landscape, trumping all the policies, democratic candidates want to run on. politics isn t even a consideration? that s either a lie or mistake. here to discuss, assistant editor david swerdlik, well come back, guys. do you think nancy pelosi is paying enough attention to that? i think she s paying enough attention. you don t get to be the speaker of the house, let alone the first speaker of the house, if you can t count votes. i think there s a couple vacancies normally you would need 218. she can lose 14 or 15 votes. she s going to get the votes, but the question is to what results? i totally get the point you re making about this being
convenient, on days when it s easy, even if public opinion isn t completely there. the reason to hold public office is not to do things that allows you to state in public office. the reason to hold public office is to the things that are easy and the things that are hard, even if that means there s a political price tore paid. i think we have to do what we are required to do under the law. and i know, because i ve had you on, i know it s a given. you believe this is the right thing to do. you just laid out why, and i don t i don t disagree. as you know, though, impeachment is political. i don t believe nancy pelosi would have called for articles if he believed there would 07b8 be down side, so what is the reward for democrats? just good feelings upholding your obligation? where do you believe that democrats will reap political benefits? you have to believe there will
latin, but he always manages to find the headline and has enough support to make it a dangerous thing for republicans to oppose him. republicans aren t done, either. trump s legal team plans to triple down on these unproven biden corruption claims in the senate trial, which could end up damaging biden s candidacy, planting seeds of doubt isn t that a political risk as well? i think it s already hurt biden. i don t think there s any excuse allowing your son to do business in the ukraine? when he has no experience in that sector. yeah, clearly hunter biden is a troubled soul. clearly joe biden is a wonderful father, but this is very difficult in a country now that s really sick of politicians self-dealing. yes. yeah, i think it will be a problem for biden and well and a
nfl must respect this. your tact, extreme benefit of the doubt, maybe for him the extreme benefit of doubt isn t about race, but for the players, initially to say it s not about race, that s not true. 70% of the players in the nfl roughly are african-american. virtually every player who knelt in the initial stages of this was black, and the initial impetus from it or for it came from colin kaepernick and it was about police brutality and mistreatment of african-americans. you can t separate those two things. if you want to make the point that the national anthem is about something more than the nation s flaws and shortcomings, it s also about its ideals and that people can see some texture to what the national anthem means, and you might prefer that people protest or make their point outside of the national anthem, that s something that can be argued. the idea this doesn t have