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Us. why now, in terms of the president on making a big proclamation over in afghanistan, and when he talks about a cease fire in terms of the taliban agreeing to that, is that something real and on the table? >> it doesn't appear to be real and on the table now, particularly if you listen to the taliban react to his comments. why now? it could just be that he wanted a head line. it might be that he's ahead of his skis and he got more detailed than he should have been, or maybe he just wanted to make a headline and sort of energize the process that he feels is stalled. so i make an announcement...

To the forefront she has a national security background and she felt compelled to lean into it. so it will be interesting to see her reactions on the process earlier this week. >> nancy pelosi and adam schiff have said all along they reluctantly came to this but had no choice. up next, long-simmering tensions between president trump and military leaders spill out into the open. >> announcer: "inside politics" is brought to you by salonpas. try it for your pain. for effective, non-addictive relief. salonpas lidocaine. patch, roll-on or cream. hisamitsu.

Going to work through the re-election. and one of the things we've seen certainly in the polling is that, while support for impeachment jumped up at the beginning of this ukraine scandal, opposition has begun to tick up as this process has gone on. and so i think if you are a republican or the president, you are saying whatever we're doing is working. we are dividing the country. there's not growing support for this. and the democrats are now on the defensive, because they had always said this ought to be bipartisan. >> and we can go here to the poll numbers you're talking about. you look back...

Decline to send any sort of representative and keep up this idea that the process is just a sham? >> i think this is the strategic question that they face. but if they have concluded that they have no ability to stop the vote in the house and no real fear of, you know, imminent danger in the senate, their calculation is what is the margin in taking part in this? if we want to say it's not legitimate and then we legitimize it by participating, are we sending mixed signals? all of the political things come into play, which is like punch them back, fight back. but the way of fighting back so far ...

In the next step of the process. there's going to be a big hearing on the 4th on wednesday, and you're going to see -- we've seen signs so far that yes, they may not fully participate in the process despite the complaints of being shut out of the process. and you've also seen congressional republicans also continuing to make that process argument. they're saying, you know, during a similar hearing during the clinton process you got 19 witnesses, there's only going to be four. we need some equality in that. so they are going to continue to fight back. >> and the president has been talking this ...