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You -- you spelled out, which is to say, we are not the do nothing congress, we are willing to work constructively with the administration when it helped -- when it helps the american people and we are not going to let the business of impeachment get in the way of the business of the people. >> the decision to go narrow. it seems to me -- im guessing they thought about the broader, steve, and then they came up with the vote counting reality, they would have a bunch of members vote against some o...

Have the political problem of being seen as overreaching. its a problem because the clinton impeachment took place in december of 1998. the midterm had just happened. even though the republicans controlled the house. the democrats picked up five seats. they had some built in immunity to an immediate political backlash. here the democrats dont. were going into an election. hey, trump might be impeached on december 19th. thats the night of the next democratic debate. so you have all these moving p...

After the election when it finished up. midterm. a very stressful time but this house and its the speaker, wont answer modest questions. interesting to see how much shes willing to talk about this when she has the town hall tomorrow. part of her success, against it a long time. once decided no choice than to go forward. her success in keeping her words waiting for the right moments. she speaks when she thinks she needs to, either bring discipline, the family back together or speed things up, slo...

Three, after the first midterm of a presidents first term, thats a good time to be changing the nations health care plan. i think shes struggling with it. she struggled with a lot of positions but this one i think is causing her suffering in iowa. >> jen psaki, one of the reasons buttigieg is rising is because they see him kind of like as the goldilocks candidate, not too hot, not too cold, just right. if you look at the polling, not too liberal, not too conservative, about right. buttigieg, 63%...

This ambassador. and remember, you know, donald trump doesnt -- president trump doesnt seem to know many of his ambassadors. weve just learn a few weeks ago he barely knows ambassador sondland. this notion that somehow her performance in ukraine was wrong and that he was going to get into the weeds of that -- to underscore, incredibly unprecedented for somebody to be removed in midterm in their career -- midterm in their assignment, i mean. you know, lets be clear, this was to do with the drug d...

Kinds of people that are witnesses in donald trumps impeachment. these are not people who campaigned, these are not people who probably regularly vote. they probably dont wear in the midterm -- the country has not seen a trial. he commissioned an investigation into the bidens is a life long story where gordon sondland was involved. those sec transcripts, those werent people for obama, those to see that. >> even though theyre experts in their field, theyre not testifying as experts. theyre like t...

Republicans at the other end of pennsylvania avenue. today, 100 of those 241 members individually have gone or announced theyre leaving. a departure rate of 41%. and were not talking about republican seats lost. this is the number of individuals who have left. even if they handed their seat over to another republican. at this point in president obamas first term, after a brutal midterm in 2010, mind you, he had lost 88 members. a 34% departure rate. but its the reason these people have left wash...

To voters. >> do you think they will like him when they breakthrough in. >> well have to wait and see. theres more debates up ahead. i dont think its that surprising at all. two-thirds of voters who voted for trump but voted for democrat in the midterm say they are likely to vote for trump again. i dont think this is black and white. theres a lot of people who can move around. when you cant point directly to the mid terms to say theres a sea change, theres a blue wave. presidential elections are...

Of runway left. were a year away. or you can say iowa is, what, 90 days away, 90 days away. and does it feel to you that people are locked in? you know, it does. this is really a -- this election. weve become, i came home and i discovered the middle east followed me here. we are now sunnis and shiites. we call each other republicans and democrats, but we are really sunnis and shiites. and theres this small floating group in the middle. theyre the people that tipped the house in 2018 in the midte...

More dishonest than he was in 2017. so aside from that midterm spike, there has been a general increase between 2017, 2018 and now 2019. >> daniel, thank you very much. thank you for doing this for us. thanks for the fact checking. one of the reasons why there is so much fact check is because of the impeachment inquiry right now. cnn is doing sunday night specials in the next few weeks covering what will happen on the impeachment inquiry in the next few weeks. well take a quick break from "rel...