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Impeachment. on the other hand, he is a complete loose cannon. he has no loyalty to speaker pelosi. he s not a democrat. and he cannot be counted on to necessarily toe the pelosi line when he s over on the senate during the trial as an impeachment manager, and pelosi, you know, while strategic and savvy is also quite cautious. she is not known to be a risk taker and so while, you know, a number of these freshmen democrats, as our colleague reported over the weekend, are encouraging pelosi to appoint amash, that might be a surprising thing to see in the end because knowing pelosi over these years she would probably be much more comfortable with one of her own loyal democratic lieutenants. and a.b., i want to return right quick to your most latest piece that you mentioned. among the reasons republicans want this to happen quickly, a reason you reveal has a lot to do with rudy giuliani. because we learned last night, i mean, sorry, last week, that lev parnas, the ukrainian ....
Vote for the impeachment inquiry and is not going to vote for impeachment is expected to switch the republican party. some call it a coup for the president. it shows that congressman van drew didn t think he could cross the party on this and stay a democrat and maintain his seat. as democrats lose one member, the washington post reports a group of 30 freshman democrats is pushing leadership to consider the one republican turned independent congressman who supports impeachment as an impeachment manager. of course, congressman amash came out in favor after the mueller report was released. that led to his decision to leave the republican party. more than 30 democrats from front line districts have come out one after another announcing their support for impeachment. two congress members from the texas suburbs said they were in. congresswoman elissa slotkin of michigan made the case in a town ....
the article about freshman members pushing for justin amash was interesting. do you have any insight or comments on that idea? i m not going to speculate about who the speaker may or may not select with respect to the impeachment manager team to the extent that the house approves those articles. i m sure she will pick a very compelling team. i think justin amash, when we talk about standing up and picking country over party, he is certainly a testament to that. when he bravely came out in support of an impeachment inquiry and, you know, worked to explain the constitutional underpinnings as to the reason why i thought he was a compelling messenger, still is. i imagine you will see him take part in the floor dab on wednesday. there was a line that i thought was newsworthy in that long report issued by the committee that you sent, most which was not necessarily new. although president trump s actions need not rise to the ....
Knows how to whip count. she knows she had mostly the votes going into this. she probably will lose a few and add congressman amash, who s an independent, to her number when this comes to the floor. in terms of what articles of impeachment they vote on, you re going to have more democrats drop off if you go to a wider set of articles of impeachment that include some of the allegations in the mueller report and that is why i think many of the democrats in her caucus are pushing to just focus on ukraine. julian, you re right on cnn.com it s fascinating because you re saying pelosi is doing what no one else seems to be able to accomplish, seize back the public square from the trump white house. you see pelosi s posture as putting the president in check. she has explained the president is dangerous. that s the word that you used. but to what degree, you know. he does still have the bully pulpit. he does have the bully ....
Even before publicg hearings, d the unity of trump s defense in the republican caucus. heidi przybyla, you do a back of the envelope calculation, heidi, and one of the things we see is no republicans who are still members of the party, there s one who left the party over this, an independent, mr. amash, but no current members of the housere republican caucus crossg over. by contrast, while democrats widely and strongly obtained to the nature of the attacks and investigation of president clinton and their view of whether those were impeachable offences however objectionable the conduct was, 31 democrats backed the actual initial probe. what does it tell you that the president s party is living in its own bubble now? i can tell you, ari, based on my reporting which includes ....