tool to keep that, his coalition together. you talk about immigration and the wall and impeachment. he talks about impeachment more than democrats talk about impeachment. by tenfold. right. and i think he uses it to light a fire under the base, bring everyone back in the fold, and because i think those are the two things that animate his supporters. defending him and then also the wa wall, and he s obviously failed getting funding on the wall. who s in charge of getting his base, the base or him? lamar alexander has this dream that he s going to be nixon to china, and he s going to create the great comprehensive immigration bill that barack obama and john mccain couldn t figure out. who s in charge of the base, the base or the president? i think we could see that in the lead up to this, when we were leading up to this and there was a deal on the table and mitch mcconnell got snookerred once donald trump started listening to other people who said they were speaking on behalf of
issues, but the reality is even if you re hungry for impeachment you don t want to sound like you re hungry for impeachment. she sounded hungry for impeachment. you want to go in like you re doing a legal process, which it is, and that requires a certain demeanor, and i think that the you know, she, the good thing about nancy pelosi as speaker is she s been there. she knows how governing works, and this is one area where i think that the caucus ought to take some advice from her. well, it s interesting today, we caught wup with a few, and here s how they reacted to both the comments in the expletive aspect, but also you hear about the impeachment comments as well. i don t really like that kind of language, but more to the point i disagree with what she said, it is too early to talk about that intelligently. those kind of comments do not take us in the right direction, so i would say that they are inappropriate. impeachment would tear this country apart.
find out that they were wrong. i ll move to the other story. i want to get your reaction to congresswoman ra she data leeb s comments and the expletive she used about impeachment. i wouldn t have used that language. i don t think it s language that trump can pretend he s shocked by, but on the issue of impeachment, i think nancy pelosi and democrats have actually been very clear and consistent. we ve said all along it depends on what the mueller investigation comes up with, and we don t know the answer to that question right now. no one s itching for an impeachment, but no one s going to say we re going to prejudge this issue without knowing the facts from the mueller investigation. there s no one elected in the house of representatives that isn t itching for this? oh, no, there are definitely people. and there are individual members who have introduced articles of impeachment, but nancy pelosi and the democratic leadership have been very clear and vir consistent, they re not
itching for an impeachment, but they can t rule it out without knowing the facts of what the mueller investigation will bring. do you feel like your constituents, particularly on the democratic side of the aisle, our exit poll showed over 70% of democrats believe that he should be impeached and removed from office. do you think you can your party can afford not to at least start impeachment hearings in the house? so i can tell you my constituents definitely want a new president, but overwhelmingly they are looking to 2020 and beating donald trump in 2020. now, if the mueller are you one of those that prefers a 2020 versus impea impeachment? as of today, yes, but i cannot forecast what the mueller investigation will bring, and just as, you know, nancy pelosi was right, no one should be impeaching donald trump for political reasons, but nobody can decide not to do their duty for political reasons either, and so let s just find out whether or not the mueller
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