constitution, it s the sole discretion, article 1, the congress to conduct a impeachment inquiry. dana: true. but i think the white house s strategy of delay especially this week by saying it s an illegitimate inquiry, if you look at the historical record, let s take the nixon won for example. you had a unified impeachment staff. it wasn t republicans and democrats separately and then coming together. they hire their own staff and it was a mix of republicans and democrats. nixon s lawyer got to sit in. they got to subpoena an interview. as a process point for the white house, that is really good. the one thing about this impeachment talk is it s basically giving cover to the dnc on its debate process, the funding woes they have. there s a lot of stories going on that are problems with the democrats then nancy pelosi and adam schiff issues with the president. juan: i was thinking that a lot of times in previous
rob: the 2020 hopefuls have a matter of hours to qualify for the democrat debate and so far we have 12 candidates making it to the stage. jillian: this will feature some new faces but with dnc making qualifications more difficult is this make or break for the candidates? rob: the former national political director for the dnc joins us now. is this goes along you are supposed to be getting smaller groups of people on a stage, you re going the wrong direction. from 10 to 12. we have a lot of candidates with great ideas and trying to express those ideas to the american people. at that segment, things are more difficult, in the debate process. we will go in november after this debate in october from
debates and keep his candidacy alive. you re seeing candidates drop out from the overall election once they realize they can t even make it to the debate process. so it s a bold play by him to stay viable. based on the numbers we ve seen, both polling and fund-raising, at the end of the second quarter and the polling that continuing, he may be taking this method to try to raise some money but there s probably a long list of candidates who are facing the same urgency. oh, absolutely, there s no question. you saw mayor de blasio drop out yesterday. you ll see others as the standards get tougher going into the next debate, going into november s debate and january debate. as the standards get tougher to qualify, you ll see more and more candidates drop away. that s just the reality of the process. but iowa certainly is a very important determinant in terms of who can move forward. let s broaden the conversation to iowa and senator kamala harris. early on she prioritized south carolin
numbers an get your reaction. are we seeing any kind of a change in the lay of the land for these candidates? the short answer is no. in that none of the candidates have really landed a decisive blow on joe biden, who is of course, he has been the front-runner throughout much if not all of the race. but i think the candidate that seems to be benefitting the most, from the debate process, is definitely elizabeth warren. we saw just yesterday, alone, you guys mentioned that huge rally she had in manhattan, she also secured the endorsement of the working families party, a very prominent progressive group. they of course endorsed bernie sanders in 2016. and i think this reflects the fact that elizabeth warren is actually starting to win over many of the progressive base voters that went for bernie sanders in 2016. those types of people, those types of voters in the democratic primary will be key to her coalition going forward. it seems as if, as the field gets whittled down, we are goi
issue of watching the debate, meet the press with chuck todd. headline says are democrats d m good sunday morning. doomed? sheids it s a paradox wrapped in to quote the great yogi berra, it s getting late early out an oxy mo ae moey more onabout . there. yes, there were still ten candidates at thursday s debate, and yes, there may be even more at the next one, but for now at least, it feels as if we have a we were discussing this before. top three. bernie sanders, joe biden, and this debate process is very rigid. lots of people on stage and all elizabeth warren. true, there are still 141 days of that. are you concerned? until the first votes are cast she seems concerned about the in iowa, but if anything, the picture that the country is gap between the front-runners seeing right now, the democratic party. are you? and the rest of the field only not at all. seemed to grow on thursday even i actually had some friends of with biden dominating the mine in the press send me party s mo