specifically who is she speaking cory booker went farther than he had today. elizabeth warren has been out there, kamala harris, gill l gid was out there. one by one, these 2020 candidates after mueller spoke today were getting much more aggressively on the impeachment train. nancy pelosi, that s not who she s going to take her cues from. that creates a lot of noise. those people have very big microphones. and it does create an environment where nancy pelosi is going to have to spend the rest of her days now constantly trying to balance between the sort of pro-impeachment factions and those that think that it would be a political mistake. but what will change the calculus for nancy pelosi is not the presidential candidates who need the base of the party and this is a very appealing message. it s those 40 democrats that won republican districts to flip the house to the democrats. when those democrats that are sitting in very competitive districts start going to nancy pelosi, if th
specifically who is she speaking cory booker went farther than he had today. kamala harris, gillibrand was out there. one by one, these 2020 candidates after mueller spoke today were getting much more aggressively on the impeachment train. nancy pelosi, that s not who she s going to take her cues from. that creates a lot of noise. those people have very big microphones. and it does create an environment where nancy pelosi is going to have to spend the rest of her days now constantly trying to balance between the sort of pro-impeachment factions and those that think that it would be a political mistake. but what will change the calculus for nancy pelosi is not the presidential candidates who need the base of the party and this is a very appealing message. it s those 40 democrats that won republican districts to flip the house to the democrats. when those democrats that are sitting in very competitive districts start going to nancy pelosi, if they do, and say, it s time we got to s
believing that he engaged in some sort of cover-up. trace: i m curious. i was talking to chad pergram earlier. i was talking about this impeachment train, how big it is. he said depending who you talk to, that s the answer you ll get. the numbers that we re hearing is they don t have nearly enough to impeach but the snow ball is rolling down the hill. yeah, the pressure for impeachment is growing, a really good question is how long speaker pelosi can stave off those people in her party that are calling for this. i think that there s really not another democrat in this country that is in a better position to hold off these growing calls for impeachment than speaker pelosi. the view on the hill is that if she put her foot down and said no, the chairman wouldn t defy her wishes. there s continued calls for this as the white house continuing to stone wall their requests in
this is where the president is in his element and he loves it and i think it s a good sign usually when politicians are enjoying campaigning as much as president trump enjoys campaigning. it s easier to get onto a winning train like that and i think it s on full display tonight. martha: you take a look at some of the headwinds at the president has coming at him. the russian investigation seems to never go away. tonight jerry nadler saying if don mcgann doesn t come tomorrow, he said that would be the gear that would start the impeachment train potentially. you have justin amash was also saying he wants to see that very big dichotomy between the two sides. i think that this is another one of those cases where the president has better political instincts than any other politician around here, certainly any that i have coverage. i think there is a reason why he likes to bring up the russian investigation.
anticipated and it did not say that the president or anyone in his senior staff had kind of colluded with the russians, so here we are. i mean, i think that until we get to the bottom, both of the investigation into russian spying, and the origins of that investigation, this issue is going to remain partisan and we ve got to have a report that satisfies everybody in terms of facts, jon. i m not sure we re going to get there but i think that s what bill barr is trying to do. jon: very quickly one republican has jumped on on board the impeachment train and chad pergram describes as a contrarian republican says that contrary to barr s portray all mueller s report reveals president trump engaged in specific actions in the pattern of behavior that meet the threshold of impeachment so he becomes the first republican voice crying impeachment. interesting times in washington. yes, he does.