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Feeling. >> how many terms have you served in the united states house of representatives? >> this is my fourth, but lets put in it context, chris. i was first elect today the statehouse of representatives in 1976, 43 years ago. and ive been out of public service more than in it. but i have been in and out of it my entire adult life. so this is actually the end of a very long journey of the privilege to engage in public service. >> congressman, its really refreshing to hear someone speak this hon...

Handful of people and while they were not able to or willing to speak up about it is what they felt in their heart. take a contributor carlos car bellow from florida who was defeated and hes pretty explicit in his criticism now hes been eliminated from the prospects of electoral punishment by a vindictive president. and i think he says what a lot of republicans who have departed voluntarily are thinking and feeling. >> how many terms have you served in the united states house of representatives?...

Views into consideration as we move forward in terms of honoring our constitutional oath. but at the end of the day as the speaker said it is not about the polls. it is about our constitution and defending our constitutional republic. that fundamentally is the work before us as a committee, as a congress, frankly as an american people. and so in my view thats the way were taking this -- sort of the approach were taking and the lens by which were reviewing the work before congress, not through th...

Countries are not living up to their own promises. i guess my question to you is theres a world in which this essentially bolsters arguments for inaction you see from some republicans which is basically, look, everyones going to cheat. chinas going to cheat, indias going to cheat. why should we be the sucker and take the lead in cutting emissions? thats a great idea. the entire planet should go down in flames. >> look, it is a real tragedy that we have a president whose ignorance on this issue i...

Circumstances we find ourselves in. so as we talk about the need for the house to move forward and to treat this with a sense of urgency, to move expeditiously through the process, it is precisely because the presidents conduct poses a real threat to the national security of our country in terms of the corruption and m.d. mining of our elections. and that is happening in realtime, and it is ongoing. so that is precisely why the house has taken this so seriously and why i think youve seen us move...

Talking to someone about bernie sanders that climate as an issue is your number one priority, you see that as your number one priority as president of the united states? >> no, i dont -- chris, thats old-fashioned politics. my number one priority is -- standing up for families of this country. we can do more than walk and chew bubblegum. climate change is a huge threat to the entire planet. how could it not be a major priority? so is health care and creating decent paying jobs. my job as preside...

Voting on articles of impeachment against the president, democratic congressman joe nagoose of colorado. this is maybe a wonky processing question what royou in a room together, literally how are you going to draft these articles? >> its good to see you, chris. enterms of the notices the judiciary committee will have an opportunity to receive the evidence and presentation of evidence from the intelligence committee and judiciary committee counsels. so obviously that will be a very important hear...

>> congressman, its really refreshing to hear someone speak this honestly about it. the sometimes seems like were watching something very hard to watch go on with the country and politics and political culture. and its strangely gratifying to hear that the people closest to it maybe feel that way as well. >> i dont want to be melodramatic chris but one of the expressions ive heard an awful lot, in fact ive heard it too much when some of these behaviors have manifested is were better than this. i...

Vicious character assassination of anyone who disagreed with him and his relationship with the truth. here to talk about this with me is congressman denny heck of washington. take me through when you made this decision and why. >> probably over thanksgiving holidays. >> oh, that recently. >> yeah. i think it probably had been coming for a while, but you ask when the decision was made and i got a chance to get some rest and do some heavy-duty reflection and came to that conclusion. but, again, it...

Do not support him fully. theyre completely cynical. if its any one or a combination of those when you look at the numbers both this cycle and last cycle the number of republicans who have retired not running for office its a multiple number of democrats. and the other conclusion ive come to is ill not saying it out loud or in public i dont think many more of them can take it either. >> youve got some retirements that looks like folks who are looking at their polling and are going to have a toug...