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Impeachment. although, his staff tells nbc news no formal announcement of his party switch is planned today. but van drew is in the extreme minority of the party's 40 or so most vulnerable democrats. nearly all have announced that they will vote to impeach president trump. one of them is michigan congresswoman elisa slotkin who announced her decision today in a town hall that clearly showed the deep division and the deeply-divided world we're living in. my nbc news colleague, leanne caldwell, is in rochester, michigan, where congressman slotkin held a town hall today. leanne, it got heated. >>...

Liz cheney, who's part of the republican leadership who's very smart and ambitious republican, wants to be a big person in that party, she's not a liberal at all. i disagree with her on just about everything. but she came out very strongly this time. >> yeah. >> and that tells me that she at least, being conscious of what's going -- realizes what a bad look this is for the republican party. >> and maya, at the heart of it, though, is the verbiage. the words that now more than one generation has come up hearing, maybe in the background, maybe blared directly at them. this has a corrosive effect...

They can see what's happening to the country. how hard is it to take a consistent position against rape and incest? i mean, it's not that hard. steve king can't imagine to do it. so it's very interesting that liz cheney, who's part of the republican leadership who's very smart and ambitious republican, wants to be a big person in that party, she's not a liberal at all. i disagree with her on just about everything. but she came out very strongly this time. >> yeah. >> and that tells me that she at least, being conscious of what's going -- realizes what a bad look this is for the republican part...

Deep division. at some point people -- first of all, you have young women, some of whom have survived rape, who are literally being told, one, that women are drivers of populating the world and that's the value and role they play and it doesn't matter how they got that way and they don't actually get to have agency over their own body, that other people can tell them what they do with it. no matter how they've been violated. that's an extreme position. and i think one thing that helps explain liz cheney's position is actually one of the things we have to correct about some of the news reportin...

Our europe that is so important in this world and that it needs to be heard and seen. these are our goals for the next 14 days. thank you very much. >> the european parliament has to confirm the nominees. they weren't likely choices. >> reporter: well, these nominations come after a marathon set of talks in brussels which expose deep division in the block. neither were front-runners for these jobs. both are considered to be compromise candidates. let's look. the top job for e.u. president is ursula. she's considered to be a hard line leader. also german chancellor angela merkel is likely to be...