the former deputy chief of staff for harry reid. as anna was talking you were nodding along. do you think that s right, nancy pelosi is only strengthening her hand? absolutely. i mean, you know, we re in the middle of an impeachment inquiry and speaker pelosi had a lot of democrats reluctant about doing that but you have a meeting like this and the caucus looks and says what choice do we have? no productive path forward on anything with this president because, you know, another point to underscore the president called this meeting. this was his meeting. so he invited the democrats down to the white house and just blew it up. although democrats would argue it was the president who or republicans would argue it was the democrats who blew it up choosing to leave in the first place, right? well, i mean they chose to leave after the president took the meeting off the rails and started calling the speaker a third-rate politician. senator is menendez say the president started the
how long do you think democrats will be comfortable standing behind menendez? in new jersey, maybe for a while. do you get a jersey when you re number 11 indicted? not a banner. i don t think so. i don t think this says a lot, despite what the public says. i don t think this says a lot about the culture in the u.s. senate. i spent a lot of time in that state. i know you have. it is the way that money and friendships and politics intermingle. it is so many fifedomes. i think in new jersey he retain his support for longer because i think this is the way politics has historically been played. it is built in, an expectation. helene, one conspiracy theory out there by some critics of the president is menendez, probably the loudest critic of the president, that somehow this is all connected. you buy this theory, you buy the conspiracy? i don t. i think it is interesting. he s the biggest democratic critic. it hasn t muted him. on thursday one of the first e-mails i got, you know,
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