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President from impeachment inquiry that they call baseless. it comes after reports that david holmes and official at u.s. embassy in kiev confirms he overheard the controversial phone call and call for a biden investigation. joining me now, two former federal prosecutors, nelson cunningham and cynthia oxley. you here first, cynthia. what is your take on the defense we just heard that the president has made a public appeal, so either way, is it a crime? >> just because the president has morphed n...

Political process. they have the facts on their side but it also matters how they put this out to the public. what weve seen in sunday talk shows and comments democratic lawmakers have made, its a very consistent and clear strategy to lay out this insidious narrative of a president withholding military aid to a critical ally to strong-arm them into delivering the dirt they wanted. >> im curious on mark sandys testimony, tbehind closed doord, republicans said it would help the president, democrat...

Money. yes, they got the money after the whistle-blower filed the complaint and congress found out about it. we know the aid was withheld and it was withheld for that reason. direct testimony has shown that. trying to deny that, the existence of that evidence, is kind much silly on the part of the republicans. but as i said, they have to say something. >> that last point i was making, which john said, its obvious. it seems so simple. >> if we were to compare the democratic strategy and republica...

House democrats on a path that is sane and sensible for them to try to, you know, take this piece of power that they have if they, in fact, get the house, and expand that and position themselves for 2020 versus kind of throwing everything at the wall and perhaps hurting themselves. >> brian, our country hasnt always been quite this way. for the americans who spend every day kind of bummed out at our divisions, is there any scenario where our divisions dont increase, if anything, starting wednesd...

Emilys piece, how many americans are kind of saying to themselves, yeah, that sounds about right? >> id say by the latest polls, about 49%. i mean, the poll after poll after poll has shown that most americans think that the president is divisive or racially hostile. what i have always maintained, none of this is news, you can speak to david k. johnson whos been on this network that the presidents history of racist statements is legendary. but what has always been more problematic, look, being a ...

Signal from the american voter that they dont like the style of president trump, they dont like his let rick -- rhetoric, they dont like the base level of political discussion weve seen over the last couple months and that they want divided government and they want to bring his agenda to a halt. >> jonathan, back up to the last point you were making about if democratic control happens. what will happen specifically? what do you think the first thing committeewise will be that we see? and how do ...

Deny hoyer, the minority whip right now. theres a mess involved in that. theyre going to have to sort that out and that will be part of the discussion, which of these people is best to lead the house democrats on a pat that is sane and sensible for them to try to, you know, take this piece of power that they have if they, in fact, get the house, and expand that and position themselves for 2020 versus kind of throwing everything at the wall and perhaps hurting themselves? >> proin brian, our coun...

To -- youre seeing so many different chapters of this story what it means to go through these experiences for women in 2017 play out in this particularly acute senate race right now and moores throwing everything hes got, which is not as much as was in this article it seems like. >> there are vulnerabilities here, lets be very clear. this has taken a long time for the stories to come out. he has been in public for a long time. yes, there are dynamics where women dont want to come forward and the...

That. >> yeah. >> i mean, this -- you know, you go back to january, i remember all the optimism from republi n republicans on capitol hill, even those who were skeptical about donald trump, took a long time embraces him, they thought this was going to be this brand new era of republican dominance, republican governance. they thought they were going to pass a lot of things and he was going to sign them and everything was going to be great. thats taken six months. thats deteriorated. theyre critic...

Go back to january, i remember all the optimism from republicans on capitol hill, even those who were skeptical about donald trump, took a long time embraces him, they thought this was going to be this brand new era of republican dominance, republican governance. they thought they were going to pass a lot of things and he was going to sign them and everything was going to be great. thats taken six months. thats deteriorated. theyre criticizing the president publicly. the border wall, may sound l...