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Ongoing dispute behind closed doors as to who gets to witness this witness testifying. matt gaetz is basically saying he has to be in there. he tried, he showed up, he wanted to sit in on the interview. their question whether he should be there in the first place. should he? who gets to be inside these interviews? >> the committee chairman decides what the rules are. matt gaetz is not on those committees that are handling the interviews. again, once you win the election at the midterm, you contr...

Why is she there? judge jeanine: was any republican in the committee? >> yes, there were republicans there. unlike my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. the republicans honor that code of silence as much as they possibly can. judge jeanine: the democrats leak, the republicans dont. nancy pelosi is not taking a vote because she knows if she does, the american people get to hear everything. does she even have the votes, congressman, do you know? >> i dont know. i do know some of the folks ...

Why is she there? judge jeanine: was any republican in the committee? >> yes, there were republicans there. unlike my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. the republicans honor that code of silence as much as they possibly can. judge jeanine: the democrats leak, the republicans dont. nancy pelosi is not taking a vote because she knows if she does, the american people get to hear everything. does she even have the votes, congressman, do you know? >> i dont know. i do know some of the folks ...

Why is her testimony relevant? why is she there? judge jeanine: was any republican in the committee? >> yes, there were republicans there. unlike my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. the republicans honor that code of silence as much as they possibly can. judge jeanine: the democrats leak, the republicans dont. nancy pelosi is not taking a vote because she knows if she does, the american people get to hear everything. does she even have the votes, congressman, do you know? >> i dont kno...

But what this whole ukraine scandal reveals is that mr. trump and the people around him are beginning to believe in their own fictions. the idea that the democratic national committees server for example is in ukraine, thats really crazy time stuff and he is getting himself impeached on the basis of something which is pure fiction and what is more interesting and more threatening is he is trying to get foreign leaders to believe our fictions. that is a turn, you asked about democracy, that is a ...

Midterm, and those who flipped, and so far those are the difference-makers in terms the of caution going forward and seeming to be lining up in this effort and pushing away the counter narratives or the different strands of them that the republicans are putting forward, and the focus on the substance and the central take away message a president ought not to use instruments of foreign policy for personal political gain is a simple easy message that does seem to be so far working for the democrat...

That this is something that should be done as quickly and hourly as possible. again, who knows if you can accomplish both. im not really sure that the political impact of this is knowable now. there hasnt even been a formal investigation, there hasnt been hearings in front of the public. i remember almost 20 years ago with the clinton impeachment, dire warnings from republicans about what would happen to democrats and democrats had a great midterm in 1998. >> all right. fred yang, thank you for ...

>> in fact, republicans lost seats in the 1998 midterm election. normally the midterm is bad for the whois, be bill clinton was a popular president and he actually -- his party, the democrats, gained seats in the 1998. the reason they pushed against clinton was totally partisan, very different from the impeachment procedure in 1973/1974 and thats why older democratic leaders were reluctant to get involved because it was a totally hard process. >> how do you see the immediate environment impactin...

President is going to impact them in their districts especially the swing moderate democrats where president trump won. yet they won in the mid-term. so i think there is a chance that we could get mr. schiff properly and appropriately censured. if not maybe nancy pelosi will reconsider making him the lead. he hasnt demonstrated the due process or demonstrated the gravitas necessary. he has made it into a comedic thing and now we find out the whistleblower contacts that were there that contravene...

About drug prices and talking about the economy, and i think its actually really important for them to do that. thats how the democrats won the 2008 midterm. thats what polls show are on the minds of most americans, their jobs, cost of health care, wages. so democrats have to make clear that they care about those things and they want power back to legislate on those things. the second thing is, i think the big picture is really important to keep in mind here. greg, i agreed with what you just sa...