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And even respect nancy pelosi but the others like the left, now he has something to push back against. again, you get to 2020, an election, not a midterm, its not a referendum on the president, its a choice between two people. and just like what happened with bill clinton in 1998, right, his popularity went up when the republicans tried to impeach. him. did impeach him. >> tucker: republicans actually lost seatsic and i midterm, which i think its only happened twice in 100 years and that was def...

Now he has something to push back against. again you get to 2020 and election, not a midterm, its not a referendum on the president its a choice between two people. and just like what happened with bill clinton in 1998, right? his popularity went up when the republicans tried to impeach him. >> tucker: right. >> actually did impeach him. >> tucker: republicans actually lost seats in that midterm only happened twice in 100 years that was definitely one of them. finally quick, do you think its pos...

And got out and voted in numbers that people have not seen in a midterm in however many years, they care very much about the rule of law. >> yes, thats true. >> theyre desperate to see this president held to account. and so i think this is one of those cases where the sort of patriotic course of action, the politically expedient course of action are one and the same. >> but i think they care about it not as a politically instrumental -- i mean people feel like they need to restore something that...

Fraction of loud trump supporters, these are the ones people are worried about offending. i actually think that the base of the democratic party, maybe not the base thats on twitter, but the base of the democratic party, the people who organize and got out and voted in numbers that people have not seen in a midterm in however many years, they care very much about the rule of law. >> yes, thats true. >> theyre desperate to see this president held to account. and so i think this is one of those ca...

What a day to be alive. >> whats interesting, nicolle, all white houses face difficulty, but trumps wheels are coming off his core initiatives. his core foreign policy is north korea. his core domestic policy is immigration. news this week after he promised to get rid of the budget deficit, its reached a record high. he said he would solve trade. news out today, record high trade deficit. so these things that were the core of the trump presidency, his correspond initiatives, hes in trouble, and ...

Lets hope. >> gene robinson, i want to ask you about the house judiciary committee led by jerry nadler sending out over 81 inquiries. what have we opened up here with democrats now taking the chairs of all these committees? >> well, its called oversight and none of it was done in the last two years and, you know, we always say that elections have consequences. this election, the midterm election put democrats in charge of the house of representatives, which put jerry nadler in charge of the judi...

The sensitivities were more with the president than kim jong-un. and i think sometimes here at the white house, they get confused over who the supreme leader is. and i do think maggi is right in that they do him a disservice. if the president had just asked or been asked some questions about michael cohen and gotten that out of the way, i think a lot of this would have been short-circuited before that news conference even started. but because they dig in their heels and try to rebel against what...

To prevent those questions. >> reporter: hell also be running for the first time since cell phone cameras can capture every blunder, like this one in 2006. you cannot go to a 7/eleven or dunkin donuts unless you have a slight indian accent, im not joking. his familys personal lives have been made tabloid news, and new york times columnist maureen dowd writes, quote: not all families have to stomach donald trumps hoe blows. >> they asked me would i like to debate this gentleman, i said, no, if we...

And fact-checker daniel dale for the toronto star. daniel, why are democrats so hesitant to start impeachment proceedings? they have an abrundance of avenues to take. michael cohen accused him of committing a felony while he was president of the united states. thats a lot more than they had with nixon. >> i think theres the political reason and the substantive sort of common sense reason. the political reason, theyre coming off a midterm where they had a wave in the house. they won the popular v...

>> how sad it is that 54 years later we are still fighting for the right to vote. >> voting rights are always under attack. we know that. we have big victories. we have small victory. we have defeats. >> corinne, why is this voting block so important for them? the latest study shows that hispanics will be the largest minority group voting in 2020. why are so many of the candidates courting the black vote? >> because its a constituency in particular the black women they come out and vote in high ...