we ve got text message, testimony from these ambassadors. there s already enough to draft one article of impeachment on the ukraine scandal. joining me now is progressive commentator and radio talk show host rashad ritchie. do you believe they have enough for articles of impeachment right now and if so, why don t they move forward with the vote? they had enough the day he was sworn in. let s look at what the articles of impeachment really are. it is not a criminal indictment. it is for according to the constitution high crimes and misdemeanors which means that is language adopted from the british common law tradition and the british common law tradition interpreted high crimes and misdemeanors as anything that is either an abuse of power or a
the impeachment itself is the main thing and has the president of the united states given them ammunition, absolutely. here s what s more of what he said there. we re going after these people. these are bad, bad people. i actually told my lawyers i said, sue them anyway. he s got immunity. but they can t mean immunity for that. i said, sue them anyway, even if we lose the american public will understand. and sue nancy pelosi. or maybe we should just impeach them. rashad, you just heard him. he says even if we lose the american public will understand. what do you make of that? well, first of all, he doesn t understand that the american public is not on his side. as a matter of fact, he never won the heart of the american public. remember, 3 million more people voted against him than for him
republican strategist joseph pinion. thank you for being here. good morning. rashad, we are looking at a 3% race at this point. i mean, how much of an indicator is is this poll? the poll is a great indicator but you are looking at a three-person race, possibly a four-person race when it starts to actually roll into votes. the numbers don t tell the full story. while joe biden is at 29%, look at the background of the numbers, 45% of democratic responders are saying they re voting for joe and they support joe because he is the most electable. when it comes to bernie sanders only 14% of democrats say they re supporting him. right. and believe he is the most electable and only 12% think elizabeth warren is the most ele electable against president trump. i wonder, joeself, based off of those numbers that rashad was talking about here, no other candidates saw a significant increase, so how do you rate t how do you take this as a republican? look, i still maintain that the great
riser elizabeth warren. we have the numbers here. what are you hearing from your fellow republicans? is she the biggest worry right now for trump administration? look, i honestly think that democrats would be making a huge mistake if they think that somehow they re going to be able to build a winning coalition behind elizabeth warren. i think what people are not talking about is the fact that you have people who are firmly never trumpers, people who termly do not necessarily think that donald trump is the best person to vote for the second time around who will be first in line at the polls to vote for a second term for president trump if the choice is between donald trump and socialism. i think that in many ways to go with somebody like elizabeth warren is basically doing the work that president trump is struggling to do himself which is to rebuild that fractured coalition that is starting to suffer from a little bit of trump fatigue. rashad, i also want to talk about that exact po
so while we are talking about the three or four gaffes of joe biden and saying that he s in mental decline because of them, i would prefer a guy who makes gaffes than a guy who lies more than i wash my hands per day. i want to ask one last question about the economy to you, joe. you are a small businessperson, you know this well. the economy right now showing a few cracks around the edges, still strong numbers overall. how important is the economy for trump quickly? i mean, the economy is the perch upon which donald trump s reelection hopes are perched upon. you are talking about 6 million americans that have jobs today that didn t have jobs when donald trump got elected. i think, again, democrats need to stop trying to pretend that those jobs are imaginary, that the money in people s 401(k)s are imaginary. they need to come up with a strong compelling argument, but if the economy starts to slide i think it will take donald trump with it. joseph and rashad, thank you both for bei