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And that in essence is what happened to the republican party right now, is they are just like fox, is worried about how its audience will respond, if it shows these hearings, the republican party, kevin mccarthy, elise stefanik, all of its leaders are afraid of getting on the wrong side of their voters. theyre afraid of getting cross-wise with donald trump. and as much as, you know, theres been ink spilled and voices on various networks that have said trumps grip on the party is weakening, his e...

The 20 election. joining me now is national hill reporter and punch bowl news cofounder and msnbc contributor anna palmer. lets talk about mike pence. the committee, obviously, wants to talk to him. to have a source close to him tell the "new york times" hes growing frustrated. what does it mean? what does it indicate? >> i think it is one of those indicators this is an all-democratic panel. mike pence does not want to get cross wise with donald trump more than he is. certainly not with his su...

Republican and democrat. there are more important things that president biden says than wing and losing the rule of law, procedure, order, institution are supposed to matter. but the absence of all those republicans today just jumps out and speaks volumes. >> it shows what this is at the end of the day. this is politics. we are in a game of politics, particularly for republican leadership who realizes that the majority is within reach in november, but they dont believe that talking about january...

Theyre colleagues. so first theyre going to try to cooperate with each of them, but theres pressure now on all of them to be the one that maybe comes forward first and cooperates, and avoids being cross wise with the committee. >> one question, though, i was reading some expert analysis of this over the last few days, and there is protection members of congress have in the speech and debate clause if it was anything done in the -- in their legislative work, right, so this committee needs to make...

Whether hes confronted anti-semitism. there have been a number of moments over the course of his presidency, most notably the charlottesville attack where he has stopped short of fully condemning white supremacists, neo-nazis and other hate groups, in part, based on reporting that seems to be because the president is afraid of getting crosswise with certain members of his political coalition and constituencies on which hes counting for political support. now, the attack in new york the other day...

Wants something neat and quick, get it out of the way, out of peoples minds before 2020. >> again, youre right to point out that the president sometimes says things in public and works crosswise in private, but what he said there officially is that hes going to defer to the mcconnell only the length and its up to mitch. just real quickly so it doesnt get buried in this five, six page letter. but the campaign just put out some privat polling which gives sense of how the white house feels now. and...

Fbi are being run. its important to keep in mind that president trump has been cross wise with the fbi director wray forh some time now. there have been a number of flash points over the last few months. none, however, as extreme as what we saw on twitter from the president this morning. and bill barr, trump finally has the attorney general hes wanted. somebody who is echoing the presidents points, highlighting some of his conspiracies, and really turning against his own departments, inspect gen...

Lengthy negotiations about ukrainians putting out a statement explicitly mentioned investigations into burisma, hunter biden and alleged 2016 election interference. thats the context. that phone call mentioned joe biden. mentioned the 2016 election. pretty sure the ukrainian president knew what that meant. the next point. both presidents since said no pressure was thrown out on that phone call. president trump points to the phone call repeatedly would not say there was any pressure given thats h...

Yukon. they said it wasnt a case of mistaken identity. one person who spent his career in mexico say the victims were chased down. another said theyre looking into the possibility that this mormon colony, someone failed to pay protection money or someone in their community or colony got cross wise with one of the cartels. theyre growing volatility now with a major housecleaning which is just over the mexican border from douglas, arizona, with about 30 people killed in the last four months. >> bi...

Afraid of getting crosswise with the president and having the president use his megaphone to turn them into the next jeff flake, for example, the former senator from arizona. theres one thing thats changing that is significant and thats some of the polling including the poll this morning by "the washington post," is starting to show movement in favor of the impeachment inquiry, certainly nationally, but even a slight uptake among republican voters. thats the number these senators are paying clos...