truly what we suddenly learn about and we don t have any of that. we have a different style of a presidency, a let s make a deal kind of presidency. and that s who we have. and i just don t see any of this rising to the level of impeachability and i wish we could get off the impeachment train. neil: we ll see what happens. ken starr, thank you very, very much. my pleasure. neil: the turkish president erdogan is saying this morning he will indeed put troops into syria if the deal with the united states and whatever deal he made with the vice-president and secretary of state when they visited. retired general, an author,
someone who knows how this works out, the push to impeach is at stake. it might come back to bite the party pushing it. always good to see you. why do you say that? i say that because impeachment is doomed to fail given what we know. the facts are flowing in. in the history of the country, obviously presidential efforts to impeach do not work. but guess what, of the 62 impeachment proceedings eight have resulted in convictions. this will result in a conviction, why we on the impeachment train, we should be on the oversight train and quick calling it impeachment since there is something profoundly wrong under the
up to date. andrea, the questions you just raised regarding the president s conversations with vladimir putin are certainly not going to go away. there will be pressure, i imagine, from the democrats in the house who are leading this impeachment inquiry to try to get the transcript of that call as well and to get more information about any possible russia connections here. a couple of things are worth point out. one is that nancy pelosi he s a great deal of experience with this very issue. she was the top democrat for many years on the intelligence committee in the house, as she has said, this is her wheelhouse. by focusing on this issue, she knows exactly where she s trying to drive this impeachment train, narrowing the focus is not getting into the mueller stuff, not getting into the tax returns, not getting into the michael cohen hush money payments to the women who alleged affairs with the president. and then the other key element here is that that whistle-blower complaint was ju
decision by pelosi today, congresswoman abigail spanberger from virginia, one of those seven freshman house democrats in competitive swing districts who could no longer hold out and just joined the impeachment train. she is on the foreign affairs committee. welcome to primetime. thank you for having me. to be clear, in reading the letter to people that you put out with your fellow members of congress, you re not saying you re ready to imimpeach, you saying you re ready to look at the facts with an eye toward impeachment. is that a fair clarification? that is exactly correct, yes. when you give all the different ideas of why, all of the bolded phrases have to do with the instant circumstance surrounding ukraine. why? so these are the allegations that have recently surfaced in the past week that are deeply, deeply concerning to me and to the colleagues who i joined with to create this letter.
they re already close. they have like 180 something. they only need like 217. they ll probably get there. will they persuade you? then what? is a senate trial a given? we re going to go deep on that. you may be surprised. we have a lot of important voices here on both sides of the aisle to war game where we re all headed. let s begin with someone who may have helped prompt this major decision by pelosi today, congresswoman abigail span berger from virginia. one of those seven freshmen house democrats in competitive swing districts who could no long early hold out and just joined the impeachment train. she is on the foreign affairs committee. welcome to primetime. thank you for having me. to be clear, in reading the letter to people that you put out with your fellow members of congress, you re not saying you re ready to impeach. you re saying you re ready to look at the facts with an eye toward impeachment. is that a fair clarification? that is exactly correct, yes.