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Improper, maybe illegal purposes, thats the impeachment issue that the democrats in the house will have to grapple with. >> and robert, before we lose you, lets take just a minute to talk about congress. friday nights congress, congress had been adjourned. lot of folks leaving town. the speaker of the house wanted it passed along to members of our audience that she did not leave town. she stayed and stayed on duty in case there was a phone call from the other end of town about solving this gover...

Democrats saying were in charge and were going to have that aggressive oversight, we think the if i disturbry responsibility of the congress, they were -- the fush responsibility of the congress. >> shepard: we have three new statements, in the last 20 or 30 minutes, one from michael cohen himself, and two others from democrats on the hill, catherine herridge has been looking at those closely and has observations. catherine? >> my observations are, shep, and its just a sense that we have from de...

What do you think of that and the fact that this really indicates how much trouble nancy pelosi will have controlling the firebrands in her party? . >> thats right. the expletives which she should apologize for i dont think president trump has either missed credibility condemning that language or this discourse but then there is the actual apology issue of the impeachment issue. nancy pelosis challenge she didnt do very well the last time to move legislation that peels off republicans and the on...

What do you think of that and the fact that this really indicates how much trouble nancy pelosi will have controlling the firebrands in her party? . >> thats right. the expletives which she should apologize for i dont think president trump has either missed credibility condemning that language or this discourse but then there is the actual apology issue of the impeachment issue. nancy pelosis challenge she didnt do very well the last time to move legislation that peels off republicans and the on...

I think, what do you think of that and the fact that this really indicates how much trouble and the pelosi will have controlling the firebrands in her party.>> i think thats right. there are two issues. i think the expletive which i think she should apologize for and move on. i dont think president trump has enormous amount of credibility condemning that language or debasing discourse in any way. but then theres the actual apology. the impeachment issue been nancy pelosis challenge is do somethi...

The mother [ bleep ]. >> were back with our panel. she knows people are taping it, and this was not like a hot mike moment, this was a message, and you can hear a lot of the freshman class is filled with vigor, and is this the style they are coming to washington they think will be effective? >> particularly on the impeachment issue, yes, this is not the kind of language we are used to hearing from sworn in members on capitol hill, but we know the issue of impeachment is one that people around th...

Hey, thats not the way i would have worded it, but other than that i dont have much else to say. >> look, the impeachment issue is one that nancy pelosi really has to manage. there is a constituency within her caucus that is looking forward to doing that, that wants to push forward with that right away. there are some democrats, you have tom steyer running ads now, pro-impeachment ads and at the same time you have other folks who say lets get other things done. lets not make that the focus. lets...

Impeachment issue, youve run the ads, youve done this. our latest poll shows 43% of people favor impeachment and why that is down -- its down from 47% in the month of september. does that discourage you? are you surprised? its certainly not moving in your direction. >> well, actually, erin, i do think its moving in my direction, and ill tell you why. i think that as a result of the election, the first time was september, and then you did one at the end of december. i think that people were focus...

Away the last couple of months and this is how speaker pelosi addressed the impeachment issue earlier today. >> we have to wait and see what happens with the mueller report. we shouldnt be impeaching for a political reason, and we shouldnt avoid impeachment. for a political reason so well have to see how it comes. >> the key im hearing repeatedly from democratic members and staffers is they want to wait until the special counsel robert mueller puts out his report before they decide to do anythin...

He said would stick with him even if she shot somebody on fifth avenue. they are running out of patience for not delivering what is a bedrock promise and moving away from it, whether his wall of a wall was realistic or not during the campaign, and whether or not he believed in it himself, he knew his supporters did and it became a big symbol. and he had a conversation, according to rush limbaugh yesterday where he reassures him after limbaugh had been critical. thats what happened. this presiden...