integrity of our election. so you have it there, scott. pelosi saying it isn t about political risk. but how much political risk is there surrounding this? well, pelosi knows that there was political risk. she was trying all year to stave off this impeachment investigation from happening in the first place. she believes that it would put some of her frontline democrats, vulnerable democrats, the majority makers who handed her the majority and the speaker s gavel last fall in serious jeopardy. however, we are starting to see some of that polling reflect renewed support for you impeachment. especially among those voters in the middle, independents. so right now it s about 50/50 with some movement in the middle towards impeachment. democrats say that this is a good issue for them in terms of being able to make the case that
dana bash, kirsten powers, and harry litman, good evening. never a dull moment. and as i said, everyone, what a momentous day. dana, i m going to start with you. it s official. well, at least the inquiry looking into it, this impeachment. so tell our viewers what to look for. what do we know? well, the big news obviously is the announcement. what is still unclear and it s largely because this happened so fast, the 180 by the speaker led in large part by members of her caucus who are in trump districts, the so-called front liners, the majority makers, them changing their minds so quickly that it s not entirely clear how this is going to play out when it comes to the process. what we do know at least for now is that the speaker said there won t be a select committee. so there won t be one committee like there was during watergate. you mentioned nixon before the break. six committees have jurisdiction. they re going to continue to do that. but i can tell you in talking to some rank an
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district, majoritymakers for democrats came out in favor of i impeachment. hammering them back home with statements to note they are in districts either donald trump won or were just recently held by a republican. those are the kinds of districts that democrats, speaker pelosi, is looking to protect and the republicans are right there to try to remind voters, hey, they re now joining with their left wing colleagues on this. this is why the politics of this, while the evidence may be very clear for the house democrats to move forward, and they re may be a consensus this is pass the point of discussion anymore. the politics still needs to be worked out. okay. david, thank you so much. a reminder, standing by to listen to joe biden speak. should happen any moment. you see the white balance. getting ready for him. expected, of course, to weigh in on all we ve been talking about. this impeachment issue involving the president of the united states. also we are less than an hour from that c
majority. you are the majoritymakers. you look weak if you re not standing up to this president on something like this. they are in a bind. they didn t have a choice. they know full well this will dominate and drown out everything else they came to washington to talk about. there s one very honest fact, which is, the impeachment conversation of yesterday, it can be different than the impeachment conversation today. the facts have changed. that s what we re hearing from the democrats, a discussion to be had among democrats, if we all get to impeachment through different routes, do we support impeachment still? this is for later. i do want to ask you, i am talking about the democrats. the republican response to this, has ranged from say nothing, attack the whistleblower, defending the president, saying the focus needs to be more on joe biden. mitt romney is the outlier.