campaign. i ll read a little bit of that statement. the vice president agrees with speaker pelosi that no one would relish what would certainly be a divisive impeachment process. you hear reluck dance from the biden campaign to engage in the impeachment discussion. the other reminder embedded in the statement is the only surefire way to take the president out of office is defeat him at the ballot box. joe biden, one of his main arguments is about electability. the campaign believes focusing the voters on that issue is the primary interest at that point. let me go to shaq brewster in nevada with the bernie sanders campaign. what about on your end, what are you hearing? reporter: senator sanders has been very cautious on the idea of impeachment which he previously opposed but has shifted a bit. his tweet yesterday, he would support the idea of impeachment if the house judiciary committee
lawmakers aren t just taking michael cohen s word for it. he is bringing documentation, that s one of the reasons he s coming back, because they re dig through more doocumentation fro michael cohen. you don t have to say oh, wow, that s great, let s use that as gospel. one of the things that s going to be tough for them, though, is how far can they go without getting themselves into an impeachment discussion? because, as you pointed during the break, they re talking a lot about crimes. at what point do you need to kind of pull the band-aid off? right now you re hearing them say we re waiting for the mueller report, we re fwiergt muell waiting for the mueller report, once that comes out and how much of it is made public, ha then? that s why this is complicated. if the mueller report is connected on russia collusion and can t connect the dots. but michael cohen has laid out all these various crimes to tax fraud to defrauding a charity,
significance? you talk about it as dictatorial. this is, you know, people always say, what is the step too far for this president? is it possible that it could be this or no? this is a certain first step too far. he s taking really inherent powers of the president and using them for a pure political purpose. and that is very dangerous, because it s crying wolf. maybe his parents never told him about the little boy who cried wolf, because this is where he s getting into a dangerous area. when he mixes his lies in with national security and claims crisis that are not, in fact, that. because when the reaeeal crisis does come, and they will, people will doubt him, the machinery of government won t work correctly. so it s very troubling that he would even play with this. does it, john, in your mind, change the impeachment discussion? this is the sort of thing
personal attorneys about the likelihood of impeachment proceedings. the washington post reporting from inside the white house is based on interviews with 26 white house officials, presidential advisers and lawyers and strategists close to the administration, most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid. now let s just remember that john kelly was brought in to be the white house chief of staff who would stop the leaking and tonight we have 26 leakers. 26 in trump world who are talking to the washington post about impeachment. rudy giuliani told the washington post and allowed them to use his name on this quote, we have talked a lot about impeachment at different times. because this is the trump white house, the impeachment discussion is not happening in a rational and professional way. of course it isn t.
impeachment. trump recently has consulted his personal attorneys about the likelihood of impeachment proceedings. the washington post reporting from inside the white house is based on interviews with 26 white house officials, presidential advisers and lawyers and strategists close to the administration, most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid. now let s just remember that john kelly was brought in to be the white house chief of staff who would stop the leaking and tonight we have 26 leakers. 26 in trump world who are talking to the washington post about impeachment. rudy giuliani told the washington post and allowed them to use his name on this quote, we have talked a lot about impeachment at different times. because this is the trump white house, the impeachment discussion is not happening in a rational and professional way. of course it isn t. the post reports, quote, although trump sometimes talks