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Generals and policymakers are more interested in kind of passing the buck on to somebody else so they dont have to be known as the person that failed, quote, unquote, in afghanistan. at the end of the day, someone will be the last man or woman who dies in afghanistan for a failed policy. i hope at some point there will be a policymaker, a president or general that says if this is not a fruitful endeavor, it takes us away from our national interests and we need to get out of there. >> its interes...

Until now. >> lets talk about 2020 and if the president is impeached, again, which is expected, but not removed from office by the senate, who might be politically at risk here in 2020? there are democrats who now support impeachment, but represent swing states and republicans who wont consider impeachment for a second. >> it really is the case that democrats and republicans see political pit falls throughout this process and theyre trying to navigate these land mines. for the democrats, there i...

Pit falls for the republicans, as well. even though only about 50% of americans think that donald trump should be impeached, a much higher percentage think that he did something wrong. about 70%. so that does suggest that, you know, a lot of republican voters, even if they dont want to see the president removed from office, at least acknowledge that there was some amount of wrongdoing by the executive in this case. so, you know, how this all cuts out in the end, its really difficult to say. it m...

We pulled it off. we broke the deadlock. we ended the gridlock. we smashed the roadblock. and in this glorious, glorious pr pre-brexit moment, as a new dawn rises on the new government. >> joining me now is nbc global correspondent bill neely in london. whatever happens next, whatever way they leave the eu, bill, its going to be difficult. and down the road, big pitfalls to come. >> reporter: correct, andrea. you know, boris johnsons catchy phrase was "get brexit done." but now, as you say, the ...

Politically damaged by this whole impeachment process, do you think? the democrats or the president and his party? >> well, i certainly think that reasonable minds can disagree on that, rosemary. if you look at polling data, youre correct that americans remain very split with support for impeachment dividing sharply along party lines. certainly both sides see potential pitfalls with impeachment going forward. for democrats, i think theyre concerned there may be some impeachment fatigue in the sw...

Suffer. >> here to react to that is pollster and fox news contributor, kristin solstic anderson. the media made out nancy pelosi to be a prolific speaker. in 2010 she walked party off the cliff with obamacare. is she doing that with impeachment? >> you have to look district by district. pelosi has had a long political history, that clip is not a recent clip. you had to go way, way back. she had moments where she took the house in 2006, lost in 2010. shes had her ups and downs. shes seen a lot. i...

And if they do, at some point, put them in a public space and maybe put them in front of the senate, are these people actually unimpeachable witnesses? im not sure that they will be. that is one of the big problems going forward on the republican side, is that some of the conspiracy theories are rabbit holes and they are very difficult to defend once they are pressed on both sides, not just by republican questioners but by democrats as well. >> let me get dana to weigh in as well. dana, there ar...

Justice?" it was quoted today in the hearing. and masons answer to that, his own rhetorical question, was "much less the man who has the capacity to commit the most extensive injustice. that man cannot be above justice." its a look at the pitfalls and the perils of impeachment. no impeachment, actually, has ever worked if you think of it in the sense of working as removing a president through the exact apparatus that was developed, in philadelphia. nixon was frightened off in many ways. but that...

That mitch mcconnell is reading this book, beyond hoping hes reading your portion of the book what do you hope hes reading and absorbing as one of the lessons here? >> i hope senator mcconnell, who i appreciate hes reading it and mentioned it, i hope that hes taking away the lesson that i would hope the rest of the senate and the rest of the country would too, which is that george mason was right. george mason of virginia, dunston hall up in fairfax. and he said when they were debating impeachme...

Hearing. and masons answer to that, his own rhetorical question, was "much less the man who has the capacity to commit the most extensive injustice. that man cannot be above justice." its a look at the pitfalls and the perils of impeachment. no impeachment, actually, has ever worked if you think of it in the sense of working as removing a president through the exact apparatus that was developed in philadelphia. nixon was frightened off in many ways. but thats really not the test it seems to me. ...