course uanita, action fund and independent policy institute. jake sherman is back. we made him stay, but we heard he has to go, so we ll start with you, jake. does it feel like impeachment is afoot? or is this sort of process and procedure to placate an antsy base? i think probably both. i think democrats have felt frustrated by a lack of progress and kind of a mushy blob of a process in investigating the president. so this is the way to view a lot of these things i think democratic leadership and the committee chairs are trying to show heat, trying to show action while they bide their time. nancy pelosi has been perfectly clear about this privately and a little bit publicly. she does not believe the american public is with democrats who want to impeach the president period, hard stop. until that changes, it s going to be difficult to go full boar into impeachment proceedings. i don t think it s going to happen. now, listen, nancy pelosi is probably acutely aware of what a
rich, creamy cheesecake with real strawberries. find them with the refrigerated desserts. welcome back. with 18 days to go is this election shaping up to be like a simple, typical midterm than a big blue wave? how do you define wave? democrats are the favorites to take control of the house. hard stop. they need a net 23 seats to win the gavel and 70 of the 75 seats vulnerable to a takeover are held by the republicans. so the path is there. don t forget all the ridiculous number of open seats that republicans deal with. record numbers. national polls suggest republican enthusiasm amped up had some impact. democrats had hoped to flip maybe 40 or more seats, truly a
something that will pass by a wide marmgen. margin. yes, i think in the next ten or so minutes. if mcconnell is putting it on the floor, that means it is going to pass. your assessment is right. the actual meaning of it is limited. it s basically a resolution that expresses the senate s preference about something. this is not law. this won t go to the president s desk. it won t go come over here to the house. that doesn t mean the house won t could somethido something. it s just expressing the sense of the senate that the united states government should not, in fact, be delivering our former diplomats, former u.s. diplomats, to adversaries, a period, the end, hard stop. the white house has not been clear on this point. the state department has been more clear in saying that mike mcfall, the former envoy to moscow, will not be handed over to the russian government. so i think this is congress kind of screaming in a sense please don t do this. this is not what we believe in. this is
it s whether or not he is telling the truth. that s speculation. what is concrete is that the senate intelligence committee has said russia enter convenience on donald trump s behalf. hard stop. it leaves devin nunes s house intelligence committee out on a limb. and to the extent that they have confused and forced republicans to confuse the integrity of the committee with his personal honor has been a stain on that committee and that has been reinforced by this position. zerlina, i know you want to talk about the new york times decision, what to reveal and not to reveal about fbi investigations. you mean that there are no connections between russia and the trump campaign. the totality. i think the trump campaign s official line has been we attempted to perhaps coordinate in some way to get some dirt on hillary clinton. that s their official story. but the key fact here is that an attempt to clued is still a
attacking russian-backed troops. what you re hearing trump instead say, no, so far, no phone calls. no collusion. danny, that s the thing. some of his actions when it comes to russia and putin, including not calling out the fact that russians attacked american troops, hard stop. russians attacked american troops. he hasn t said a word. inexplicable. the problem for the president of the united states is the one we identify every single time. donald trump is about donald trump. and not only that, but i think he takes it further. the enemy of my enemy is my friend. so, if people are saying bad things about them and trying to tie them back to me, i m not going to say anything. it is inexplicable. one of the main reasons we talk about the mueller investigation and donald trump is because donald trump keeps tying them together. mueller has not tied the president and collusion and his campaign to russia. what he has done has not even touched that for the most part. not yet. we don t kno