republicans may be sidestepping the actual substance of the inquiry in favor of spin right now, but the substance seems to be getting through to the american public. a variety of polls find the majority of americans not only favor impeachment, but impeachment and removal of this president. if you zoom in on battleground states, democrats still have their work cut out for them when it comes to sellin voters on this. a new york times /cnn poll of voters found that while there is support for the inquire about, 53% oppose impeaching and removing trump, outpating impeachment and removal by ten points. democrats plan to hold public
say they feel the allegations against president trump are serious and should be investigated. but 49% don t favor impeachment. let s talk about your book for a moment. you ve laid out, and i haven t had a chance to read it yet, but as i understand it, you lay out fairly well the russian disinformation campaign as it is understood. are there fears that the russians might also be working to influence public opinion with regards to impeachment? absolutely. in fact, the senate intelligence report that came out yesterday starts tracking all the things russians have been doing since the election. they say the russians increased the amount of disinformation they re doing. a lot of my book is about this troll factory creating content that helped trump hurt hillary clinton. i m absolutely certain they re doing it now to undermine the impeachment inquiry. also, their larger goal is
year in elections, but right now it looks like the polls are showing a majority of the americans support what their doing on impeachment right now, and it s very politically divided. republicans oppose i think if i remember correctly, about 77%, while democrats are supportive of it. independents are split, and so i think the question here is will independents move on this as things go forward. a lot of people look back at the nixon impeachment, which did not have a lot of support from the american public when it first started and it steadily rose. i think a lot of people are wondering if that same thing is going to happen here. you also wonder if polls begin to shift among republicans to more favor impeachment. or as the facts continue to come out. emily larsen, thank you. the state department s special envoy for ukraine kurt volker abruptly resigned his post on friday following reports he collaborated with ukraine and
we re going to use our best people. there is a majority of democrats i m going to get the best in the house that favor people. impeachment. we re going to deliver. we re going to get the best people in the world. speaker pelosi doesn t seem to we don t want people that are b be on board saying in a level, c level, d level. statement today, putting in a we re going to get the absolute best. statement that highlighted the on going litigation against the we re going to use the smartest and best. president declaring he will be we re not using political hacks. held accountable. it s a sophisticated chess if she isn t on board after match. reaching that critical benchmark, do you think she ever will be? i have people lined up. i don t know. you need people that are truly, what i do know, anderson, is truly capable. we have to get the best people. this, almost two years ago, i said this is the most corrupt the best people, folks that don t lie about their resume and president in american
i see myself for what i am, which is for the last ten years, i m the outsider whose been organizing collisions of ordinary american citizens to power and winning and that s exactly how i see myself in this field. i m the guy whose done direct democracy for ten years and beaten the oil companies and the drug companies and tobacco companies and did the longest youth voter mobilization, the largest grass roots organization in the united states. just lastly, impeaching president trump obviously was your signature issue. it s what brought you to a lot of people s attention running. there is a majority of democrats in the house that favor impeachment. speaker pelosi doesn t seem to be on board saying in a statement today, putting in a statement that highlighted the on going litigation against the president declaring he will be held accountable. if she isn t on board after reaching that critical benchmark, do you think she ever will be?