speak nothing public against the president on ukraine. that is right, latest is rob portman, the others are mitt romney of utah, ben sass, of nebraska, susan collins of maine, critical of the president of asking china to investigate joe biden. portman telling columbus dispatch, president trump should not have asked ukraine or china for help investigating joe biden. house republican leader says going forward with impeachment would be devastating. what is wrong here? it will destroy this country. it will break the fabric of who we are. they are discrediting democracy. remember what we re talking about, not impeaching the president, remove somebody from office duly elected because they disagree with it. mccarthy insist more wants to impeach this president. shepard: live on capitol hill. thank you. waiting to see what comes from meeting on catholicism, the pope getting together with bishops to
we ll introduce bipartisan sanctions against turkey if they invade syria and they ll call for their suspension for nato if they attack kurdish forces insisted the u.s. in the destruction of the isis caliphate. if necessary would be veto proof. how should we take this? lindsey graham is not happy about this. he s been on a tweet storm all day long. in one of his tweets, he called this a disaster in the making and republicans are pretty united. we heard from ben sass and susan collins and also from the house, liz cheney and she called this catastrophic mistake if the president moves forward with this. the only person who s standing with the president is senate
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because of the tweets and that sort of stuff. he also has very intelligently engineered a coalition around him, the economic right supports him because of the tax policy. the religious right supports him because of the judges. so there s more going on there that s giving him this extra strength. then so he secured a base of support for himself in the party, and then he goes after anybody who stands up against him. it s a very formidable strategy. we can name the three republican lawmakers who have stood up. it s romney, senator ben sass, and congressman will hurt. those are the three who have been critical of the president s dealings with ukraine when contacted by cnn. but i want to adam kinsinger also said something. those are the ones who responded to us. i want to put up a tweet from senator marco rubio. before we nullify the ulresultsf an election or dismiss some
now now that the president is sort of trolling her. but would the gop be risking anything by actually having to take a vote on it? yeah. that certainly could put them in a bind. we re seeing the narrative shift. it used to be that democrats were concerned thapd would feel the political heat and blowback. now they re starting to point to moderate republicans and say, are you really okay with this? so now we re starting to see republicans on the hot seat here. ryan, i want to ask you about the president s crude attacks against senator mitt romney. he krit side him earlier. also ben sass and congressman will hurd. why is the president targeting romney specifically? well, romney has been the most prominent republican in the