might be leaning more in this direction that wants to keep it narrowly focused on ukraine because they believe they can move quicker on it and it would also keep some of the more moderate democrats who won swing districts, trump districts, in 2018, on board. look at the problem. two of those more moderate democrats, they didn t seem to know what they were for. watch. do you have the votes to begin the official inquiry if you were to take a vote right now? right now it s not about starting inquiry. it s about getting to the bottom of this. i thought that s what nancy pelosi said yesterday, you are opening official inquiry, those were her words. i think a lot of people want to know why not vote on it if there is such a strong feeling about it. i m happy to take a personal vote on the floor on articles of impeachment but first we need to understand what if anything happened. so you see that they are saying we don t necessarily want an impeachment inquiry.
this point is beyond debate. during the midterms, swing district democrats claimed they were anxious to work with the president. now they are the tips of the impeachment sphere. the quid pro quo element doesn t need to be there for this to be a crime. this was a line that was crossed for the national security dems and something that we thought the caucus needed to move on. it may be a controversial issue and when you look at the facts and you look at the specific instance, i think it s a total game changer. laura: it s a game changer for the democratic party. they are all ilhan omar now. when they are up for reelection and they insist, they insist they are moderates who just want government to work again. don t believe them. they must be voted out of office for violating their pledge to be more bipartisan. number six, democrat leadership has totally given up on governing. time and again, trump has beaten them at their own game. we ve seen it.
during the midterms, swing district democrats claimed they were anxious to work with the president. now they are the tips of the impeachment sphere. the quid pro quo element doesn t need to be there for this to be a crime. this was a line that was crossed for the national security dems and something that we thought the caucus needed to move on. while it may be a controversial issue, when you look at the facts and you look at the specific instance, i think it s a total game changer. laura: it s a game changer for the democratic party. they are all ilhan omar now. when they are up for reelection next year and they insist, they insist they are moderates who just want government to work again, don t believe them. they must be voted out of office for violating their pledge to be more bipartisan. number six, democrat leadership has totally given up on governing. now, time and again, trump has beaten them at their own game. we ve seen it.
seven swing district democrats. if what we know now turns out to be true that they would favor impeachment. i don t knjonathan capehart this closely and steve cornacki. thank you to both of you. gregory meek of new york. he s one of the democrats who came out for impeachment against president trump yesterday saying the president exercised quote clear abuse of power. congressman thank you for being here. i want to follow up on this argument. the polling and discussion of the politics verses the obligation that you have as elected members, are you one of those people who does worry that the concept of impeachment as it stands right now, the starting gate does not appear to have the support of most voters? i don t think you have seen where the voters are at the last
democratic presidential candidates who would prefer to have this done before they get to iowa and new hampshire. a.b., last week the conventional wisdom was mueller did not help democrats who want impeachment, did not help their cause. and again this is not the media making this up. democratic congress people were telling reporters who called them on the record, off the record, saying this did not help us. then suddenly over this week more and more people joined the list. i m struggling to understand what s going on here? well, you can definitely counting on the fact that their constituents are growing more interested in impeachment, even if that doesn t manifest in the polling yet. we have seen swing district democrats come out for impeachment. so those who have waited this long and have thus far opposed it, they are hearing from their voters. whether or not that doesn t make nancy pelosi s calculation any less reasonable or sane. she believes an acquittal fuels the election of