know about it to care about it. most americans haven t read the report so they don t know how strong mueller s evidence is and that s understandable. they re busy with jobs and life. what if your job is to do oversight of the executive branch? many members of congress haven t read this report either over a dozen openly admitted to politico they didn t sit down and read the whole thing. some even had the what s the point. what about people who have joined this book club, the only republican to call for impeachment, congressman amash i mentioned earlier left the party over this issue. he read the mueller report and he says the vast majority of his colleagues have not. people at home aren t reading the mueller report. most people don t have time to read a 448-page report. they expect their members of congress to do the work. how many of your colleagues do you think have actually read the mueller report. probably less than 15%. i d say that s probably the case on both sides of the aisl
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
two years of any president and is the most popular republican in party history, 93%. what do you make of that? i think it represents how he spends a lot of his day. he s talking to lawyers. he s preparing for what might come with this report, and so i think that he is very focused on that. his staff is going to be very focused on these issues because of the oversight that s going to come from the house, which is just going to take a lot of time and attention and effort on the staff s part. will have to lawyer up in a lot of different ways. it is an obsession for him, and it should be, though. i mean, this is the threat to his power, to his rule, and it s a serious threat. i mean, he will likely be impeached by the house if there s a strong mueller report. yeah, i think it almost seems borderline inevitable at this point, at least for hearings. he has to hold the republican party strong in the senate in order to avoid conviction. and i think this is also a
we begin tonight with one heck of a lead story. as the seeming inevitability of eventual impeachment proceedings collides with talks to reopen the government. folks with two big stories sort of lingering today, impeachment chatter and the president s shutdown over the wall, they re more connected than you might realize. right now it appears that the president isn t just trying to built a wall to keep illegal immigrants out, he s trying to build a wall to keep his political base in. with this new democratic house, with all the investigations, with mueller s report in the works, it s very possible mr. trump realizes that if he loses his base, he could lose the presidency as lindsey graham has been warning. the president met with congressional leaders at the white house this afternoon and then gave a lengthy press conference, sort of a classic trumpian press conference. what we saw at that press conference was a tale of two trumps. one who seemed intent to dig in and another who seemed a