inside this room next to me, biden did reveal that he is in fact going to support repealing the hyde amendment, something that has been very contentious over the past 24 hours, and really, you ve seen a lot of pressure both from his fellow candidates who are saying they hope he reverses himself, and also from other groups who are involved in the abortion rights fight. and biden today saying that he really seeing that women s health is under assault, especially in states that are pushing to pass bills relating to abortion restrictions, that he could no longer support this amendment. jim? arlette saenz on it tonight, thanks very much. now from political analyst along with former pelosi chief of staff danny wyoming wise and usa today columnist kirsten powers. to both of you, this is quite a turnaround. kirsten, i ll give you the honors here, stealing what had
all incomes. i can t justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need and the ability to exercise their constitutionally protected right. if i believe health care is a right, as i do, i can no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone s zip code. let s go now to cnn s arlette sae saenz. arlet, quite a turnaround. quite a clear-cut one. what s behind this decision? that s right, jim. it was just a little over 24 hours ago where the biden campaign confirmed that the former vice president did in fact support the hyde amendment. you saw these candidates, a large group of them really come out and criticize biden immediately, really exposing one of the first major fault lines between biden and the other democrats in the 2020 field. but today here in atlanta, just
for an impeachment inquiry for weeks, believing it would be a fruitless endeavor that ultimately she believes would benefit the president because the republicans in the senate would not convict this president. but that s not what jerry nadler believes. we re learning behind the scenes he has made multiple pitches to the house speaker to open up an impeachment inquiry. in a meeting this week with her and other chairman of key committees, he made the case, nadler did, that there should be an impeachment inquiry to essentially add the weight to their legal case in court, the cases that they are involved with on several fronts to try to get information from this administration, which has rejected their subpoenas and other requests they say that nadler said he could help that also he is saying he could centralize all the investigations that are taking place in the house to only occur before his committee, the house judiciary committee. now jim, i am told there was pushback. pelosi in that m
president, she would rather see him in prison than impeached. but also adam schiff, the house intelligence committee chairman also reiterated his opposition to moving forward in impeachment proceedings. as you know, his committee also investigating the president s conduct. so doing so could undercut what the house intelligence committee is doing. but as one democratic member told me earlier today, jim, he said that he s been very careful. nadler has been very careful in his handling of this because he doesn t want to throw pelosi under the bus. let me ask you just a point of order here, you can begin impeachment proceedings without necessarily proceeding to an impeachment vote. am i correct? . that is absolutely correct. the fear among some, including democratic leaders is once you begin the impeachment inquiry, it would spiral into a vote to articles of impeachment. that s what nancy pelosi is trying to resist at this point, which is why she is pushing for this other avenue. individ
if they come out on top. we should note it s sort of an indictment in impeachment if it passes. the real conviction comes in senate where you need two-thirds. i imagine chairman nadler wants to avoid directly contradicting speaker pelosi directly. he is in a very difficult spot because of his private view and a view among a growing number of monies the house judiciary committee who are publicly calling for impeachment. now i am told that nadler has been supportive about those calls for impeachment inquiry, saying to the members he is fine if they go public with it, even as nancy pelosi is trying to tamp that down. also, jim, he has not gone as far as to say that the president has engaged in impeachable conduct, criminal conduct that warrants impeachment. he has been careful on that. he has left to it other members to make that case, newspaper editorial boards, some television commentators as well. he is trying not to publicly issue any declaration that shows