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You mentioned at the top 36% say they would be in favor of impeachment. it is a very small slice, a third of americans. that is certainly not a majority position on sli jo position obviously. look at this. it is mostly coming from movement among democrats. just in december 80% of democrats said they were in favor of impeachment. it is a 12 point drop. it has gone down a little bit with republicans. you pointed to pelosi. i think its one of the bigger reasons we are seeing that drop. that and the...

A lot of work done in lets say infrastructure spending incident and some other ways a lot of businesses in america have their own problems with the president so its really a mixed picture here what does this result. should it become reality mean for trumps trade policy what trade policy might end up being less extreme finally in the end because we had a situation over the last two years with the republicans not only controlling the white house but both houses of congress that the republicans bas...

Does that mean someone like hakeem jeffries will be challenging steny hoyer for the majority position or is somebody in your caucus going to challenge nancy pelosi? >> katy, thats not what the caucus said. the letter from chairman cedric richmond said simply we want -- if there is a change at the top of our leadership, we will vie for one of the top two slots. thats what it said. if there is no change, nancy remains number one, dozeny remains number two, then jim clyburn is going to make a run t...

Nothing like a complete turn around, 180 degree reversal due to public pressure and actually sort of siding with a majority position rather than making the full base play. >> it may not have only been public pressure. it was pressure from republicans who are afraid of losing their congressional seats, particularly those in suburban districts where there are lots of women in particular who didnt like -- >> i cant think of a policy of donald trumps that republicans have opposed as vocally as this ...

Corporations cannot take on conservatives and expect us not to fight back." the leader of the state senate said they would block the jet fuel sales exemption. but georgia republicans might have accomplished something very different pointing out the success of the #boycott nra movement. companies from cyber security companies to hearing aids have ended affiliations with the gun group. "wall street journal" reporting blackstone group which has more than $400 billion under management this weekend a...

You surprised. >> whats interesting is for most of our lives even if the nra position was a majority position, the intensity gap between the nra and people who wanted more gun control was disproportionate. you had people who disagreed with the nra but werent motivated to take it on. that switched overnight both as a result of the parkland shootings but also as a result of this pouring into politics of all of these previously not superpolitically engaged suburban white woman who are, were, making...

Steve, this numbers game, its interesting. it seems like if you want democrats to vote for a majority position, a compromise position, look to those not running for president because the democratic party begins its process of picking a president in a way that helps progressives. you go to iowa. you know how it starts. you get in through nevada. there are some exceptions but basically -- and if you get to california soon enough now youre better off seeing on that left ward part of the track posit...

Youll know this better than me. ive seen some polls where theres pretty wide support for restrictions on abortions after 20 weeks. >> 20 weeks. >> that is not a minority position. that is not a right wing position. that is a majority position in america. my only point being if democrats want to be a majority party in america, maybe they look in places like alabama, mississippi, georgia, florida, south carolina, deep south areas and maybe they arent so offended to disqualify somebody who has a ma...

Like youre the one controlling the strings of the government? thats not going -- that wont fly with most presidents. certainly not this president. that has been made clear again and again. the other point that john was getting at earlier i think this is the -- we now have to wait and see. for the first seven months of this administration, wolf, i have been hard-pressed, saying this on the air. think through the seven months. what has president trump done? what policy path has he taken where he w...

Finger on that particular pulse. the freedom caucus and not just the freedom caucus. rank and file conservative who have a strong view. remember, were talking about -- and the house in particular, folks that shut down the the government because they did not want to spend one dollar more than was necessary. so this idea youre boing to put a trillion dollars into place and $54 in defense and when you get to something like social security and other entitlements in particular where the president has...