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Points. today horn announced with a heavy heart the oath i took to defend the constitution requires a vote for impeachment, a yes vote could be even more politically risky for anthony brindisi, freshman congressman from upstate new york and also turned his district. by a single point after trump won it by 15. in an op-ed this morning he said i know some people will be angry but i was elected to do what is right, not politically safe. senior democrats are insisting their members are not being pre...

Oath for impeachment. a "yes" vote could be more politically risky for anthony brindisi, the freshman congressman from upstate new york who turned his district blue by single point after trump won by 15. in an op-ed this morning, he said i know people will be angry but i was elected to do what is right, not safe. senior democrats are insisting their members not being pressured by leadership to support impeachment. >> its the most solemn undertaking that any member of congress can have. every mem...

Supported impeachment -- 43 did not. now, a month later. 45% support impeachment and 47% do not. is this going to backfire on the democrats? >> i think we are already seeing it backfire on them and people are seeing that these are all unfounded impeachment facts that they brought forward. theres nothing there of substance that people can look at and point to of why we should be going through these proceedings. they really want to be talking about things that effect their every day lives. here in...

Democrats but doesnt look like that is happening at all. >> in politics they say short memories. this vote will be remembered for very long time and the fact these red state democrats in deep trump district think this is going to have the political future is stunning to me. it shows the energy of the democrat party is out of the mainstream and gone so radical, we see in recent polls that even mainstream democrats approval has dropped by 13% down to 17% of democrats that support impeachment and r...

Overall that average of where the nation is so evenly divided, the electorate. so evenly divided, 47% to 48%. its basically split dead even. >> and its been like that for a while. very unusual in polling that people stay stuck in the same place despite developments. even before ukraine and post ukraine, about the same place. why? >> one major reason why, what is a major reason? among those who support impeachment, 72% is because trumps done a bad job running the country. this is very much in lin...

Among those who support impeachment, 72% is because trumps done a bad job running the country. this is very much in line with their partisanship. among those who pose impeachment, 78% trumps done a good job running the country. people are choosing impeachment positions based upon how they already feel. >> thats always true with presidents. obama had that, too. its only about in the 30s for most people. >> apples for apples, clinton getting impeached. >> you were saying how historic it is. clinto...

I think we miss this a lot of times. jim is exactly right that impeachment support has dropped a little bit. down from 50 to 45. but 45% support impeachment and removal of donald trump. i asked the producers to get this with obama, bush and clinton. we all talked about impeachment. clinton was impeached. in september 1998, 29% of people thought he should be impeached and removed from office. reminder, 45% of people think that way about donald trump. so, yes, it is down, but it is down from half ...

I would just add a slightly more cynical point, which is that if you are a democrat and you need to fund-raise as all these people do, its going to be very tough to fund-raise if you vote against impeachment. and mike bloomberg, in addition, has said hes going to spend $10 million independently to protect democrats in swing districts who voted for t impeachment. >> give aus a read on where the polls are right now with impeachment. you told us earlier that the support has softened a little bit am...

Rob: only two democrats have said they would go with impeachment to you. when you see a number like that, people dont want to impeach what democrats are holding together does that show nancy pelosis power in the party? >> it shows her power, they are not going to book, they may be worried about primary challenges. you cannot be a democrat in a primary in support impeachment and go against impeachment of the president. they are in a bind and as we see they are willing to put their jobs on the lin...

>> weve done "star wars," weve talked about hair. willie, lets talk about whats happening today. of course everything is getting in line to what happens, of course, tomorrow which will be a vote on the impeachment of donald j. trump. big news overnight. a lot of democrats, enough democrats in swing districts that donald trump woman in 2016 but the democrats have won in 2018 have come out and announced, not to all fanfare in their directs, that thstricts, going to vote to impeach president trump....