advice. for however long mulvaney lasts there in that role. natasha, what do we get a sense of the republican strategy knew that judge has ruled that democrats and the impeachment is constitutional? yes. a great question. i guess that remains to be seen because their strategy last week was just to crash a scif in the capitol. but moving forward, i think the white house is starting to take impeachment a lot more seriously and to that end the president has apparently been telling his advisers to make phone calls to republican senators in order to rally the troops, in order to make sure they re still on his side and one thing we saw last week in that vein was when lindsey graham came out and rebuked this impeachment iran choiran inquiry. part of a campaign saying, guys, we need help here. republicans have been frustrated, because they re not receiving a clear message on the white house how to move forward
northbound train for people to get on to. remember, we re just 12 working days away from another government shutdown. the president needs to lead out, members of congress need to lead out saying this is what s most important to the american people. gun policies, a host of things far more important to the american people from a strategy standpoint. what s happening now because there s no northbound train everybody is mired in the muck of all of the impeachment proceedings rather than focusing on the business of the american people. the winning strategy for the republicans is to say, hey, we re moving the american agenda forward. the challenge for the democrats is if they overswing and the republicans are moving, then they re just stuck in a lot of petty political stuff and that becomes the problem for the democrats. so, again, strictly from a strategy standpoint, forward momentum and movement is always better than just getting the commotion that s often going on in washington, d.c.
mike memoli. mike, what was it? reporter: kendis, complicating this whole discussion is the fact that criminal justice reform of course the focus of today s forum which continues as well tomorrow was one of the few areas in congress there has been bipartisan achievement. where president trump signed something that passed overwhelmingly with sfrort republicans and democrats in the house. one. sponsors honored the president yesterday for that. we ve seen from the democratic candidates who had already agreed to participate in this forum even before they knew president trump would attend as well is different approaches about how to reconcile that fact. you saw cory booker, for instance, earlier use his time onstage to welcome the contrast of him sharing the same stage where the president was talking about the ways he needs to improve upon the criminal justice reform and was in fact the co-sponsor and negotiated with the white house on. the whole name of forum second step. first step the
we see the base getting firmer and firmer for president trump. right now as a political operative i m looking at general election voters, kendis, to see what they think about a president withholding money from a foreign country and working on the messages, what wee see. because there are not enough people in either party to elect a president, and that s what matters to us at this moment. boyd, you don t need a quid pro quo for trump to be impeached. for asking a foreign country to intervene. why are republicans putting so much focus on the quid pro quo defense? it s an interesting strategy in terms of, kind of complaining about the process component to it, and a lot of folks are watching college football today, and when you re complaining about the referees, you re losing. complaining about the rules, you re losing. i think the thing that the republicans have to do, again, strictly from a messaging standpoint, they need a
on this and the whole thing bungled. remains to be seen how republicans will deal with this now that the impeachment inquiry is deemed legitimate. 32 days into it. we ll see. and thank you both. coming up, bernie sanders is focusing on legalizing marijuana. touting his plan as a criminal justice reform event is taking place in the palmetto state. we ll tell what you it would mean for people with marijuana convictions. r mission is to pre complete, balanced nutrition. for strength and energy! whoo-hoo! great-tasting ensure. with nine grams of protein and twenty-seven vitamins and minerals. ensure, for strength and energy.