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September 27, 2019
Impeachment. a new "politico" morning consult online poll shows a seven-point jump in support for impeachment proceedings since the weekend. while opposition dropped six points, leaving voters divided, 43 to 43. in a new huff post you gov pole half americans say they back impeachment, up three points since over three weeks ago. >> and removal from office. >> and nprpbs poll conducted on wednesday shows support among voters of the house inquiry 49 to 48. >> congressman, are you surprised these nu...
September 27, 2019
By the way he cannot like the fact that rudy giuliani is going to be one of the stars of that show. >> hes a season 4 star. >> and this is why its going to be so difficult is to move quickly but to then also move deliberately enough that you dont look like youre rushing and bringing public -- >> the whistle-blower complaint actually is a road map in that it provides potential witnesses but also potential documentation that democrats can request. and each of those requests and demands and hearing...
August 15, 2019
Eastern europe and the united states of america and every place where the footprint of christianity settled the world. thats all of western civilization. >> thats the language that white supremacists and white nationalists do tend to use. that civilization came from europe, america. it carries the flag for white culture and everybody else is kind of messing it up a little bit. >> yeah. i used to work at huff post. my colleague chris mathias over there has been beating this drum for over a year n...
August 15, 2019
What were you trying to say? what was your point? >> hes got a call here. >> rape and incest. what were you trying to say, sir what was your point? >> thank you, thank you. >> what do you have to say? >> thank you. >> why did he clam up all of the sudden? joined by journalist laura bassett who covers the intersection of politics and reproductive rights and has written for outlets including "the washington post," huff post and gq. laura, i dont even know what question to start with, but i will st...
August 15, 2019
What was your point? >> thank you, thank you. >> what do you have to say? >> thank you. >> why did he clam up all of the sudden? joined by journalist laura bassett who covers the intersection of politics and reproductive rights and has written for outlets including "the washington post," huff post and gq. laura, i dont even know what question to start with, but i will start with this one. steve king, the view he arct articulated why abortion should be illegal in all cases, is that the mainstream...
August 15, 2019
Christianity settled the world. thats all of western civilization. >> thats the language that white supremacists and white nationalists do tend to use. that civilization came from europe, america. it carries the flag for white culture and everybody else is kind of messing it up a little bit. >> yeah. i used to work at huff post. my colleague chris mathias over there has been beating this drum for over a year now. he wrote the headline a year ago "steve king is a white supremacist and he is still...
August 14, 2019
Winnowing down and voters will have to focus on a couple of realistic options. >> sean, lets talk about white nationalism and the role thats going to play. people have thought its a threat for a long time but its possible it becomes central to the election. a recent huff post/ugov poll asked is white nationalism a threat to the united states. 56 said yes. do you think president trump supports white nationalism, 44% said yes. how does donald trump deal with this? >> well, i think donald trump is ...
August 14, 2019
Popular, some of which will be less so. thats going to shape the direction of the 2020 election. >> so thats an important point, that the president or donald trump can be underwater in terms of popularity or more people can think hes punpopular than popular but its relative to who hes running against. >> yeah, and we saw that very clearly in 2016 when you saw two candidates who were unpopular and voters were having to make the choice of the lesser of two evils. i think theres a constitutional re...
August 14, 2019
419 electoral votes to the democrats, still to be determined. 119 electoral votes to the republican, donald trump. for more on that and the 2020 race, im joined by the senior elections analyst at real clear politics. welcome to both of you. thank you for being with us. shawn, first of all, just interpret that for me. that is a poll about donald trumps approval rating extrapolated into if more people in the state dont like donald trump than do, he may not win that states electoral college votes. ...
August 14, 2019
Presidents job approval is not strong and that thats going to translate to a difficult election for him. the problem is when we actually get to the election, its not going to be just any democrat whos running against him, its going to be a democrat with real policies, some of which will be popular, some of which will be less so. thats going to shape the direction of the 2020 election. >> so thats an important point, that the president or donald trump can be underwater in terms of popularity or m...