Despite earlier efforts to bring impeachment charges against George W. Bush,[11] and more recent requests from fellow representatives, he did not schedule hearings on impeachments for Bush or Dick Cheney, saying in 2007 that doing so would be pointless and would distract from the presidential election.[12] In an interview in Washington Journal on July 15, 2008, Nadler reiterated the timing defense [13] while stating that Bush had committed impeachable offenses, but that nothing could be done because the system is "overly political".