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It is the democratic primary that we are focussed on, he is very focussed on his own reelection and he sees all of this talk of impeachment as something he can use on the campaign rail to energize his core supporters saying im under threat here you got to get out to the polls. i think it cuts both ways. what we will be watching for is to see how democrats respond to this. >> this is not landing well with republican colleagues and leader kevin mccarthy said this yesterday. >> you have to understa...

And how much concern that others will even follow suit? >> reporter: i have been talking to folks at the white house. what a blast from the past to see that exchange. it was almost two years ago. officials here at the white house make a couple of points. one, what you heard congressman steve scalise say he is the only republican saying that the president committed impeachable offenses. you dont see other republicans joining me. and this is someone who has been a frequent critic of president trum...

This step. local republicans here in michigan have really kind of repeated and mirrored what you heard from president trump saying amash is doing this for attention. you had one official say that amash committed a fraud by running as a republican candidate. there is not a lot of good will for him among republican establishment. among the people that i have been talking to, there is much more nuance there. people understand that this is a principled position for him. they understand that he belie...