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Will basically be tied up on the senate floor unable to do anything while they would much rather be out there campaigning. it is turned the democratic primaries totally upside down. >> gregg: in battleground states like wisconsin, i note according to the polling data, 40% support eight. 53% are against impeachment. but what is important is how independents are breaking against impeachment by an 11-point margin. what does that tell you? >> absolutely. i think independents are excellent here becau...

The polling data reflects that were less and less americans support moving forward with impeachment. we have democrats caught between a rock and a hard place and all the while us mca not past, trade agreements around the globe we could be working on and a trade war with china. charles: listening to adam schiff, adjusted the narrative from this being something the public wants to a call of duty, challenged fellow democrats, to go along with this. >> democrats are in what we call battleground dist...

Will basically be tied up on the senate floor, unable to do anything while they would much rather be out there campaigning. it has turned the democratic primaries totally upside down.nw >> gregg: jenna, in battleground states like wisconsin, i note, according to the polling data, 40% support it. 53% are against impeachment. but what is important is how independents are breaking against impeachment by an 11-point margin. what does that tell you? >> absolutely. i think independents are an excellen...

And thaw that may be why he decided to allow the assistance to ukraine to go through and make this claim that gordon sondland famously said that there was no quid pro quo. at the time he knew about the s whistleblower. >> we talked about the white house not being in chaos. >> there certainly was a lot of incoherence around dealings with ukraine but i think its a difficult case to make. trump knew this whistleblower complaint was being made and i think he was basically scrambling to figure out ho...

>> well, i dont want to get too ahead of the cnn poll results today but they were very illustrative of this exact point. obviously we saw the numbers up a little while ago saying that 50% support impeachment and removal. what wasnt shown was that was the exact same number we saw in october before the public hearings actually began. >> why is that so important? >> because the entire point of the democrats holding these public hearings -- not the entire point, but a large part of the point was the...

Americans support impeachment. and so for democrats its is this the glass half full or empty? on one hand you see half of americans think the president should be removed from office. on the other hand all the testimony hasnt budged public opinion. >> its this narrative the establishment is all out to get him. >> donald trump makes this claim about the deep state or those he alleges are trying to thwart his agenda. i think the standard narrative holds now and that is democrats are going to impeac...

Elected and we all know that. theyve independence that theyre starting to lose now. we are seeing polling data showing a shift and support for impeachment and in favor of the president. thats not good for these democrats. theres no upside for them. what theyre hoping for is to make this narrative stick, to make it stake in the back of peoples minds by the time the election comes. i think his ideas o its a dystonic tactic. >> ed: 50% of americans say they think mr. trump should be impeached and r...

Voters are already saying, which is this guys trying to buy his way into the race? what is the case that hes going to make to the american people? why should i be president other than these 17 people who have been running really since the spring, if not before? so thats whats going to be fascinating to see, is can he actually overcome the stereotype about having this billionaire from new york, now he, tryiyou his way into the election. hes a very successful tenured post mayor. hes used his phila...

No reaction from the trump administration says bloomberg adjoining the race late is a sign of a shaky democratic fie field. >> and means the democratic field is underwhelming even to someone like michael bloomberg with their 18 democrats still running for president of the united states. with another ten or 12 dropped out of the race. as michael bloomberg coming in saying i dont think any of you can beat donald trump. reporter: critics from the other side of the aisle are not the only ones weighi...

So than what weve had because ive seen polling data that suggests a lot of folks are not tuned into this. make sure youre voting. show that survey question from the website. should democrats drop impeachment in favor of censure? results at the end of the hour. up ahead, while everybody is watching the impeachment hearings, and the democratic debates, christmas has come early for the trump base. president trump made three decisions this week, flexing his unique power as an incumbent to shore up h...