campaign 24 developments. hello, steve. reporter: mike, the former president showing he can still draw a big crowd. pickens, south carolina, population just 3,000 and yet more than 50,000 according to local police turned up to hear nutes at midday in ther 90 sweltering heat. many of them arriving in the predawn hours. they heard the former president take credit for recent supreme court decisions. somebody that hasn t done nearly as well and perhaps has not worked nearly as hard will not be taking your place in school, at a college or university, they re in the going to be. we re back to the old merit system that that built our country. reporter: in the meantime, trump s competitors took shots at him from multiple angles. nikki haley, former governor of south carolina, said she expected trump s massive lead mt. polls to evaporate by the fall. it s not about how many people show up at your rally, it s how many times you show up and how hard of the questions you answer
republican lauren boebert accused her gop colleagues of dithering, talking a good game about impeachment with no action. i m tired of politicians telling us something that we wanted to hear back home, getting to where we send them and trust them to be our voice and doing something completely different. reporter: boebert circumvented gop leaders crafting a special resolution to compel the house to consider impeachment articles with no committee hearings or investigation. house speaker kevin mccarthy was not impressed. anytime you take something this serious, you don t just put something on the floor. reporter: some republicans accuse boebert of cheapening impeachment. we can t turn it into the equivalent of a vote of no confidence9 confidence. reporter: impeachment may be too extreme for some republicans, so mccarthy diseased the house would vote to refer decides the house would vote to refer to the homeland security committee for investigation. i ve already cited # 11
republicans to vote with democrats and a majority vote on the senate floor to call certain witnesses to come forward. at the moment these republican senators who could flip are not signalling they will. they are keeping their cards pretty close to their chest. they certainly are. thank you. let s get more on all of this. congress man swalwell will join us. congressman, thanks so much for joining us. let s begin with this extraordinary letter from president trump to the speaker nancy pelosi. he says democrats are the ones who are actually interfering in the election. he accuses nancy pelosi in his word of cheapening impeachment, treating democracy as the enemy, and lying when he says that she prays for him. what s your reaction to this purely stunning letter a tantrum. mr. president, we don t need your childish whiney letter. don t send us that. send us the documents that you have buried and have refused to provide to us. send us the witnesses who you continue to block from us