ends up backlashing on the party that does it, and it could help the president. >> alexi, how confident do you perceive democrats to be, democratic leaders? you saw obviously pelosi make that move today, but we've also seen a number of democrats in the last two days from marginal districts, swing districts, we've seen a number of them come out in favor of an impeachment inquiry. is there a confidence among democrats that numbers like we just showed are going to change? >> i think what we've seen between the member who came out today, which i think you mentioned it more than 30 between yesterday and today, and the seven house democrats that wrote the op-ed in the post that came out last night, all those folks are from marginal districts, the ones who wrote that article last night and even a lot of the texas house democrats that came out today. they're from very marginal, sort of vulnerable districts. they know what's at risk, but a lot of them have this national security, foreign policy background. i think, and i'm not an expert