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Hypotheticals? what were doing is winning in court, we won a victory, were getting the documents from the justice department today, for fear of further going to court, although were still going to hold the attorney general in contempt today. nothing has divisive in our country, in my view, as impeachment. >> reporter: the big question is whether or not some of the most vulnerable democrats, the democrats who carried trump districts, whether they start supporting an impeachment your. that could c...

Nominee for the supreme court based upon past history and yet were going to have a nominee at some point today, probably tonight. what is the democrat strategy in the senate to slow walk this nomination or run out the clock. >> theres precious little we procedurally can do. if republicans are willing to change the rules of the senate which they demonstrated they are in changing the majority threshold required at the fight over now justice gorsuch, they changed the rules on filibuster margins, we...

Leaning. in the democrats, 180 solid, 11 likely, 11 leaning. lets take a look at the toss-up seats. 19 currently held by republicans, meaning 19 seats have moved from the dark red toward the middle now, toward the blue. 19. only two of those seats are held by democrats. is that enough to get the democrats there? lets give you one scenario. if the democrats keep that momentum, win the toss-up states, win the lean democratic states and hold the likely democratic states, that would get the democrat...

Vote. >> you need unanimous consent to do that. you need cooperation of all 100 senators. although republicans would look silly if they tried to block democrats from letting them have majority threshold on a bill they claim is important to have the government open. >> sam, i want to go back to the president flying out of town and if the vice president flies out of town, then you know that they dont think theres anything that they can do here. but the president going to florida just completely le...

Vote. >> you need unanimous consent to do that. you need cooperation of all 100 senators. although republicans would look silly if they tried to block democrats from letting them have majority threshold on a bill they claim is important to have the government open. >> sam, i want to go back to the president flying out of town and if the vice president flies out of town, then you know that they dont think theres anything that they can do here. but the president going to florida just completely le...

But every republican voted to make this rules change, drawing a line in the sand saying they will not take 60 votes, they will just do it with a majority threshold. before he left, he did step asaid. you were on the phone with chairman nuneunes today. he said he was stepping down, what did he tell you? >> the chairman told me that he is going to remain chairman, but he and his attorneys are dealing with this ethics complaint about how he handled classified information. and while he is handling t...

Republicans put them up for a vote. nothing actually passed. republican support for these amendments. all of these would have weakened vra in some way. there was fairly significant republican support for weakening the vra. none reached the majority threshold and when the full bill became before the house, most republicans voted for it. when you have republicans control the house, when you talk about fixing the vra, the question has to be asked, where exactly is the republican party on this? i wo...