comparing this push to what happened with bill clinton, which i think a lot of americans remember as a sort of divisive national nightmare, so to the extent that the democrats can reset this to a comparison with the nixon impeachment, then i think most americans remember as a good thing, that was necessary because the president was a crook, that benefits them if they could get people to believe it. so by having someone like a john dean come forward and directly say to draw those connections between trump and nixon, if they can readjust that frame with the public, i think that definitely helps them to make their case. fair enough. because if those public opinion polls show a tip in the other direction of a majority supportive of impeachment, perhaps that s what nancy pelosi is waiting for. guess what, manu raju is going to interview her live on the show next hour and ask all the important questions. molly, jennifer, thank you both. overnight, something pretty stunning. michigan cong
and impeachment. next hour, pelosi will be asked where she stands on impeachment. that s when manu raju sits down with her one-on-one. meantime, my next guest is ready to get the ball rolling. joining me is brendan boyle of pennsylvania. he s a member of the house ways and means committee. congressman, thanks for joining me. thanks for having me. we ll get to the ways and means committee and the president s taxes in a little bit, but let s start on the issue of impeachment. listen to the president on that last night. you can t impeach someone when there s never been anything done wrong. president nixon never got there, he left. i don t leave. there s a big difference, i don t leave. you called for impeachment proceedings to begin against the president last month. right now, speaker pelosi is not there. why do you think she s wrong? yeah, this has been a tough issue for all of my colleagues. something i have been wrestling with for quite some time, and just speaking privately
i m talking to congressman jamie raskin. thanks for joining us. you had had chance to question the former white house counsel under nixon, john dean. i want to play part of the exchange. i wonder if you would just tell us why you decided at this point in your career to come forward and talk about what has taken place in america and in the trump white house. what brought me forward was the invitation in this instance where i thought, yes, i could share with particularly a lot of people who are on this committee who were either not born or they were very young when watergate occurred. and it s quite striking and startling to me that history is repeating itself and with a vengeance.
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powerful wing of the republican caucus in the house forced him out or whether it was maybe more mutual. the reporting says that he stopped he told cnn in martha he had stopped going to the freedom caucus meetings after clashing with the group over directions to go with donald trump. huge differences. interesting time for him. so we ll see what transpires with that. dana, thank you for bringing us that. i want to bring in laura. turning to today s hearing, the former white house counsel under nixon, cnn contributor john dean in the hot seat today and he made this point. watch. i think that this committee does have a role, and it is adding something that the special counsel could not, and that s public education. this report has not been widely read in the united states. it s not even been widely read in the congress from some of my conversations but i think it s a very important function that the committee is serving by bringing these matters to public