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right now the economy is good. but it doesn t seem to move democrats at all towards the president. what happens if the economy goes south? we could have a foreign policy crisis. we re 12 months away from the election. a little more than 12 months. when it s all said and done, what will independent voters do? can the president somehow someway move some independents in his direction? let me remind everybody, 137 million votes cast in 2016. 77,759 according to the cook political report in your three states, determined the outcome of the election. it was excellent. thank you all. what are your thoughts? tweet me at smerkonish or go to my facebook page and i ll read some. what do we have? from facebook has trump really done a bad job thus far?
on my smerkonish twitter and facebook pages. from twitter. smerkonish, how about the house impeaches and does not send to senate. instead they refer to the american people for trial at the ballot box in 2020? there s zero chance that will be the outcome. if they impeach as a matter of right it will go to the senate. could censure. presumably they could stop short of an impeachment vote. but this thing seems like it s on its own track now to head by hook or by crook to the senate. i want to remind you, are you voting on my survey question at smerkonish.com. i think it s a winner. will the impeachment process i ask this because nobody okay, two democrats stepped out from their party no republicans. but it was a strict party line vote on thursday. is that the way it s going to end? meaning will the impeachment process remain partisan from start to finish? go vote, results at the end of the hour.
we are not just some young people skipping school. or some adults who are not going to work. we are a wave of change. they vow that this is just the beginning. bill weir, cnn, new york. d.c. comics super hero today. in cities across the globe are beaming up the infamous bat signal. this is tokyo a few minutes ago. fans dressed up as their favorite batman characters. cities across europe, los angeles and the gotham headquarters in new york city celebrated. d.c. comics and cnn are part of the warner media family. thanks for joining us, back at 10:00. smerkonish is up next.
the diplomatic route to, to listening the intentions between north korea and our country. so that is what should be stressed and the president should take responsibility to make sure that that s what he s doing. but that s not what he s doing. he s in fact engaging in tit-for-tat, very childish exchange that do not help the diplomatic route. with kim jong un. senator maize hirono, thank you very much for your time. let us know what comes of the investigation? i ll stay in touch with the people of hawaii to make sure this doesn t happen again. that s going to do it for us this hour. i m ana cabrera in new york. thank you for being with me, i ll see you two hours from now live in the cnn news room. smerkonish is next.