no options, this is no option, but there are ten of them. democrats can only lose 17 votes on impeachment over all. let s bring in our panel again. stephen hayes, senior editor of the federalists. steve clements, editor at large for the hill. thoughts on this day and the contrasts? we been watching usmca for months knowing it was going to have to come up in the recent dance ability pulled up and nothing do with impeachment it that her constituents would lose of this deal was not done. not a gesture of being nice or distraction, labor unions have come around, achieve what they wanted, now they are pushing it and when you hear the president of the united states law the richer trunk of the afl-cio, it s a notable day. and they all needed the w. there s also this. the left, mollie, is hammering
we get to the end of a session we have to get some things made. i know they were very embarrassed by it and that s why they brought up usmca the hour after because they figured it ll help a little bit. because we can run, chew gum, do cartwheels at the same time because we care about the well being of the american people. bret: it was quite the image when we started the show. about an hour later, the speaker back out with this deal and the passage of the usmca, the biggest trade deal the president has been trying to get across the finish line for the past eight months. we ve been talking about the democrats and trump districts, 31 of them. they come from districts that president trump won in 2016. there they are on the screen. meantime, political had a story today saying that a small group of democrats realizing there are
pelosi hard and some of these leaders are giving the president a win in this environment. first of all there s a huge disconnect of the impeach being messaging that we need to remove the president because he such a threat but also giving him the win. impeachment happened not because it is generally popular but because the base demands it. if they do the impeachment that s completely impotent and handing donald trump victories and they don t have any legislative accomplishments of their own, that might upset people who said we sent you to washington, d.c., for a reason and you are accomplishing anything of what we wanted you to accomplish. the republican impeachment of clinton wasn t going to go anywhere and they still did it. people seem compelled to do things that might not be in the playful interest. bret: here s the we been in negotiations with china for how wrong? what american not be stronger if we had the usmca agreed to prior prior to negotiations with china questionin
dereliction not to mention that today is the day that america s killing the wto. it s one thing to do an arcane deal with people looking at the usmca saying, they aren t going to read the details and know whether it s good or not. but we have not allowed the appellate members to be appointed to the wto, no longer will be a place where america can pursue its economic interests. bret: wto, thank you for bringing that up. panel, thank you. next up, christmas politics and a controversial nativity scene. [ indistinct chatter ]
you yes. why did we have to wait this long to have these many more jobs that are going to be created? why do we have to wait this long to have the gdp grow? maybe because she wanted to give as much time as possible before the next election. on the issue of the economy, and there are all kinds of expirations by the republicans for the timing, but on the economy, the real clear politics of this president is way above water, on how he deals with the economy. it seems like this will be in that column despite facing impeachment. that s right. the strongest issue, look at the economic indicators that can teach us on the growth and strength and no doubt that president trump is going to make that the centerpiece of his argument. i think this was a political win for the president. usmca complicates his argument that the regrets aren t working with them because they re so focused on impeachment, but i think it s a political win for