now, that said, if i were nadler, you know, he probably has he probably has those articles of impeachment already written. they re drafted. he s just waiting for the go-ahead from up high from the speaker to move forward, and i just don t see that permission slip coming. i don t see it coming anytime soon because the american public simply isn t there on impeachment. but who is trying to persuade the american public to support it? that s my point. who is out there in the democratic party loudly leading this charge? i don t see anybody leading this charge right now. nobody with a loud voice like trump has. go ahead, susan. if you go back and look at the watergate precedent, in fact it was the impeachment inquiry and the investigation itself that created the narrative and created and built a story for the american people to engage. and it really it s fascinating to look at that history in the context of where we are right now and to see how peter rudino from right where i grew
house judiciary committee on this, and he was essentially saying we re going to be very, very cautious about this. we are not going to do this unless we have the facts. don t get ahead of ourselves. we don t want to tear the country apart. he s conscious of the previous impeachments. peter rudino was the chairman of the house judiciary committee during the nixon impeachment. and one of the things hi s he understood was how essential this not be perceived as a political hit job and everything involving nixon was bipartisan. he kept the southern democrats in line. this didn t really break until you actually had the smoking gun tapes. we ve had other impeachments perceived to be excessively political or partisan and there is a high potential for backlash. i think that nancy pelosi and jerry nadler, the other leaders, really seem to understand that. that s my sense. especially the can hold their bases. but i think it goes to