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Find a path forward, whether thats contempt or working out through the accommodation process. >> anne gearan, you were on this trip. your pool notes were legendary. thank you for all of us who were reading them from back here. but this really was, i mean, the president sitting on hollow ground, we showed the footage at the beginning, not just criticizing a rival, but laufrmg launching a deeply, deeply personal attack. he is worried about what pelosi is going to do next. >> he is. ive been waitin...

Place. >> our democracy is something we neglect at our own peril. >> our party doesnt need a saver. we need each other. >> god doesnt belong to any political party, least of all the one who produced this curtain president. >> the republicans in 2016, that was the hungry games. >> president trumps kryptonite is a strong woman. >> lead us away from the abyss of a nuclear war. >> we need to become the party of ideas. >> what do we want? science? when do we want it? after peer review. >> in fact, i ...

Realize that pay raises for members are always a controversial thing and its hard to come out in public and say you want to do that. but this affects the entire operation, and i think one thing weve seen with the stagnating pay among staffers on capitol hill as well as, you know, this unwillingness to put the money that needs to be there to have the legislative branch operate really kind of hinders our governments ability to actua y actually, you know, do the job its charged with doing. if anyth...

Same team in a weird way on impeachment for a while. >> very strangely, yes. >> and now not. >> john lemire, i know jake has written in playbook with his colleagues that nancy pelosi isnt nervous about anything. i mean, i take anas point on the tight rope she has to walk. i wonder how much of that was to do with the video that was put out and people kind of falsely making it look as though she was stumbling. whats your take on how concerned and stressed the president is about nancy pelosi and th...

Hillary clinton. >> oh, absolutely. and it worked once, so try it again. hickenlooper had a response to that, which was, well, whats bernie gotten done? i mean, that was sort of what hillary clinton responded in 2016, but she didnt feel that she could go all the way there and say in as pointed terms as many of her advisers did privately that, you know, look, hes offering you popsicles and strawberries and puppies and none of that is actually ever going to work. free everything is not the way we ...

Estimation he has been dishonest and not followed through on the things he promised. those are going to be a big question for 10% of the voting public that they need to win over. and i think were going to see more of that. >> sometimes we forget how many people new donald trump from the "apprentice" as the businessman. john lemire, always great to have you on the show. when we come back, republicans and democrats agree members of congress need a raise. but then things got complicated. were back ...

With 14%. john lemire, it really does look as though some of what folks were saying initially might happen is elizabeth warren and bernie sanders are dueling in there for that progressive, working class vote. >> it seems that way. senator warren does seem to have having a bit of a moment here. the idea of i have a plan for that has caught on. also, just her retail politics skills have sharpened and you improved. greeted enthusiastically, particularly money women voters. were seeing something rea...

Is the drum beat but sadly americans arent spilling over the minutia of that. so its not just congress, i would say the media has a responsibility as well to detail whats in the mueller report and why it impacts peoples everyday lives, which it does. >> im hearing brendan and tiffany, which im not sure you ever agreed at this table before. saying democrats are losing the war to the master of telling americans what to think about things and his base certainly believes him. is there a successful s...

What can democrats actually accomplish here? if you listen to nancy pelosis allies, they say the contempt vote sets them up to take action against the trump administration. >> i think the other thing theyre trying to do is for the first time get into the substance of the issues discussed in the mueller report. to this point i think theyve botched this. the mueller report has been out for two months now, all weve heard is democrats fighting with each other in conversations about process. they hav...

If the democrats pursue impeachment at this point, that a lot of voters, where it matters, in battlegrounds that matter, will say i dont like the president but democrats are overreaching. they didnt like what they got out of the mueller reports and now theyre making it about all the things they wished mueller would have done. i dont like them either and so im done with all of you. i think thats why the president likes to have this fight. dont forget, the president likes to have fights. he likes ...