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Care about in terms of kitchen table issues. health care is not in my wheelhouse right now and gun control is not an issue right now. it is is this. and in that vain, about think being that, that has an impact on whether the public is carried along but the larger issue of the abuse of power, that is still there and the more he abuses it, the more ammunition they get. >> im not sure gun control or health care has been in his wheelhouse. but what do you view of the overall view of the impeachment ...

2016. more than $8 millieight million signatures later he has gotten some movement. and this weekend he also got validation from voters. passing the threshold to qualify for the november democratic debate. only six other candidates have qualified so far. the businessman turned 2020 presidential candidate joins me now. welcome, congratulations on meeting that threshold for november. what is your take on nancy pelosi now moving forward with the impeachment inquiry. >> i think the truth was there t...

Inquiry into impeachment is higher than what we would have normally thought. no, they have not walked away from the president yet. they are interested in learning more. there could be fewer consequences to sneaking out against the president. it is not yet clear what those are. i think we are seeing some republicans and lawmakers are trying to play it safe and not go out against him before they have to. >> can you tell us those states where the president has so many sway that he could impact memb...

And as we they look forward to 2020, they say theyll be focused on a lot of kitchen table issues. the challenge for candidates like warren is and klobuchar could be keeping the focus on those issues. the impeachment inquiry is an unavoidable topic right now. a lot of candidates from joe biden to andrew yang are supporting the impeachment inquiry, but not letting it overshadow all of the other issues. senator warp spoke to voters -- warren spoke to voters in south carolina yesterday. she was noti...

In front of the american people. >> tucker: so, in 1972, democrats really hated richard nixon, and they thought, you know, attacking him personally would work. and they nominated the most radical person they could find. and they lost. and that lesson enabled bill clinton to win two terms because he looked at that and said that doesnt work. why have democrats forgotten that legislative? that lesson? >> you know, i have made that point. i mean, if you look at mondale and dukakis, they ran very far...

>> tucker: so, in 1972, democrats really hated richard nixon and they thought, you know, attacking him personally would work. and they nominated the most radical person they could find. and they lost. and that lesson enabled bill clinton to win two terms because he looked at that and said that doesnt work. why have democrats forgotten that legislative? >> you know, i have made that point. i mean, if you look at mondale and dukakis they ran very far to the left. they turned off independent voters...

Over the last nine months we passed over 260 bills addressing kitchen table issues and well continue toe do that and at the same time we have a role to make sure were maintaining checks and balances. the people in my community respect that and want me to uphold my duty. >> do you think what were no doubt be an incredible contentious partisan process, weve already seen it happen this week, will make any success in legislation on those issues you just talked about? health care, immigration, gun la...

Can benefit politically as this unfolds. >> lay out for us what we can expect to unfold over the short-term, medium term, long-term. >> democrats say they want to confine this in 2019. this goes back to the speakers original idea. we talked to democrats across the country. this isnt good for democrats in tough districts, tough states like people out in america, this is not their topic. they want democrats to get back to those kitchen table issues. theyre trying to confine it to 2019. what has th...

Others. >> doug, if you advise a democratic presidential campaign, most of them stayed out of it, biden has been asked, but theyve all expressed some outrage, this is who he is. but i get the instinct of i got to let that play out, stay out of it. >> especially most of them are in iowa this weekend for the steak fry. their view is that most of the stuff is baked into the profile of the president, we need to be talking about kitchen table issues. but look, the frustration that a lot of democrats ...

Kind of stoking the other side, i mean, anderson, theres no more stoking the gun people. i mean theyre as stoked as you can get them. so the question is turnout, and i think its going to be enormous. the question is will the democrats be able to talk a little bit more about bread and butter issues, the family table. i had a democrat call me last night. i was saying whats going on in your part of ohio thats been heavy democrat, thats been voted for trump. he goes, sometimes i feel like theyre tal...