reason they approved usmca, so that's okay with me. >> now speaker pelosi did want moderate house democrats for whom impeachment is tough to have a policy achievement to tout back home. but the democrats also won several giant concessions with the white house. so many concessions there's grumbling now among republicans that the president gave away too much. i call it whiplash week. it is striking that at a time when the president is stoking his base on twitter, calling the democrats the party of hate, they're calling the president somebody who is unethical and should be removed from office and then, boom, progress on a bunch of things that have been stuck in the quicksand for a long time. >> a lot of it has to do with the end of the congressional calendar. but this was also a clear calculation by the democratic leadership of the house knowing full well that a lot of these moderates do have a tough vote to cast on impeachment, and wanted to run on usmca. they had been pushing behind the