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So what you are going to see from the president is his reach out to his base saying, i get it, i agree, this is important, but the question is what he can do to actually change the votes. unless he is willing to, you know, put more pressure on some of these democrats, it is not clear there's a path forward to getting this legislation passed there. >> julie, it is kind of bracing to hear a texas lawmaker who has put her career on the line in this effort to kind of matter of factually run through democratic control of the white house, house and senate and she wonders why there isn't more movemen...

Divided. it is getting harder to say something different at this moment. half the country or two-thirds of the country that's waiving a flag, sounding the bells of alarm, you know, not only is this clear abuse of office, impeachable disastrous, but the fact that you have a full party in our country that is unwilling to acknowledge and deal with those facts, you know, it's just getting the point of being repeative. you do is what looks like a therd third of the country, trump's base saying, you know, what's -- you know, what is happening? like no big deal here, nothing. and that disconnect, rig...

Only considered this four times in those 232 years is a reminder of how incredibly historic this is. and the fact that nancy pelosi was in the chair, she doesn't usually preside, and not just that, i was told she actually voted yes. and it is the tradition of the speakers of the house to actually not vote. they usually don't vote on legislation or on resolutions unless they want to make a point. she wanted to make a point both symbolically by sitting in the chair and with her vote that she is all in on this and that is a big shift. and we should remember that. she was the leader in reluctance....

Welcome, both. jim, you can be the obama whisperer. tell us what message he was delivering. >> well, first of all, i'm really glad he recalls ihe realy did it. he's saying everybody needs to calm down, we need to stay focused on beating donald trump, it's not about ideological purity. he's been saying this for ten years. during the obama negotiations and passage, there's lots of people in his base saying, oh, there needs to be national health care, if you don't do that, it's not good enough. ten years later we have a bill that's popular in the country and changed health care for millions of am...

Impeachment makes -- how long will it take. they want to get don mcgahn and other people to testify and it is being litigated and they believe if you have a former impeachment hearing you have a higher constitutional power and those witnesses have to testify. that is the argument to chairman nadler to the speaker saying if we make this about impeachment then they can't invoke these privileges and they have to come because it is essentially a criminal proceeding by the house. >> and that is not a legitimate argument. look at what nixon did for example, he doubled down his restriction of providi...