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If you look here, 48% of voters oppose president trumps impeachment bhiwhile only 37% support it. what can that new stage of investigation as nancy pelosi put it look like without upsetting those voters? >> thats the whole problem. impeachment is not a legal question. its not indicting. he hasnt been indicted. this is very much a political issue. and if nancy pelosi, who is one of the best vote counters i have ever seen, i have seen her in action. she knows how to whip a vote. she has told her c...

Politician, but let me throw that out to you. just from a legal standpoint, at what point do members of congress step in and say to the president in some form or fashion, whether its impeachment proceedings or lindsey graham trooping over to the white house saying, well, mr. president -- >> give up hope on that. >> keep going. >> listen, heres the thing about the impeachment numbers that i can see and that is that nancy pelosi, one of the great vote counters of all-time says theres only about 25...

In a country like the u.k. where i am theres an uncomfortable feeling that these elections are taking place at all as you pointed out, the u.k. had voted for brexit three years ago, and was supposed to have left the eu before these elections took place. theresa may secured an extra reprie reprieve, that left the u.k. with taking part in the parliamentary elections. you can see vote counters are counting the final votes. what were expecting to take place over the next hour or so, is one of the bi...

Years. they are aware that the popularity, if it is a popular president, it will enert to the benefit of the incumbent. unless theres something that says the american people, believe that he should be less popular, pelosis right on the political front. it would be a dramatically waste of time. were talking about 2020 and the election cycle in the sights of many people right now. perhaps the political process and solution, if there is one, for somebody who is not a legitimate president, would be ...

>> i got to put you in a tough position because youre not wac watching it. the vote counters, the tally counters in the front row, two democrats, two republicans. they dont seem to be doing anymore counting work. half the crowd is up standing. nancy pelosi is literally kissing babies and greeting people. were not calling this done. whats the hold up? whats the thing were waiting for? >> thats an excellent question. its possible they are waiting for folks to get back in the chamber. i dont know i...

24 hours, they were moving the spending bill through the senate last night and you had senators in the back of the chamber singing christmas carols, it was a joyous occasion. house republicans said lets go to the mat and fight and donald trump summoned paul ryan to the white house and threatened to veto. by midafternoon there was an interim spending bill to fund the government through early february and included $5 million and border wall funding. they passed that through the house, 217-185. man...

Be too specific about who they were. but one line of thinking goes that the assumption is that the border wall money will pass and it will go to the senate. and under that line of thinking, the assumption is that we go to a shutdown, because the senate wont pass that. now, another source said that its really very up in the air. there are a lot of absences, you know, so when you have 30 people missing on each side, it can be much more difficult for the vote counters to have a full kind of grasp o...

Of the greatest vote counters and politicians of all time, to have it out in the oval office with donald trump. she needs to, in order to continue what she started this time around have a victory in two years. can she fall into this trap of arguing with donald trump? >> well, i dont think shell fall into that trap because nancy pelosi has been in washington, d.c. for far too long. she has probably never seen anything like this entity we have in the petty. however, nancy pelosi respects the job. ...

She, again, knows what she is doing. its not only that she can count votes, she knows the facts, and she sat there and she kept trying to get the president in a very calm way to dismiss the press and get to work. instead, he kept throwing up things which were not true. oh, were building so much of the wall. and nancy just said we need to discuss the facts. so shes a great strategist. and by the way, she pointed out that in this lame duck session, he still controls all the votes. she kept saying ...

Pelosi and they say present. >> i think its challenging. im not a vote counter. shes one of the vote counters there are. i think she will get there and she should get there. i will tell you -- >> youre not answering my question. how do you say to your voters for months im going to vote against nancy pelosi in your ad campaign and then get a picture on c-span of you voting present? >> shes going to make some concessions. clearly there needs to be new blood in the party and i think shell try to br...