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Elizabeth warren called for impeachment and youve seen the democratic candidates with the release of the mueller report and the like, come to that conclusion, call for an impeachment inquiry. what nancy pelosi was doing was try to protect those frontline majority making democrats who helped deliver them that win in 2018. those folks are not worried about the trail. those folks are worried about districts that are republican leaning leaning. they were looking at a different threshold from folks l...

His hat on. this is different because hes the sitting president. hes not a candidate. and he has admitted it. so were not barreling down some road to nowhere. the president created kind of the stop sign on the road, and thats where were going. >> we were just talking about the majority makers, the house democrats from congressional districts donald trump won. next well talk to one of those freshmen democrats who came out today and called the allegations against president trump a threat to nation...

Now support impeachment but it would be seven, including a gang of five among them who are freshmen in the house. in the districts that trump one or the districts that hillary clinton one by not very much, they were what they call the majority makers. throughout this process speaker pelosi has been protecting those new democrats by holding on the left flank of her party that is demanding impeachment proceedings. now all of that with her movement toward impeachment or at least impeachment action ...

Tonight. meeting of the house democratic caucus tomorrow, reports that nancy pelosi is now raising that question with top democratic leaders there in the house of whether to go forward with impeachment. from the presidents standpoint as it plays out in the next 24, 48 hours, what can we expect from him? >> the president is also addressing the u.n. general assembly and having a meeting with the president of ukraine in the next 48 hours. so there is a lot going on. the president is also going to t...

Reports that nancy pelosi is now raising that question with top democratic leaders in the house of whether to go forward with impeachment from the presidents standpoint as this plays out in the next 24, 48 hours, what can we expect from him? >> well, the president is also addressing the u.n. general assembly and having a meeting with the president of ukraine in the next 48 hours. so theres a lot going on. the president is also going to take questions from reporters numerous times in the next cou...

Politically the leader of the party in the congress is always most worried and tries to protect their swing district members because those are the majority makers, the ones who put them in power. and now those members are starting to call for impeachment, so the speaker is suddenly under major pressure and that is why you are seeing her try to get out in front of this talking to her committee chairs and bringing the democratic caucus together. >> so while momentum has shifted, what has not chang...

The way he has described this, has changed repeatedly. you know, these seven lawmakers that wrote this op-ed, theyre the majority makers. these are largely moderate democrats, most of them, who helped the democrats win the house in 2018. these are the types of members that nancy pelosi had in some ways been trying to shield from the impeachment question, and now theyre out there in this op-ed saying that if these allegations prove true, it would be impeachable. those members coming forward, thos...

Now i will say he has a committee thats tough to manage. it has some of the most progressive members of congress who are the most forceful on impeachment. and, remember, any single democrat can go to the house floor and get an almost immediate vote on whether to impeach the president. its whats called the privilege resolution it. >> gets immediate consideration. so the idea that this needs to come from the leadership is a little bit of a fallacy against more credit it gets more, its more importa...

By starting to speak. that was the first time we heard that yesterday. an hour or so later donald trump said exactly the same thing. you often see kellyanne conway on the driveway saying exactly the same thing. and my fear in this is what they also are coordinating is the love it or leave it statement. i think this race will be run around love it or leave it, which, craig, is equally as dangerous. love it or leave it is about quieting descent which is send her back is about deporting dissent. an...

About their districts. theyre there, a lot of them, because they won in 2018. in 2018 they never talked about the president, they talked about health care, they talked about wages and those types of issues. and this part is not necessarily new. throughout the course of the majority makers, the reason speaker nancy pelosi is speaker of the house is they have been frustrated nobody pays attention to the work that theyre doing, which is nose to the grindstone, do what youre doing to keep your seat ...