u.s.a. today suffolk university national poll taken as house democrats prepare for impeachment tomorrow. here now donna brazile, former dnc chair and fox news contributor. donna, good to see you tonight. thank you for being here. thank you. martha: what s your response to kevin she canny sh s he leaks at swing states. i understand his concern. after all doesn t have competition in his primary. we do know the democrats are in a very competitive primary. right now the trump campaign is able to focus on many of the general election battle ground states. florida, wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania. the president has made repeated visits to those states. so what he is saying is something that we should all worry about. look, if you look through the history of our country, only five presidents have lost re-election. taft, hoover,ford, carter and george herbert walker bush. so it s tough to beat an incumbent. that said, i do believe in that same poll, there are a lot of good points.
at the drop in housing prices, look at the spike of unemployment, look at the same numbers in california or new york, i look at that data and then i look at the cost of health care which is the underlying problem whether it s medicaid, medicare, the pension system. i do not care. and i look at our health care system which costs double any other western nation that doesn t have competition, that does have a fee for service doctoring model that ratchets up the price. how is it that we can say we re going to cut this, cut this, but not address the thing that s causing the housing problem, not address the unemployment problem and not address the un-american structure noncompetitive, nontransparent that is american health care? that s why the problem is bigger than just the budget today. we need to have a congress that can sit in the room and not call each other names and theyky k. say, okay, listen, we were elected to be adults and get this job done. i ve been in situations where