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Morning. thanks to you both. i appreciate those live reports. i want to bring in former democratic congressman, new director of the cornell university of politics and global affairs and former republican congressman david jolly also joins us. lots to discuss here. and let me start with you, congressman jolly. what does it tell you that jeff van drew feels the need to defect over to the republicans now over this vote? >> well, he's clearly conflicted and, hallie, one of the results of the 2018 election is you have 30 plus democrats who now hold districts that are trump-leaning districts. and ...

Impeachment have all come out in favor of impeachment. just today we had two more, antonio delgado up in the hudson valley of new york, jason crow in the denver suburbs. that followed a number of other vulnerable front liners, the majority makers who helped democrats seize the majority, who helped flip seats in the 2018 election. so that's telling. that tells me -- and i think they're also looking at some recent polling. today fox news had a poll that showed that 50% of voters support impeachment. so they perhaps are looking at polling. they're hearing from their constituents back home. they'r...

Republicans are hearing back home from their constituents. the one thing related to this but i want to add to what phil and manu were saying about how critical this phase is about how the articles of impeachment, not just how many but how they're crafted. i agree that it struck me when she said that the president leaves us no choice but talks about how he could corrupt the election again. it's entirely possible that that phrase or that notion would be part of an article of impeachment of abuse of power dealing with ukraine. and the reason is because, like phil was saying, i am also hearing fro...

We'll wait and see next week how the public is viewing this. with the majority makers, the democrats from the districts president trump won, they're looking at the process nervously and want to get it over with as fast as possible. >> ladies, thank you very much. it's been quite a week. have a nice weekend and nice ho holiday. still to come adam schiff compared this investigation to watergate. he said the comparison is between this congress and that one. we'll speak to someone who was a member of congress during watergate. plus, testimony pulled back the curtain on how the trump administra...

Specifically in critical districts, battleground districts where a lot of these democrats who helped nancy pelosi become speaker, majoritymakers, they won districts that donald trump won. impeachment is not a popular position there. and i do think that that is what the trump campaign, the white house, the rnc, all of that apparatus is banking on is that in the state and in the districts where this really matters, this is not a slam dunk popular thing to be doing and they want to keep making that case which is why today's vote, if you are a democrat in a vulnerable district, you got a lot of in...