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pathetic joke it is. >> the pepper master in chief donald trump has directed the sycophants to target joe biden as part of an effort to undermine president bidens re-election. >> good morning, everyone. im phil mattingly in new york. erica hill joins me. poppy is off today. republicans in the house are focusing on impeachment unanimously launching a formal impeachment inquiry into president biden despite many acknowledging there is no proof of high crimes and misdemeanors. and donald...

In a june phone call. its probably right, but its tough to square the rhetoric of the entirety of obama administration. >> i read "the wall street journal" editorial page most days. up until january 20th, 2017, the worst thing in the world was budget deficits and all of a sudden in came trump, the tax cut was the most important thing and budget deficits dont matter anymore. theyre hypocrites about it. they always use the threat of the size of budget deficits to cut spending on programs that affe...

And infrastructure. so its a ploy for them. some of their base cares about it, but in the end they dont. theyd rather have the tax cut and thats what they did, blowing $1.5 trillion hole in the budget, of course. >> you mentioned the dignity of work and sort of the marginal improvement with some of those rural voters, say in ohio. you had decitoyed with the idea running for president. there was an interesting piece for you in "the new york times" of where you are at and your wife connie schultz ...

Tapes he may have that could implicate the president and some potential fec violations. >> maria, the timing of the conversation between trump and coen provides evident cohen was trying to squash em bear -- something embarrassing before the election. >> the democrats right now have a whole laundry list of what they could take the president to town with. but i do believe when you ask whether or not the base cares, his base is -- well they may be avid supporters of the president, there is plenty o...

Them. whatever deal he made, its going to become apparent very fast. >> do you think his base cares? if president trump actually took the stance and said, so what? vladimir putin and russia helped us defeat hillary clinton, isnt that what you wanted? how do you think president trumps base would take that? e eli? >> well, i mean, just based on the reader feedback that i get this week from a lot of trump supporters, they dont want to hear anything other than what trump is saying, which is hes impr...

Obama administration wasnt exactly eager to hand these logs over either. there was a transparency issue there as well. you write at the bottom of your column today, it is the way they are positioning it as if no transparency is better than full transparency. >> right. >> that is really problematic. >> right. thats like saying, well, i only went one for four. i got a single in the game. thats not as good as going 0 for 4. that doesnt really pass the smell test. you are right the obama administrat...

Amazing! >> well, look. i think also -- harold mentioned this too. this is a fight that for democrats dont forget about the political pressure that they are under. their base knows the merrick garland story and they are angry about it and their base cares deem about supreme court. chuck shumer chumer is going to the fight for the sake of fighting it. democrats in a difficult place right now and gaplie grappling leading the party next and huge for elizabeth warrens and bernie sanders. there is so...

These fake news stories. does it mean he is so gullible that he believes them or hes trying to distract us from something else. >> who knows what she trying to do. alex is right, this is a guy who campaigned. most of the time im right, occasionally im wrong. what you see on the campaign trail is what you get in office. people do not change. you really dont change if youre my age, if youre age you really dont change. were human beings and its human nature. politics gets down to the essence of who...

Tweeting also that basically if he would have challenged the man, the media would have accused him of interfering with the mans right of free speech, calling it a no-win situation. what do you make of whether this can hurt trump? >> well, it absolutely can hurt him. whenever you say things considered this objectionable to this large of a voting block is problematic. whether his base cares about it is a different story. what makes him look weak is hes pivoted so many times. the camp said they don...