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To win to keep the spigot of far right judges flowing. were going to have more on this growing republican shame in tonights show. were also hearing disturbing new details about the 18-year-old american citizen who was detained by customs and border protection for three weeks, even after showing officials his i.d., his social security card and his birth certificate. that is coming up as well. but first, we are crossing a threshold. that is how one house democrat described the new impeachment de...

Threshold with the filing -- >> reporter: nadler told reporters the only difference is that his committee investigation is broader than an impeachment inquiry. but acknowledged the end result could be the same. >> we are going to see what remedy we could recommend including the possibility of atmosphe articles of impeachment and we are not limited to that and that is a possibility as a result of what were doing. >> reporter: the development comes over divide of how to move forward in the afterma...

Hbcus and other minority serving institutions. >> reporter: that is aimed at closing the racial wealth gap, investing in black colleges and universities and an additional $12 billion to support black entrepreneurship, before the same audience pete buttigieg also attacked trump. >> my generation saw this country elect its first black president and then turn around and elect a racist to the white house. and we ought to call that what it is. >> reporter: and today rolls out a new economic policy to...

Whether to open impeachment inquiry, so this is a significant acknowledgment from the judiciary committee to the courts that impeachment is absolutely on the table. when i asked jerry nadler if this was an escalation into democrats investigation, he said yes. another member, veronica escobar, agrees and she said this is definitely crossing a new threshold into this investigation on impeachment. and then a lot of these members in the judiciary committee at this press conference, they also said th...

Have a kamala harris and a cory booker for the black community to look to. the fact that we have a number of candidates who are specifically putting out a policy idea that address the racial gap or address issues that are very specific to the black community. i mean, this just means that further down the line theres sort of the potential there for that support that he has right now. >> can you just tell us about your reporting about elizabeth warren? >> her campaign is going to announce they hav...

The hearing on wednesday here, speaker pelosi said that they crossed a threshold, called this historic. what did robert mueller fail to do? obviously you said that he should not be diminished by his presentation. but what would you have liekds to have gotten out of him in that presentation on wednesday? >> he didnt fail to do anything. >> we heard repeatedly from members on your side of the aisle that he failed to breathe life into that report. >> if you showed up for a broadway show, sure, you ...

Said they crossed a threshold, called this historic, what did robert mueller fail to do? you said should not be diminished by his presentation, what would you have liked out of his presentation on wednesday? >> he didnt fail to do anything. >> he failed to -- we heard that repeatedly from members of your side of the aisle. >> if you expected a broadway show, you may have been disappointed. if you listened to what he said, he said russians attacked us, they had a preference for donald trump. the ...

Track while not having all members be all in on a boat and have to pull the line. obviously an impeachment vote is different than an inquiry, it might become official, they are different than actual one. its a way to have both feet in two different places. there is a lot of pressure, rising number of people who supported in their caucus, pressure from the outside, and at the same time i think that they do have a point that there is sort of a new threshold where if trump defies a court order than...

Before, and he said in this show thats not with a prosecutor does. >> ive got to leave it there. but ill tell you what. i appreciate the context and the subtlety. i think a lot of this stuff is hard. >> it is hard. >> its not going to be obvious going forward. >> but some of it is easy. its basic parameters and guili. >> i think youre right about that. the solution is visible. how to get to it is cloudy because of the vision. you know what? when great minds like you are talking about it -- >> ap...

Conscientious member of congress could easily determine theres been conduct that constitutes an impeachable offense, and we have a lot of discussion about the politics. pelosi is trying to go slow. i get that. and the reason for the political ret sans about it is because people are making a judgment based on politics that it would backfire. it would help the president get reelected. i get that. thats speculative. and you can have a difference of opinion about whether it reaches the threshold. if...