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Distinguishing feature of nancy pelosi, it is that she is tough as nails. and she knows what she needs to do. she knows how to count votes, she knows how to read the public sentiment, she talks about it all the time -- there's that graveling voice again -- but she understands that the time isn't right, she's not taking anything off the table and i'm not either. but let's just have normal hearings and find out about what's happening in the white house. but let's not derail infrastructure. we have to compete with china and the european union. we have to help our businesses get their producs to m...

Place. he's asking for the congress not to do its constitutional duty, to overlook what's happening at the white house in exchange for an infrastructure package? that's a nonstarter, alisyn. that's not going to work. >> this is why some of your colleagues have moved into the impeachment category. but i'm going to take what you're saying this morning as a "no" on impeachment. is that accurate? >> right now it's a "no." i think we ought to go forward with hearings. we ought to -- transparency ought to be the t-word that we go forward. and, you know, chairman elijah cummings on the oversight comm...

House, i don't get it. >> have you talked to speaker pelosi about your position? >> absolutely. i'm on the house democratic leadership team. i meet with the whole leadership team every week. and that's the exact thing i say to her. is that we've got to take all deliberate speed in having investigations, having hearings, but the animus isn't there for impeachment right now. let's focus on infrastructure and fixing the roads. you know, the average pennsylvanian spends $2,000 a year fixing their car because of the rough roads and potholes they hit. let's get the job done. >> do you sense that spe...

>> but there's another i-word. i'm sorry to interrupt you, congressman, but there's another i-word that plays into this, and that's investigations. and as you know, the president has said he will not do infrastructure while you democrats in congress are investigating him. so are you -- does that make you think that it's important to move more in one direction or another? impeachment definitely or not? >> well, you have your finger on it, alisyn. not only did the democrats in this last midterm election promise infrastructure, president trump did, too! he promised infrastructure. he talked about...

So -- >> we're familiar with that here, as well. >> well, you know, the i-word is so important. and it's coming to the fore right now. the i-word is something that we all have to start talking about and that word is infrastructure. it's not impeachment, it's infrastructure. you talk about the democrats in the swing districts, what do we campaign on? we campaigned on better health care, more available health care, and cheaper health care. we talked about bringing down the high cost of pharmaceuticals. and we talked about infrastructure. repairing at long last our roads and our bridges and our r...