the approval ratings rose and democrats had mild gains in elections that year. of course it is an imperfect analogy. the debate about impeachment was before the election, bill clinton wasn t actually impeached, they weren t proceedings until after the election. in republican losses were not that significant. it is a complicated analysis but certainly nancy pelosi doesn t want to have the fight right now. many members of her party do. arthel: can she keep the members of her party on one page? you know, it remains to be seen. and of course there are different players here. it s interesting. there been two flotsam impeaching the president in the house already. there is a vote in december 2017 and another one in january 2018. 66 democrats voted for president trump to be impeached last time. one of them i reached out to recently, frederica wilson. she says she doesn t believe this is the right time pointed to happen with clinton s approval ratings going up and expressing concern it would
the role model to americans, that s all nonsense, right? you don t care about character, you care about winning? excuse me. i think i just said it s very disturbing to me and i don t like it, it s something i find reprehensible, but the issue the issue is with bill clinton, as you know, jeffrey, very well, bill clinton wasn t impeached because of bill clinton s behavior in the white house, he was impeached because he committed perjury, so let s just get to the reality of it. let s quit trying to confuse the issue. whether this president told the truth or not may become an issue as well. i want to give you the last word on this. it was your story. look, i think the focus of our story was not the dirt or sorting through it. the focus of our story was about the interactions between president trump, then a businessman and a hedge fund owned newspaper that was taking
now and will continue to do is his performance as president. i think if they look at the policies he s made and the appointments he s made to the judiciary, i think most conservatives are very happy about it. they re not concerned about his behavior. all that talk about character we heard about bill clinton and the role model to americans, that s all nonsense, right? you don t care about character, you care about winning? excuse me. i think i just said it s very disturbing to me and i don t like it, it s something i find reprehensible, but the issue the issue is with bill clinton, as you know, jeffrey, very well, bill clinton wasn t impeached because of bill clinton s behavior in the white house, he was impeached because he committed perjury, so let s just get to the reality of it. let s quit trying to confuse the issue. whether this president told the truth or not may become an issue as well. i want to give you the last word
doing at the justice department, what s your recourse? if the congress doesn t act? mm-hmm. well, i don t think there s much of any recourse, except we have to hope that the mueller investigation is protected, and that ultimately there s an accounting through the law enforcement process, but as you could tell, the president is getting closer and closer to trying to shut that down. so you re basically saying, because we were having this debate in our meeting today. i m guessing the founders never intended for the legislative branch to step aside when it comes to some of these issues. that they would just sort of let the executive branch do these things without challenging it. i guess they department have a plan b for a situation like this, because what you re saying is, does this mean what the president is doing is constitutional, because the legislative branch isn t challenging it? well, the legislative branch could ultimately deal with this issue through an impeachment pro
ten. that was the fact of the clinton foundation. here s a problem. bill clinton wasn t president during then. was she president? no, she wasn t president. she was. i think we re talking about the trump campaign. for you to say that what happened with the clinton foundation is the same as what s happening with i didn t say it was the same. don t be unfair. but cornell, you re actually getting we re getting at the heart of and i hear this from trump supporters. and we re going to go over it this a little bit. they do believe the clintons were just as corrupt as trump. they will sit there and say, we know trump is corrupt, but he s no less corrupt than what they were doing on the other side. what i m saying is, that is part of why by the way, let me say that i am not saying that. i know you re not. and i wasn t putting words but all i m saying is that particularly for people who thought donald trump wasn t going to win, this was just a way to buy themselves in