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Ends up backlashing on the party that does it, and it could help the president. >> alexi, how confident do you perceive democrats to be, democratic leaders? you saw obviously pelosi make that move today, but we've also seen a number of democrats in the last two days from marginal districts, swing districts, we've seen a number of them come out in favor of an impeachment inquiry. is there a confidence among democrats that numbers like we just showed are going to change? >> i think what we've seen between the member who came out today, which i think you mentioned it more than 30 between yesterda...

Or advising them in any way, but i think that gives democrats a chance to change the messaging on this whole impeachment discussion that they've otherwise sort of lost in the ways they've been hemming and hawing and dragging their feet. it gives them an opportunity to refocus the conversation about what is at stake and why they're moving forward on it. to narrowly define it as a national security issue, to say their background allows them to put country over party and they don't think the president is doing that. and republicans who are standing in line with him are not doing that either. they...

American people to explain why he's the first director to withhold a complaint in violation of the statute. >> earlier today, the senate unanimously, passed a resoluti calling for the whistle-blower complaint to be provided to congress. as all of this unfolds, "the washington post" reports tonight onsh divisions within the white house over ukraine. quote, trump's attempt to pressure the leader of ukraine followed l a months-long fight inside the administration thati sidelined national security officials andd empowered political loyalists including the president's personal lawyer, rudolph giuli...

Want to single out. however, the past two months have been grueling for my family and therefore it is in the best interests of my family i withdraw my name from consideration. serving in the administration in the past two years has been one of the highest honors my life and i'll always be grateful to the president, the secretary and my colleagues for their support. to give you a little more about this confirmation process. it was expect that it would be a grueling process. she would have been one of the most inexperienced ambassadors to the united nations. she didn't have the foreign policy ba...

I don't know if it's enough to have him keep up with the likes of ted cruz or donald trump or others who are perceived to be good on foreign policy, but it's a good step. >> so nomiki, you agree, a good first step, especially since he has fallen into first place in iowa according to the most recent quinnipiac poll, he is losing to some evangelical supporters. so one has to wonder whether this overseas trip might assist or gain some attention among some of the supporters that have kind of perhaps shown that her -- he is losing favor with them? >> yeah, i think that, you know, obviously, the hum...