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Lot of us are acutely aware of is if they begin proceedings, they are going to vote on the floor to remove the president of the united states. and thats a big moment, whether you believe its good or bad, you could have either opinion and argue it honestly. but i do think there is a frustration by what democrats view is a lack of guardrails and process here. and i think thats what nadler the chairman of the judiciary committee and nancy pelosi are trying to do. >> it would seem that it became cir...

Risk, if you will, within the judiciary committee while protecting the greater house from having to take a hard vote. i think its a lack of leadership. >> from who? >> i think the full house needs to take a vote from the speaker and democratic leadership, the full house, every single representative of every district, 435, rnd need to take a vote, take the hard vote, explain it to your constituents if youre for it or against it. >> jake, do we still have you? >> yes. >> it is sort of an open secr...

Now i will say he has a committee thats tough to manage. it has some of the most progressive members of congress who are the most forceful on impeachment. and, remember, any single democrat can go to the house floor and get an almost immediate vote on whether to impeach the president. its whats called the privilege resolution it. >> gets immediate consideration. so the idea that this needs to come from the leadership is a little bit of a fallacy against more credit it gets more, its more importa...

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>> he wants credit for trying. im not saying he deserves credit. i am saying there is some impulse that he has where he thinks that taking -- trying to do something like that because he believes he is the only one who can do it, somehow the notion that he was going to get them over there, that he was going to do this, he didnt get a deal done, we didnt even have a meeting. but having even tried to do something no one else has done before. thats all that matters in his mind is has anyone done it ...

House judiciary will vote thursday to formalize procedures for future hearings related to the impeachment investigation. and while this doesnt mean a formal inquiry has been launched, it will mark the first time the committee has taken a formal vote on impeachment. this coming after the committee has expanded its investigation. "the new york times" reports the committee is preparing to rapidly broaden the substance of the inquiry this fall beyond the investigation into any role on the agenda for...

Georgetown university, she joins us again at the table. former republican congressman, now an independent, david jolly, and nbc and msnbc national analyst john heilemann. i want to read some more from your superb reporting and then have you take us through it. you write on display were all the characteristic traits of the trump presidency. the yearning ambition for the grand prize, the endless quest to achieve what no other president has achieved. the volatile mood swings, and the tribal infight...

For what hes trying to get done on this medium but they have done it longer, theyre very strong. the reality, on the actual merits of the subject, john legend has been working on criminal reform when president trump was trying to take apart the five. youll lose that fight not just on social media but on the question of substance. >> that donald trump is really a leader of all the people. he really cares about the -- his country men and women. its just all about him consistently. from afghanistan...

Republicans in d.c., whether its fundraising, grabbing drinks, getting dinner. this is where republicans do business and hang out and hold fundraisers and things of that nature. its stunning because its again never happened before. but its been the major cultural shift in d.c. over the last couple years when it comes to going out, dining, and things of that nature. >> elise jordan, i completely agree. and i think this is one of those things where the joke is on us. we ask this is beto, why do yo...

Things play. and, in fact, this is a little bit in the realm of speculation. but what would you get from this meeting? i mean, we are saying headlines, but its the sort of holy bleep factor of it, right? which reminds me so much of this decision he took to go meet with kim jong-un who, you know, now we see perhaps slightly differently. but remember, and thats a complicated question we can return to. but remember how we thought about kim jong-un before he ever came out and met trump? it was murde...