well, chris, i m not a lawyer and i ve heard that criticism so we got four constitutional lawyers to do a press conference to go through eight different ways in which donald trump has definitely met the criteria for impeachment, including obstruction of justice, and we put that on the web. i listened to congressman nadler talk about waiting for mr. mueller s investigation to conclude and i m entirely behind mr. mueller s investigation. but one of the lines in the sand is, if this president fires mr. mueller, that would be a line in the sand to show that he was obstructing justice. he s already fired mr. comey for the russian investigation, which is the exact same thing and he said on tv, i did it because of the russian thing. we see today that the a judge in new york said only the congress can has standing to go after the president on emoluments, which is when you re taking money from foreign governments. it s absolutely forbidden and this president has absolutely done it since t
play and then the next tier, trump won but it was a single digit margin. we re talking less than ten points. you could tack on another two dozen. what you have here is in that radius of either trump lost or won by ten points. you re looking at 59. now, obviously to get a 59, that would be historic. it was 54 for republicans in 1984 but that gives you the targets you re looking at here and one thing to note as well, i have to say, there are these 59 potentially these three tiers here, a few out there, ten seats out there that democrats hold that trump won. another piece of that would be defending those seats as well. it s interesting, you re talking about the mother load in california which is where i ve been focused, california s going to get hit. those are relatively affluent districts in a high-tax state where those voters are most likely going to take a hit from this tax bill. they only lost one or two votes in the california delegation which speaks to kevin mccarthy but might ope
jennifer, you were going to say something. yeah, i was going to say that saying except for russia is like except for that, mrs. lincoln, how was the play? that was a big deal. the fact we have a president of the united states that goes embracing putin and the chinese leader and turkish president, embraces them, won t recognize an attack on democracy is a big deal with me. so i think for that reason, also for his complete destain for values based on foreign policy, i might not have agreed with president obama on a lot of things, but he never, i think, diminished or denigrated the sense that democracy is a good thing and having democratic allies is a good thing. this president couldn t careless. the interesting question, i guess, seems to me the
approval this year is 46%. right. his first week in office, his honeymoon, 46 in gallup, that s where he peaked. he d have to get above his presidency to get close to the range where these things don t turn into waves. steve kornacki, thank you for that. you d be surprised how deep the gop divide is. that s after thing 1 and thing 2 next. when you have a cold, stuff happens.
if there s either not the presentation of the necessary evidence or any kind of democratic legitimacy to it, it doesn t do anything. what do you say to that? well, chris, i m not a lawyer and i ve heard that criticism so we got four constitutional lawyers to do a press conference to go through eight different ways in which donald trump has definitely met the criteria for impeachment, including obstruction of justice, and we put that on the web. i listened to congressman nadler talk about waiting for mr. mueller s investigation to conclude and i m entirely behind mr. mueller s investigation. but one of the lines in the sand is, if this president fires mr. mueller, that would be a line in the sand to show that he was obstructing justice. he s already fired mr. comey for the russian investigation, which is the exact same thing and he said on tv, i did it because of the russian thing. we see today that the a judge