profiles now on how as times put it she s transformed from impeachment skeptic to impeachment warrior, what do you make to have coverage she s getting including the moment with the reporter? well, this is yet another great example of how the media are not doing good service and not covering impeachment drama, there is, a lot of problems with impeachment politically going on right now, you re not seeing increase in support, you could have had no more support than what the media have provided in the last month, you had wall to wall coverage, you ve had every possible case and support of it being offered and you re not seeing a move in the numbers which is politically very problematic and you re not seeing any discussions of the political problems in the coverage of pelosi, it s just treated as if anything she does is particularly great and meanwhile a lot of americans do sense that animus is motivating the issue, a lot of serious issues going on while people are playing around with imp
washington post have the glowing profiles now on how as times put it she s transformed from impeachment skeptic to impeachment warrior, what do you make to have coverage she s getting including the moment with the reporter? well, this is yet another great example of how the media are not doing good service and not covering impeachment drama, there is, a lot of problems with impeachment politically going on right now, you re not seeing increase in support, you could have had no more support than what the media have provided in the last month, you had wall to wall coverage, you ve had every possible case and support of it being offered and you re not seeing a move in the numbers which is politically very problematic and you re not seeing any discussions of the political problems in the coverage of pelosi, it s just treated as if anything she does is particularly great and meanwhile a lot of americans do sense that animus is motivating the issue, a lot of serious issues going on while p
case. they had weeks of wall-to-wall coverage on our network and other networks and their witness after witness and if you look at the polls, the fact is, especially in the swing states, which are really what they should be concerned about, the number of people supporting impeachment and removal has dropped in wisconsin it almost doubled the number of people by seven-point margin before the hearings and buy a 13-point margin that people oppose impeachment and removal so they haven t made their case for the american people and so now to push ahead with impeachment as nancy pelosi is doing, put those people and some of those democrat freshman in swing states in a terrible position. a majority of people supported inquiry. it s against the political whims of the people in their state who say they are going to reelect donald trump. martha: what about the timing? because timing is everything in life. how this goes
strategy. neil: the white house has argued that it is a kangaroo court and a raked process so even if we have people there they are not going to let him speak and there are going to be limits on what we can say so it s a wasted effort. we will save our powder for the senate. that s been the line from the white house and i agree it is a kangaroo court and not to mix up the animal metaphors too much but you really can t soar like an eagle when you have to deal with turkeys. that s how the president sees what s going on. neil: it s a risky strategy. it s going to get wall-to-wall coverage. i don t think the ratings are as big of a deal if they think. they are not going to be able to defend themselves. they re going to have republican questions and all that but is there a risk in sort of absolving yourself? i don t think there is. impeachment may pass in the house but there is no way on earth is going to pass in the senate. what s going to happen in the senate i think it is already
the house impeachment inquiry will likely once again garner wall-to-wall coverage all day monday when the judiciary committee hears testimony on that blockbuster house intel committee report that revealed, among other things, for the first time a tantalizing list of phone records. it s the kind of evidence that has the white house unnerved and house intel committee chairman adam schiff in a new interview in the new yorker published today warns of more to come saying, quote, there may very well be a great body of evidence at the trial that s not available to us today. evidence that might result in cracks in that gop firewall. democratic senator chris murphy this morning hinting at the possibility of a crack or two emerging among senate republicans. have you spoken to a single republican colleague in the senate who s even considering voting for impeachment? yes. you have? yes. okay. would you like to name him or her? how many? it s a small list on one