all of us have to be engaged in this idea of democracy and fight for it. when we have marc elias go ahead. no, i wanted to say. i m anxious, too, maybe i m irish and i m always as you knew from 2004, i posted that yates column on my door. the irish have an abiding sense of terror. even when we win i worry about what s going to happen next. michigan is a perfect example of the success. michigan voted for donald trump in 2016. michigan was the hot bed and is the hot bed of the right wing militia, right? they went through a structural change, independent redistricting board, look what they re doing? they passed gun reform. passed protections on women s health care. it passed all of these things. democracy can work and get it done, we just have to roll up our sleeves. when we do our hour on this with marc elias, the two of you
there is a very real prospect that on the day donald trump leaves office the justice department may indict him. that he may be the first president if quite some time to face the prospect of jail time. they would be impeachable offenses. even though they were xhifted before the president became president they were committed in the service of fraudulently obtaining the office. bill: we re watching the two leading democrats carefully. adam schiff and jerry nadler. they will head up two committees when the democrats take the gavel in january. talking about cohen. federal prosecutors accuse the president of facilitating illegal hush money payments during the campaign in 2016. michigan democrat dan kildee is with me now. what do you think about those strong reactions on sunday, sir? well, this is a really
helped to trump s side in 2016 because of wikileaks. he was waving those around and he had the confirmation bias to play on with hillary clinton. she is crooked, vote for me. that helped him with those republicans and those democrats. steve, i want to talk about the democrats. there is an interesting story that i guess we are not covering as much as we would normally be covering it because the president tweets and says wacky things all the time. there is i don t want to call it a war, but a battle between the progressive side and the traditional side. we are seeing emily s list versus bernie sanders folks. yeah. we say there is the special election in ohio. there are primaries tomorrow, candidates being picked for the general election. one in michigan for the governor s race. it matches up two major sources of emergency in the democratic party the last couple of years against each other. the bernie sanders wing of the democratic party, which we saw their power with the grassroots in