president s decision around the kurds and the situation on the syrian border. and almost as in place of having to get involved in the impeachment discussion, because that one s easier. it s a layup and also something that voters don t get as upset about, because it s still very far away and aren t sure perhaps what the relationship is supposed to be. they can get very upset with trump. we saw that with mitch mcconnell. he posted that op-ed in the washington post. on impeachment they have held back. it was as though they could express frustration. this time they can t get away from the impeachment issue. ambassador taylor is placing is on their table. this is he s an unimpeachable witness who had very detailed information. i heard elizabeth warren use similar language as donald trump did. she s not criticizing him for pulling out of syria. i noticed she almost said that s
for president. [laughter] let me just skip wisconsin and change my name to email benghazi while i m at it. martha: big issue what you are hear percolating around democrats right now, austan, they are afraid that if she is the one, you have this biden issue which no doubt, however you split this impeachment question, it keeps coming up biden and questions about all of that and you have bernie sanders who has health issues. he is back out there but is dealing with some personal stuff. well, look. the democrats have got we have yet to have any of the contests. they have got to sort out who is going to be the nominee. i think it s absurd to think that the person who is going to get tagged from this impeachment discussion is joe biden. it s going to be president trump. i think. [laughter] if elizabeth warren were the nominee than president
this is about national security, it is about the sanctity of our elections. we ve never had an allegation like this leveled against an american president. we ve never had an impeachment discussion on the floor of the united states congress in which national security and sachkity y i sanctity of elections was what members of congress would be voting on. and i pl and i predict that we will see a very rapid effort probably before nancy pelosi to have a narrowly tailored impeachment vote on the floor related to this one issue. did the president say to the president of ukraine i need a favor though. if you want defense support, you re going to have to play ball with us, you will have to help me in my presidential election. yes or no. as beto o rourke would say, don t we already know the answer to that? we do and i don t know how anybody will say that somehow that is appropriate for the
they are from very vulnerable districts. they know what s at risk, but a lot of them have the national security foreign policy background that i think, and i m not an expert or advising them, but i think that gives democrats a chance to change the messaging on the impeachment discussion that they otherwise lost in the ways they have been dragging their feet until today. it gives them an opportunity to refocus the conversation about what is at stake here and why they are moving forward on this, to narrowly define it as a national security issue to say that their national security background allows them to put country over party and that they don t think the president is doing that. and republicans who are standing in line with him are not doing that either. they can change that conversation and make it something maybe bigger than just blue and red politics or you know pro trump or antitrump politics and use it as a way to change the conversation and educate people on what they see is th
democrats to be? you saw pelosi make that move today. we have seen a number of democrats in the last two days from marginal districts, democrats who have to worry any given election about losing to a republican. we have seen a number of them come out in favor of an impeachment inquiry. is there a confidence level that numbers are going to change? i don t know if there is confidence that the numbers will change, but i think what we have seen between numbers that came out today which i think you said is more than 30 and the seven house democrats who wrote that op-ed that came out last night. all of those folks are from marginal districts, the ones who wrote the article last night and a lot of texas house democrats. they are from very vulnerable districts. they know what s at risk, but a lot of them have the national security foreign policy background that i think, and i m not an expert or advising them, but i think that gives democrats a chance to change the messaging on the impeachmen