the articles of impeachment, when they introduced them, they dropped the bribery piece. bribery is something that people understand. right, you see it on law & order. you watch all of these shows. bribery, you might have happen to you. you understand that. tucker: of course. abuse of power, i have to say, if you look at some of the polls, and you ask people, do you think that president trump or any president abuses their power? most americans citizens would say yes, because that s the kind of people we are. we like to be self-governed. we have a self-government, but we don t want them to abuse their power. i think that s partly the reason they did it, tucker, was from a communications standpoint. it was the only thing going to be able to get them a semblance of being able to say we have a cohesive unit. last week, you saw a lot of leadership in the democratic side saying, gosh, you know, we could lose a lot of people. we could have a lot of democrats vote against impeachment next
dana: when you finally got to the articles of impeachment when they introduced them, toe dropped the bribery piece. bribery is something that people understand. right, you see it on law and order. you watch all of these shows. bribery you might have happen to you. you understand that. tucker: of course. dana: abuse of power, i have to say if you look at some of the polls and you ask people do you think that president trump or any president abuses their power? most americans citizens would say yes because that s kind of people we are. we like to be self-governed. we have a self-government but we don t want them to abuse their power. i think that s partly the reason they did it tucker, communications standpoint only thing going to be able to get them a semblance of being able to say we have a cohesive unit. last week you saw a lot of leadership in the democratic side saying gosh, you know, we could lose a lot of people. we could have a lot of democrats vote against impeachment next
she says they didn t do anything illegal, but it doesn t mean you didn t do anything wrong. i m not surprised that she decided to come out two weeks before the fisa report comes out. it s a formula, just like comey, mccabe, you paint yourself as a victim. she says that the president hijacked her text messages and used them to fuel a conspiracy theory. you start a go find me page and maybe you get a tv contract. it goes on from there. there are benefits from doing this type of thing and not staying quiet. greg: if she s not on the view by friday, i will eat dana: i think from a communications standpoint, from her standpoint, she s playing the cards like she can. everyone is going to try to survive in the situation. everyone gets a say. the president is not shy about
there s no quid pro quo. i am a business guy. i do have interest in this. the other contextual point in this everyone admits that corruption was endemic in ukraine including in the energy industry. martha: all right, let s take it over here in new york and go back to dana perino. dana, your thoughts so far as we have heard, as we pointed out sort of one half of the equation at this point? dana: so, i agree with what s been said so far, especially about the credibility and sincerity of the witnesses, especially bill taylor who spoke the most. but, i think that if i were on the republican side, and also for the democrats. you are looking at this from a communications standpoint. we have had up to now squirmishes in the impeachment war. and this is the first battle and only the first three hours of a very long battle to come. so we hope everyone stays with us because you will now get the chance in the next little bit to see republicans cross-examine. i think that they will not go to t
from a communications standpoint that potential. i m very interested to see what happens with him. and cory booker, i can remember almost 20 years ago starting out covering politics in new jersey, watching cory booker run for mayor of newark, new jersey. and he actually lost that race and won his second time around in newark. but i remember they talked about the buzz around new jersey was that booker had lost the city of newark, but he had won the state of new jersey. and what that meant cory booker s appeal back then was suburban. it s interesting now to see him running on a city message. steve kornacki at the board. elizabeth warren with chris matthews. chris? thank you, well, elizabeth warren i think you won tonight. i ve been watching these debates all my life. just talk about this because we ve only got a few minutes. i thought you had a consistent even relentless message of