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>> so not only no conversation with the president of the united states about ukraine. youve not had any contact with the president of the united states. >> for the millions of americans viewing today the two most important facts are the following. number one, ukraine received the aid. number two, there was in fact no investigation into -- >> well, today speaking to reporters how speaker nancy pelosi responded to republican criticism by inviting president trump to participate, him, get in the con...

Already knew that from the trump phone call, that he wanted investigations, so whats new there? that someone overheard him saying what he said in a released transcript of the phone call? democrats have a problem here, which is that polls right now show that a majority of americans think donald trump did something wrong, but a minority of americans think they should be impeached. new fox news poll in north carolina, 42% support impeachment or removal. national its about the same. the burden of pr...

People they think are the strongest witnesses and i think it was -- if today was the high water mark i think they have a long road ahead of them. >> what do you think, jen? >> i dont think that is the strategy. they had two unimpeachable witnesses who could lay out the time line in a very comprehensive way and that is what they did. they want to build on it. and getting closer to trump as they have more witnesses this week and next week. and i think they saw the tone they would take. adam schiff...

But im laying out frankly what the risks are for republicans. is there a risk that pelosi hinted at overdoing it on impeachment? >> of course. if the evidence doesnt support impeachment that go ahead anyway, absolutely. but the reason the clinton impeachment was so unpopular, back in 98 the public did not buy it and with each passing week it seems like more and more the public -- >> laura: over the last what -- >> you subscribe to the new york pole. >> we do this every show, richard appear at th...

Branch. but, yeah, when i came out in favor of making it public, a lot of that was in response to the republican insistence on doing that. i tended to agree. i think that it was proper to start with depositions. and i must say that i have a lot of reading do of these depositions as they come out because i have to catch up on this process. >> how is this going to work for you? because i find that you are in a very interesting position. you are one of 31 maybe democrats who won in districts that t...

But increasing number of republicans are nowjf starting support impeachment and e1remoì% what do you think, by the e1way the articles of impeachment will look like? and what could be the timeline on all of that? >> thats a great question. one school of thought says keep it very narrow because the dirty ukraine deal is very compelling. you know whats alsoçó compelli is the obstruction of the congressional inquiry that you just alluded to. iñi also think the priori] obstruction of justice repo...

>> i think the big drama is going to be when we switch from closed hearings to public hearings, what happens then. we have seen the phenomenon in our poll going from 11% support impeachment down to 6% as the partisan temperature has been raised by republicans with this process behind closed doors. fox newal poz showed the same thing. now its down to 8%. i should say "the washington post" had 18% of republicans in a poll this week, so theres a little question there. but when it becomes public, ca...

With democrats overwhelmingly supporting it. and republicans underwhelmingly supporting it. and the new york times siena college survey just released, only 45% of pennsylvanians support impeachment and removal. 45%. put another way, 52% say no. thats pretty consistent with the national polls that show you know, in the 52-58% range support for the inquiry. but the national average is about 47-48%. that support impeachment and removal. so a poll here and a poll there gets over 50% on impeachment a...

And ted cruz reportedly said in a private gop lunch this week. thats not great for trump. now what about voters? remember them in the latest "washington post"/abc news poll shows 49% support impeachment and removal right now. and 47% are opposed. thats a real slim majority. independents are reversed. 47% support, 49% oppose. that should be troubling for democrats. throw on top of all of that theres potentially a government shutdown looming on the horizon, which could delay the impeachment proces...

The president said he actually doesnt need a separate team to fight impeachment because he has his whole department behind him. sara glasser is a writer for the new yorker and we have tara sut mire. 47% support impeachment and removal, 47% do not, but look at independents. 47% support impeachment and removal, 59% do not. if theres numbers that the president is courting, what happens here? >> were going into a phase now where the american people are now going to hear directly from some of the mos...