agenda, can t be trusted, is a liberal democrat, et cetera, et cetera. i think that s why at the end of the day the cohort that s going to matter here are independent voters. not the trump base is going to move. you know, the liberal wing of the democratic party is not going to move. but people who are caught between those points and i think care about good government and care about institutions and the rule of law, they re going to come into play in a very potent way here regardless of what trump does. you mentioned those two words we hear a lot from the president and his supporters, deep state. also reverting to what has become one of his go-to attack lines that democrats are part of a deep state plot against his presidency. first of all, the impeachment inquiry is a scam. the mistake they made, the opponents, the democrats, the radical left dep state whatever you want to call them came out with a report. and this comes a day after
trump left senior officials at the state department, pentagon and white house blind-sided. when a national security official told reuters, quote, there s a real sense nobody s going to stop trump from being trump at this stage, so in a tweet earlier today senator lindsey graham, a trump ally warned, quote, if turkey moves into northern sear dwru, a sanctions from hell by congress will follow. senator lindsey graham who s called this decision a disaster in the making has spent a lot of time cultivating this relationship with the president apparently trying to avoid this rash policy type decision. so why didn t the president listen to his close ally on this one? you re watching hardball. his s one? you re watching hardball. motor? nope. not motor? it s pronounced motaur.
we re looking at in every one of these polls that comes out there, and only 46% of republicans support impeachable and removing trump. that s the number trump and his allies want to keep seeing. they think that keeps republican numbers in line. on the other end, the washington post poll, that number was 18%. right now that looks like an out liar. if that becomes the norm, if that number or higher becomes the norm in subsequent polling, that might start to make the white house nervous, they don t want to see any dissension when it comes to republicans on this, and we re going to keep an eye obviously on everyone of these polls that comes out, what does that look like, a lot of new data on this question and i m sure there will be more to come and more hardball to come, too, so stay with us. ball to c, too, so stay with us our 18-year-old
inquiry and in 6 of the 8 there s outright majority support. so democrats in terms of taking that step, they have to like what they re seeing in term of the public opinion polling. take a step further? what about outright impeachment, and then the senate convicts and trump is removed from office? and the three new polls that came out today, it is a different story. you see in quinnipiac, remember outright support for the inquiry, opposition by a 49%, 45% margin to impeachic and removing trump. in our own poll opposition by a 49%, 43% margin and 49%, 44% and certainly less than there was in terms of support for the inquiry. so much more support for ininquiry. the question of actually impeaching and removing, that gets to be a lot more contested in terms of public opinion. partisan divide, here democratic strong support across the board, this is the number, though,
what the proponents thing happened in 2016. spending taxpayer money and to reinvestigate the opening of the russia investigation. there is nothing to reinvestigate. it is all out there. it is not a mystery, and it is a not a deep state conspiracy. it started with one of the closest allies of the united states, the australian intelligence service passing on seemingly incredible information and today we have the whistle-blower coming forward and we now have an attorney general who seems to be under the thumb of the president who immediately says there s no crime here and they should be investigating. meanwhile according to bloomberg house republicans felt blind sided by the decision to prevent ambassador sopdland from testifying today. quote, a handful of gop lawmakers went to the white house to discuss the issue with trump and senior advisers. white house officials agreed to approve communication of their impeachment strategy with allies who are on the front lines.