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Some additional new reporting we have. that is a group of freshman house democrats are asking speaker pelosi to draft independent congressman justin amosh as an impeachment manager from the house for the senate trial. reminder, amosh was a republican and switched parties earlier this year after the mueller report. he s now an independent. cnn reporting that pelosi is highly unlikely to name amosh. should she? look, that s what those members want above all is some bipartisan cover on this. the fact that every republican has kind of lined up does give them more anxiety. we re going to see the opposite in the senate where you have some republicans in the more marginal seats being uneasy about in essence lining up on a party line vote to defend the president. but there s no question that one of the things that would make those democrats in the more marginal districts more ....
Comfortable is any indication of bipartisan cover. amosh could provide some of that but giving a high profile position to someone who isn t in the party isn t good for the speaker either. it s a very risky move. thank you so much both of you. thank you. we ll be right back. up here at the dewar s distillery, all our whiskies are aged, blended and aged again. it s the reason our whisky is so extraordinarily smooth. dewar s. double aged for extra smoothness. ....
i think they re lousy politicians, but two things they have. they re vicious and they stick together. they don t have mitt romney in their midst. they don t have people like that. they stick together. you never see them break off. out front now, one of the republicans who did break off. he is now an independent. congressman justin amosh of michigan who supports impeaching the president. when you made that choice you had to, quote, unquote, break off, as the president, i suppose, would describe it, congressman. you used to be a republican. you had to leave the party in july when you made it clear where you stood on impeachment. do you think if trump talks the way he did today that he will get other republicans to stay in line and back him? i think a lot of republicans are scared of the president or at least scared of republican primary voters. i had problems with the party going back for several years with the party system. i think when the president says ....
Does not go beyond the four corners of his report. it makes a difference. i mean, what we ve learned over this past 36 hours is when people hear robert mueller describe his findings, describe what s in his report, describe his investigation, describe what he and the investigators found, when people hear him say it, they re shocked by the seriousness of what he s describing. i mean, this parallels what we ve seen when people actually do read the report. turn out they get shaken up when they look at it themselves. congressman justin amosh recently became the only republican lawmaker to call for an impeachment inquiry. he said he came to that decision specifically because he read the whole mueller report. and he said you can t avoid the conclusion if you read the whole mueller report that an impeachment inquiry is called for. he says if you just open mind, open book read that stuff, ....
High up in the points system and compensate by getting a greater mix of immigrants by taking a lot of people that otherwise wouldn t make it on such a system. again, our intent was focus on stuff that fair minded people ought to agree about. i am comfortable saying when this is legs latd, a lot of other things like temporary work visas and asylum would be on the table. we thought about those things and some parts of what we put out had some proposals. for asylum, make it a temporary thing. if the country calms down, maybe the person can go home. doesn t necessarily have to be a permanent thing. we have some ideas on that. but the main purpose of the legal immigration part of the proposal is to start a productive, change the tone of the debate as well. good to talk to you. thank you for joining me. chairman of the white house council of economic advisers. next, congressman justin amosh the first lawmaker to call ....