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Politically the leader of the party in the congress is always most worried and tries to protect their swing district members because those are the majority makers, the ones who put them in power. and now those members are starting to call for impeachment, so the speaker is suddenly under major pressure and that is why you are seeing her try to get out in front of this talking to her committee chairs and bringing the democratic caucus together. >> so while momentum has shifted, what has not changed is math in the upper chamber. let's say the house decides to impea impeach. we've only heard from...

The way he has described this, has changed repeatedly. you know, these seven lawmakers that wrote this op-ed, they're the majority makers. these are largely moderate democrats, most of them, who helped the democrats win the house in 2018. these are the types of members that nancy pelosi had in some ways been trying to shield from the impeachment question, and now they're out there in this op-ed saying that if these allegations prove true, it would be impeachable. those members coming forward, those members from purple and red districts, that's significant. >> all right. tamara keith, ashley pa...

Now i will say he has a committee that's tough to manage. it has some of the most progressive members of congress who are the most forceful on impeachment. and, remember, any single democrat can go to the house floor and get an almost immediate vote on whether to impeach the president. it's what's called the privilege resolution it. >> gets immediate consideration. so the idea that this needs to come from the leadership is a little bit of a fallacy against more credit it gets more, it's more important if it comes from the leadership. but anybody could get that vote at any time. and i know, yes...

By starting to speak. that was the first time we heard that yesterday. an hour or so later donald trump said exactly the same thing. you often see kellyanne conway on the driveway saying exactly the same thing. and my fear in this is what they also are coordinating is the love it or leave it statement. i think this race will be run around love it or leave it, which, craig, is equally as dangerous. love it or leave it is about quieting descent which is send her back is about deporting dissent. and they will feel free to pedal this. your comment about some of the issues around race, in the '80s ...

About their districts. they're there, a lot of them, because they won in 2018. in 2018 they never talked about the president, they talked about health care, they talked about wages and those types of issues. and this part is not necessarily new. throughout the course of the majority makers, the reason speaker nancy pelosi is speaker of the house is they have been frustrated nobody pays attention to the work that they're doing, which is nose to the grindstone, do what you're doing to keep your seat and deliver for your constituents. everyone is paying attention to the people with big social med...