you want to stand up and vote for me? you re too old to vote for me. it s a legitimate question, is it not? he can give an answer but is it legitimate to attack the questi questioner in those circumstances? that was joe biden, challenging him on push-ups and whatnot. he s going to have to have an answer to the question about his son. i know the campaign has put out stuff, i know they tried to explain it. but you can t get mad at every voter who asks that, because most democrats, the number one thing they re concerned about, is someone who can beat trump, someone who doesn t have baggage that drags them down. that is a concern among some voters and we saw it right there. i don t think it s a bad thing that biden shows some emotion and anger. we heard that from pelosi today, the emotion, and then again from biden, you can see how this is clearly getting under his skin because you re attacking his
decision by pelosi today, congresswoman abigail spanberger from virginia, one of those seven freshman house democrats in competitive swing districts who could no longer hold out and just joined the impeachment train. she is on the foreign affairs committee. welcome to primetime. thank you for having me. to be clear, in reading the letter to people that you put out with your fellow members of congress, you re not saying you re ready to imimpeach, you saying you re ready to look at the facts with an eye toward impeachment. is that a fair clarification? that is exactly correct, yes. when you give all the different ideas of why, all of the bolded phrases have to do with the instant circumstance surrounding ukraine. why? so these are the allegations that have recently surfaced in the past week that are deeply, deeply concerning to me and to the colleagues who i joined with to create this letter.
they re already close. they have like 180 something. they only need like 217. they ll probably get there. will they persuade you? then what? is a senate trial a given? we re going to go deep on that. you may be surprised. we have a lot of important voices here on both sides of the aisle to war game where we re all headed. let s begin with someone who may have helped prompt this major decision by pelosi today, congresswoman abigail span berger from virginia. one of those seven freshmen house democrats in competitive swing districts who could no long early hold out and just joined the impeachment train. she is on the foreign affairs committee. welcome to primetime. thank you for having me. to be clear, in reading the letter to people that you put out with your fellow members of congress, you re not saying you re ready to impeach. you re saying you re ready to look at the facts with an eye toward impeachment. is that a fair clarification? that is exactly correct, yes.
of those illusions you fill in a little bit and suddenly you can see a face. it seems like the picture becomes clearer and clearer by the day. i nancy pelosi s comments this morning were she s very interested in all of these threads. the democrats are going to investigate. you see this is a puzzle and mueller is beginning to fill in the puzzle pieces from the indictments. and we re putting that together. i think what i heard actually from speaker pelosi was a reason to go to her caucus and say, slow your roll, that we re going hear what comes out of the mueller report. we re going to conduct our investigations so they aren t interfering with mueller and that will get us to the truth. i actually think that was a gift in some ways for pelosi today, where there were increasing calls within the caucus for more aggressive investigation and even impeachment. it does strike me that in a campaign like donald trump s, most campaigns, even intense