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white house correspondent peter alexander, congresswoman from michigan elise slotkin, of course, you ve been all over the place, congresswoman. let s go, peter. we re joining by the congresswoman, elissa slotkin is here on a historic day. you re one of those investments from a trump district, he won it in 2016 by seven points, you won it in 2017 by three points. you said you will vote yes on impeachment. any reservations on that decision on this day? no, offreservations. i went through a pretty methodical process, just like i was trained to do as a cia officer, to come to this collectio conclusion. i didn t come to it lightly. i feel in my bones it s the right thing to do. it clearly was controversial in my district, i knew that. my hope is that voters in my district understand that even if they don t agree with the
in his seat up there in new york. them s the break. that kid of yours is going to have quite the cool mom. all right, all right. happy monday. thank you. happy monday. happy monday. craig melvin here. msnbc headquarters in new york city. this is the week, as hallie was just talking about there, the full house expected to vote on whether to impeach the president of the united states for just the third time in our nation s history. and now, now we re getting a better idea about what happens after that vote. we re also getting a firsthand look at the pressure members of congress are facing at home, as they make up their minds. we re live in michigan, where congresswoman elise slotkin just announced that she is a yes on impeachment. her town hall, by the way, this town hall set to get started at any moment now. as you can see, it s a packed house there. we re keeping a very close eye on this town hall in michigan. i ll also set down with president trump s former veterans affairs
hoping for it to be a bipartisan event. that is now not going to happen. we probably could have seen or predicted that because there is no such thing, really, in this era of washington bipartisan. but it is those voters in the middle who are paying attention. you are absolutely right in terms of reading this out what this means for november. nobody has any idea what this means and it s the voters in the middle who decide every election, but this is a monumental moment. some democrats may vote against it, but they re just as at risk voting for it. they re tied to it or they re not. in the trump district or a swing district, if you vote against it, then the democrats are mad at you. the first thing you need is your base, then you try to reach out to others. if you lose your base, you re done, anyway. if you re elise slotkin, for example, your district is tough. here she is a while ago saying, i have not decided yet, but sometimes you have to make calls that aren t based on a
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