pay a political price for supporting the inquiry. so much division. but that doesn t mean those who may disagree cannot be friends. you ve been friends some of you since grade school. all of you 50. you can all talk politics. yes. absolutely. even after we have a couple drinks. reporter: this group celebrating their life long friendship and their differences. i think as a country we ve forgotten that we re all the same on some level. political divisiveness isn t what is going to further this country. we have to act on a common ground. reporter: so the people that we found, erin, pretty much evenly split. here is one area where both sides can agree and that s everyone that we talked to seems to have a difficult time understanding how the whole impeachment process works. how long it will take. and then at the end of the day whatever the result is, if the country will end up being even more divided. erin? thank you very much. obviously with all that
investigation into biden and the contrast was his more 2016 election. progressive rivals, touting his testimony so damaging that trump is resorting to smears, tweeting vision for health care, medicare for all who want it as a less never trump republican disruptive approach. it s a very important difference between me and representing never trumper senator warren and some of the democrat bill taylor who i don t others. and we will continue making sure know in testimony before we have made that clear. congress. one thing to say loud in clear yet zpliet the strong on the back of that tweet is performance, a new poll shows whatever taylor s politics may or may not be, he was hand buttigieg holding steady at 6%. picked by trump s secretary of behind joe biden, warren and state mike pompeo. he has served in government for bernie sanders. 30 years under all presidents of knows watching the debate, beginning with robert reagan and 21% said buttigieg did the best. was ambassador by george
have been doing more as well. shannon: as for the leaders who have been doing a lot more, wanting to talk to other witnesses and those kinds of things, the white house sending this blasting letter tonight back to the democrat leaders. it read part of it. counsel to the president writing everything they re doing with what they call a fate impeachment inquiry there s been no vote, violate the constitution, will of law and past president. given the inquiry lacks any any pretense of fairness or even the most elementary due process protection, executive branch cannot be expected to participate in it. to which they say the president can t cross-examine anyone, he can t call witness, he can t get evidence, so why don t they just take a vote and that s the primary objection, take that away from the white house and make it a more formal proceedin proceeding? well, shannon, i think you and anyone who has a little understanding of how our constitution works, how the impeachment process wor
the impeachment process works, all those trial activities the president s lawyers wrote in that letter happens in the senate after an impeachment by the house and it is also very clear when you look at this letter that came out of the white house that this is a political argument. every legal analysis i have read, i talked to lawyers who are experts on this say there is no legal argument in this letter. whether it is lindsey graham in the senate or the white house, trying everything they can to shutdown what is a valid investigation into what i hope every single american whether you are a trump supporter or a democrat or you voted for hillary in 2016 would understand russia, ukraine, china, no foreign government has any
the president s former personal attorney said in court that he broke the law at the president s direction, but the justice department has long taken the position that a sitting president cannot be indicted. that is a renewed focus on congress, which does have the power to impeach or remove a president for treason, bribery, other high crimes and misdemeanors, something president trump brought up in his fox interview this morning. i don t i don t know how you can impeach somebody who s done a great job. i ll tell you what, if i ever got impeached, i think the market would crash. i m going to dig into that claim about the market later in the show. but first, let s take a closer look at how the impeachment process works. it starts in the house of representatives, which draws up the articles of impeachment. think of the house as a prosecutor and the articles of impeachment as a document detailing the alleged crimes. only the house can bring charges against a president. but any individ