i voted to put it aside for now. i am for impeachment, but i don t think we should bring it right to the floor, steve. this is a big deal, and it needs to go through the committee process. i understand that emotions run high, but the reality of it is if we re going to do something this big, it needs to go through the proper channels and it needs to go through the committee process. that s why i voted to table it. so you say you do support impeachment. what made this resolution, besides the fact this was a privileged resolution bringing it straight to the floor, what also made this resolution different than a lot of the conversation we had about impeachment was that congressman green rooted this impeachment call in the president s rhetoric in his public words about race, about immigration. so much of the conversation s been about the mueller report and obstruction. do you think that the items that are cited here by congressman green should be if you re for impeachment, should it b
publicly about impeachment, we did research on that. all 38 are in very, very safe congressional seats. it appears that what nancy pelosi is concerned about, among a number of concerns, is those that were in seats that were one in areas where donald trump won. because if she loses the house, she loses her power. exactly. that s that s right. it is a political calculation. when you saw speaker pelosi come out last woke and say the democratic caucus was united to not move forward with impeachment, you know, that s hurting the cats to her point of view. today makes it tougher for her to continue to hold back the impeachment call. shepard: nothing new today from robert mueller. was there? well, it was basically his 448 page report. it was focused differently. it was presented differently. it s cut and dry. they didn t find an american
well have a great new attorney general who is going to give it a very fair look. very fair look. all right. michigan republican congressman is not backing down from his impeachment call for president trump. he pushed back on his critics saying there were no underlying crimes unearthed in the mueller report. he laid out his reasoning for why he s come out so strongly against trump s innocence in a barrage of tweets yesterday. here s what he had to say about it last night. the proceedings is a process. what do you mean by that? it s a process. not like the resolution is just drawn up overnight. it s a process. you have to come to the right conclusions about how to draft something. you would like to see them
mueller report and that in his words he is a loser who sadly plays right into our opponents hands. amash clear lly striking a chor with president trump. other republicans sort of echoed those remarks, including republican national committee chairwoman rhonda mcdaniel. she put out a statement saying it s sad that the congressman is in her words parroting democratic talking points. other republicans like senator mitt romney of utah a lot more respectful of his point of view. still, though, he does not agree with justin amash on whether the president committed impeachable offenses. listen to what he told jake tapper on state of the union sunday morning. i respect him. i think it s a courageous statement. but i believe that to make a case for obstruction of justice you just don t have the elements that are evidenced in this document. and i also believe that an impeachment call is not only something that relates to the law but also considers practicality and politics and the american p
would be significant. they are treating it like something significant. here s the closest to what a republican senator has said. this is senator mitt romney yesterday on state of the union. listen to this. my own view is that justin amash reached a different conclusion than i have. i respect him. i think it is a courageous statement. but i believe to make a case for obstruction of justice, you just don t have the elements that are evidenced in this document. i also believe that an impeachment call is not only something that relates to the law, but considers practicality and politics. the american people just aren t there. what are your thoughts on that, margaret? sort of by taking a big step forward which amash has done he ll make himself a target. you are seeing the likelihood now of a primary challenge, maybe faster and more ferociously than before.