The group approached Young in the hallway, asking him multiple times “Do you think it’s OK for the president to pressure foreign governments to interfere in our elections?”

An unidentified Young aide attempted to defuse the situation, telling the activists to contact the congressman’s press secretary for a statement on the issue. When they continued their questioning, Young, 86, pivoted away from the elevator he was calling, walked toward the cameraman and hinged forward to bring his forehead into his lens.

“There you go,” Young said, before entering the elevator.

Young’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

Young, along with the rest of the Republicans in the House, voted on Thursday against the impeachment inquiry resolution proposed by the Democratic majority,

He told Alaska Public Media: “This has been a political sham from the very beginning. When you think about it, three years, all they’ve ever tried to do is get rid of Trump.”

As the only House member who was present during the last impeachment effort against a Republican president, Young occupies a unique position in Congress. When he took office in 1973, proceedings had just begun against Richard Nixon for his role in the scandal involving the burglary of the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters at the Watergate complex and its subsequent cover-up.

Initially, Young did not support the impeachment case against Nixon, but in August 1974 he reversed his position, saying he would vote to remove the president. Nixon resigned from office the next day.

Young himself has faced several investigations over allegations of unethical conduct while in office.

In 2007, he was probed for receiving gifts from VECO, an Anchorage-based oil pipeline and construction company. VECO executives had already pleaded guilty to bribing members of the Alaska Legislature when the investigation began, and the company’s chief executive signed a confession stating that he had provided gifts to Young from 1993 to 2006 that the congressman had failed to report.

That investigation was closed in 2010 without a conviction. Young faced similar accusations in 2013 and received a rebuke from the House Ethics Committee for not disclosing over $60,000 worth of gifts received while in office, according to the Anchorage Daily News.

He has also been a frequent target of investigatory group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which has probed several of his dealings, including an approved $10 million earmark in 2005 to build an interchange in Florida that benefited one of his donors.

Young won his last election in 2018 against Democrat Alyse Galvin, making him the oldest member of Congress. He has already announced plans to run again in 2020.