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Said, this has reached the threshold for impeachment. we need you to make a statement. we need house democrats to make a formal statement. so politically she was showing solidarity with them while letting the committees in the coming days and weeks still work out the exact process. >> well, in terms of that process, then, alexi, and in terms of democrats commitment to not just opening an inquiry, but have some kind of a vote on impeachment if it were to come to that, how much now in terms of the...

Representatives have to seize that moment and not let it get away, away to other topics, other areas of complaint, other misdeeds by this president. the moment is the realization by the american people now that their president, their commander in chief tried conditioning military aid to an allied nation on its president delivering dirt on a trump political opponent. speaker pelosi gets it. she told democrats they need to strike while the iron is hot. so this is the threshold, the all important c...

Congresswoman a navy veteran flipped urging the second district from blue to red in the midterm and why she signed on to this joint op-ed. six fellow freshmen writing in the allegations are true the time for impeachment has come ands the congresswoman is with me now in washington. congresswoman, pleasure to have you on thank you. >> thank you, brooke. >> you issued this statement saying president trump has betrayed the public trust, adan donald his obligations to the constitution and you write t...

Or is it discretionary? >> its in place. we have a juvenile justice system. and the idea of consent based rules. talk about the age of somebody. and testimony in court about whether somebody understands the difference between right and wrong. we use it for testifying witnesses all the time. we have a threshold to say it the court the appropriate remedy to actually address this behavior. and far too often we know the schools in our country, chris, are asked to do so much. they have to be everywhe...

Theres other waying to handle it. >> lets talk about that. i have this other case i want you to take on. the idea of is this just florida? or is there no operative law in states where you say below this age you cannot be a criminal. you have to deal with it. with the psychologist or doctor. we dont form criminal intent anything near that age. is that in place? or discretion nar. >> its in place. we have a juvenile justice system. and the idea of consent based rules. talk about the age of somebod...

About corruption in ukraine. is just laughable. remember donald trump is and his pals with the most corrupt dictators in the world. like putin and. what he cares about is framing his leading political rival on trumped up charges of corruption. thats what he was doing. misusing the power of the presidency. and this seems to me the straw that finally broke the camels back and after hesitating on impeachment, democrats are realizing this guy really needs to be impeached if the facts are as they see...

Elizabeth warren called for impeachment and youve seen the democratic candidates with the release of the mueller report and the like, come to that conclusion, call for an impeachment inquiry. what nancy pelosi was doing was try to protect those frontline majority making democrats who helped deliver them that win in 2018. those folks are not worried about the trail. those folks are worried about districts that are republican leaning leaning. they were looking at a different threshold from folks l...

It just met a threshold that we felt was imperative we move forward and fortunate to have sorry colleagues in the national security myself in the military and former cia as well. the seven of us came together and said we have to do this and speak as one voice to make sure the american public understands that we see the severity in this. >> when you gave speaker pelosi the heads up what was her reaction to you? >> her reaction is as it always has been whenever ive let her another about a decision...

Most solemn things the house can do. particularly the lawmakers that have been there a long, long time, they know that and they take it very seriously. >> i covered the clinton white house the last time we went through this. for all the jokes and the tweet readings and the snarkiness around the town, you krosh that threshold, youre in a different pla place. you made the point about the freshmen. you have to think of the democratic pie, above 60%, heading to 70%. we suspect that number will grow....

Misusing the power of the presidency and this seems to be the straw that broke the camels back. democrats are finally realizing this guy really needs to be impeached if the facts are as they seem to be because otherwise he will continue violating the law in order to stay in office. >> max, wonder if everyone has that same camel threshold you do. it doesnt sound like everyones on board yet. evan, listen to this reporting. the administration officials were instructed to tell lawmakers that the del...