the house leadership. it is a big hurdle for the leadership but it s exactly what the people who want the impeachment process to begin are saying. one democrat told me specifically in watergate, it wasn t like this happened and all of a sudden the american public was behind it. there were hearings, there was transparency, it was explained to the american people. the case was made by the congress so by the time it was ready to go forward, the american people were behind it. that the mueller report, most people didn t read it and they want to get this started in order to open this up. once the american people is behind it, that will help nancy pelosi get behind it too. a little later in the show, tom perez, chamber of the democratic committee, will join us to talk more about this. up next, taking a tough stance against mexico or trying to make a hard turn away from robert mueller. the price of avocados are going up and the tensions between the president and his own party are rising
we re not to stand there and say, man, putin, thank for all your help. i thought, we re practicing our humility this morning, aren t we. another interesting thing about the putin op-ed is there s nothing that would unify americans more around a divisive issue than putin writing in the new york times, essentially insulting the president, and all of a sudden the american public says, whoa, wait a second, he just insulted our commander in chief. i think there s a reason why polls showed this week that the american public wouldn t punish their own members of congress if they voted to go to war. let me ask you this, because it seems to me, though, because there was all this language of the president is weak and he s rolling over for putin, that despite the fact that the russian leader takes to the new york times, says these sorts of thing, some of which i think are very valuable sort of international discursive strategy, and some of which you guys say aren t that exceptional, the fa
security in libya and why? that was a question from a voter in nassau county, new york. does the campaign think that the governor blew that answer? well, i think candy crowley jumping in there kind of knocked him off his pace and when the president deliberately lied about what happened in the rose garden i think he was being showed that the president would lie in front of 70 million people. so it knocked him off a little bit. i think now he is prepared for the fact he might get more dissembling from the president. he always knows he has to work a little bit against the moderator. this administration has turned a foreign policy failure, the disaster in libya, into a character issue. all of a sudden the american public is seeing this administration make up new stories almost on a daily basis, trying to cover things. this administration is leaking snippets, selected snippets of intelligence to try to cover the president s