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To me. the risks are that an impeachment process is hard. it takes up a ton of time. its also politically perilous, because remember what happened during the clinton impeachment with newt gingrich. he wound up losing seats in the house. he lost his position as speaker. and the president, president clinton emerged from the impeachment process more popular than ever. nancy pelosi does not want to be the next newt gingrich. >> yeah. guy, you say that in spite of democrats dilemma on whether to impe...

Impeachment effort already or a serious investigation effort, its a really anemic one. its not very aggressive. the problem with doing what guy says which makes logical sense is what if it turns up something? what if the public or more members of democratic caucus or more democratic constituents say hey, yes, this actually is really bad. we do want to start the impeachment process. that winds up cornering the speaker into a position she doesnt want to be in. she does not want an impeachment proc...

Impeachment, and every time one of my members says theyre for impeachment, pressure is on. pressures not on. >> pelosi continues to urge patience for multiple congressional kmiltys committee legislate, investigate and litigate. lets discuss now. guy smith who served on the clinton impeachment defense team is here to also and ross garber. good to have both of you. thank you ross, thank you guy. ross, you first. to say impeachment is a media obsession is not entirely accurate. jerry nadler has twi...

A slow play of the process. not very effective or aggressive investigations. >> i dont agree with that, ross. if we -- if that rock gets turned over and its like the watergate tapes, it further erodes trump toward 2020. you dont have to impeach him. you just keep chipping away at his base, and thats whats going been happening and thats what nadler is doing and cummings is doing. dont forget the ways and means committee with representative neil and the tax returns. its just on and on. and the beg...

Stuff the democrats are talking about is politics. ts i but there isnt going to be any impeachment in the senate because the republicans are not going to go. that is why im talking about the drip drip drip to the 2020 election. a lot of noise from the democrats about impeachment in the house but there are no votes in the senate to convict at this moment. that could change and what i meant by the road map. this mueller report could give the house committees more places to look. >> yeah. well, we ...

15 minutes after the hour now. as they absorb the news that robert mueller ended his investigation with no more indictments the trump seem to be in a celebratory mood and he is golfing with kid rock. there are the pants again. democrats vow that the mueller report is only the beginning and pointed to the fact that numerous legal and congressional investigations continue. what is the strategy for the white house moving forward? that is the question. lets bring in someone who knows what its like t...

Celebratory comment or claim of victory from the president yet, so they are still holding off and waiting to see what this report has to say. >> suzanne malveaux for us in west palm beach, thank you. on "state of the union" this morning with jake tapper congressman jerry nadler will join jake at 9:00 a.m. on cnn. now the mueller report is done, there are still other investigations that are in the works right now. what is the white houses strategy moving forward? because they have a lot to look...

President trump does be better or worse than the status quo. and there is a very significant danger that it will be worse. >> whats the best case scenario, guy? how could he come out of this meeting making those incremental changes without giving away too much? >> well, the best case scenario would be for kim jong-un to agree to some steps. dismantling some of the nuclear sites, the testing sites, the production sites. and also visibility, letting our guys in to look at this. that would be a -- ...

The military exercises. the military exercises freaked the north koreans out. i was in pyongyang with one of their senior leaders when some of our bombers flew over south korea and they completely freaked out. this is an important thing. but this is really about sanctions. its about money. and thats what they need is relief on sanctions, especially the inter-korean interaction. thats where trump can do this, it will make the south koreans happy and it will move things forward. but theyre not -- ...

And this is not how you deal with this. and to jaimes point, he wants a headline. thats okay, but you have to have substance. and it will come if hes patient enough and hes got steve biegun, a really good guy, the u.s. envoy. hes smart, hes been around the block. i think if hes given the latitude, hell be able to achieve something. >> theres more breaking news happening that has to do with the asia pacific region. since youre both experts, i want to keep you here to talk about it. president trum...