saying 50% of americans say president trump should be impeached and removed from office, but that number has stayed pretty much where it is for the last month or so. is there a sense that democrats need to do more to boost the public support? and if so, what might that be? well, i think that these new polls that have come out have been very, very interesting, because you re right, they don t show radical movement. i think there are folks who thought after the intelligence hearings, there would be this big jump. i think before the intelligence hearings, they had already locked in a lot of sentiment on this, so i wasn t that surprised. but here s something that s really notable. and within that, some of these recent polls, is the incredibly high level of support for impeachment among women. and this is it s 61%, right? 61% of women. mm-hmm. that is a lot. it is high, and it s been growing rapidly, you know, in each new poll. it really has had significant
democratic candidates to make their mark in iowa, julian castro s going to join me to talk strategy and the state of the race. and new details a day after yet another attack on london bridge. what we re learning about the suspect s motive and his previous arrest on terror charges. but we start with day 68 of the impeachment inquiry. this week the investigation into the president enters a new phase as the spotlight turns to the judiciary committee. that committee will hold its first public hearing wednesday. behind the scenes, some democrats saying they already have enough evidence to impeach. if it comes to it, my vote would be for impeachment. he abused his power. i think that he tried to interfere with elections. i think there was bribery involved. well, one former gop congressman claims some republicans are privately fuming about the president s behavior. i think my former colleagues
to be not going for impeachment, but who is in the middle? those are those moveable folks. i think that as we move along, the devil s in the details in who the independents are leaning toward in terms of the impeachment process. rick, we listened to ann guerra from the washington post who says the hearings will go very slowly. the word is on wednesday they go through the definition of impeachable offense. what do you think are the specific points that democrats should emphasize to try to gain any republican support for impeachment? well, they have to explain the implications, as just was stated when a president is out of control and a president who exhibits corruption and he doesn t have any checks and balances. i suspect they ll spend a lot of time on this term, high crimes and misdemeanors, which is really an patient term and it didn t mean specifically crimes like that are listed in the legal definition of law.
hearing, which will be about the constitutional grounds of impeachment, so more of an academic exercise in the first public hearing within the house judiciary committee. their thinking is that it s been a generation or two since we ve had previous impeachment hearings and to give people more of a context for what constitutes impeachment and what is permissible under that. and so, by tomorrow, the president would have the student if he wants to send white house lawyers or personal lawyers to attend that. the more sweeping deadline is friday, which would involve the president s mounting any kind of defense in the house judiciary committee going forward throughout whatever the impeachment phase would look like under that committee. so, that is the much bigger deal and a much bigger deadline, and that would be on friday. and the real question for the white house is, on one hand, they have complained about not having due process, about not being included in the proceedings, not being able t
jamie raskin at the start of the week. he s a key player on the committee, a constitutional law professor who really knows his way around a lot of these issues. and he was literally looking, as i was interviewing him, he was looking at a judge s ruling as regards a potential witness, don mcgahn. and so, one of the things that s important to remember is that just as adam schiff could conceivably at the intelligence committee call more witnesses, it is also possible that the judiciary committee, which has sought to get some people to testify, might indeed call some folks along the way. that is yet to be decided. what we do know for sure is that there will be experts on impeachment testifying, but it is not beyond the realm of possibility that the judiciary committee might have some of what i refer to as fact witnesses. given that impeachment is a political entity, i want to get your reaction to the new poll