but her job is to try to bring joe manchin on board. whether she can get that done. the margins in the house aren t a ton better for democrats. before we go, the special election in new mexico, a big win for the democratic candidate. garrett, it means that pelosi has one more vote to spare. she now has 220 democrats that expands her majority, but it s also a good sign for them politically as well. there was a lot of worry among democrats that perhaps this was going to be a close race in what has been a democratic district, but the democratic candidate pulled this off with more than 25% of the vote. this is a sign that the
this side against impeachment. is that the same dynamic that s going to prevail. one way of looking at this is you look at the republican side. republicans in the house aren t that many that come from democratic friendly districts. only five come from districts that voted for hillary clinton. there s not a lot of pressure to break with trump. on the democratic side it s a different story. 31 here. 31 democratic members of the house. what do they all have in common? they all represent districts that voted for donald trump in 2016. so there are far more democrats in that position. that delicate political position of representing a district that voted for the other party in the presidential election. there s 31 of them.
sufficiently been punished so why is that criticism or. the decision to remove well the fact is that many on both sides of the house aren t sufficiently satisfied that oleg deripaska has indeed relinquished control remember again the sanctions still apply to him so he s reduced his shareholding stake in these companies but if his votes are being given away to third parties he could still find a way to exert influence over the companies themselves but there are other reasons as he said you should consider the optics is it a good look for the us to be lifting sanctions on companies for having meddled in the us elections at a time or donald trump himself is being investigated for collusion with moscow many would say that is not a good luck. general de mello thank you so much. staying in the united states democratic senator come a harris has formally launched her bid for the presidency a frontrunner in her party she hopes of background as a prosecutor will help her win the nomination to ch
set the stage for a possible compromise deal. democrats obviously when they take control of the house aren t going to be willing to give him funding for the wall. and maybe there are, however, some compromise solutions that involve increased funding for border security that he could somehow cast as a win. that said, it would be a real test of his base s willingness to accept that, given that s why a key reason of the supporters cited for supporting him. we re a couple days into this thing and doesn t seem like anybody s budging and then come january the democrats come in power in the house. at that point, how do things get resolved? i mean, it makes it a lot tougher. democrats already don t have a lot of incentive to give him anything. now they will have more power and still this incentive to sort of force his hand. he s in really tricky spot here between congressional republicans, his base and the
bill: we ll keep our powder dry for now. james comey behind closed doors now taking questions. nadler told catherine herridge that the first week of january they ll end all these investigations. this is truly a drop dead moment for trey gowdy, bob goodlatte, john ratcliffe. they ll drop some investigations and open up a whole slough of other ones into everything to do with president trump. i think the american people are going to get tired of this. i don t think the questions about the origins of the mueller investigation are going to go away. i don t think frankly by the way another thing that barr sinted in is the whole question of hillary clinton s involvement with the iranian one sale. so i don t think any of those things will go away in the public s mind it may be that yes, the republicans in the house aren t going to have a chance to forward those investigations. instead we ll be looking at all the things that mueller has been looking at. bill: why comey made the decisions