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Public and another thing to a federal judge. >> potentially. is it a tax increase or revenue enhancement? form over substance. the fact is call it what you will. perhaps it is not yet a impeachment investigation, it is preliminary to an impeachment investigation. so theyre splitting hairs. the fact is if you give us what we need, we could make a more informed judgment as to whether we should pursue impeachment. whether you call that a formal inquiry or investigation and the path is to impeachmen...

Island that the relationship between her and the president of the senate, and they would have to work together to make this government work is not the best its ever been. and so they have to build together a new government. many of the members of rosellos cabinet have already resigned and there are as many as 12 vacant positions. so thats the open question. if the relationship is bad already, how are they going to be able to work together for the benefit of puerto rico and the people who live he...

Merging its or pir priority or is this how theyre doing it? >> look how the president was trying to defend the comments this week. if they werent ducking and hiding, they were trying to point it back to politics, to the rhetoric of socialism, that sort of thing that -- instead of what the president said that more racially charged. that said, the president never thought this was a mistake. this is how he thinks this is good politics for him. this us against them. fueling the tensions. you saw it ...

Democratic party and now the open question is can he prevent republicans from defecting tonight and voting against him, bret. >> bret: john roberts live on the north lawn. thank you. some to the president was trying to get those for as the face of the democratic party. if the house is expected to vote later tonight on a resolution condemning the presidents tweets and comments. correspondent mark meredith is on capitol hill to tell us where things stand right now. its good evening, mark. >> is a ...

Point. its an open question whether white suburban women in particular are going to go along with this. and to a large degree, they were with trump in 2016. when they see this rhetoric, i mean, are they going to be on board for this or will this alienate him? the strategy is very risky. and while it might mobilize the core component of trumps conservative coalition, its really a narrow part of it. and it seems like its -- trump has run the risk -- running the risk of seeing that coalition shrink...

>> take a look at this poll from june. it asks trump voters, where the policy currently stands. 48% say it has not gone far enough. so, yes, there is a psychological piece of trying to keep people from coming to the united states. and his bakers cyst voters clearly want more. . >> thats right. i think this is an election the president and advisers believe it will be won or lost on whether he can motivate his base. i wonder if achievement still matters? does he have to accomplish some of these go...

Intriguing to note from this, though, was how he chose not to use this opportunity to frame the re-election campaign in some way on his accomplishments as much as he wanted to stick with the grievances, right. to you hear from his campaign operatives, from republicans around town all the time about wanting to hear him talk up the economy day in and day out with all the good economic indicators that are out there for him to tout. instead, he has a whole litany of other things hes constantly distr...

Section summer when we have one official candidate. that being said, is there anyone who at this moment really stands out in the way that donald trump does with his ability to fill an arena, 20,000 people, like we saw last night? anyone on the democratic side? >> no, we havent seen anything like it. i would say the closest thing weve seen to that was when kamala harris had her debut launch speech. she had an enormous crowd they built out in oakland, california, to launch her candidacy. we dont -...

Or appeals court decision. there is, however, one judicial opinion in the bush administration democrats are trying to get the testimony of then white house counsel harriet meyers and its wound its way through the federal courts. the presidents wrong, there is no absolute immunity. but then the case was appealed, and the obama administration settled that case and allowed harriet meyers to testify. and so that decision does not create a precedence. so its an open question on what the courts will d...

Between whoever the democrats cook up and trump again. and we dont know that until we see it, until they see it. but what im trying to do tonight is get the attitude about trump. does it bother them that hes vulgar, that he doesnt tell the truth, that he has a character problem, he makes fun of peoples physical appearance, he makes nicknames up. does it bother them that his foreign policy seems to make no sense or is it just about us against them? they dont like the democratic or republican esta...