or do you expect more republicans to break off? i try not to play the prediction game anymore, considering how far offer i w in 2016. but at some point maybe when the public hearings start that you might see some more cracks. right now, i know mika has mentioned this, is that everything is about the process. all they re doing is complaining about the process. this is unfair. this is a star chamber. it s all being done in secret. the complaints are ridiculous, but it s having the intended effect of shifting the story around, the narrative around for their purposes to say this is just to feed into trump s narrative that this is nothing but a witch-hunt. but once more of this information is made public and you start to see these public hearings, we re already seeing polls that are above 50% for impeachment and some for removal, it could get a lot worse. i think that s the key issue is the polling if thpolling.
we are up in maine a couple months ago and we got a call from somebody who s worked in central and eastern europe a lot, knew your dad very well, and said, hey, you need to look into this. trump is holding up military aid to the ukrainians until they investigate joe biden. now, that word was around. an ap reporter had asked a question over a month ago that specific question. what s fascinating is that in a month s time we are now we now have the evidence to back up what everybody feared was the worst case scenario. it has happened. i must say, mika, shocking still that some republicans will still not step up to the camera and say, this is a disgrace and it
started a blog shared a picture shared a moment turn your wish list into a checklist. learn more. do more. share more. at home, with internet essentials. beautiful shot. welcome back to morning joe. 25 past the hour. you know, mika, a lot of people have been thinking, as have i, that all of this ukraine this ukrainian affair would actual ly accrue to the benefit of donald trump s opponents but also of joe biden s opponents. we ve had three polls out the last two days. one of them has elizabeth warren ahead, but, boy, the other two show a big joe biden lead. strong lead. the new cnn/ssrs poll shows joe
on. they get the edge of the story. they understand the headlines, they understand bill taylor to a certain degree. they don t read the 15-page opening statement. but they know. and to for them to look at joe biden, you get the increasing conversation with people and at the end of the conversation they basically just want this thing calmed down. yeah. they want someone who will calm the situation down, get it back to a state of semi normalcy, if we can ever get back to a state of semi normalcy. and bide zen thn does that for o many people. mika just nailed it, when you talk to people about elizabeth warren, they like her plan. she has a plan for everything. but they inevitably end up saying how much is all of this going to cost in the public education aspect? the medicare for all aspect, how much is it going to cost? she has no answer yet. all right. we ll continue this conversation.
desperate. this is getting difficult to watch. and, you know, mika, house minority leader kevin what does he call him, steve? he calls him steve but he goes by the name of kevin mccarthy. steve made a similar argument on tuesday. they re claiming there s a quid pro quo with the president trump with the president of ukraine on july 25th. we now find from what they ve said even in here, on august 29th ukraine found out that the money was being held up from politico. you know, what s really interesting is these republicans aren t smart enough to wait 24 or 48 hours, because every one of their defenses crumbles as badly as houston astros pitching in october. the new york times, of course, reported that word of the freeze gotten to high level of ukrainian officials by the first week in august, according to