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Is important to remember, but the main difference is just that, the scattershot nature of all of these decisions. there really is only one policy and it is what the president wants. >> or thinks in the moment. >> and he changes his mind. and theres a hesitancy to come in and make proposals to him that might be in american national interest, might serve his own aims politically, might even, as other presidents have had, make him look good for re-election. theres always been an overlap between for...

Based on that? >> there are obvious parallels. the i think joe biden should be doing a lot of interviews. some people -- >> new york magazine political correspondent. the. >> yeah. >> however, you can understand the hi hesitancy. they dont want to do also is get into a situation where they can create headlines that essentially say joed biden and donald trump are at it over corruption. they say you should talk about donald trumps children o doing what hunter biden is accused of doing. that is a g...

Mentioned this eight times. that he may have mentioned this up to eight times. hes clearly insisting on the ukrainians taking up this matter with respect to joe biden and his son. and that can only be to benefit donald trump politically because he believes that that could be his rival next fall. >> so congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez today tweeted, at this point the bigger national scandal isnt the presidents law-breaking behavior, it is the democrat partys refusal to impeach him for it. d...

It was a perfect conversation. but just so you understand, the conversation i had with the president of ukraine was absolutely perfect but the conversation i had with the president of ukraine was absolutely a 10. it was perfect. >> joined by cynthia, former federal prosecutor, and ned price, former senior director of the national counsel. its hard to wonder about the hesitancy, im not a member of the senate of congress, i do think for the last three years we have watched them investigate this pr...

Im not making that judgment now. the house should investigate it. >> well, the bodies are piling up for trump with political casualties in his two-plus years in office. theres still hesitancy with democrats, notably speaker of the house nancy pelosi saying the democrats didnt have the votes. nadler indicated this week that while he personally supports impeachment, it doesnt yet have the will of the american people. all that, though, was before all this. the ukraine news. will this tip the scales...

>> your hesitancy is noteworthy, not all members of your party share that. i want you to answer for them. where is your hesitancy? the wall street journal noted there may not be a specific quid pro quo in the phone call. how do you come down on this? >> i would like to know what the nature of the conversation was. if the president offered support for the ukrainian exchange, that is an act of corruption that should not stand. remember the wall street journal report about this phone call did not d...

The story of impeachment, because theyre too busy talking about conflicts at the top levels of the party. >> congresswoman ilhan omar is on cbs today, saying, its not a matter of if the democrats will seek impeachment, its when they will do so. alexandr alexandria, when she says that on cbs, is she trying to communicate to house leadership? >> she should be, yeah. i think theres an urgency here, right? and i think the other things that democrats arent thinking about is that regardless of what ha...

Our candidate pool is expressing the right ideas. democrats need to be tough. doesnt mean we got to get into the dirt with donald trump on a daily basis. we got to be strategic in how we use that. but weve got to be prepared to fight. to be tough. >> joining me how hanna trudeau, with the daily beast and political reporter with nbc news. to the pointer i can holder just made, if we seen 2020 democrats increasingly promise policies they may struggle to deliver on? how problematic is that as we ...

Lets be clear about something right now. i dont think if you were to ask every single democrat do you think there is enough to impeach the president, i think all of them would tell you yes there is. thats a very big difference from it actually happening. i think the frustration is the hesitancy of the democrats to pursue this. its been this death biep a thousand cuts thing. it makes it look like they dont know what they want to do or hesitant and defensive and slow walking this whole thing. i th...

Much more information this morning on cnns reporting about a cia spy inside the russian government and the secret mission to extract the asset in 2017, a move driven in part by concerns president trump and his administration repeatedly handled classified intelligence, russia is now responding. and new details about president trumps skepticism of using foreign assets at all, cnn anchor and chief correspondent jim scuitto, he was the first to break this story. he is here with details. jim, this re...