What about running your economy into the ground is leadership? What about persecuting LGBT Russians is leadership? There’s a difference between dictatorship and leadership. And if you don’t understand that, I mean, you wouldn’t get out of a 5th grade civics exam."



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TIM KAINE: It is very clear that the Russians were behind the DNC [hack] attack, at a minimum it is delegitimizing the election. Remember: When a presidential candidaate encouraged crooks to commit espionage against the DNC, in an election year to gain and edge, we impeached him --Richard Nixon-- and he resigned. When Donald Trump publicly said to the Russians: Go ahead and hack away, and if you find something that helps me out, let me have it. We impeached a president for that, what he encouraged Russia to do.