committee and foreign affairs committee. what they would do is punt this over to the judiciary committee. the judiciary committee historically has had the aegis over impeachment in the united states. also here, i am struck by this, ways and means committee, dealing with taxes and financial services committee is part of that. it is rare to have these six committees involved. the other thing to watch for, neil, is this vote on thursday morning or midday on thursday. how many republicans, if any, would vote for this? how many democrats would jump ship? 225-226 democrats on the record going forth with this impeachment inquiry. when you put the rubber to the road here, people have to vote up or down, that is a problem. there are 31 democrats representing districts represented by president trump. i spoke to a freshman democrat from upstate new york, he was noncommittal, he s been skeptical of the impeachment
they would use that thursday, but pelosi told some democrats this morning that they would do that. bill: some of these democrats in trump districts, of which there were 31, what have they said about being forced to vote yes or no on this? do they like that idea? i had a conversation yesterday with a freshman democrat from upstate new york. he flipped the district from red to blue, one of those top district democrats. he indicated he was fudging here a little bit. he said, i have to see the tech of the resolution. i said the same thing to a republican from nevada, the swing state of nevada. he said i have to see the text of this. bill: chad, apologizing for that. steve scalise. let s drop in. trying to run a one-sided soviet process. this is an impeachment inquiry. and, in fact, speaker pelosi s resolution confirms that it s an impeachment inquiry, yet every
house speaker nancy pelosi says she is just not going to talk about it anymore. impeachment is becoming an increasingly divisive issue among democrats, as you just saw. senior capitol hill producer is here with that part of the story. good evening. explain, if you will, the pressure that speaker pelosi is under from both sides, really. this is what happens when you get the house majority, you get more moderates and you get more liberals and that s what house speaker nancy pelosi is dealing with across the spectrum in her caucus. keep in mind that obviously impeachment is good for the liberal base, it fires them up, but if democrats don t wind up impeaching the president, could that be an issue and inflame those liberals say this is just a panacea for them, that s a problem. but at the same problem list of some of the work for republicans. republicans want to portray democrats as being too extreme and for impeachment and that s wayne david s speech you heard the congressman talk abo
democrats, the leadership pushing too much on impeachment? i would say as a democrat representing a modern district, the voters back home sent me here to get things done. i talked last night with a freshman democrat from southern florida. she is concerned about this. she also flipped a district. here s what she said. it is sucking all the air out of the good things we re doing. you can see during the markup ascension, tom mcclintock, republican from california said i double dog dare you to impeach the president. that s the problem for democrats. republicans are trying to portray the democrats as to extreme. they don t have to do too much ground work of democrats pushed too far. shepard: chad pergram, thank you. gun laws and whether to change them. the white house now says president trump is possibly open to signing into law legislation to expand background checks for gun sales. it notes he could talk about it
thank you all very much. why is it that you are hung up on a word over here when lives are at stake over there. thank you all very much. it s an issue democrats are struggling with. nancy pelosi trying to pivot the conversation back to guns and the environment and other issues the democrats are working on. you could see a risk for democrats here, especially liberals, if they view with the democrats on the judiciary committee are doing as a panacea. imagine a scenario where they never get to impeachment and those liberals think they been thrown under the bus. shepard: the juggling of the semantics here really has most to do, chad, with those democrats who won in sort of trump-ish districts. they are afraid about impeachment, the i word. anthony ran d.c. as a freshman democrat from upstate new york. he flipped estate from red to blue last cycle. concerned at all about, you represent a swing district,