anti-impeachment, thinking that trump wasn t guilty. so, what we have is a duplicitous speaker trying to do anything that he can to retain the minimal power that he has, alicia. mark, it s so striking to me that the reporting that this move came as a way of getting out from under trump s pressure to issue a presidential endorsement. so, when you have a republican speaker of the house, who is potentially willing to bring a vote like this to the floor, so that he does not have to come out and endorse the person who is currently the front runner in the race, that says something about the state of the party. not only that. remember that what really created this advice for mccarthy is when he came out and said the truth, which was that he speculated that donald trump may not be the best republican candidate for president next year. and that is when this all started. and so, he s been backsliding ever since then, trying to get
teresa kumar, and mark mckinnon. maria teresa kumar, as some have pointed out, there s nothing to expunge if you have been acquitted, which trump was, plus you ve got multiple republican centrists making it clear today they don t support this, a vote could hurt them back home in their swing states. so, what is the point of this, maría? i think he is just trying to kick the can down the road. he doesn t want to be beholden to the extreme right of the republican party. and so, he is hoping that he will wait it out. he recognizes, though, that he does have a very thin margin in congress, and so we need to protect those republicans as best he can. but let s i mean, we have mccarthy on tape before he made these really ambitious votes, anti-impeachment, thinking that trump wasn t guilty. so, what we have is a duplicitous speaker trying to do anything that he can to retain the minimal power that he has, alicia. mark, it s so striking to me
DESPITE the often heated rhetoric used by some of them, people who are for or against impeaching the governor held peaceful demonstrations outside the legislative building on Wednesday morning.
impeachment process. she said, i don t want to see him impeached, i want to see him in jail and it blew up. we ve got 61 people now, the number is up, of who actually publicly came out for an impeachment inquiry. i m told it is even higher. there are people who don t want to come out, who don t want to be crosswise to her and may be thinking there s no reason now for what may be a failed attempt. however, she s in a position now to try to bring her conference along. i don t think she s anti-impeachment, i think she s anti-impeachment now. she can t do that without those hearings. the entire plan of the democrats, which was to have the mueller report come out and to have mueller and/or also the key witnesses in the report testify and illustrate the specific examples of obstruction and just how russia penetrated our democracy has been completely
over-investigate. the public s trust is at stake. we can t sit back and think we can just pass healthcare reform. mike: your thoughts? well, i guess, we just saw a rehearsal of the new talking points on this issue from representative cheney. the republican talking point which is you see, they are so focussed on investigate the president they are neglecting the people s business. jeffries representing the anti-impeachment and saying we can do both at the time and another representative saying something you can t say on television with the other version. i don t think either side as a winner. the reason is there is no group in america who is persuadable in