holocaust museum. i would be happy to arreange so you won t make any disgusting comments. not long after that tweet, the flood gates open. mccarthy tweeting marjorie is wrong and comparing the holocaust to wearing masks is appalling. steve scalise released this statement, representative scalise does not agree with these comments and condemn these comparison to the holocaust. elise stefanik says this, equating mask wearing and vac
ukraine and perhaps others. will the flood gates open? i think that s the point. republican senators, nobody wants to be the first senator amongst republicans to say they think the president needs to be held accountable. i think it is the same dynamic inside the administration. as soon as a few people start speaking, more are likely to start speaking. i think the message that they re hearing is that when a president converts the office of the presidency for personal gain, you re not only talking about an impeachable offense, talking about a criminal offense, possible criminal offense on a half dozen counts chl. if you re anywhere close to that, part of an effort to cover that up, you and any administration official has legal liability. look at the people in this administration that have already gone to jail in the russian investigation. i think a lot of people are starting to say hey, i m not going down for this president s possible illegal conduct.
century. does it still matter what the limits of power are? thank you congressman denny heck of washington state, david cicilliny of rhode island, and john meacham with history. coming up, much more on tonight s breaking news. speaker nancy pelosi as i said announced a formal impeachment inquiry, a proceeding heading towards an up or down vote at some point on president trump s impeachment. as the flood gates open today with three dozen house announcing just today their support for beginning the impeachment process. the very basic idea of getting foreign help to influence the american political process, that is beyond the pail. we need to step up and talk about a president becoming more and more chaotic and reckless and this really crossed a line for us. plus seven freshman democrats write in a the washington post op-ed column that the president s alleged actions are a threat to our national security. if the allegations are true they say he should be impeached. two of those dem
punch booker and harris on various things. i think he s realized that he can t just be the presumed front-runner and not respond to these criticisms from his fellow democratic candidates. a lot is also responding to the changes within the democratic party itself. president obama remains very popular, but the party is also changing. a lot of his opponents actually reflect those changes so he s having to juggle the two, where he s also trying to stay true to his roots with the obama administration but also communicate to the changing tide within the party itself. and you have this fierce competition for the democratic base, african-american voters. if you go back to 2008 and early on, that was all for hillary clinton. even though senator obama was in the race, because nobody thought he was ready yet or viable. once he proved he was viable, the flood gates open. that s why you have senator harris and senator booker saying look at me. that s why you have former vice president biden on
justin amash raising questions about the mueller report. it s private but private grumbling among republicans. they still see president trump as a way to win re-election in 2020. if they want to keep their power, they have to stay with him. i remember, it s not the same but about a damn breaking. i remember around the iraq war. at first chuck hagel and john mccain, a vocal critic, from the right we weren t aggressive enough. it only takes one. it only takes one. then everybody that s unhappy or discontent with the conduct of the iraq war or the way it was being pursued or the way we were communicating about it, the flood gates open. is there any anxiety that that could be on the horizon? certainly. i think the most interesting word we ve heard the last few days is courageous. that s the word senator mitt romney used to describe what senator amash had to say. to be sure romney hasn t called for impeachment and hasn t gone nearly as far as amash but calling that point of view