margaret hoover, host of firing line and our analyst john avalon. so night to have you both on. margaret, let me start with you. so interesting, lauren fox asks her a great question. so mccarthy is pulling his five and you have 13 spots are you going to fill some of them and she said we ll see. maybe. and our reporting from melanie zanona is she s asking adam kinzinger to sit on the committee? what do you think about it. i think that is great. it is a continued charade yesterday. the argument is if you re not a maga hat wearing insurrectionist denier, this isn t bipartisan. right. which is absurd on its face. and all they did was just demonstrate that they can t be trusted to act in good faith on behalf of their constituents and the country. they are only advancing their
this sacred right is under assault with incredible intensity like i ve never seen. going to fight like heck with every tool at my disposal for its passage. that bill would reverse republican voter restrictions, but as of this morning it has no path to becoming law. democrat joe manchin confirmed in an op-ed that he will vote against any voting law that isn t bipartisan. he writes federal voting rights legislation must be the result of both democrats and republicans coming together to find a pathway forward, or we risk further dividing and destroying the republic. strong words from manchin at a time when he is under a lot of pressure, errol. yes. what should democrats do at this point knowing that that is the state of play? well, you first have to start off with the reality that there
um here to impeach the president. up here to impeach the president. neil: they need 216 vote, but even if they got the votes, let s say it was 216,215, 214, i know a win is a win, but would that be different? have a different feel to it? i think it was very telling that not a single republican voted for the impeachment inquiry rules and two democrats voted for i. the only thing that was bipartisan was against moving forward with ill peachment. impeachment. neil: good point. yeah. nancy pelosi, chairman schiff, chairman nadler have all stated if this isn t bipartisan, compelling to the american people, we shouldn t be doing it. and they re going against their own words to push this impeachment process forward because it s not bipartisan. neil: switch fears a little. from your state, the news out of
that. well, not out loud, they re not. well, okay. i wish there were a bigger bipartisan chorus about what s right and what s wrong. we have to follow the facts here. impeachment is a rough remedy. you heard me say that on this show, alisyn. if there isn t bipartisan and popular support for it, it could really hurt the country. what we re after here is what the facts are and then congress with popular support, hopefully on a bipartisan basis needs to make a tough decision. former congresswoman jane harmoha harm harman. thank you. distract, deflect, confuse, and divide. the trump impeachment defense strategy if we can use that word was unfull display during this press conference with the president of finland yesterday. john avalon who speaks fluent
senators onboard. i don t know if you know what it will take. no, i don t either. and i know we can t get any republican votes in the house, so but again, i just keep coming back to the fact that impeachment s there for a reason and i was a staffer here on the hill during the nixon impeachment process and remember it very, very well. and it s there for a situation like this. i mean, the analogies between the nixon situation and now are very real. but just to be clear, you believe and you will support going ahead with this, even if it isn t bipartisan, which would put you at odds with the speaker. well, you have to understand, the process, so the judiciary committee holds hearings on an impeachment resolution. they gather evidence and hold hearings. that s the first phase of it. and then if they decide to have enough, they vote on articles of impeachment. i think the process actually probably has begun with the investigations that the judiciary committee has