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Welcome back. in the latest poll, a growing number of americans say president trump should be accountable for his dealings with ukraine. if donald trump is impeached in the house, 42% say the senate should convict the president and remove him from office. 4 -- 22% say he should not be convicted. and there are number on impeachment in the latest fox news poll. 50% of voters think the president should be impeached and removed from office, up one point since october, 4% think she be impeached but n...

Really important to have this bipartisan counter evidence come out now. >> and as they might say in congress, a point of personal privilege here, i came into congress in 1994 with a lot of people who were conservative fire brands who said they were going to fight for the conservative cause. ive seen so many of them fall by the wayside, so many of them act in ways that have disappointed not only me but real coffnservatives. i came in with richard burr, and i did not expect all these years later, ...

On donald trump. >> yeah, i mean, a majority in almost every one of those polls wants to see it go forward. you got to the key in why the polls matter. thats when you start to see movement inside the united states congress. all these senators and congressmen and women who have been silent the, puzingly sil t silent, if it gets to the point in their state or district where their voters, the people who can reelect them or not reelect them have moved on it, thats when they move. its not exactly pro...

Be impeached and removed from office. 49% said that trump should not be impeached and remain president. and in a new quinnipiac university poll, 53% of registered voters said they approved of house democrats, the impeachment inquiry into president trump, up one point since last month, 43% disproe d disapproved down two. over half of voters agreed the impeachment probe is a legitimate investigation. 43% said the investigation is a political witch hunt, joe. >> so tim, weve talked about democrats ...

Legalese as it ought to be and two-thirds is a political track. the news out of it, and i realize that most high schools, grammar schools in this country no longer teach civics, but this letter and the behavior of the trump administration is basically an announcement that there is only one branch of government, the executive branch of government, and chuck, to that point, the executive branch of government -- and this was referenced by david ignatius a couple of minutes ago -- the continuing roy...

Going to come in second. >> you know, in american legal history, you can either be john marshal or john mitchell, and i think bill barr has chosen his fate here, and so mitchell was long-time friend insofar as nixon had friend, had been his law partner, and municipal bond lawyer, had left the justice department to run the committee to reelect the president. the committee to reelect the president, which, again, in this context looks like a fairly sedate operation was -- at least it was, you know,...

To squeeze donald trump, at least -- we did that time and again where we squeezed the white house, and at the very least you get people sitting down at the table and figure out, all right, how do we break this impasse. >> yeah, because when you get to the point where the house is issuing subpoenas, and the white house is now saying explicitly in a letter sent to the house were not going to comply with any of that. what do you do? a and you just offered one solution to it. its kind of a moment wh...

Sarah sanders and chief of staff john kelly and others on staff, but that the president chose not to release that, instead deciding to tweet. notably, his tweet talked about the family of john mccain, sending them his well wishes but didnt talk about the senator. it said nothing about his legacy, said nothing about him being a hero, about his life, his work, none of that. i think that, you know, you can read for yourself what that means. >> yeah, indeed. as i mentioned earlier, he was such a tow...

Heres your "first look" at the dish of scrambled politics americans still dont like congress very much. 15% approve of the job that the lawmakers are doing, up one point from last month. deanny hoyer said that the 2016 presidential race is easy to predict, if hillary clinton decides to win, shell clear the field. tea party group has apologized for sending out a e-mail that was photo shopped to make karl rove look like a nazi to help raise funds. choosing candy crowley to moderate the secon...

Welcome back to "morning joe." time for some sports. nba finals tied at one game apiece going into last nights game three and the heat had to hold off another fourth quarter rally from the thunder. lets go to miami, closing seconds of the third, oklahoma city, up one point. dwyane wade finds lebron with just under a minute to go. hits a big three to give miami the one-point lead. they have been down as many as ten points to take the lead there. fourth quarter, now thunder refusing to go quietly....