reelection and his confession of that has has been the immediate cause of the impeachment inquiry snapping into action i think what we've seen in the last couple weeks is really striking which is that although impeachment was not polling particularly strongly or that a majority of americans were not in favor of impeachment say 2 or 3 months ago we've seen that switch and we've seen a huge swing in the polls and i think part of that is because a couple months ago you know we all knew that president trump was a disaster and that he was making the world less safe and his his actions were damaging to our democracy and to america's leadership in the world but impeachment seemed like another complication in an already complicated and terrible scene i think more and more people are recognizing that impeachment is actually a way of clarifying and being clear about the wrongness of the president's behavior as well as several of his cabinet officials who are also who seem to have committed impeachable offenses and impeachment is now possibly clarifying and simplifying