"See, here's the deal: we want to impeach you. We want that very much. But, right now, we don't have any evidence. Heck, to be honest, we can't even come up with a crime you've committed. So, here's our proposal -- let's take a pause, and you can provide documents and testimony that might help us impeach you. Then we can resume and try to screw you over in a few months. That would work for us. Would that work for you?"
Exactly.
What exactly is “abuse of power”? This is what they were touting yesterday. Is it a catchall phrase they can throw anything they want to in, or does it have a specific definition that is in a statute that can be adjudicated?
I think you got it right. Remember John Galt’s speech in “Atlas Shrugged”:
“I know you’ve always known what it was you wanted but your game is up because now we know it too.”