and a lot of talk about health care, but not that much talk about what the trump administration is doing at the border or what the trump administration is doing to gut obamacare. and i think that s where we have to get focused. i m always struck by the lack of overlap between what we hear on the debate and what i m hearing in iowa and new hampshire and south carolina and people s living rooms. and their overwhelming concern is that we nominate somebody who can beat donald trump. when you think about who can beat donald trump, what is your frustration level to qualify for the next round you have to reach 2% in four separate polls. you have to have 130,000 individual contributors. it doesn t matter what amount of money. is that too high a threshold established by of course the democratic party? i think that it s too early, much too early in this field for the dnc to be whittling out the field.
file caucus to talk about this. essentially, what s really changed in the last 48 hours is some members of her leadership team, they re kind of on the lower level of her leadership team, but there was a contentious meeting on monday where they said, you know what, this isn t working. we have to send a stronger message. we have to use every tool we have twaavailable to us. we have to start an impeachment proceeding to force this president to cooperate in some way. the reality though is the broader dam is still holding. what s different is this push, which is from leadership but also leaders from the judiciary committee, who are in the trenches on this every day, their frustration level is really growing. the question is going to be whether that broadens out to, you know, the dozens of other new freshmen faces, for example, people who are, you know, potentially are at risk coming up in 2020 of losing their seats. whether or not that sort of additional set of agitators broadens into a gro
eventually, the just have to get everyone in a room and have the documents either reviewed or reviewed by a smaller group and get it done. i don t think anyone wants to go to contempt case. harris: what happens in a contempt of congress case? nothing. eric holder was held in contempt and nothing happened because of course the only branch of government that can prosecute under contempt order is the executive branch. which is controlled by the president. harris: in that case. because they would not prosecute their own doj. harris: you don t think it would happen here either? i would doubt it highly. if there be a court case where they have someone bring the case. a civil matter, but i doubt contempt would have much effect. the thing former attorney general holder is necessarily been stunned or slow down by being the first attorney general held in contempt. i do think this will go that far. i think the frustration level
he was telling reporters to be quiet. he couldn t seem to understand why nobody else was agreeing with him about kim jong-un, for instance. but let s the bottom let s get doug to address this. what is the we don t have very much maan opportunities for that. it s because of the approximapr away that s why he doesn t do it very much. that s why he controlled it. that s why there s a frustration level. when there s a lack of credibility for the four of us speaking, what s the alternative? let s say jim acosta asked a question of sarah sanders and doesn t get an answer. say hypothetically, because that doesn t happen. they let them off the mat. then they have won that. the other example is because donald trump tweets something, doesn t mean it needs to dominate coverage all day. when donald trump tweets something, he says i m going to
documents about his businesses so when you talk about the frustration level, the president has to be frustrated by this whole thing. look, sure. but if you re frustrated, take it out on your staff. expression your frustrations with your team. don t do it on twitter, especially when you re a large part of the investigation. we know that there s no way that trump s team knows when the investigation will conclude by mueller because he s conducting a very private investigation. secondly, when it comes to the firing, adam schiff had it exactly right, which it seems that anybody that corroborates james comey s notion that there could have been obstruction of justice has been eliminated from the anybody and from the department of justice. so there s a real pattern here, a dis they were eliminated for cause. we don t know why andrew mccabe is being fired. we have not seen the i.g.