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Its a political task. until you have majority of the country supporting it than opposes it, occurring at a time when taking oxygen and attention away from the agenda the democrats want to focus on chbts intere . >> interesting, the see there-hour debate thursday did not come up. top tier candidates on the stage. thanks to you, matt and chris. thank you, gentlemen. a line that may haunt the democratic party for years. did beto orourke sink dems chances of getting gun reform legislation passed a...

Responsibility. pursuing and investigating the president is within their p purview and they should pursue. if the talk of impeachment becomes the primary focus of the media, the public, at the expense, i think, of the issues that will end up defining this next election, which is health care, the economy, income inequality, guns, race issues, things i think people are focusing on more and more, you can do both. depends how you balance it. >> matt, pick up on that. you get a sense even though the ...

Whether that benefits the president or republicans is not clear. to be honest, its not like they have a really strong message and whenever something happens, the president seemingly steps on it, anyway. so i think part of the challenge here is to what extent over the coming months do we focus effectively on the other issues that matter. if its only about impeachment, it could become a political problem. >> matt, nodding in approval. why? >> yeah. i mean, i think chris, the point hes making. one ...

Impeachment inquiry or not. everyone has their own definition. its clear speaker pelosi doesnt want to call it impeachment inquiry and chairman nadler does. a bit of a difference in their leadership. the challenge democrats have is that, you know, proceeding with impeachment is possible among the base. you rightly noted 134 of their members more than half support it. the problem is, receipts they need to hold to keep the majority. 31 seats with democratic members of congress to trump, only two o...

Dramatically claiming everybody wants the job. thats classic trump hyperbole. also saying probably about 5 contenders. among them we have seen a handful of names that have come to pass including people already in the administration or working closely with the president. theres keith kellogg, national security advisers to the vice president. rick ren nell, serving as ambassador to germany who is in washington right now. tom bossert, previously homeland security adviser to the president is out of ...