there are many more, at least 40 democrats who are moderates national security folks who got elected flipping republican seats who are voting for impeachment in much tougher races in the general election in much tougher states like michigan, colorado, texas, max rhodes over in staten island will vote for impeachment. van drew is no profile in courage. he used it to get a primary. it is six or less. yeah. out with barry goldwater, in with jeff van drew. it was barry goldwater who went to richard nixon and said there weren t enough votes. it is just van drew, the first congressman to switch parties over impeachment in our history. another historical reference. in our first 36 presidents articles of impeachment were brought up against seven of them. since 1974 every president except gerald ford has had
restoring openness in government so people feel there s somebody in there fighting for them. so we ve seen a reluctant conservative democrats like max rhodes say yes to impeachment. the case has been proven. you ve seen a freshman like jeff van drew who people had probably never heard of before switch over to the republican party because the polling showed he d be punished if he voted to impeach donald trump. you re also seeing the ramp up of a huge ad campaign that s planned against all house democrats. residents in 31 congressional districts, per politico, are about to be inundated with tv ads, facebook ads, texts and tweets and each representative is going to be targeted. they re complicit. is the democratic party prepared to run ads the other way and to do an equal and substantial response to that kind of an ad campaign? yes. and the reason is because health
straight miss pelosi. what tv hit douse this committee need to do because this committee has lost all relevance. brian: two articles of impeachment, abuse of power which the republicans were pushing back hard on and obstruction of congress not going to last in the senate. really tough votes for democrats because you have a lot who got into seats that donald trump won, 31 in all. and you have about 8 who flat out said i have not committed to voting for impeachment. think about the embarrassment the historically of not voting for impeachment when your own party puts it up. let alone not getting any republican buy. in this is a disaster. ainsley: they are under so much heavy pressure from both sides to vote for it or vote against it. if you want to know some of these individuals, 31 democrats, max rhodes, he is a democrat from new york. he was against impeachment but he did support the inquiry. then have you alyssa slot kin she wrote to launch the inquiry. hasn t said how she will vote. p
to come back and say, i made the case that i need to put country before my own political future, my own political gain. i ve heard from my constituents. i also want to protect the elections in of future. this isn t about overturning elections of the past. what we ll hear from some and more interesting that what some members said today. how do you think republicans are doing, david? both sides, both teams doing what they need to do for their team is what s going on here. this is the act three in the play. right jt we all know we have the cliffnotes, can read ahead, see how it ends. everyone s doing what they need to do. i think jen is correct. people are making their case to go home and make it further. interesting to hear max rhodes and things like that say when they come back. not a lot of people in swing districts on this committee. nobody s really kind of weighing the equities like they would
anywhere near the word impeachment. i have not been supportive of an impeachment inquiry up until now. michigan congresswoman elissa slotkin s announcement got a not so warm response. the most powerful man in the world reached out to a foreigner, a foreign leader, and asked him to dig up dirt on an american. not true. not true. impeachment also on the mind of constituents in max rhodes district. it s the one red spot in new york city. we need to emphasize that this is a sad and tragic day for the united states of america. reporter: at a friday night town hall, the democratic lawmaker took questions about his recent decision to back impeachment. we are going to push and push and push so we make sure that we are holding this white house to a standard. his district includes staten