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If you happen to turn it on tonight at 12:35 a.m. eastern, you ll catch me and seth talking about impeachment and the president s perfect call with ukraine. we had a lot of fun, as always. as it happens, i also had a chance to talk about the president s phone call with senator ted cruz of texas. and the first stop for our fall podcast live tour. the senator was a trip, but after some pressing, i got had i am to dpit at the very looegs the president asking about biden was not a good look. i will readily acknowledge the biden part is more troubling. it is not on the face of the transcript a quid pro quo, and it s certainly not an illegal quid pro quo. but, look, in the legal world there are principles of conflict of interest and an atchison i am proceed pryty. i wish the president hadn t gone down that road. obviously we disagree on a lot of things glivgs to say we have really interesting points ....
And fully control this narrative. it s rare in the trump administration for trump to have lost the narrative but he has on this point. we can t let republicans distract us with quid pro quo, attacks on hunter biden or attacks on the whistle-blower. the president at the u.n. last monday said, of course, i pressured them to investigate is corruption. the transcript identifies one person he asked the president to investigate and it s joe biden and his family. they str what they need. the importance is to keep it clean. i think if you had a clean impeachment on abuse of power on exactly what you laid out, chris, you send it to the senate, republicans like mitt romney and other 29 senators not in cycle in 2020 will have to look twice at that very clean article. that s a good point. mcconnell is saying he would have to hold a trial if the house impeaches. jeff dplak, former senator from arizona say fellow republicans, there s still time to save your souls. i don t know, michael, if i expec ....
Capitol hill reporter for the hill molly hooper. as we mentioned there. it doesn t do a whole lot to improve them, and keep in mind, there are a number of republican border state lawmakers who don t think that building a border wall is the right answer, including will herd, who worked and has a district along the border. jeff dplak, who is embattled in arizona. it s not just democrats that are going to be problematic for the president. it s also a number of republicans who represent those districts along the border. ....